Contax Pancake lens

[stingOM]

Any idea?

http://www.newoldcamera.com/Scheda.aspx?Codice=LU3021&Tipo=OB&Sql=+HIKNlAITN8UUbvAeTXmfwrd2l8IxoXjJFHEYQSdFn+3Y19Vs/E9i82Owe5OxgCjpvB17URNvX1y9Frg/gJmExfi/+uF8olRZklrphQCqxIQ0ccuHd9XWIXeuAm382GmXRoY1CVpkTpPY/UmQQSn3jAF/AvbJ8BfDJHpBXYpLx342NGKO19Pkr/bBCXtItk5

[Mos6502]

Depends on what the idea is about... What is your question?

[kansalliskala]

http://galactinus.net/vilva/retro/eos350d_tessar45.html

[Orio]

It's a very good lens (as poilu pictures prove), but I've never been able to make me like it
Too small to be comfortable for my hands, I tend to always move focus when I change aperture as they are so close and narrow.
I am going to sell mine, but I can not match this very low price. The buyer (whoever he is)
has been really lucky to get that one for only 150 Euros.

[stingOM]

Sorry, I was being lazy. My question relates to anyone knowing anything about this lens.
Cheers for the link.

[Orio]

By the way, on that same page they sell a S-Planar 2.8/60 makro
at a fantastic price!
Usually it is never sold for less than 600 Eur
there it goes for only 480
that's a very good occasion, if I had the money I would buy it even if I don't need it
(as I already have one)
very good investment (that optic is only going to increase in price in the next years)

[IAZA]

anybody has experience buy from that site? lots of interesting stuffs there
It's in Italian anyway I have to use google to read

[Keysersoze27]

They don't seem to ship outside Italy...

[Rolf]

Be always careful with prices. I found at ebay 3 pcs which were sold in the last few month, one for 117 €, one for 172 € and one for 151 €. All other from dealers with price between 250 and 300 € are still unsold. So 150 € is nothing more than an average price.

I paid for my copy 50 € at my dear dealer and he was happy that I bought it. Ok, I was happy too to get it for this price. Here 2 samples with NEX-5

[stingOM]

Hi Rolf,

Your "local deal" seemed to be exception to the rule all the time! I guess if you buy out their entire stock, even with the help of some forum members here, we will make a small fortunes!!

[Rolf]

I explained it before in another thread few month ago. My "dear" dealer is one of the largest here in the region. He makes 98 % of his sales with new parts and the rest with used cams and lenses he "must" buy from customers so that he can do on the other side a new business.

When I get this lens for 50 € you can be sure that he didn´t pay more before. Maybe that he paid also 50 € and he was happy that he must not place this or other lenses for perhaps a long time into his used window - which means dead capital for him.

But I´m sure, that he paid less than 50 € and made a profit of 10 or 20 % which is ok for me.

The price ideas of the professional dealers at *bay are not the market prices. They try to get so much money as they can get (which is ok if they find dimwits) and I`m also sure that many of them are not the owners of the lenses. They have it in commission and then they try to get maximum money.

[LucisPictor]

The real price is always what people are willing to pay.
Recently, I have sold some lenses that should be worth €100,- because they are good, but I had to sell them for peanuts because each of those did not have a high reputation as a lens. And ATM people do not want to pay much on lenses, because many people do not have that much money at hand.