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There are again more than 10 of the superb [shoplink 37645 ebay]Olympus 75mm f/1.8 lenses for sale for $799 at CameraLand (Click here)[/shoplink]. A 43rumors called them and CamerLand said that these lenses are brand new but are marked as “demo” to be able to sell them for $100 less than the normal Amazon price 🙂
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Save even more – don’t buy it at all
Yep. I got a Voigtländer 75mm f2.5 Color Heliar (Leica screwmount) instead.
http://goo.gl/JpN8v
Reee, can you link some photos taken with your Voigty 75mm? I’m curious.
If I ever get around to setting up a Flickr page, I might. 😉
It really is a nice lens, and quite sharp wide open! It’s a great size for M4/3 bodies.
Reee I hope you’ll do! (I can’t find any image review about his lens and a m43 body on the net)
Hah! I’m could be the only one. 😉
The only one doing what?
Cameraland charges $50 shipping. Amazon is free. So, you’re not really saving $100 from Cameraland if you consider postage charges.
says free shipping to lower 48 states via fed ex ground. So I suppose you don’t live in any of the 48 states?
yep, free shipping!
I’ll wait for the limited edition black version. I want to spend $300 MORE!
+1, and a free lenshood, plus lenspouch.
Or is that much asked 🙁
I got one of these from Cameraland and it is indeed brand new. Staff were great to deal with and the lens is just as impressive as the reviews state. I wish it was cheaper… but I don’t regret buying it at all.
Forgot to add, I bought the clone lens hood off eBay for $15.50 including shipping (you listening Olympus?)
😉 me too. And it does what a hood should do. Enjoy this great lens!
How well does the hood fit? I recently got the 45mm lens, purchased one of the eBay ‘specials’, returned it for a full refund, it was so loose a fit it would not have taken much to knock it off the lens, waslucky though to pick up a used Oly hood for a bargain at under £20. The 45mm, every bit as good as they say it is.
Anonymous, on my 75mm the hood screws in,so there’s no way to knock it off. The only downside is that I can’t close it with the original lens cap (something you can do with Voigtländer17.5mm: it comes with a hood and a second cap for the hood. But it’s not a problem, since until now I used the 75mm + hood only in theaters. 45mm is a great lens, for its cost, but quality construction is quite cheap, the bayonet hood system too. Until now the only lenses where I always use hoods are wide angle lenses.
needs to be more expensive so the unwashed pleb masses cannot afford one
” these lenses are brand new but are marked as “demo” to be able to sell them for $100 less than the normal Amazon price”
An interesting comment. In Australia it is illegal to enforce a resale price. It is illegal between supplier/manufacturer and seller at any point in the chain. It is also illegal to prevent a person/company from importing and selling a product. It is up to the purchaser to decide if they want a fully warranted official product or a cheaper private import. (lots of importers have grouped together to supply warranty equal to the official warranty).
One of the reasons Adobe has problems is because they charge a premium for their products here and go to massive expense to prevent Australian (probably others as well) online buyers from buying direct from the US by redirecting IP and not accepting Oz credit cards. This all happens outside Oz so not much can be done about it. I don’t wonder adobe is a very common pirated organisation. They make it very difficult to purchase from.
But back too the subject its nice to see some price drops that people can use to save a bit.
Good points, JimD. I don’t understand either the reason for marking stock as “demo” when they are supposedly new. If a seller has a legitimate cheaper price, why can’t they just advertise it that way without fear or favour from some impositional power. I’m not aware of all the ins and outs of Amazon anyway; it’s not really my cup of tea as an online marketplace. And, as as far as I’m aware, they don’t ship cameras and batteries to Oz anyway?
Adobe charges high prices because of what I call a psychological monopoly in their respective market(s). As it is with other so called “standards” and “industry best products”, people think they must have a certain product—in this case—software like Photoshop/Creative Suite, Lightroom etc., or they’re not in the game, so to speak. The photoforumblogosphere does its part to help the psychological and market monopoly with its armies of experts. How common is it to see a new user who has just bought a $500 camera and wanting further recommendations from “fellow users” and gets feedback along the lines of: Get Lightroom, Photoshop CS, new monitor, calibration device, colorimeter device, and so on. All this when they’ve hardly got past charging the battery for their new camera. I’m not saying that these products aren’t useful or a worthwhile investment for serious users. But too often than not, a lot of people buying into this additional gear have little or no need for it. Or they should at least get to grips with their new camera first and learn or improve on their skills and technique first, before adopting Adobe software as their photographic panacea.
i love sales on things that are overpriced!
Aproveitei a dica e comprei uma!
Agora só falta enviar para o Brasil!
Obrigado 43Rumors, me ajudou a salvar uma grana!
I love this site! It has helped me decide to buy good lenses and cameras. Thanks 43Rumors!
To all the price whiners who comment (complain/troll) whenever an Olympus lens deal is posted: A product is overpriced and expensive to those who consider it such. To some, this lens is a relative bargain, with superb optics on a par with some Leica and Zeiss primes costing a lot more than $899. To those who find a good use for the focal length, it’s one of the best lenses available for any system. $899 is not cheap but it’s not overly expensive either. I personally don’t have a use for the M.Zuiko 75mm f/1.8 nor do I feel compelled to own one just because others do. Back in January, I could have got this lens for AU$695 after 20% Olympus Australia cashback promotion. Not a bad price at all.
High quality optics, fully corrected lenses, metal build, AF—all this contributes to a higher than consumer level price. The Fuji 14mm f/2.8 for its X mount system has these qualities and is also an $899 lens. (Unlike Olympus, Fuji includes a lens hood and cloth casing with all its X lenses, AFAIK.) Of course, the troll comments at other places have already come flying in to disparage that lens after its positive reviews: “It’s only a 21mm f/4.3 FF equivalent! Slow aperture! Useless focal length! Soft corners wide open! Overpriced! Get Canikon instead!”
Some drivers are perfectly happy with $50 tyres on each corner of their vehicle. Other drivers happily pay $500 for each tyre. My limit is about $200 a tyre. There’s different products and pricing for different needs, budgets and markets. Find out which one is yours and get on with life.