NEW: Canon 1Ds III for sale: £3,450 / €4,350 + VAT (or $6,350, VAT not applicable)
Completely as new, boxed flagship Canon DLSR, used only six times. Receipt from July 2008. The full 2 year warranty will be honoured minus the three months since new. Rare opportunity to obtain a mint, perfect 'used' camera with full VAT reclaim at sucha big saving.

SONY/MINOLTA LENSES

Sony 18-70mm kit lens: £45 (no VAT)
Once used only. Actually, looks like a great lens. Purchased less than a month ago.

Minolta AF 28-135mm f4-4.5: £160
Totally deserves it's elevated reputation! Lovely clean sample, and sharp. Excellent condition and optically perfect.

Minolta AF 50mm f2.8 Macro: £130 + VAT if UK/EU ($260 US)
Insanely sharp, beautifully built Macro: perhaps Minolta's finest. Excellent condition, optically perfect.

Sigma 21-35mm f3.5-4.2: £45 (no VAT)
Flawless optically and very clean cosmetically.

ZEISS LENSES

Contax 25mm f2.8 MM Distagon: £185 / €235 / $365 (no VAT)
Perfect sample of this Zeiss prime in late MM specification. Comes complete with original caps.

Contax 28mm f2.8 Distagon: £145 / €185 + VAT ($365 for US customers)
Superb condition late MM version of this most wonderful of 28mm primes. Matched Canon EF adaptor also available for £35 extra. To even come close to this lens you need to spend 4x as much on the Leica ROM, which is what I did.

Rollei Zeiss HFT 18mm f4 Distagon: £145 (no VAT)
Some brassing on the aperture ring and some barely discernible thinning of paint on the body, but optically unblemished front and rear. A fleck of internal black coating has detached from the barrel lining and floats about under the front element. For an extra £30 I will have the lens professional cleaned and serviced and sell it with a certification of health.

Rollei Zeiss HFT 35mm f2.8 Distagon: £65 (no VAT)
Late model T*-like HFT coated Zeiss Distagon with performance very similar to the Contax version. Canon EF adaptors available.

Rollei Zeiss single coated 35mm f2.8 Distagon: £45
Proper Zeiss Distagon but with single coating from early Rollei production. Excellent condition.

Canon EF-converted Rollei Zeiss 85mm f1.4 Planar: £75 [SOLD]
Rather than adapting this Rollei Zeiss, I've installed a permanent EF mount for guaranteed infinity focus. This copy is a bit of a Frankenstein project, hence the price – there are some very faint cleaning marks on the front element and some dust inside, as well as moderate brassing on the aperture ring, which now operates steplessly. Oh, and if you over-rotate it past the minimum focus, it falls apart. However, despite all that, it is a proper fast Zeiss lens with HFT coating and as such is fully capable of all the Zeiss magic. PM or email me for pix shot with it (full frame). For an extra £30 I would have it professionally dismantled and the internal dust cleaned out. Or give it some DIY TLC and snag a bargain.

Zeiss Jena Pentacon 6 300mm f4 with Canon EF adaptor: £95
Something of a collector's item, this is serial no. 1001: the first off the line when Zeiss Jena revamped (and improved) production of the final run – all identified by four-digit serials. There is some typical CA at wide apertures but it's a very sharp lens, and the aperture is completely circular throughout, ensuring smooth bokeh. FYI this sample has a curious quirk: the front section of the barrel wobbles fractionally – but there's no impact on IQ. I've discounted the lens accordingly. The lens is in P6 mount which can easily be adapted to Mamiya 645 for use with digital MF backs, or the supplied Canon EF mount can be replaced inexpensively with a shifting or tilting version.

OTHER LENSES

Canon 50mm f2.5 Macro: £95 / €120 + VAT ($245)
Great and much undervalued lens: Canon's very best at this focal length and small apertures. Complete with all original packing and box. Mint condition.

Pentax 50mm f1.4 SMC (late M42): £75
The most desirable version of this lens: slightly sharper in the corners, and more attractive bokeh. Super condition sample with smooth focus and no optical or cosmetic flaws.

Pentax 50mm f1.4 Super Takumar M42: £50
Very, very mild yellowing present, but actually images from this lens are no warmer than the later SMC version. Beautifully smooth focus.

Rodenstock Apo 90mm f4: £150 (no VAT)
The sharpest lens you'll ever use, or your money back. Pick up this and a Zörk MFS (or similar) and you have the ultimate macro rig. The MTF chart on this thing is flat to the ceiling all the way out to 15mm shift at all but maximum aperture. A great, great lens. This sample is immaculate but missing its case, which doubles as a rear cap. I will pack it extra securely to protect the rear element.

Mamiya 645 24mm f3.5 Fisheye: £375
Superb condition cosmetically; optically perfect. Original front and rear caps.

Mamiya 645 45mm f2.8: £95
Latest N version: some paint thinning on mount but perfect glass and superb cosmetically. Original front and rear caps.

Converted Minolta Rokkor X 58mm f1.2: £275 (no VAT) [SOLD]
Very late rubber grip model (serial number 277XXX) with the advantage of the latest coatings. Converted to Canon EF mount, giving bang on infinity focus. Some camera bodies may not permit the lens to focus to infinity without fouling the mirror. With any liveview equipped camera, this won't be a problem, of course . . . . Deservedly legendary for its matchless bokeh, this is plenty sharp, but it's the character you'll buy it for: it has an elusively beautiful drawing style that you will fall in love with as soon as you shoot with it.

AN UNUSUAL ACCESSORY:

95mm B+W Kaseman Circular Polariser: £45

Zörk Panoramic Shift Adaptor (PSA) Complete System for Canon Digital: £895
A whole system for the price of a new Canon 45mm TS!

• Zörk PSA (Tripod Mount version) in Pentax 645/Canon EF mount
• Fitted L-Bracket
• Pentax 645 FA 35mm f3.5
• Pentax 645 SMC-A 55mm f2.8
• Pentax 645 SMC-A 150mm f3.5

This is simply the best way to obtain maximum shift movements on a Canon digital body. The Zörk Panoramic Shift Adaptor permits movements of up to 22mm, and is the only system designed for DSLRs to accommodate parallax-free stitching. The lenses I'm selling with it have been chery-picked for ultimate performance: the Pentax FA35 is just the greatest medium format retrofocus wide angle ever. The SMC-A 55mm f2.8 is a cracking manual focus Pentax 645 lens that outperforms the Hasselblad 50mm CF. And the butter smooth manual focus 150mm f3.5 is even better at distance than the Hasselblad, Mamiya and Pentax Macro 120mm lenses. In my opinion (and that of Zörk in Germany), the Pentax 645 range is the best array of MF lenses ever, with a beautiful, Zeiss-like drawing style and bottomless resolution. Until a digital Pentax 645 option arrives, this remains the best way to unlock that potential in the digital realm. Pix pending.

Zörk MultiFocus System (MFS) + Rodenstock Apo Rodagon N 105mm f4: £450
This is the best way to use the very best resolving lens money can buy. The latest multicoated Rodenstock Apo Rodagon 105mm f4 N (not to be confused with the inferior S version) is the most outstanding lens in a range of truly stellar optics: even when used on a 645 body like the Mamiya 645, with full tilt movements, corners are still razor sharp at every aperture, thanks to its 100mm+ image circle. There is no better copy lens for close range work: perfectly flat field, massively high resolution and dead neutral for colour, distortion and aberration.

When considering these MTF charts, bear in mind that a full frame sensor will only be using the centre 23mm of its image circle, in which the lens is flatline perfect at f4. The Zörk MultiFocus on which this lens is mounted gives you a full 20° of tilt and is calibrated to give correct focus from infinity down to about 30cm. Because this lens is optimised for close range performance, it works superbly as a focal-plane-controlled macro with extension tubes. But even at distance, it will almost certainly outperform whatever else you've used at this focal length. The MFS has a Contax/Yashica mount, which works fine with an AF-chipped Canon adaptor (not included in the sale). It comes with a Rodenstock cap and a rare flexi rubber hood. In fact, these lenses don't come up for sale very often, and have made as much as $650 on eBay: they are about $950 new. The Zörk MFS adaptor is $617 new and even more rarely seen for sale used.

Hartblei 45mm f3.5 Super Rotator: £295 (Pentacon 6 (Mamiya / Contax / Pentax 645).

Complete Mamiya 645 AFD System: £2,950 / $5,950 DIGITAL READY :
• Mamiya 24mm f3.5 ULD Fisheye / • Arsat 30mm f3.5 Fisheye / • Mamiya 45mm f2.8 C / • Hartblei 45mm Super Rotator or Mamiya 50mm f4 Shift / • Zeiss Jena 80mm f2.8 Biometar (late four digit version, with hood) / • Zeiss Jena 180mm f2.8 Sonnar (late four digit version, with hood) / • Zeiss Jena 300mm f4 / • Mamiya 120mm f4 Apo Macro (MF) / • Mamiya Auto Focus 55-110mm f4.5 / • 40mm and 80mm extension tubes / • Hartblei 2x Teleconverter / • New electronic shutter release / • Opteka shoulder strap / • Arca-Swiss / Acratech tripod mount plate