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Re: [OM] 40/f2 at KEH $$$ Yikes!

Subject: Re: [OM] 40/f2 at KEH $$$ Yikes!
From: "Martin G Flink" <mgflink@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:51:17 -0700
In Modern Photography Dec '85 40mm f2.0 $84.95 at 47st Photo...A few other
ads for about the same...What is with this lens?  Is it because its so
compact?   One of my favorites is the 35mm f2.0 at considerably less
cost...Marty


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Scales <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] 40/f2 at KEH $$$ Yikes!


>Wow, that's outrageous.  For a lens that was originally $79, if I remember.
>That's serious price inflation.
>
>Guess I am glad I have one <g>.
>
>Tom
>
>> There is a EX+ 40/2 at KEH for (gulp)  $889.00. They had one about a year
>> ago for $449 that I returned, I did't see that the cost vs perfomance
>> ratio was there and "settled" for a 35/2 which in IMHO is much better.
>>                                                                   Frank
>>
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