What are the biggest bargains you have LOST?

guardian · Joined: 18 Mar 2009 Posts: 1746

Just lost a very nice Angenieux R1. I was second highest bidder.

I would have bid higher except I was, and I remain, uncertain about that mount. Is that a rangefinder camera lens suitable for use only on mirrorless camera bodies? Or is that a lens which can be adapted to SLR camera bodies?

I should know more about such things and I wish I did know more.

Here is the auction:

Click here to see on Ebay then click see original listing

Note:

While the lens did not go for peanuts, these lenses can fetch bids in the thousands.

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Looks M42 to me. I have the very same lens (and its 28mm sister)
sitting around unused in its pretty box Wink

guardian · Joined: 18 Mar 2009 Posts: 1746

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Boris_Akunin · Joined: 22 Aug 2013 Posts: 392 Location: Bremen, Germany

I should have been there ~15min earlier...

Seller was asking 40â‚¬ for this:

(I can only identify the MD50/3.5 macro and MD35-105/3.5-4.5)

and 30â‚¬ for this:

(Minolta X-700 with MD1 grip and MD 50mm f/1.2)

Gardener · Joined: 22 Sep 2013 Posts: 950 Location: USA

At least it does not look like there was a 250/5.6 there Smile

My best guess the lenses are a 50 (top left), 50 macro below it (obviously), 28mm with hood, a long zoom, 70-210 perhaps, and finally 35-105.

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Well,...

... a 200mm VISIONAR sold for EUR243 BUY IT NOW, gone in a split second,
... a Steinheil Macro Quinon sold only locally without willing to ship for EUR45

bummer... Rolling Eyes

vivaldibow · Expire: 2021-03-09

A Tamron made Soligor 135mm f/2.8 in the original case, pretty new condition. I got two other lenses before this one so was soft on bidding. Some shippers won it. I then bought a beaten up one, which I think I would put in actual use, as the other one would just be a collector item for me.

stevemark · Joined: 29 Apr 2011 Posts: 4080 Location: Switzerland

Some ten years ago - maybe even 15 years - i saw in the shop window of a local dealer in antiques a golden camera. Looking closer, it turned out to be a Leica M5 with a Noctilux 1:1.0/50mm (golden as well, of course).

Frowning and scratching my head, i entered the shop and asked to see the camera. The dealer frankly told me that it was not an "original" golden camera (thus gold plating not made by Leitz), but the gold-coating had been made by a specialized Swiss workhop. Everything looked very professionally made, the camera was working, the lens was fine and the asking price was mere CHF 1500.-- (back then maybe EUR 1000.--).

I passed by a few times (not because of the camera; the shop was simply on my way) and saw it there for a few weeks. Then it suddenly had gone ... Today i would buy it, of course; at that time i was hesitating a slightly to long Wink

Stephan

DConvert · Joined: 12 Jun 2010 Posts: 921 Location: Essex UK

I recently got a Nikon G to MFT 'focal reducer' on e-bay for a price just slightly above the normal adapter, When the package arrived I knew instantly it wasn't the reducer.
Returning the adapter for a full refund would probably have cost me more than the purchase price, but I did get a partial refund from them. This still leaves me ~Â£20 out of pocket & with an adapter i have no real use for.
All my limited selection of Nikon mount lenses have aperture rings, and I already have several options for mounting them...

I suspect I lost out on my bargain by the deliberate miss description of the item rather than the normal tale hear of just missing the final minutes of an auction which I do far too often thanks to my spam filter - despite 'white listing' e-bay it always holds there e-mails as spam.