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on Mar 25, 2021 2:50:39 GMT
Posted: Mar 25, 2021 2:50:39 GMT
Hi, the prototype MC 28mm 2.8 (Cosina?) is available on ebay . May be, someone wants to buy it. For all others: The seller (www_leicashop_com in Vienna / Austria) has made some fine pictures of the lense  Greetings from Hamburg / Germany roland
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on Mar 25, 2021 9:28:24 GMT
Posted: Mar 25, 2021 9:28:24 GMT
Hi, the prototype MC 28mm 2.8 (Cosina?) is available on ebay . May be, someone wants to buy it. For all others: The seller (www_leicashop_com in Vienna / Austria) has made some fine pictures of the lense Greetings from Hamburg / Germany roland
Hi Roland, Welcome to the Forum! Thank you for the information on this lens. It is exactly the same one he was trying to sell in 2019. At that price, he will probably still be trying to sell it in 2023; people ascribe extra value to rarity but the problem is that no one knows whether the lens is any good or worth such a massive premium over the ML standard version. Indeed for that price, you could buy the Zeiss 28mm Distagon, which is a superb lens, and have enough left over to buy a nice ML 50 1.4 and a metal lens hood.... |
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on Mar 26, 2021 0:01:49 GMT
Posted: Mar 26, 2021 0:01:49 GMT
It's likely to be a rebranded version of a standard Cosina production model, and not really a prototype in the traditional sense. If that's true, there's even less reason to buy one. If you do a search for "Cosina Yashica" on ebay, you'll find several lenses in various focal lengths, and each of them are essentially the same as many other Cosina lenses in 3rd party mounts. Having a rare faceplate ring attached to a standard - and usually an 'average' performing lens - just isn't enough to warrant any kind of premium price for me to pay. As biggles3 points out, the value has to be there before the rarity factor comes into play. |
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on Mar 26, 2021 1:52:31 GMT
Posted: Mar 26, 2021 1:52:31 GMT
Looks like a nice lens.
Cosina? Who knows, but Cosina made a lot of GOOD glass (in Japan) for a lot of companies under a lot of different names. I probably have some and don't even know it!!!!!
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on Mar 26, 2021 4:55:28 GMT
Posted: Mar 26, 2021 4:55:28 GMT
My hint to buy was a joke. The real reason for this post were the pictures, I saved them in my personal collection.
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on Mar 26, 2021 9:00:22 GMT
Posted: Mar 26, 2021 9:00:22 GMT
Hi, the prototype MC 28mm 2.8 (Cosina?) is available on ebay . May be, someone wants to buy it. For all others: The seller (www_leicashop_com in Vienna / Austria) has made some fine pictures of the lense Greetings from Hamburg / Germany roland
And don't forget that other ML 28mm rarity - the Compact version....  Yash ML C 28mm |
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