Andreas Pirner, are you there?
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Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jez Cunningham
Sent: 25 January 2007 16:25
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: A discovery!
And a guy in Germany who didn't publish his data but was always quick and
helpful with email questions... I forget his name Jez
On 1/25/07, om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Yep, that took me a while. It was very useful for about 3 years until
> the digital cameras really tanked the sales of many items. I used to
> pull the data into Excel every 3 weeks or so (which was the roll-off
> time then) and spend an hour wading through the data to eliminate
> auctions that didn't meet reserve, were mis-identified, broken lenses,
> or were obviously inflated.
>
> There have been two others who have done more comprehensive work that
> I know of:
>
> Garry Reese did the same thing as I did for a year or so, but graded
> each of the items for quality. I thought that it was a lot of work,
> and he even tried to charge for it; but nobody was hungry enough for
> the data to pay for it...mine may have been good enough. I offered to
> blend the data and host it for both of us, but he wasn't interested.
> The quality of the data was much better than mine.
>
> There was also a guy in Norway who did a site about 3 years ago with
> lots of data. He had the process more automated, but the system only
> ran for 6 months? He disappeared soon thereafter.
>
> That's all I know.
>
> Skip
>
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Ali Shah alizookoman@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:52:59 -0800 (PST)
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] A discovery!
>
> >From the other Olympus forum:
>
> "Take a look at this if you do not know it:
>
> http://www.skipwill iams.com/ olympus/zuiko_ ebay_history. htm
>
> Over 6 years old.
> Would there be any interest in a group project putting together a
> newer version? It is a lot of work for anyone, guess Skip had a lot of
> time. I was thinking some of us could do one or two lenses and someone
> could enter the data into Excel and someone post it (maybe on Skip's
> site?). He did it for 15 months!
>
> As an example he shows the 600mm lens for about $1300
> (11 sales). One just sold for about $500 on ebay.
> While the 90mm macro has gone up in value.
>
> I would do 5 lenses.
>
> But anyway I think it a good resource to see the value of the
> different versions."
>
>
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