I had and sold both of those lenses about three years ago with a S1 200/3.
I also followed them for a while on Ebay, which is really the best place to
gauge prices.
I'd imagine you could get $75-125 for nice examples, a bit more with cases,
box, etc or in truely mint shape. Less if the diaphragm's need work or the
lenses are well worn. OM mounts may bring a little more than other, more
common mounts.
IMO, the lenses were all nice, but weighed a ton. I didn't find the 1/2
stop of them vs. their Zuiko counterparts worth the huge weight penalty vs.
Zuikos; and their wide-open performance was OK, but nothing more than you'd
expect of a late 70's design. That said, they were much better than almost
everthing else from third-party makers of the time. IMO, the 200/3 was
superceeded by the Tamron 180/2.5 IF-SP, which is a superior lens. There
were many other 135/2.8's, but very few faster, and the other, faster 135's
like the Cambron f/1.9 (?), were mediocre, IME.
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Original Message:
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From: Ralf Loi ralf_loi@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:49:48 +0200
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Vivitar Series 1 lenses
Hi all,
in a lot of photo equipment I bought recently, there are also 2 Vivitar
Series 1 lenses: a 28/1.9 and a 135/2.3.
I already have the Zuiko ones (28/2 and 135/2.8), and I cannot justify to
have also the Vivitars unless they are
much more better, so I'm thinking of selling them.
Anyone has an idea of what can be a price for a truly mint examples of both
lenses?
Thanks in advance.
Ralf Loi
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