Archive for December, 2009

Prices Back Up… and more!

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

This will be very brief because I’d like to sleep…

Average prices are back up — although some aspects are protected by a login and historical data does not go quite as far back.

I’ve also made a number of improvements to the splash screens, lens views (Amazon prices for Canon lenses!), and a few other places.  Registered users can take advantage of the Lens Resale Chart again.

Take a look around and let me know what you think!

Historical Prices Disabled

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

It has been brought to my attention that I may be in violation of the eBay Developers Program & API License Agreement in the way that I collect historical lens prices from eBay.  So, until I’ve contacted eBay and clarified what I can and can’t do, I’m going to disable display of historical prices on UCDB.  Live auction listings will still be available though.

Apologies for any inconvenience this causes!

Lens Resale Values

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Ever wonder which Canon lenses have the best resale values?

Well, wonder no longer with the UCDB Lens Resale Value page.  It is computed automatically from the lens database.

While I was not surprised to see that so many “L” lenses were on the list or the strength of the Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 , I was a little surprised to see how many EF-S lenses made the list.