It's that minolta mirror - yikes!

[marcusBMG]

6 hrs to go
Ebay item 304551043180
I don't think I'll bother setting up a snipe.

[calvin83]

The price of the 250mm remained the same for many years.

[jamaeolus]

So I went to ebay to watch the auction...but no auction. Thought "well it must have already completed I'll see what it sold for." One of the recently sold was a 39 dollar sale for a clean example allegely from a brick and mortar store in michigan. Somebody got a killer good deal!

[marcusBMG]

it's still running. I just did a search on ebay.com (as opposed to ebay.co.uk) using the item number, it came up.

[visualopsins]

Click here to see on Ebay

[jamaeolus]

I didn't search worldwide to begin with. But here is the record of Michigan sourced item I spoke of:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175343883781?hash=item28d34f5605:g:LGIAAOSwN-BixqDu


Shows that there are still deals out there for those wlling to put in the time and attention!

[visualopsins]

[Alsatian2017]

[calvin83]

[jamaeolus]

Yeah, Its odd, the site claims to be a camera shop but had no idea what the lens was worth AND misspelled Rokkor? Puzzling for sure.

[RokkorDoctor]

£700 to £1200 seems to be the going price range for this lens (they are actually being bought at these prices ).

I had to wait a long time to eventually acquire this one at a fraction of those prices, because it had some (very mild) cleanable fungal infection on the front lens.

I don't get it; they are not exactly rare. I mean sure, it is compact for a 250mm lens, but it comes with a lot of drawbacks and "normal" slow 200mm/250mm lenses aren't usually that prohibitively big to start with. IMO mirror lenses make more sense in the 500mm-1000mm range where the size/weight/price difference between mirror lenses and conventional lenses becomes more meaningful.

Let's put it this way; if I desperately needed to complete a collection and this was the last lens missing, I might pay these prices for it, but otherwise if I had a spare £1000 to spend on a lens, the ROKKOR RF 250mm/5.6 would not even make it on the list... (and I'm a ROKKOR fan...)

[marcusBMG]

And this is the fourth one I think in the last few weeks. A sell off?

ebay item:

295135305494

[calvin83]

[eggplant]

It's an interesting lens for being one of the widest consumer photographic mirror lenses made- and it certainly is lightweight (250g!) and small.

But I'm sure the arguments of using crop sensor cameras instead are well known.

Funny it weighs about the same as it's focal length (247g/250g) - what other lenses are like this?

And a typical 200mm f3.5 lens (Tokina) is 525g, Olympus 200mm f5 395g.

Compared to a common 300mm f5.6 mirror lens option, do I find the Minolta to be noticeably smaller? Yes. It's still impressive- even if the smaller diameter is from choosing a shorter focal length. I Wonder how much smaller Tamron could've made this with how they went about catadioptric lenses.

But seeing as how you'd need to use a hood with both... would it matter?

[stevemark]