Pål Jensen wrote:
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I am sorry to inform you but high quality
photographic lenses are NOT typical products.
They have usable life spans in the decades
not years so all your posts are irrelavant
because you have no evidence to suggest
that its true that "nobody wants or uses these
anymore".
Huh? This isn't about usable life span but actual use.
I have a whole bunch of 30-35
year old pentax SCREW lenses which are even
older than K lenses that are still in excellent
shape and still very desireble to own and use.
You basis is flawed. You must be a teenager
or something that thinks everything made
is disposable and new is always better so
nobody wants or uses old..
Where an earth are you living? I though you were american and had some experience with consumer society. The garbage dumbs around here are full of stuff with plenty of usable life left. People are buying several hundreds of thosand of Canon and Nikon DSLR's every month and most buy new lenses with them. "No one" is mounting a 30 year old lens on their Canon.
Pål
I'm afraid the last is incorrect. Zeiss Biogon 21mm's and OM 21mm's have
trebled in value because of the Canon 1Ds mkII and the poor performance
of the Canon EF wide-angle lenses on that body.
Of course, the vast majority of these lenses have passed on, rarity is
part of the reason the value has gone up.
-Adam
