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A 50mm lens search

PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:43 am
by Gargantua
So, I've started my search for a 50mm lens now that I have a G690 body. It's probably been covered before in few places, but being that it's rarest of the bunch, about how often do these things generally appear for sale? Should I expect maybe once a year, or more like once in a lifetime? The longest I've had to wait for a lens to come up was two years for a used Rubinar-K lens, even though it's not all that scarce. What kind on price would I anticipate? I imagine on ebay it could turn into an all out battle.

Re: A 50mm lens search

PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:31 am
by Abbazz
If the data on Walter Aigner's homepage on eBay is up to date, there have been five 50mm lenses offered for sale on eBay during the last 12 months (vs. only 2 150mm lenses). Price is usually in the $1000-1500 range, depending on the condition of the lens.

I bought one "Buy it Now" on eBay 3 years ago from a Swedish seller for 800 Euros (the Euro was much cheaper then). Then I got another one for 1200 euros with a GL690 body from the online classified ads on the website of French magazine "Chasseur d'Images."

Cheers!

Sébastien

Re: A 50mm lens search

PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:23 am
by Gargantua
Thanks for the info. It makes finding one look quite doable. I don't think I would have been able to find that page on my own.

Re: A 50mm lens search

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:57 am
by Abbazz
It's a waste of time to look for the 50mm lens in American stores, as I think the 50mm lens was never imported into the USA. You have to focus on second hand dealers from Japan (Yahoo auctions -- if you're not in Japan, use a proxy like Photoguide Japan or Japan Auction Center), Australia, New-Zealand and Western Europe.

Good luck,

Sébastien

Re: A 50mm lens search

PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:57 am
by Peter Evans
I don't know about Yahoo auction but I can tell you that you'll virtually never see any lens other than 100mm in any store in Japan. Contrast that with alleged rarities such as the (Konishiroku) Pearl IV: over the years, I must have seen half a dozen of these (and no, I'm not confusing them with the much commoner III), while I've seen a grand total of zero (0) non-100mm lenses.

Re: A 50mm lens search

PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:01 pm
by Gargantua
So far I've been seeing a lot of bodies with 100mm lens on the Yahoo Auctions. Certainly more that I see coming up on ebay. Yesterday I spotted two separate auctions of bodies with 65mm f5.6 lenses there. I considered it, but decided to save my money for the 50mm lens. They sold for about $245 each.

Re: A 50mm lens search

PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:01 am
by Abbazz
Gargantua wrote:Yesterday I spotted two separate auctions of bodies with 65mm f5.6 lenses there. I considered it, but decided to save my money for the 50mm lens. They sold for about $245 each.


$245 is very cheap for a body with the 65/5.6 lens. You could have bought them both and sold the two bodies for the same price you bought the whole sets. Those 65/5.6 lenses are more scarce than the 65/8 and the extra stop is nice to have, even though wide angles on medium format are mostly used at F/11-16.

Cheers!

Sébastien

Re: A 50mm lens search

PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:26 am
by Fernando Libenson
For those of you guys who might be interested, a couple of 50mm lenses have showed up on the big auction site; one of them along with a pretty battered GL690 body. It's awesome how prices of this item have gone up in recent years. I'm tempted to sell mine (just kidding). http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R4 ... Categories
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 8584059427

Re: A 50mm lens search

PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:29 am
by Abbazz
Fernando Libenson wrote:For those of you guys who might be interested, a couple of 50mm lenses have showed up on the big auction site; one of them along with a pretty battered GL690 body. It's awesome how prices of this item have gone up in recent years. I'm tempted to sell mine (just kidding). http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R4 ... Categories
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 8584059427

Thanks for the HU, Fernando. $2,750 for a GL690 with the 50mm lens seems a bit excessive indeed!!!

Cheers!

Abbazz

Re: A 50mm lens search

PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:03 pm
by Texsport
I found my 50/5.6 in Australia.

There's one for sale on eBay right now, the price indicating its rarity.

Texsport

Re: A 50mm lens search

PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:05 am
by Abbazz
Texsport wrote:There's one for sale on eBay right now, the price indicating its rarity.

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$2,999... Wow, it must be quite rare indeed!

Cheers!

Abbazz