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Re: [OM] 300mm/F2.8 US.Zuiko???

Subject: Re: [OM] 300mm/F2.8 US.Zuiko???
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:21:27 -0400
Maybe it was a ZuikoSakar ?  :-0

John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Hans van Veluwen <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 1:36 PM
Subject: [OM] 300mm/F2.8 US.Zuiko???


> I visited today a camera store (where I, btw, rescued a 21mm/F3.5 Zuiko
for
> $250 because it told me it was lonely :-), and the shopkeeper told me he
> recently sold a very special Olympus lens for about $1500. It had,
according
> to him, its distance scale *only* in feet, not in meters, and he thought
it
> was a 300mm/F2.8, made specially for the American market. I asked him
twice
> if it wasn't the 350/2.8, be he was convinced it was a 300mm. Is this
known
> to anybody? Did Olympus actually make special, non-standard Zuiko line
> lenses on demand, or only for the American market? If so, what would be
the
> actual value of such a lens (the shopkeeper was already sorry he didn't
ask
> more)?
>
> Hans
>
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