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From: Keith (R.K.) Berry <keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, June 05, 1999 7:47 AM
Subject: [OM] Lens price shock!
>Looking through the manual lenses section of the Jessops photographic
>catalogue, I am amazed to see that the new price of an Olympus 50mm f1.8 is
>an incredible 230 UKP! That's 10 UKP more than a Contax CZ Planar f1.7, and
>almost three times that of a Minolta f1.7. With the Nikon 50mm f1.8 Nikkor
A
>at a mere 125 (no Canon equivalent listed) the Oly is the most expensive
>standard lens they sell! With a second hand value of around ten percent of
>that, it depreciates faster than the Euro.
Six weeks ago I picked up a brand new still in the box, still in the shrink
wrap MC 50 / 1.8 here in Vancouver for Cdn$100 from an authorized Olympus
dealer. He was not offering any special deals ...... he showed me the price
listing from Olympus in confirmation. Exclude the UK VAT [sales tax] and
convert the UKP at 2.35, the UK price is equivalent to Cdn$460.
There has got to be an arbitrage opportunity here!!
jh
>Could it be a misprint? If not, it shows what bargains the used ones are.
>Perhaps as a group we should buy them all up to create a demand and raise
>their value - matching pairs for binocular loupes and stereo viewers; put
>them into Leica R mounts and advertise them as Japanese Zummuikos; or build
>a collection of one of each variant (how many did we say there were?)
>
>Regards,
>Keith Berry (Birmingham, England)
>keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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