Old lens pricing

Paul Furman wrote:

> Just arrived today, it's a Century Precision Optics, Hollywood,
> Tele-athenar 500mm f/4.5.

It's a T-mount for which you can get adapters for any brand SLR or video
camera. I found a Nikon adapter at a local shop for $20, it came with an
olympus adapter.

> 19" long plus a 4" shade, 110mm thread, the tripod mount is a long bar
> with two rings holding the lens and it came with a huge tripod: Bogen
> 3050 with 3047 pan/tilt/crank head, 27 lbs for the whole rig with D200
> mounted. $500 and the list price in the catalog that came with it is
> $2750. I can't even count the aperture blades, maybe 16 and there are no
> click stops which is kind of odd. No stop-down linkage to the camera.
>
> Chromatic aberration is pretty strong in the test shots I did against a
> white sky but it's awfully sharp. Here's some sample shots
> http://edgehill.net/Misc/photography/2-23-08-tele-athenar/pg1pc1
> and one full size compressed jpeg
> http://edgehill.net/1/Misc/photography/2008-02-23-tele-athenar/full-si..._PBF314
>

Paul Furman wrote:

>
> Just arrived today, it's a Century Precision Optics, Hollywood,
> Tele-athenar 500mm f/4.5.
>
> 19" long plus a 4" shade, 110mm thread, the tripod mount is a long bar
> with two rings holding the lens and it came with a huge tripod: Bogen
> 3050 with 3047 pan/tilt/crank head, 27 lbs for the whole rig with D200
> mounted. $500 and the list price in the catalog that came with it is
> $2750. I can't even count the aperture blades, maybe 16 and there are no
> click stops which is kind of odd. No stop-down linkage to the camera.
>
> Chromatic aberration is pretty strong in the test shots I did against a
> white sky but it's awfully sharp. Here's some sample shots
> http://edgehill.net/Misc/photography/2-23-08-tele-athenar/pg1pc1
> and one full size compressed jpeg
> http://edgehill.net/1/Misc/photography/2008-02-23-tele-athenar/full-si..._PBF314
>

That's nice, but how 'bout a shot of the lens itself?