I should stop buying - possibly - maybe now I should

zelda_n64 · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 163 Location: UK

I could have just laid in bed this morning, but the birds were singing - get up you lazy *******, maybe they weren't, but they were singing nonetheless.

So, off I went to my local haunt, weaving in and out of the throngs of bodies with sleepy dust still in their eyes.

Oh no, a man selling camera, avoid, no don't avoid, look, look, look. It is at times like these I can understand how Gollum feels, my precious.

We had a good chat, and yes, I was drawn into the temptation to make a purchase. Whether it was his salesmanship, or a force from the unknown, out came my wallet, and into the bag went:

Praktica MTL5 and a Soligor 35mm 1:3.5 preset lens for a whopping �6.00 ($9.13). The lens was actually attached to a Zenit E, but he allowed me to change camera bodies as I do not have this one.

The only reason I decided to buy, was purely to use this lens on my new little Pentax Q, using the M42 to Q adapter.

Do I like it, yes and well worth the money.

ISO 200, 1/40 sec, F11 (I think that was the fstop)

ISO 200, 1/125 sec, F8

I also purchased a really nice set of Hoya pop filters for a �1.00 ($1.5), which should give me hours of fun.

zelda_n64 · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 163 Location: UK

Last Sunday I decided to venture out to my local boot sale and found a really nice Yashica 8 that looks like this

It came in the original Yashica 8 case with extras including 3 Yasinon D mount lenses:

6.5mm 1:1.4, 13mm 1:1.4 and a 38mm 1:1.4

Overall they are not in that bad a condition, all lenses are clean and fungus free, iris and focus is all smooth as it should be.

I ordered a D mount to Pentax Q adapter that turned up yesterday and the 6.5mm does show a small amount of vignetting around the edges although fades off when a photograph is taken the 13mm & 38mm show none.

For �10 for the lot my Pentax Q is very happy, actually I am too. I will post some sample pictures but forgot to bring the cable to work to hook up the Q so can't do that today.

zelda_n64 · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 163 Location: UK

Sunday, I did my usual and went to the bootsale here in the UK.

I wasn't expecting much as the weather was less than kind and after walking around I thought well today I only purchased peanuts. I just love peanuts dry roasted or salted but that is for another forum.

As I was walking around I spotted this lens case, a long lens case and headed straight for it, picking it up it felt empty but I proceeded to open the zipper. Luckily for me it wasn't full of springy snakes or a jack-in-the-box to scare the socks off of me and to my surprise there was a lens.

I asked the stall holder if they would haggle and after a laugh and some witty banter a deal was struck at �5.00 ($8.29 / 6.05 euro) for this beautiful 500m F8 Sunagor lens. It came with a T-OM mount so I will have to get a T-M42 mount so I can get snapping the moon with the Pentax Q, I may even try using it with a 2 or 3 times converter. Anyway a fiver well spent and I can't wait to try it out.

As we were leaving a regular came up to me and said he had some old manual lenses and can I go and have a look. I didn't purchase them but he had:

Vivitar series 1 70-210 in really nice condition (no caps)
Tokina zoom, can't remember the exact model, but it did have a red letter/symbol on the front
Konica Hexanon AR 50mm 1.7

He would have let me have them for �10 each, I told him not to sell them as I might be interested next week but I wasn't quite sure of the fittings on the Vivitar or Tokina - maybe next week I will bite.

tromboads · Expire: 2015-10-01

as a fellow pentax Q owner, that looks ridiculous Laughing

I love it. Twisted Evil

I imagine you will get an image 8 pixels square once you take the 8.5 crop factor into consideration? Razz

Wait lets see.. 500mm with 2 x tele converter..

8,500mm with a equal f strop of about f=136

You should be able to see to North Korea Laughing

zelda_n64 · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 163 Location: UK

uddhava · Expire: 2021-06-21

zelda_n64 · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 163 Location: UK

Today (17/4/14) my T2 - M42 adapter turned up and it's cloudy after nearly a whole week of clear skies. I may be lucky enough to grab a shot of the moon - the sole purpose of this lens.

But this pairing looks like a match made in heaven......

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A quick shot of a chimney stack way over the other side of the cricket field, this was only to test the range of the lens not the fine tuning of the focus or aperture.

What I roughly see with my eyes:

zelda_n64 · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 163 Location: UK

Not been back long from a really long day out in the sun.

Today, we got to the carboot early, I had no intention of buying any lenses. But that went out of the window and I did.

It was busy, even in the summer I have never seen it that busy, the sun was out and everyone was in good spirits, buyers and sellers.

Anyway, my first purchase was the Ricoh KR-10 & lens (Pentax-M 50mm 1.7), this was the first ever film camera that I purchased myself (around 1985) and I really liked it as a teenager. I asked the seller how much, he said 'did you get it out of there' (a big box on the floor) and as had, I said yes. His response 'give us alf a quid'.

I looked at him stunned and gave him double his asking price (�1 ($1.69), said Thank you and off we went.

Nothing much else caught my eye until about half way round (we had already been there for 2 & a half hours) and I saw this whopping OK, I exaggerated, fairly big lens so I went to have a look. Whilst I was looking another caught my eye and I asked how much. The guy on the stall said make me an offer so I offered �5.00 (eight dollars . 44), he readily accepted, I said Thank you and as we were going to leave he said help yourself to something else. So I looked and then he said, 'take it all' I'm fed up of storing it.

I triple checked that he was being serious, and he was adamant that he just wanted rid of it all as it was taking up space and no one else had paid any attention to the stuff. He gave me some bags and helped me fill them. There was Brownies (twin & another type), lens hoods, caps, Praktica BMS body, some other bodies and additional lenses. I kept asking if he was sure but no he wanted rid of it all. I gave him another �1 ($1.69) as that was all I had in change. He refused it, so I gave it to his partner.

We shook hands, had a chat, thanked him and made our way.

Left to right:

Ricoh KR-10 c/w Pentax-M 50mm 1.7
Tamron 70-210 (looks like it will fit the Praktica BMS)
Sigma 70-210 (c/w removable mount to fit the BMS)
Soligor 350mm 5.6
Pentacon Prakticar 50mm 2.4
Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Oreston 1.8/50
Vivitar (Auto)135mm 3.5 (This is a strange shape, press a lock mechanism and the base falls out) has a manual dial that doesn't lock.

I haven't cleaned anything up yet but the Meyer & Pentax look to be in excellent/great condition, the Soligor has wear and all have dirty bodies which will need cleaning up. A good day today me thinks, and to top it off, I had an icecream... sherbert, nuts, sauce & 2 flakes Very Happy

uddhava · Expire: 2021-06-21

Fantastic deals you got there! Smile

Those carboots are pretty good. Here in Hungary I haven't seen such bargains.
That ice cream is kind of surreal looking.

zelda_n64 · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 163 Location: UK

uddhava · Expire: 2021-06-21

zelda_n64 · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 163 Location: UK

Just cleaned up the Vivitar 135mm 3.5 Auto and I have never seen one so strange looking.

On the bottom right hand side you can see the lock mechanism, if you press a little silver coloured button and twist the base comes away.

On this photo, you can see a wheel next to the red 'M', this rotates and closes the iris, it does not lock as it seems to be spring loaded - this is attached to the removable adapter.

Maybe some one knows about this particular lens.

On the name ring inside the lens it says:

Auto Vivitar 135mm 1:3.5 No.378xxxxxx

There is no other writing

Oldhand · Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 1:48 am Post subject: Re: And now for the Vivitar

zelda_n64 · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 163 Location: UK

Today it was hot, and as usual me & my mate (who doesn't understand my fascination with cameras) went to the local bootsale.

I took a litre of water, shades and we began our journey up & down the field.

At first I ignored a Nikon F55 as the chap wanted �10 ($16.80 / 12.28 euro) but after walking up and down a couple of the lanes, I decided to text my old man to see if he wanted it. It was fairly tidy, but it came with a really nice black Nikon AF 28-100 lens. I got the reply so I headed back, luckily it was still there so I parted with my money. My old man was over the moon with it.

Anyway, it was getting warmer and although the field was full up, there was hardly any camera stuff. Half way around I spotted a Mamiya with 2 lenses. It was a 35mm auto something, I didn't pay much attention as the lenses had electrical contacts & I didn't know anything about it. A couple of lanes later I spotted an Olympus 35mm film camera with 2 Zuiko lenes - don't ask me what they were as I was interested in the M42 next to it. It had it's rear up in the air, so you couldn't tell what it was.

We hadn't arrived early and it was probably around 11.30 at this point, but I turned this tatty & very dirty piece of metal over. At first I thought I had heatstroke so I took a swig of water. I asked the question - 'excuse me please, how much for this?'

I waited, the bloke smiled and calmly moved forward and said - 'that one is only a pound'. Perhaps he had heatstroke!!

So, out came my wallet & I dug deep. Sods law I didn't have a pound, so my mate paid for it (I did give it back later) but I didn't want to take all the blokes change as he had a very busy table.

So for my �1 ($1.68 / 1.23 euro) I purchased this little 50mm:

It still needs a good bit of TLC and a clean, but all in all a good day in the sun.

uddhava · Expire: 2021-06-21

Congratulations!
Seems you must be in MF heaven!
Maybe you should start a tour for lens buyers. Laughing

zelda_n64 · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 163 Location: UK

Oldhand · Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 9:43 pm Post subject:

zelda_n64 · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 163 Location: UK

Oldhand · Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 10:26 pm Post subject:

uddhava · Expire: 2021-06-21

So did you finally stop buying? Hope you are well.