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Message: <blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 288007" data-attributes="member: 12827">I occasionally go “EBay surfing” and from time to time and occasionally find a great deal. My standard search topic is “AI AIS Nikkor”. There are ALWAYS lots of great examples to choose from! Some other examples of this lens were “Buy it Now” for around$100 and but none were in as good a shape as this one. I suppose you could say I “sniped” this one. It was $72 with less than a minute to go so I bid $90 with20 seconds left on the clock. By the time any other bidders have realized they have been outbid, they usually don’t have time to re-bid or re-bid again if they can’t beat $90 before the clock runs out so the final total wound up as $76.50. It has happened to me as well so I really don’t have a guilty conscience about doing it. You win some, lose some, that is the nature of the game. If I lose I just take it as something that was just not to be and I will find an even better deal than that one. So if I lose I get excited! Now I have to go find a Nikon HS-8 hood in equally good condition! It has a retractable hood but I prefer to use the snap on ones because they do a better job.  This lens is purported to have extremely low flare levels so the retractable one may be all I need. I do have to admit that digital really IS the best thing to happen to photography in the last 20+ years but for me it is for  an entirely different  reason. Since everyone is looking for autofocus  zooms, terrific little gems like this are dirt cheap. I could never have afforded all of the superlative Hasselblad gear I have were it not for digital! Long live digital!!!</blockquote>

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