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Way Overrated Lens!
This is nearly funny! He calls the condition excellent!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48556&item=3820296 274 |
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Everything is over rated if you really care! ask one
person and another will tell you different. So how in the hell cares! lens are lenes! yet my Carl Zeiss tells the full storey! metal guy. get a 500 CM and your worries are over for as pic goes! |
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"Alan Peterman" wrote in message ... This is nearly funny! He calls the condition excellent! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48556&item=3820296 274 Yes. I used to laugh at the Shutterbug ratings that the seller was probably basing his (optimistic) "Ex" on - "90% original finish", or some such. Never could figure out what that meant. All like new, except that 10% of the finish can be missing? The dents, dings, and scratches can be 10% through the materials? What? It left the seller with lots of "wriggle" room, and Shutterbug with lots of nice-sounding classified ads with items that were not as one might expect from a description of "excellent" ("very good" was actually "horrible"...;-). Then there was that mysterious "mint+++", somehow distinguishable from "like new"...;-) As for this lens, though, someone got what may be normally a very interesting and expensive Nikkor in usable condition for $86 plus shipping. Adding a $25 AI'ing job, and it will fit many recent Nikon bodies. Not a bad deal....! ;-) -- David Ruether http://www.ferrario.com/ruether |
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get a 500 CM and your worries are over
for as pic goes! Having been inside the 500 CM, I have to say the laugh's on you. Nice finish, and great optics, but they mount onto the flimsiest pro camera I ever worked on. There's not much substance under that finish. If you don't believe me, and don't want to take one apart yourself, find a friendly repairman and get him to let you look over his shoulder sometime. If you value solid mechanical quality as highly as optics, you may never want to spend money on a Hasselblad again. Michael Cleveland Past Reflections A Collection of Historical Photographica |
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