Boggled...

[ffutures]

I've been selling off some of my old photographic kit on eBay. Today I thought I'd put up one of the SLRs, a Canon AE1 with an F 1.4 lens, data back, and winder. None of it particularly remarkable kit, all reasonably nice condition but nothing truly special.

So I set the minimum bid low and the "buy-it-now" price to the maximum I thought I was likely to get, sixty pounds plus postage.

It sold in twelve minutes, and the buyer paid before I even had time to send an invoice. So either I got that one seriously wrong or the buyer did, and knowing my luck it was probably me.

Never mind - it's sixty pounds in my pocket, and I really wasn't using it. But it'd be nice to know why that went so fast, when there's plenty of (to my eye) comparable kit that's just sitting there, including at least a dozen other AE-1s. Here's the description, for those in the know does anything look rare or unusual? The lens is probably the nicest part.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7519766407&ssPageName=STRK:MESO:IT

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I'm not a Canon expert but a f1.4 lens is fantastic with any camera.
The kit is in good condition, there are no missing parts so that might have been what they were looking for.
Or, they searched for an AE-1, found yours as the first match, liked what they saw and didn't want to bother with going through an auction.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure that the f1.4 was the main selling point - needless to say I also have one on my F1 or there's no way I would have parted with it. But there are other F 1.4s there and fifteen other AE-1s, nobody else was selling the data back but it's pretty common (also pretty crap), and the flashgun is a basic automatic job that doesn't even tilt.