I decided to check my 1995 Olympus Denmark price list (recommended prices).
The 100mm f2.8 cost 4,645 DKK (incl. 25ales tax). The exchange rate in
1995 was about 8DKK = 1USD. That would give a price without tax of 465 USD;
very close to the eBay price in question.
I have to admit that when I originally acquired the price list, I thought
that noone would ever pay those prices!
I also noticed that the 24mm shift lens that now costs 20,000 DKK from
Photografica (ex- Olympus Europe), cost 25,585 DKK in 1995.
Photografica have not published a catalogue/price list of all the bits that
they got from Olympus Europe yet, by the way (I was there today). I noticed
a new T45 Flash, and a Macro Flash Ring (50USD incl. tax) that I had not
seen before...
Roger Key, Copenhagen
Jim Brokaw wrote:
Well, I don't see this as truly out of line if the lens was -really- a
brand
new never sold in the box lens. What would that lens have cost at a typical
camera store back when OM's and Zuiko's were widely available new? I think
the prices of brand new lenses still available at B & H and such are pretty
high, I think they want ~$300-some for a 24/2.8, and much more than that as
I recall for the 21/2.0 or 16/3.5. If we consider that the buyer might
-only- be interested in a *new* item, the pool of available pieces gets
much
smaller... supply shrinks, demand drives prices up. Look at the Leica
collectors if you want to see -real- price dementia! "New in the box" can
be
300% more than 'nearly perfect used' items...
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
on 4/2/03 11:57 AM, Piers Hemy at piers@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> I wonder, is that diagnosis confirmed by his also having paid:
>
> USD661 for a NIB OM1 MD (yes, NIB, not LNIB) #2919646193
> USD202 for a similar condition OM10 (yes, two digits there) #2919646729?
>
> Then again, he only bid USD322 for the Zuiko 100/2.8 #2914946823 that
> eventually went to the renowned jonequinn for USD722.
>
> Nuts or not, it's catching (but we all knew that, surely)
>
> Piers
>
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