Way Overrated Lens!

This is nearly funny! He calls the condition excellent!

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Everything is over rated if you really care! ask one
person and another will tell you different. So how in the
hell cares! lens are lenes! yet my Carl Zeiss tells
the full storey!



metal guy. get a 500 CM and your worries are over
for as pic goes!

"Alan Peterman" wrote in message
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This is nearly funny! He calls the condition excellent!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48556&item=3820296 274

Yes. I used to laugh at the Shutterbug ratings that the seller
was probably basing his (optimistic) "Ex" on - "90% original
finish", or some such. Never could figure out what that meant.
All like new, except that 10% of the finish can be missing?
The dents, dings, and scratches can be 10% through the
materials? What? It left the seller with lots of "wriggle" room,
and Shutterbug with lots of nice-sounding classified ads
with items that were not as one might expect from a description
of "excellent" ("very good" was actually "horrible"...;-). Then
there was that mysterious "mint+++", somehow distinguishable
from "like new"...;-) As for this lens, though, someone got what
may be normally a very interesting and expensive Nikkor in
usable condition for $86 plus shipping. Adding a $25 AI'ing job,
and it will fit many recent Nikon bodies. Not a bad deal....! ;-)
--
David Ruether

http://www.ferrario.com/ruether

get a 500 CM and your worries are over
for as pic goes!

Having been inside the 500 CM, I have to say the laugh's on you. Nice finish,
and great optics, but they mount onto the flimsiest pro camera I ever worked
on. There's not much substance under that finish. If you don't believe me,
and don't want to take one apart yourself, find a friendly repairman and get
him to let you look over his shoulder sometime. If you value solid mechanical
quality as highly as optics, you may never want to spend money on a Hasselblad
again.
Michael Cleveland
Past Reflections
A Collection of Historical Photographica