Re: The endless quest to find good lenses for a Canon continues...

On Feb 27, 7:55 pm, TRoss <tross...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:41:37 -0800 (PST), RichA <rander3...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Good news! The Chinese are making AF confirmation adapters for manual
lenses so you can use decent lenses on your Canon more easily!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/AF-Confirm-Adapter-for-Olympus-OM-lens-Canon-EOS-...

Note the subject line here: I expect OM lenses to go up in price now.

http://cgi.ebay.com/rare-Olympus-OM-zukio-T-100mm-f-2-easy-to-canon-4...

The current bid is $325 - if the lens is in mint condition it should
fetch at least $750. It's a nice piece of glass - very fast and very
sharp. I could only afford its slower sibling, which was also a nice
piece of glass.

Somehow, I doubt old OM-1 users are driving this kind of price!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Olympus-Zuiko-24mm-f3-5-Shift-Lens-for-the-OM-sys...

This lens has always been expensive. Not that any PC lenses are
cheap. If you really want to bust the budget set your sights on the PC
Super-Anglon 28mm f/2.8 - that'll set you back ~$2500.

If my choices were between a used Zuiko Shift 24mm and a brand new
Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L, I'd go with the Canon. It offers both Tilt and
Shift, it sells for about $700 less than the current bid price, and I
woudn't need a 3rd party adapter to mount it to my Canon.

Also, there's no way I'd buy this or any Zuiko Shift 24mm sight
unseen. I would want to see the condition of the front element.

TR

And then there are these:

http://www.hartblei.com/lenses/lens_35mm.htm
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