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PostPosted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pentax FA 50mm 1.7 for 25 euro's and Pentax-A 50mm 1.4 for 10 euro Lot's of others


PostPosted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Canon fdn 50 1,8 19 euros shipped. Tamron 23a 60-300 and 28a 28-135 60 euros.


PostPosted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lumens pixel wrote:
Canon fdn 50 1,8 19 euros shipped.

I opened my notebook to check what I used to pay for an FD 50/1.8 and came across this record, from 2015:
Canon A-1 x2, drive MA x2, fd 50/1.8, fd 28/2.8 x2, fd 35/2, fd 70-210, fd 100-300, Nikon FG-20 + 50/1.4 Ai-s, $74.77


PostPosted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It seems I must concede a steep defeat.


PostPosted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lumens pixel wrote:
It seems I must concede a steep defeat.

Well, I would not be getting a deal like that today, that's for sure. Although I did buy a Tomioka 55/1.2 for $160 in the spring - a five day auction I won with a single bid, something that was the most mind-boggling part of it.


PostPosted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Canon 70-200mm f4 L non IS, Canon 17-40mm f4 L and gray Canon 1,4 tele converter. Excellent condition.
All for $60.- on flea market last summer.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My latest find from past Saturday.

Mamiya 645, 80mm, 150mm & another finder


Nikon F3. nikkor 24mm, micro nikkor 55mm & 2 zooms.


2 polaroid SX-70 land cameras.




PostPosted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

!Karen wrote:
My latest find from past Saturday.

Mamiya 645, 80mm, 150mm & another finder
Nikon F3. nikkor 24mm, micro nikkor 55mm & 2 zooms.
2 polaroid SX-70 land cameras.


Life can be fun Wink

S


PostPosted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vivitar 17/3,5; Sigma 400 APO; Nikkor 500/8; 300/4 Takumar free
EF 17-55/2,8 ; 100/2,8 macro (MF only) 80-200/2,8 L (MF only) free
EF 28/1,8 mint $ 25
Zuiko 50 / 1,2 mint $ 20
Konica 57/1,2 $ 35
Zeiss 50/1,4 + 80-200/4 + mutar x2 + sigma 400 APO $75
Biotar 75 / 1,5 $ 35
FD 55 / 1,2 SSC $ 45
Sigma 600/8 mint $ 35
Etc.... Wink


PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

!Karen wrote:


So you paid for the boxes only? Wink


PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

!Karen wrote:




I can pay you for that 86€ Smile


PostPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A number of years ago I bought a Praktica FX 2 with a Meyer-Optik Gorlitz 50mm f/1.9 Primoplan lens for $15 US.
Both are in excellent condition, though the shutter curtains are a bit dried out. The lens is in serious mint condition and is probably worth 40x what I paid for the combo.


PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A nice and relatively clean "Mianda T" - the first Japanese SLR with exchangeable prism finder:



CHF 25.--

Seems that nobody did recognize it ...

S


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

stevemark wrote:
A nice an relatively clean "Mianda T" - the first Japanese SLR with exchangeable prism finder:



CHF 25.--

Seems that nobody did recognize it ...

S

The Mianda T is an very expensive Japanese SLR of its time. Like 1 small Congrats


PostPosted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

stevemark wrote:
A nice an relatively clean "Mianda T" - the first Japanese SLR with exchangeable prism finder:

CHF 25.--

Seems that nobody did recognize it ...

S


Nice. First time I saw this 5cm lens by Miranda. The serial number is not the same format as all others I've seen.


PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Agfa Ambi Sillette Reply with quote

A type 2!
that was a great bargain!
Mr G wrote:
Hi guys, had to go to Brighton last Saturday to pick the girlfriends daughter up from university, they went shopping, my son went to get a tattoo, so I trolled the charity shops.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Minolta RF 4/90 (Tele Elmar) on flea market for $20.-




PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paulius wrote:
Minolta RF 4/90 (Tele Elmar) on flea market for $20.-


Like Dog

Wow! Congrats


PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just found this thread while looking whether I had made a bargain with 2ooo euros for a Canon 7 with a 5o/.95 lens in its proprietary rangefinder mount. Looks like I have been beaten: Someone just acquired a 5o o.95 Canon TV (C mount version) lens for 25o USD (ebay.com/itm/CANON-TV-Lens-50mm-1-0-95-Objektiv-65-/403826443294). The seller, a professional clearance dealer, clearly had no idea of the item and chose a price at random - much too low, very much as opposed to their other listings, which I just went through...

That said, s/he who is patient shall find many bargains over the years, I have found Smile
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[list]Canon A1 1e (just needed lube)
28 2.8 Canon nFD 14e
28-85 4 Canon nFD 11e (slightly wobbly mechanics, no problem in use)
35 2 Canon nFD 1o8e
5o 1.2 Canon nFD L 36oe (heavily used)
5o 1.4 Canon FD SSC 2oe
7o-21o 4 Canon nFD 8e (postage was more expensive)
28o 2.8 Leica R 12ooe (ebay auction with only the box photographed)
Chinon Auto 3oo1 5e (nobody wanted them just a few years ago)
Nikon AF6oo 11e (ditto)
Porst Fujica SLR with 28 2.8, 5o 1.6, 75-2oo 4.5, flash, bag 9e
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't compete with most of you but I just bought a Vivitar series 1 28 90 for 20 €. There are two small scratches on the front lens. It is MD mount. At 28mm there is minimal decentering affecting the left side of the image turning to right when you zoom in but that only affects the pixels very close to the border of the frame. Maybe there are perfectly centered samples on the market. But it will have little impact on the images and at that price...

It came with a Minolta XG9 that is not working, maybe a battery issue.


PostPosted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A 1972 Soligor 75-260 zoom which was packaged with a Tamron SP 28-80,
AND a same-vintage Soligor 28mm, both being vintage MF.
Next, a 1970s Soligor 400mm 3.6, sent with original hard case AND
another Tamrom SP 28-80. And there's a Soligor 500mm CD CAT lens
which arrived in the original case with filters for less than US $60.
Both of these Soligor lenses appear to be in pristine condition.

The 28mm had fungus, which I think I cleaned, but I've found no use
for that focal length, so it sits idle.

The 28-80 remains my favorite all-purpose lens due to image quality
and build quality, as it's very solid but small. The 400 has captured
a few bird pics I wouldn't normally have gone for, but they're great.
Even Canon's 28-135 v2 doesn't grab me the way Tamron's 28-80 does.

Oh, I also have a Hanimar 13-blade-iris 135mm as brand new,
as it shipped to me way back, while this focal length doesn't appeal to me
in a fixed focal length. It was brand-new old-stock as described, and it is.
I had to unwrap it from its brown wax-paper wrapping.
Not sure what I was bidding on, but it was this.


PostPosted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 8:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A 105mm Hermagis Hellor lens adapted to Leica M. Seller told me the adaptation alone cost $900. I won it for $9.


PostPosted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My latest find is just one of those lucky happenstances that occur occasionally. My neighbor was clearing out a bunch of boxes of stuff that he'd inherited from his father. He was throwing away stuff that, to me had real value -- like about 200 CDs, many of which were from artists that I like a lot, and a classic Schwinn top-of-the-line 15-speed bike. Of course, I glommed onto that stuff. But amongst it all was a camera that I came across.

It is a Canon 7s and the lens attached is a 50mm f/1.2. He wasn't willing to give this outfit away, though, and mentioned he had a friend who would put it on eBay for him. Well, I was determined to get that camera, so I asked him what his happy price would be for the outfit. He hemmed and hawed for a few minutes, but finally said he'd take $300 for the outfit. Sold! I said. I wasn't gonna let that lens get away.

I took the following photos right after buying the camera. It was dirty! But it cleaned up very nicely. Turns out it is in very nice shape. Everything on the camera works and the lens is in good shape, with no haze or fungus.

Here's the camera in its original leather case, which is in very nice shape.


And a very dirty 7s with 50mm f/1.2.


While $300 is not a super stunning good deal, it's about half what one would pay when buying the camera and the lens separately. And the case alone is worth about $50-80.


PostPosted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cooltouch wrote:
My latest find is just one of those lucky happenstances that occur occasionally. My neighbor was clearing out a bunch of boxes of stuff that he'd inherited from his father. He was throwing away stuff that, to me had real value -- like about 200 CDs, many of which were from artists that I like a lot, and a classic Schwinn top-of-the-line 15-speed bike. Of course, I glommed onto that stuff. But amongst it all was a camera that I came across.

It is a Canon 7s and the lens attached is a 50mm f/1.2. He wasn't willing to give this outfit away, though, and mentioned he had a friend who would put it on eBay for him. Well, I was determined to get that camera, so I asked him what his happy price would be for the outfit. He hemmed and hawed for a few minutes, but finally said he'd take $300 for the outfit. Sold! I said. I wasn't gonna let that lens get away.

I took the following photos right after buying the camera. It was dirty! But it cleaned up very nicely. Turns out it is in very nice shape. Everything on the camera works and the lens is in good shape, with no haze or fungus.

Here's the camera in its original leather case, which is in very nice shape.


And a very dirty 7s with 50mm f/1.2.


While $300 is not a super stunning good deal, it's about half what one would pay when buying the camera and the lens separately. And the case alone is worth about $50-80.

Most 50mm f/1.2 LTM suffers from internal haze which is not cleanable. If your copy has clean glass, then it is worth way more than $300.


PostPosted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kathala wrote:
I just found this thread while looking whether I had made a bargain with 2ooo euros for a Canon 7 with a 5o/.95 lens in its proprietary rangefinder mount. Looks like I have been beaten: Someone just acquired a 5o o.95 Canon TV (C mount version) lens for 25o USD (ebay.com/itm/CANON-TV-Lens-50mm-1-0-95-Objektiv-65-/403826443294). The seller, a professional clearance dealer, clearly had no idea of the item and chose a price at random - much too low, very much as opposed to their other listings, which I just went through...

That said, s/he who is patient shall find many bargains over the years, I have found Smile
Like
    Canon A1 1e (just needed lube)
    28 2.8 Canon nFD 14e
    28-85 4 Canon nFD 11e (slightly wobbly mechanics, no problem in use)
    35 2 Canon nFD 1o8e
    5o 1.2 Canon nFD L 36oe (heavily used)
    5o 1.4 Canon FD SSC 2oe
    7o-21o 4 Canon nFD 8e (postage was more expensive)
    28o 2.8 Leica R 12ooe (ebay auction with only the box photographed)
    Chinon Auto 3oo1 5e (nobody wanted them just a few years ago)
    Nikon AF6oo 11e (ditto)
    Porst Fujica SLR with 28 2.8, 5o 1.6, 75-2oo 4.5, flash, bag 9e


Had a friend who found a Canon 7 plus 0.95 in mint condition in a thrift shop for $10 US