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Old 17-11-2009, 11:54 AM
dpastern (Dave Pastern)
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Voigtlander...Vito CL...worth around $25 or so...the lenses look in bad shape - grime and probably fungi on the rear elements. The Hanimex lenses will be rubbish - soft at both the middle and edges, even at f8 (typically the best f stop for sharpness with most lenses). They're probably all worth no more than $25-35 tops imho (for the lot of lenses, not including the voigtlander on the camera itself). Whole lot, camera 7 lenses is probably worth $50-60. And that's if the camera is in good working order, it probably isn't.

Voigtlander made/make very good cameras. Voigtlander lenses (originals) are very sharp and very good quality, rivalling Leicas imho. You can get new Voigtlander Bessa R6 units for under a grand these days, and they are *very* good value. Bare in mind that these are rangefinders, not SLRs.

Dave
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