Hi Rich,
I have one of this type lenses. It looks very much alike, but its a Beroflex
brand. You can get those lenses here in Germany as "Danubia" brandnew for
about 120$.Quite good test results in the german Fotomagazin (I think
january 01). A lens of this type with a modified rear tube is even useable
as a medium format (6x6 cm) lens! On ebay, I saw many used ones in good
shape go for 20 -50 $. I paid 70 $ at a local shop. My lens is a decent
performer, I shot the 1999 solar eclipse with it on a OM1. You could even
see sunspots. I use it quite often as a small telescope, it shows very good
performance with close to diffraction limited star spots.
Nevertheless, 167$ seems a bit on the expensive side.
So , good lens, not so good priced.
Rainer
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Von: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]Im Auftrag von Richard Wozniak
Gesendet: Freitag, 25. Mai 2001 21:27
An: 'olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Betreff: [OM] details on "500 mm Olympus Mount" lens on ebay
A fellow named Larry Walker is selling this on ebay. He has multiples of
them, and in fact is probably ordering them from the distributor when he
gets an auction closing, as the time to ship was about 10 days.
The lense is pretty much as described except it is not really "OM mount" it
is a screw mount and an OM mount adapter. The lense is light for the size,
indicating the quality of construction no doubt. It seems unlikely that ANY
information (other than light) goes from the lens to the camera (in my case
an OM-1) due to the way the adapter / mount thing works.
I paid $167 for it and am undecided on whether to return it or not.
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