How to find out about a price

[Yannick Hagman]

I have an older Hasselblad lens laying around here. It's a Distagon 1:4 f=50mm Synchro Compur T* with Carl Zeiss lenses. Has anyone an idea about their price tag or how I could find out about? :help:

[Stephen Williams]

I have an older Hasselblad lens laying around here. It's a Distagon 1:4 f=50mm Synchro Compur T* with Carl Zeiss lenses. Has anyone an idea about their price tag or how I could find out about? :help:

Hi,

Put it on EBay without a reserve starting at $1.00. You will soon find it's true value.

Stephen

[Andrew Benz]

Hi,

Put it on EBay without a reserve starting at $1.00. You will soon find it's true value.

Stephen

Unless the person who is interested just snipes it with tens seconds left in the auction. The measurement of value usually only happens after the fact.

[Michael Hastings]

Hi,

Put it on EBay without a reserve starting at $1.00. You will soon find it's true value.

Stephen


Unless the person who is interested just snipes it with tens seconds left in the auction. The measurement of value usually only happens after the fact.

That is true on some unusual items but usually for things where it is easy to search and there are a lot of eyes you will get what it is worth. Remember sniping only works effectively when there isn't much interest to begin with and you catch the other bidder off guard. Remember sniping doesn't stop the automatic bidding.

In other words if you listed it for 1 dollar and the first bidder bids a max $2 and the second bidder puts a max bid of $500, it will jump to $3 and sit there until, for example, I put a snipe bid of $400 in the last 6 seconds. It will still jump to $401 and the max $500 bidder wins it for $401 same as if I didn't snipe..

[Yannick Hagman]

Come on guys, no DP with a background in hasselblad photography around?

[Ed Watkins]

Hi,

Put it on EBay without a reserve starting at $1.00. You will soon find it's true value.

Stephen

I hate eBay.. I almost always feel like I'm having a heart attack in the last few moments of an auction. I wish some one would make a fluffier, potentially less medically expensive, version. Something like "eBay Lite", where you can only bid on items under a dollar, and then work up the courage to use the real site. :wacko:

[Anthony Gratl]

I hate eBay.. I almost always feel like I'm having a heart attack in the last few moments of an auction. I wish some one would make a fluffier, potentially less medically expensive, version. Something like "eBay Lite", where you can only bid on items under a dollar, and then work up the courage to use the real site. :wacko:

That's funny Ed. Yeah, with about 2 minutes to go, the heart starts to pound, you can hear your blood pumping, you start telling yourself to focus as you set up three windows with varying bids in them, you hit the refresh button with alarming frequency and your computer starts to groan like an old engine that's forced to redline, and you completely forget that you're getting this excited about some mass-produced trinket that nine times out of ten can be easily had in your own city for 3 dollars more.

[Curran Giddens]

That's funny Ed. Yeah, with about 2 minutes to go, the heart starts to pound, you can hear your blood pumping, you start telling yourself to focus as you set up three windows with varying bids in them, you hit the refresh button with alarming frequency and your computer starts to groan like an old engine that's forced to redline, and you completely forget that you're getting this excited about some mass-produced trinket that nine times out of ten can be easily had in your own city for 3 dollars more.

don't forget the part where in the last minute of the auction, your internet connection suddenly gets really sloooow when you try to refresh the page before putting in your last bid....

[Michael Schrengohst]

I have an older Hasselblad lens laying around here. It's a Distagon 1:4 f=50mm Synchro Compur T* with Carl Zeiss lenses. Has anyone an idea about their price tag or how I could find out about? :help:

Take a look at www.keh.com

http://www.keh.com/OnLineStore/ProductList.aspx?Mode=searchproducts&item=20&ActivateTOC2=false&ID=&BC=HH&BCC=5&CC=6&CCC=2&BCL=&GBC=&GCC=&KW=

[J. Bernard Vallon]

Come on guys, no DP with a background in hasselblad photography around?


Digital really f-ed up the value of a lot of old film gear. If its compatible with modern hassy gear, like maybe a 503 body which you could put a digital back on, its worth a lot more than something from just a generation back, like a 500c/m, which is worth so little to people now a days its a little shameful, being that it is still such a great camera.

[Yannick Hagman]

So there are no digibacks for 500c/m's? :( I will ask around at the local photoclub.. Maybe I should bury it in my garden instead for the next 50 years to become retro.