The background: Wife and I were at my photographer son-in-law (and No. 1 daughter's) place earlier this week for the evening. He's the one who bought my (after falling in love with it) Pentax 6x7 kit. It included a 105mm f2.4 and a 55mm f3.5. For whatever reason, he chose to pass on the 135mm Macro (which I still have). He mentioned that he was considering getting a longer telephoto for it and I told him that KEH had a couple of crazy cheap 200mm f4s that he might take a chance on. (I had been looking at their selection just the day before).
In particular, they had a BGN rated S-M-C 200mm f4 for $45. We discussed how people seemed to be pleasantly surprised at their BGN rated purchases from KEH and he decided to take a chance on it and ordered it on the spot (Tues. evening). I got an email from him just a bit ago which consisted of the following message: "Myth: KEH "bargain" lenses are are an incredible bargain. Myth confirmed!" http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/smctakumar2004/photo1.JPG http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/smctakumar2004/photo2.JPG The flip side of this is that if they were selling it for $45, some poor fellow probably got very little for it on the selling end. The other lesson may be that if you are selling something to KEH and you put in a particular grade (according to their descriptions) using their online quote form, you will probably find that they downgrade it (not upgrade it) once they actually see it/list it. Final thought, it is pretty sad how low the demand must be for Pentax 6x7 stuff, to see the prices that people are gettting/not getting for this stuff. I'm (again) tempted to get one for myself, as I may never be able to pry my former one out of my son-in-law's hands again! Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
