I suspect the price differences are related to the fact that there are more
choices in Nikon... Olympus didn't ever sell as many 180/2.8 as Nikon, so
there are more Nikon around now, depressing the Nikon prices. The only
problem with Nikon lenses is the focus turns the wrong way (note - this is
said slightly tongue-in-cheek). Plus if you have Nikon lenses you're stuck
using the big heavy clunky Nikon cameras, instead of small light friendly
elegant OM's...
But my experiences in pawn shops, camera stores, and camera shows is that
there is probably ten times as much Nikon stuff around as Olympus. That
means prices for some of the stuff are lower than equivalent Oly equipment,
just supply and demand. IMO the price difference doesn't begin to make up
for having to use the Nikon stuff. I have 'picked up along the way' a few
Nikon items, and they're solid and serviceable, but I am not going to trade
any OM-4t's for F-100's or F-5's.
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
on 3/22/03 10:00 AM, Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu at lamadoo@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> I guess I'm a gearhead today. This past week I got the camera into a
> concert, no problem. I moved around freely and had a seatback available a
> few times for propping up a lens barrel. The 135 was too short and f/2.8 in
> a longer lens would have been a big help.
>
> In today's new K.E.H. paper catalog of used gear, I found two manual focus
> super-teles. One "Nikkor" and one "Zuiko". Can anyone explain why the
> Nikkor is so much cheaper? Somebody, please tell me I'm comaring apples and
> oranges!
>
> 180 f/2.8 Nikkor AI EX+ (condition) $449
> 180 f/2.8 Zuiko EX+ (condition) $599
>
> More to the point, I don't want anything is EX+ condition. In the used
> Nikon department I would have these additional choices:
>
> 180 f/2.8 AI (auto-indexing) BGN (condition) $199
> 180 f/2.8 AI (auto-indexing) EX (condition) $364
>
> Holy cow! 180/2.8 for $199? The N80 meters with AI lenses, right? (Not
> matrix though-not a big deal.) And I could ebay my 90 Series1 macro and buy
> one for the same money in a AI, right? Oh. Oh no. No, no. No. Must be
> strong.
>
> Wavering,
> Lama
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