[falconeye]

PentaxForums.com Marketplace Listing

Item for Sale
PENTAX DA* 16-50mm F2.8 ED SDM (EXC / IB) -- and much more --

Asking Price
750.00 USD

Item Location
Munich (Germany)

Item Description
Lens is condition EXC (May show signs of light wear and/or usage. LCD may have very slight blemishes. Lens glass is very clean). Optics may even be EXC+. I have never experienced a problem with the SDM focus drive.

Shutter count for lens: 3660 (based on archive statistics)

Purchase:
June 2009 (I am the original owner)
Serial: #9027995129258
with copy of invoice.

Please inspect images for further details:


Note that this lens is on display at an ebay auction,
ebay item id: 121222143570

The auction has a reserve price matching my asking price here. However, I will be waiting for the auction to terminate first. The auction page has links to more information like more and more detailed images.

I list this one item only here at PF. My normal sales activity is at ebay as I currently have to clear some of my aquired photo gear to make room for even more photo gear I wished I could list everything here at PF. But a large part of my main market (Germany) would probably not see it.

You may want to have a look at my other auctions. There will be 14 lenses, 2 bodies, 7 converters etc.

Are you the original owner of the item being sold?
Yes

Are you selling or trading this item?
Selling

Item Condition (Key)
Used
Excellent

Shipping Destinations
Worldwide

Shipping Charge
7€ (to D), $57 (to USA), insured

Shipping Services
DHL

Accepted Payment Types
PayPal

Return Policy & Additional Details
No return outside of Germany. 7 days return if a plausible reason is given.

Please send me a private message if interested in the item!

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Last edited by falconeye; 11-24-2013 at 04:47 PM.

[hinman]

Can we know what camera that you are getting next? Selling your 16-50 does not cause optimism on the potential of a K-3. What are you thinking -- a Sony A7r or something we don't know about. Will help you bump the sale thread when it gets to 2nd page.

Cheers,
Hin

[falconeye]

Can we know what camera that you are getting next? Selling your 16-50 does not cause optimism on the potential of a K-3. What are you thinking -- a Sony A7r or something we don't know about.

Hin,

as some of you may know, I got a D800E the first day it became available. With two growing systems, I really have to size down my collection. I am keeping my original K-5 (selling my Limited Silver) and a few select lenses. I am mostly keeping my Pentax system for a street photography style of shooting. For studio or work on demand, I'll use my Nikon which is too large to carry everywhere. For hiking, I actually started to prefer the RX100m2 with EVF my girl friend received as a gift

If I'd only use a single system, it would probably be the K-3 which seems to combine kind of best of all worlds.

But with its professional claim, it has to compete against my D800E and nobody currently actually comes close to a D800E which simply is the best money can buy (IMHO). But with the lenses, it was expensive too ...

I don't think the A7r is tempting me. I like the ergonomics and speed of Pentax / Nikon and Sony doesn't have it (yet). Moreover, the image quality of the A7r can't compete against a D800E. It has been tried and the image corners are very weak except with a few lenses made for full frame dSLRs, like a Pentax FA 31 Ltd. Which is kind of ironic. Or a few new expensive and slow Sony/Zeiss ones. And I never managed to consider m43, Nikon 1 or Fuji to be anything but gadgets. Different for Canon, I simply detest them I actually considered the RX1r, but the RX100m2 covers most of its use cases ...

So, I feel myself continue to support the Pentax system and idea of how a well made camera ought to look like. If anybody shows me a Df, I am responding, "didn't Nikon learn from the K-7 body at all?". And if Pentax would have made a full frame, many Pentaxians and myself wouldn't have invested in a second system ...

Sorry for the long post in a sales thread, but I thought I'd explain that I didn't loose faith in Pentax.

[hinman]

A bump for a very respected and admired friend.

Cheers,
Hin

[krebsy75]

Hopefully Pentax will have a D800E contender someday. Free bump.