Konicamera Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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Hi,
The Hexanon 35-100/2.8 was something of a trend setting zoom in 1973, when it came out. It was probably the first zoom of this focal range that was this fast. Of course, technology being what it was at the time, such speed made for a monster lens. It has a high reputation for image quality for a zoom of that period. Technically speaking, it is a varifocal lens, which means you have to focus anew every time you alter the focal distance setting. This makes working with this lens a bit slow, but it is this technical trait that made its image quality superior to most other zooms available at the time. Using it today is not terribly practical, mostly on account of its stupendous weight (this is not something you mount on your 4/3, but something you latch your 4/3 onto), but also because comparable image quality can be had in much smaller lenses today. This lens is mostly sought by collectors, the occasional Konica freak (including yours truly), and chronic GAS sufferers. It usually fetches from a couple to several hundred $ on the bay and is a piece of glass that turns heads. Anyway, congrats to your wife. She knows a deal when she sees one (I'd go back to that garage sale. The 28-100 is not the first Hexanon people used to buy. There may be more where that one came from).
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