Old Leica Books

[bhop]

Those same books seem to be selling for between $15-35 (for the one on the left) and about $7-$10 for the one on the right.. on ebay

 

[Derrel]

You're missing something very simple, see the same listing on the French and German and UK portals:

Schneider Super-Angulon 120mm f/8.0 MC Lens - Linhof Ver. | eBay

Schneider Super-Angulon 120mm f/8.0 MC Lens - Linhof Ver. | eBay

Schneider Super-Angulon 120mm f/8.0 MC Lens - Linhof Ver. | eBay

The .com, .de, .fr, .co.uk in the URL is only indicative of the portal you access through. It doesn't indicate which country/portal an items been listed through just that Ebay doesn't use that part of the URL to indicate country etc in a search.

Ian

talk about false advertising!
"Stand at the sidelines but still easily shoot the winning goal with the telephoto Schneider Super-Angulon 120 mm lens."

"Shoot decent photographs even in dimly-lit conditions with this Schneider Super-Angulon f/8.0 lens."

"So get the Schneider Super-Angulon 120 mm lens and your hobby of photography will turn into a fiery passion".

The lens is an f/8!!!!

 

[IanG]

talk about false advertising!
"Stand at the sidelines but still easily shoot the winning goal with the telephoto Schneider Super-Angulon 120 mm lens."

"Shoot decent photographs even in dimly-lit conditions with this Schneider Super-Angulon f/8.0 lens."

"So get the Schneider Super-Angulon 120 mm lens and your hobby of photography will turn into a fiery passion".

The lens is an f/8!!!!

Well spotted

The seller also has a 10x8 Deardorff listed I'd suspect the 120mm f8 SA might have been used with it as an Extreme Wide Angle. Although technically it doesn't quite cover the format ot's quite a common usage. It's a reasonable price but I acn't justify it . . . . . . .

I chose 120mm Angulonn as a search knowing they and the 120mm Super Angulons aren't that common, and it did show well that an ebay.com search pulls up items from all around the world.

There's a CZJ 250mm. f3.5 Tesar listed as a Telephoto, it shows the sellers have no concept of focal length in terms of film format. This could be a superb lens for 5x4 portraits, however it dates from mid WW1 and is probably ex German military possibly from an aerial camera and is essentially just the lens in a barrel without the mount it sat in with aperture control etc, so useless.

All goes to highlight the inaccuracies of listings.

Ian

 

[compur]

It's because you're looking at it through the portal. On the other side of the portal everything is reversed so f/8 is really a fast lens and wide angles are telephotos. It's called Einstein's Theory of Relative Portalocity.

In a portal no one can hear you scream, "B.S.!"