Buying prime lenses on eBay

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wilhelmson

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I have been buying a couple of Canon FD prime lenses on eBay recently. Feeling that the eBay search facility was somewhat limited, and me being a proper code monkey and all that I felt I had to build a website specifically to help me with finding these lenses. It's definitely nothing fancy, and there is probably some website I don't know about out there that does this much better, and I'm not even sure how it will hold up if more than one person is using it to be honest. ;-)

Anyway, I am not an eBay affiliate and there are no ads on the site, so I hope it's ok to post the link to it - if not I'm sure someone will let me know. ;-)

Hopefully it can help someone to find a nice prime for their GH1:

http://primes.decentattempt.com
 
I have been hunting primes for a while now and this definitely takes some of the hassle away, props for making an enthusiasts life a little easier.
 
Great now they're gonna go even faster before I can scrape together funds to get my greasy mits on them. Nice tool.
 
Thanks for the kind words. Inevitably a few bugs have already been found that I wasn't even aware of, so it's good to get it out into the wild to find and fix those things. The engine that identifies the primes also needs some polishing so we'll see if I get some time to do that.
 
great and useful tool, thank you.
Is it possible to add more country fields, like for example... uh, france? that would be great, even it's true the ebay french market isn't as big as yours, people just keep lens in their cellar, i guess...
 
I've added France and Germany by popular request.

Agree that 4/3 and u4/3 should be in the list. They should actually appear as soon as the eBay crawler finds such a lens for the first time, so either this hasn't happened yet (unlikely?) or they currently end up in the "unknown" category... I'll have a look, it is very possible that I need to do some adjustments.
 
Thanks everyone! I've added Canada now. There was also an issue where the start page went blank which I hope should be fixed...
 
The server was having a bad day, or at least a bad couple of hours, but it looks like it is behaving now. Has it started working for you again, Dalton?
 
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