Simon and Hauxon among others have had me lusting for one for a very long time now. Last night I finally won one. A mint copy with the hard case. Yay!

Please post your work so I have something to look at while waiting for the lens to arrive!

A

Whoops sorry aboout that!
I hope you will like the lens, I suspect you will. Was it very expensive?

Here are a large number of samples:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/386359@N21/

Congrats! I've been trying to find one for a reasonable price for a while now too. Let us know how you like it!

-Ed

Simon Kennedy wrote:
Whoops sorry aboout that!
I hope you will like the lens, I suspect you will. Was it very expensive?

Here are a large number of samples:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/386359@N21/

Bad link...

I know I will like it. If I don´t like the photos I can just sit and look at it...

The price was reasonable I think. They don´t come out for sale very often here in Sweden.

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ovredal73 wrote:





Nice André! Esp the first!

Ed Sawyer wrote:
Congrats! I've been trying to find one for a reasonable price for a while now too. Let us know how you like it!

-Ed

I really like the 21/3.5 so I think this will be another great one from my favourite lens maker...

Elton. Nice use of the WA!

Anden wrote:
Elton. Nice use of the WA!

Thanks. I am a little embarassed by the train pic, though. It is a good candidate for a little HDR with the stupid highlight.

That's great, Anden. I've had my eye on one for a while as well...I'm just finding it difficult to fork over a collector's price. My only hope is to troll the local Craigslist or look for a very unsuspecting little old lady that's holding a garage sale.

I've been looking for one as well. What do you guys think would be a reasonable price, $800 or higher/lower?

I paid 950 for mine in mint cond.

Thanks overdal. Do you know if you need the original 49/72 adapter ring to use filters? or can you use any step up rings?

ziyadj wrote:
Thanks overdal. Do you know if you need the original 49/72 adapter ring to use filters? or can you use any step up rings?

It certainly looks like any step up ring, so I would assume you could. If you get one without the adapter put a few dollars in a stepup ring and test it out.

Anden wrote:
ovredal73 wrote:
Nice André! Esp the first!

Thanks

A good price is anything under $900.

-Ed

I think I got a very good price then. Sold my good but boring Canon 17-40L today. Got more for it than I paid for the Oly...

Now the 21/3.5 has to go. Can not afford to have the Oly 18, Oly 21 and the Rokkor 24 VFC...

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Anden wrote:
I think I got a very good price then. Sold my good but boring Canon 17-40L today. Got more for it than I paid for the Oly...

Now the 21/3.5 has to go. Can not afford to have the Oly 18, Oly 21 and the Rokkor 24 VFC...

A

Congrats, Anden, you've just scored a lens that's at or near the top of a lot of acquisition lists (including mine). I hope the price you paid marks a turn - I'm with Mike G on not wanting to fork out collector price.

There was one for sale in the UK not long ago for about $650, I passed on it (probably should have snagged it) but that's the cheapest I have seen lately.

-Ed

I am probably sort of a Oly collector but not at any price.
I would not pay more than 800 us for a 18/3.5.
One really silly priced oly is the 8 mm fish eye...

A

If you want to talk silly Oly pricing the 40/2 is the top of that heap! ; -)

$800 for a nice 18/3.5 would be a good price over here.

The tragedy with the 8/fisheyes is that most of them have a proclivity to have fungus on the rear element, so most of the ones you find are no good, thus driving up the prices of those that are still good. (not to mention they were fairly rare anyway).

but I digress....

-Ed

The 40/2 has a large fanbase it seems. I would not pay that money even though it is a good lens.

A

40/2 only commands a premium price because it is relatively rare. I got one for ~$200 for a nice looking copy with everything in the box...took me a couple of years to get it, even though I bid on several into the $450-500 range, iirc.

Looks like it was about $490, a good price indeed! (18/3.5)

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