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On 6 Feb 2006 05:14:43 -0800, "dtong22" <> wrote:

>Can somebody explain to me? This is around 5 pm EST Saturday . And I
>was looking at the ebay bid of a Pentax FA85mm 1.4. It is now over
>$1,000 and still one hour to go which means that the sales probably may
>end up over 1,100 pl shipping from Portugal. Yet B&H price is just $800
>on back order though. Big deal that it is on back order and you have to
>wait . Also 77mm limited 1.8 is $700 available right now brand new.
>Just not real with that much of a premium ? It is just insane The
>price of lens have really gone up lately.
>
>Daniel

Ebay; The World's centre for shill bidding and outright fraud.

Trust me when I say that I know my Pentax Ebay prices.
The last several SMC-A* 1:1.4 85mm lenses have all sold for over 1000.
They only come up evry 3 weeks or so.

Neal,
>Trust me when I say that I know my Pentax Ebay prices.
>The last several SMC-A* 1:1.4 85mm lenses have all sold for over 1000.
>they only come up evry 3 weeks or so.
It apparently is rare and good.
Also it is the longest and fastest lens that can manage the magical
figure of 1.4.
I would rather wait for the new one hoping that Pentax is resume
production.
I recall FA50mm1.4 was quite high as well before Pentax restarts.
Luckily I took my time and I got that in the States for a paltry sum
of $220.
I just love not using my flash at all.
Daniel

The A* is the manual focus version. The FA* is the AF version. Minor
optical changes exist between them.
Nikon (iirc) & Zeiss also have 85/1.4 models and Canon a monster
85/1.2. Getting a little longer, Pentax has a super-fast 135/1.8. In
recent months these went from $800 to $1800.

Collin

The "limited" line is FA* (or DA in the case of the new 40mm).

http://www.pentaximaging.com/product..._35mm_standard

They sort of supplemented the FA* line with some oustanding
construction
(can you say "all-metal barrel"?) and fine optics. Even the nice Nikon
45mm
quasi-pancake lens is only a metalized appearance, whereas the 31/43/77
Limiteds are all metal barrels. Little bumps don't leave nicks in the
surface --
the durability goes along with the fine optics here.

Collin

Cheesehead wrote:

> The A* is the manual focus version. The FA* is the AF version. Minor
> optical changes exist between them.
> Nikon (iirc) & Zeiss also have 85/1.4 models and Canon a monster
> 85/1.2. Getting a little longer, Pentax has a super-fast 135/1.8. In
> recent months these went from $800 to $1800.
>
> Collin
>

That surprises me, since I've only seen one 135 f/1.8 & that was in
screw mount. They're scarcer than hen's teeth.

I don't think HAS is the right word, HAD.

no_name <> wrote:

> Cheesehead wrote:
>
> > The A* is the manual focus version. The FA* is the AF version. Minor
> > optical changes exist between them.
> > Nikon (iirc) & Zeiss also have 85/1.4 models and Canon a monster
> > 85/1.2. Getting a little longer, Pentax has a super-fast 135/1.8. In
> > recent months these went from $800 to $1800.
>
> That surprises me, since I've only seen one 135 f/1.8 & that was in
> screw mount. They're scarcer than hen's teeth.

Viz:

<http://www.aohc.it/mastere.htm>

Scroll down.

"Had" is correct since it's from the older "A" series.

I saw an old Soligor (iirc) 135/1.8 beast last year.
They used some sort of odd-ball interchangable mount solution.
Optically, yuk.

I think a few on http://www.pdml.net have the 135/1.8.
Today they seem equally well as retirement savings.

Collin

Paul Mitchum wrote:

> no_name <> wrote:
>
>
>>Cheesehead wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The A* is the manual focus version. The FA* is the AF version. Minor
>>>optical changes exist between them.
>>>Nikon (iirc) & Zeiss also have 85/1.4 models and Canon a monster
>>>85/1.2. Getting a little longer, Pentax has a super-fast 135/1.8. In
>>>recent months these went from $800 to $1800.
>>
>>That surprises me, since I've only seen one 135 f/1.8 & that was in
>>screw mount. They're scarcer than hen's teeth.
>
>
> Viz:
>
> <http://www.aohc.it/mastere.htm>
>
> Scroll down.

I don't doubt its exsistance. I just doubt they're popping up on eBay
very often. I've never seen one on eBay, even back when it was easy to
search the closed auctions.

I've never seen one for sale from any of the big NYC dealers. That's not
to say they haven't been, just that I never found one, and I looked
several times over the years.

The only one I ever saw was in a little hole in the wall camera shop in
Norfolk Va ca 1981. It was a screw mount, and NOT FOR SALE.

no_name wrote:

> I don't doubt its exsistance. I just doubt they're popping up on eBay
> very often. I've never seen one on eBay, even back when it was easy to
> search the closed auctions.

Unless you continually look at closed auctions you don't even scratch the
surface of what you actually did miss. I only search out and buy newly
listed improperly priced "Buy It Now" auctions that are generally only seen
in the search engine for available items in the first several minutes after
being listed before being biught up by myself or someone else using the
same strategy.







Rita