lens valuations please...
Posted 01/12/2010 - 23:21
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At an educated guess (based on ebay prices):
135mm £30-£50 (can vary wildly but £50 seems a reliable budget to get a good one)
50mm £20-£30 (although I've seen them as low as £15 in good condition)
The Takumar 28-80 is probably worth around £10-£20, this and its Pentax-A badged twin aren't great lenses although you do get the odd person putting mad buy it now prices on them and hoping the Takumar name will boost it.
135mm £30-£50 (can vary wildly but £50 seems a reliable budget to get a good one)
50mm £20-£30 (although I've seen them as low as £15 in good condition)
The Takumar 28-80 is probably worth around £10-£20, this and its Pentax-A badged twin aren't great lenses although you do get the odd person putting mad buy it now prices on them and hoping the Takumar name will boost it.
Matt
Shooting the Welsh Wilderness with K-m, KX, MX, ME Super and assorted lenses.
Shooting the Welsh Wilderness with K-m, KX, MX, ME Super and assorted lenses.
Posted 01/12/2010 - 23:25
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The reality is that you won't get much for any of these here. You'd probably get more on eBay, since there are many more less well-informed buyers there.
The trouble with all of these is that they each have an achilles heel for different reasons.
The 135-M is terrific in every respect except that it's pre-A, so it isn't as usable (purely because of the exposure problems, nothing wrong with the optics) on the K10D and subsequent dSLRs.
The 50mm A F2 is also terrific except that it's not the F1.7. For most practical purposes there's little difference, but even so.
And if you're talking about the 28-80 A-series Tak that also came Pentax-(non-SMC)-branded, well, there's nothing wrong with it particularly (it's not good, nor desperate, as manual zooms from that era went), but there are any number of later, better, not-very-expensive AF lenses that cover much the same focal length range.
If you put them out for sale here, you have the problem that a lot of people here know all this - a lot better than I do, mostly - and on eBay they're not at all uncommon.
Dunno. Thirty or forty quid each maybe. A bit more for the 135 perhaps, if you can find someone interested only in the optics and not the usability. The 50mm F2 varies wildly, but it has to be really excellent condition, effectively mint, to do well.
Less for the 28-80 probably - it's not that desirable now, really.
The trouble with all of these is that they each have an achilles heel for different reasons.
The 135-M is terrific in every respect except that it's pre-A, so it isn't as usable (purely because of the exposure problems, nothing wrong with the optics) on the K10D and subsequent dSLRs.
The 50mm A F2 is also terrific except that it's not the F1.7. For most practical purposes there's little difference, but even so.
And if you're talking about the 28-80 A-series Tak that also came Pentax-(non-SMC)-branded, well, there's nothing wrong with it particularly (it's not good, nor desperate, as manual zooms from that era went), but there are any number of later, better, not-very-expensive AF lenses that cover much the same focal length range.
If you put them out for sale here, you have the problem that a lot of people here know all this - a lot better than I do, mostly - and on eBay they're not at all uncommon.
Dunno. Thirty or forty quid each maybe. A bit more for the 135 perhaps, if you can find someone interested only in the optics and not the usability. The 50mm F2 varies wildly, but it has to be really excellent condition, effectively mint, to do well.
Less for the 28-80 probably - it's not that desirable now, really.
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Pentax K-3, DA18-135, DA35 F2.4, DA17-70, DA55-300, FA28-200, A50 F1.7, A100 F4 Macro, A400 F5.6, Sigma 10-20 EXDC, 50-500 F4.5-6.3 APO DG OS Samsung flash SEF-54PZF(x2)
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Posted 01/12/2010 - 23:48
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Ditto on the aforementioned prices, I was amazed to see an "A" series f2 go for £15 recently (cursed myself for missing it)
If they were mine I'd be happy with £35 for the 135 £25 for the 50 and £15 for the 28-80 but ChrisA has allready given the best advice, get them on ebay.
If they were mine I'd be happy with £35 for the 135 £25 for the 50 and £15 for the 28-80 but ChrisA has allready given the best advice, get them on ebay.
Posted 02/12/2010 - 11:57
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fatspider wrote:
Ditto on the aforementioned prices, I was amazed to see an "A" series f2 go for £15 recently (cursed myself for missing it)
Probably £12 more than it's worth Ditto on the aforementioned prices, I was amazed to see an "A" series f2 go for £15 recently (cursed myself for missing it)
Useless below f/5.6
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17 years
135mm M series f3.5 in superb condition
50mm F2 A series in great condition
28 - 80 cheaper zoom Takumar in great condition
thanks in advance
paul