Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a 50mm f2.8 EL-Nikkor N for sale. I am asking $100.00 USD for it. Free shipping for USA luggers. I have had it in my trove of darkroom gear for several years and need to get rid of it so I can put it towards the overhaul of my M4-2 and a rebuilding of my 50mm f2.8 elmar. Lens has good performance and of all the 50mm f2.8 EL-Nikkors I have used thorugh the years this is the best one I have ever used. But as I have a Leitz Focomat V35 with the 40mm focotar, it is just going unused in its bubble. I had originally purchased it when I worked at a small newspaper in Wisconsin. They had one of those absolutely awful plastic rodenstocks that were the lowest in their line on a Beseler 67C. The boss refused to let me get one for the company enlarger (he defined the word cheap), so I ended up buying one out of my meager $200 a week earnings at the time and used it until I left the paper. The other lens was so bad, it was like having a low contrast soft focus filter. You dared not use that lens wide open. Its quality was beyond description. The lens has been used, as I would consider it Ex++. Comes with bubble case and box, retaining ring for lens board. cheers