The price (about the equivalent of $550 USD) is at the upper end of what
I've seen in the U.S. for the MC versions (dealers, not eBay).
I think the trade-in you were offered is *not* a good deal though. I have
to agree with Gregg! Get a shift if you are doing a fair amount of
architectural work, including monuments and statues, and have found a
_need_ for one. In spite of regularly using a 35/2.8 shift, I would not
have traded any existing gear for it.
If the need for a shift is occasional, you can use a wider lens such as a
24mm and have cropped prints made from the negative (or transparency). The
35mm shift "crops" a 35mm angle of view out of a 24mm image circle. The
advantage is the "crop" of the image circle ends up on an entire 24x36mm
frame. If, for some reason the 35mm shift it isn't wide enough, and since
I cannot justify the high cost of the 24mm/3.5 shift, that is what I would
do using the 18mm/3.5 which I do have. Haven't run into that problem yet,
but can envision it happening with a few structures in a tight urban setting.
-- John
At 20:51 6/24/00 , Gregg wrote:
>How often would you use a shift lens? If it is only rarely, then why not
>try Lex's pinhole solution first and see if it works to your satisfaction?
>Unless it is a rare and highly sought after lens, why loose money on the
>deal?
>
>Gregg
>
>
>Frieder pondered:
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> at the moment I`m in a hard zuikoholic decission, and would like to know
>what you think about it:
>>
>> A local dealer offers a mint Zuiko 35mm F/2.8 Shift. Serial-No. 106xxx
>black nose and
>> seems to be a MC. He wants DM 1099.- ( DM : $ ~ 2:1 -> $550).
>> Because I can`t afford such a sum at the moment I thought I`d trade some
>of my 16 lenses for it.
>> I thought with 4 lenses and a flash should be fine. I stopped trading when
>he offered 550.- DM for
>> equipment, I payed about 1400.- in total ( I can`t carry more equipment in
>my bag!).
>>
>> Now it seems I`d have to trade these items to reach the necessary sum for
>the Shift:
>> Zuiko -T 2.8/135 + Telemore 2x
>> Zuiko-Z 4/65-200
>> Zuiko-Z 3.5~4.5/35~195
>> Oly.flash F 280
>> Vari-magni-finder
>> Zuiko-S 1.4/50
>> Soligor Zoom 4~5.6/60~300 - A nice lens, but undervalued.
>> I bought it new, so I´ve a lot of monney loss with it.
>> (Maybe my Zuiko-W 2.0/35)
>>
>> I`ve payed about DM 2150.-(2550.-with 2/35) for all that equipment. Now
>I´ve seen that
>> the price for a new 2.8/35 Shift would be 2311.- here in Germnany. So I´m
>not sure
>> I´d make a good deal. I already planned to reduce my equipment a bit, but
>the 35~105, or the
>> 2.0/35 are two lenses I wanted to keep.
>> What are you thinking about it? Does a Shift equal such a lot of
>equipment, even
>> if most of`em aren`t what I always use?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Frieder Faig
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