A bargain?

[daveh]

I've just been looking at Canon lenses on ebay. Going down the photos I spied a Leica M6 sporting a Canon f1.2 50mm lens - Buy It Now at £599.99. Quite a bargain!

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Canon-50mm-f-1-2-LTM-RF-Leica-Fit-Lens-M8-M9-M6-MP-L39-/320730593888?pt=UK_Lenses_Filters_Lenses&hash=item4aad087a60


At least it might have been, but it is basically just the lens that is for sale at £599.99. I've already got one of these lenses attached to a Canon 7, so I don't need another - especially at that price.

[daveh]

I don't believe it mark II, very rare it says:

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CANON-50mm-1-2-RANGEFINDER-LENS-L39-LTM-MOUNT-V-RARE-/130545368419?pt=UK_Lenses_Filters_Lenses&hash=item1e651c3d63

Another Canon 50mm F1.2 for £749.99!


It's a nice lens, but this is getting silly (to quote Monty Python).

[nikonbob]

On another forum that I belong to there is quite a long thread about the high prices for lenses, especially anything that will fit Leica M or LTM cameras and of course other digitals with the proper adapter. They really have taken quite a jump with a pre asph 35 Lux apparently going for near $2000.00 now. If you want to unload some lenses now might be the time to do so, just don't try to replace them in a hurry. Prices for camera gear is like the stock market, now up but could just as easily go down too.

Bob

[daveh]

I have been thinking of getting an adapter so I can use it on the Canon DSLR. The Canon 50mm f1.2L is more than £1,250 here.

[nikonbob]

When you look at it that way and like using a 50 mm lens then it is a bargain by comparison. That may be part of what is driving old glass up in price, the new stuff is getting absurdly high in cost.

Bob