On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Konrad Pizzuto wrote:
|Can anyone tell me what's a decent price for this lens?
Look for prices in the $175 (USA dollars) range, give or take a few.
I got mine in Mint-/Ex++ condition for some $150 plus shipping, but
that was luck more than anything else.
|And does its image rendering beat the true Zuiko zooms? (tricky
|question, right?!?)
This is a true pro zoom, built with a 'cost is no object' mentality.
Expect it to beat just about every Zuiko zoom save the 35-80/2.8 ED.
|David Fineman wrote:
|>
|> If I remember correctly this lens is not a zoom, but rather a vari-focus. It
was
|> one of the finest I ever used on my Nikon about 20 years ago. I think that
|> Vivitar discontinued it when the price rose higher than the public was
willing
|> to pay. I wish that I still had it !!!!!
|>
|> Frank Costa wrote:
|>
|> > I've scrounged every last bit of data I could find on this lens in the
|> > archives. I understand it's a fine lens, but that it's large and heavy.
Does
|> > anyone have exact specs on it's size and weight, or direct me to where I
|> > could find that out?
|> >
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