50mm f/1.0L on ebay right now! Cheap!

MY GOODNESS!!! The images on Tucker's site were AMAZING!

Discussing collectibles market is not like talking cost benefits of the 70-200 f/2.8 IS vs. non-IS.
That market will continue strong I reckon, unabated by the advent of any other seemingly competitive lens. Right....simply because the lens is scarce and very expensive. The pricier, the more desireable the lens becomes......that's generally the way that market works.

I have seen relatively often some owners advancing their photography rationale for owning the lens. Some rationale is relatively logical, others are as plausible as my walk around gear ID.

I think one of the major reason for owning the lens is to be able to say you have it. Which I have no quarrel with.

Petkal wrote in post #2167164
Discussing collectibles market is not like talking cost benefits of the 70-200 f/2.8 IS vs. non-IS.
That market will continue strong I reckon, unabated by the advent of any other seemingly competitive lens.

Ok and that relates to this topic how? Are you trying not to mention the 50mm 1.2?

Petkal wrote in post #2167164
Right....simply because the lens is scarce and very expensive. The pricier, the more desireable the lens becomes......that's generally the way that market works.

Actually i think the market works the other way, the more desireable the lens is the more expensive it becomes.

Petkal wrote in post #2167164
I have seen relatively often some owners advancing their photography rationale for owning the lens. Some rationale is relatively logical, others are as plausible as my walk around gear ID.

Ok so people make good and bad arguments for owning lenses.

Petkal wrote in post #2167164
I think one of the major reason for owning the lens is to be able to say you have it. Which I have no quarrel with.

So you dont mind people having lenses just for the sake of having them.

Well, I am glad to see that you could add so much to this topic

all the best

BearSummer

BearSummer wrote in post #2167582
Well, I am glad to see that you could add so much to this topic

all the best

BearSummer

Thank you Bear, when in a dark tight hydrogen laden confined space, you can always count on me to strike a match of reason.

Petkal wrote in post #2167596
Thank you Bear, when in a dark tight hydrogen laden confined space, you can always count on me to strike a match of reason.

Are you sure its hydrogen and not just excess methane?

regards

BearSummer

BearSummer wrote in post #2167602
Are you sure its hydrogen and not just excess methane?

regards

BearSummer

I am trying to help ya, Bear.
(Incidentally, have you ever met Tlee ? He is a member from Surrey as well.)

Petkal wrote in post #2167613
I am trying to help ya, Bear.
(Incidentally, have you ever met Tlee ? He is a member from Surrey as well.)

Tlee... not that I am aware of, will keep an eye open for him and say Hi if i see him posting

BearSummer

Did anyone happen to notice that this guy is selling "two" of these lenses. One is EX+ and one LKnew with pictures of the same lens in each description. Also it seems strange to me that there is no head on front view of the lens but only a head on view of the rear element.

hmm...that is kind of fishy

Oh boy....It has begun!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com …93780QQrdZ1QQcm​dZViewItem

NAisBEST wrote in post #2171238
Oh boy....It has begun!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com …93780QQrdZ1QQcm​dZViewItem

That's good, so the 50 f/1.2 is starting to percolate to the stores.
Oh come to papa, you chubby little red necked piggy !
Sixteen L's will sound so sweetly, almost as sweetly as whimpering of Dante King, the ex-coLLector extraordinaire, the putative "master of L virus".
Mwuahahahhahahaha.

NA......854 NY....is that your area code? Im in Orange County

C.S.I. wrote in post #2171306
NA......854 NY....is that your area code? Im in Orange County

Sure is Im in Dutchess, by Poughkeepsie. I was at the Orange County airport not too long ago for an Auto-Cross event

Cool......Im near Newburgh

I hover my cursor over the link to the thread from the forum and the text that appears says "Fooled ya!"
I'm in Orange County... California, that is.