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aharvey4
Joined: 25 Jan 2014
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aharvey4 wrote:
Hello MF lovers, Ive lurked for a few months and this is my first post. Technically this wasn't a bargain but years ago my Great Uncle gave me his Exakta Varex VX along with multiple viewfinders, threaded macro extensions,a Novoflex macro bellows, microscope/telescope adapter, flashbulb grip system and best of all 4 Carl Zeiss Jena lenses: an earlier 30.5mm filter aluminum Tessar 4cm 4.5, the popular aluminum Biotar 58mm 2, the magical brass Biotar 75mm 1.5, and a wonderful brass Triotar 13.5cm, all in near perfect condition. I used most of this stuff with film when I was younger before the shutters started aging but more recently I dug it all out of storage and have started using the lens system on my EOS cameras. I had to partially disassemble a few of them to clean and lube the focus threads but as many of you are probably familiar, the results have been fantastic. I'm very thankful to have these amazing and beautiful works of craftsmanship and the family connection is priceless.
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Nordentro
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 8:55 am Post subject: |
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Nordentro wrote:
Welcome to the forum! 
What a nice story saturday morning. Biometar 75mm 1.5, yummi! 
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Basilisk
Joined: 21 Mar 2013
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Location: UK
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Basilisk wrote:
Just bought a bag with the following:
Praktica MTL5 (seems to be unused - lovely working condition - just need to shoot a roll to be sure)
Pentacon 50mm f1.8
Prakticar 80-200mm f4.5-5.6 (this lens is much more common in PB mount)
CZJ 135mm f3.5 MC
CZJ Flektogon 35mm f2.4 MC
All late M42 versions in great working order
Total price - £40 |
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ManualFocus-G
Joined: 29 Dec 2008
Posts: 6622
Location: United Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:14 am Post subject: |
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ManualFocus-G wrote:
| Basilisk wrote: |
Just bought a bag with the following:
Praktica MTL5 (seems to be unused - lovely working condition - just need to shoot a roll to be sure)
Pentacon 50mm f1.8
Prakticar 80-200mm f4.5-5.6 (this lens is much more common in PB mount)
CZJ 135mm f3.5 MC
CZJ Flektogon 35mm f2.4 MC
All late M42 versions in great working order
Total price - £40 |
Awesome! 
I just picked up a mint Soligor C/D 35/2 in M42 mount for £13.50
A quick test on the a7 has revealed that it is VERY sharp from wide open...wasn't expecting that!!!
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Oldhand
Joined: 01 Apr 2013
Posts: 6005
Location: Mid North Coast NSW - Australia
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 1:25 am Post subject: |
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Oldhand wrote:
| ManualFocus-G wrote: |
| Basilisk wrote: |
Just bought a bag with the following:
Praktica MTL5 (seems to be unused - lovely working condition - just need to shoot a roll to be sure)
Pentacon 50mm f1.8
Prakticar 80-200mm f4.5-5.6 (this lens is much more common in PB mount)
CZJ 135mm f3.5 MC
CZJ Flektogon 35mm f2.4 MC
All late M42 versions in great working order
Total price - £40 |
Awesome!
I just picked up a mint Soligor C/D 35/2 in M42 mount for £13.50
A quick test on the a7 has revealed that it is VERY sharp from wide open...wasn't expecting that!!! |
Indeed.
These lenses are good and somewhat rare.
When they do come along they can go for many times that price.
Lucky you.
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barryreid
Joined: 27 Aug 2013
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Location: London
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:26 am Post subject: |
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barryreid wrote:
Someone got an outstanding bargain at the weekend. A UK dealer had a Zeiss 35-7-/3.4 Vario-Sonnar & Mutar I for a combined £148, both mint & boxed. Sadly I was too late in seeing it, and got a call on Monday to say they'd already been sold before I clicked the buy button. 
On the other hand I did pick up the Zeiss 28/2.8 MM also mint and boxed for £164 - which is good for this post A7r day and age. My guess is that the picture of a G28 Biogon put people off the scent… 
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jimbob
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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Location: Guelph Ontario Canada
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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jimbob wrote:
| ManualFocus-G wrote: |
| Basilisk wrote: |
Just bought a bag with the following:
Praktica MTL5 (seems to be unused - lovely working condition - just need to shoot a roll to be sure)
Pentacon 50mm f1.8
Prakticar 80-200mm f4.5-5.6 (this lens is much more common in PB mount)
CZJ 135mm f3.5 MC
CZJ Flektogon 35mm f2.4 MC
All late M42 versions in great working order
Total price - £40 |
Awesome!
I just picked up a mint Soligor C/D 35/2 in M42 mount for £13.50
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A quick test on the a7 has revealed that it is VERY sharp from wide open...wasn't expecting that!!! |
Hello Graham,
I like the Soligor brand also. I have the Soligor 450mm f8 preset aperture with the T2 mount which I have used with quite a few different makes of cameras over the years by changing the adaptors. I use it most of the time on my Canon 40D and have found f11 to be the optimum aperture for sharpness. The drawback of minimum focus at 8 metres can be a deterrent sometimes but adding a small extension tube helps, with the loss of infinity of course. Yes indeed the Soligor 450mm is light and has good reach for birds. We are so lucky these days with the post processing software available.
Regards
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eliasloarre
Joined: 24 Aug 2013
Posts: 10
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eliasloarre wrote:
Hello,
my biggest "cheap treasures" after a lot of fleabay hunting:
33 eur. Zenitar-M 50mm f1,7 M42 , one of my favourites
43 eur. Mamiya Sekor 55mm f 1,4 M42 (Tomioka!!) plus voigtlander vsl1 and teleconverter, another favourite portrait lens
8 eur. Mamiya Sekor 50mm f 2 M42
25 eur. Jupiter 21M 200mm f4 M42 boxed like new
34 eur. Super Multi Coated Takumar 150mm f4 M42 complete like new, plus Takumar manual
15 eur. Tokina 35mm f2,8 M42 plus filter
17 eur. Chinon multicoated 28mm f2,8 PK like new, great little lens
all of them including shipping, in Spain I didn´t find many manual lenses... |
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RnR
Joined: 11 Jul 2012
Posts: 283
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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| Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 4:06 am Post subject: |
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RnR wrote:
Konica 35mm f2, along with a 50mm f1.7, T3 body, Tamron zoom... all for $AU100. So not a real cheap bargain, but a nice price for the 35mm f2 compared to what I have seen them go for on fleabay.
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pavko
Joined: 31 Jan 2011
Posts: 216
Location: PL
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pavko wrote:
Maybe not bargain but quite fair price: 15 EUR with shipping for Canon FD 50/3.5 macro with badly damaged filter ring. Same price for Tele-Takumar 200/5.6 in nice condition. |
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BurstMox
Joined: 04 Dec 2011
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Location: France
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| Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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BurstMox wrote:
I dunno if it's really a bargain, but I've bought on market a Zeiss Vario-Tevidon 18-90mm/2 in pretty good condition for 20€. I won't use it, but it's a nice big lens, I thought it would be worth the price
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Flatcap
Joined: 16 Jan 2014
Posts: 9
Location: South Yorkshire - UK
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| Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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Flatcap wrote:
A while back I bought a job-lot of old camera gear off a bloke local to me on the internet, there was allsorts in there, paid £70 for everything. But in the bundle was a mint Meyer Optik Trioplan 2.8/100 (the one in my avatar), a virtually brand new boxed Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Series E, the early black version and including all paperwork etc. and a Meyer Optik Domiplan 2.8/50 in mint condition too. So considering I bought them and everything else (and there's lot's of other good bits) for £70 it was an exceptional result.
The only other single lens bargain was was an absolutely mint Nikon Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 Ai that was attached to an old Nikon EM from a carboot for £20
Darren.
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Nordentro
Joined: 24 Jun 2010
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Location: Lillehammer, Norway
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| Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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Nordentro wrote:
| ManualFocus-G wrote: |
| Basilisk wrote: |
Just bought a bag with the following:
Praktica MTL5 (seems to be unused - lovely working condition - just need to shoot a roll to be sure)
Pentacon 50mm f1.8
Prakticar 80-200mm f4.5-5.6 (this lens is much more common in PB mount)
CZJ 135mm f3.5 MC
CZJ Flektogon 35mm f2.4 MC
All late M42 versions in great working order
Total price - £40 |
Awesome!
I just picked up a mint Soligor C/D 35/2 in M42 mount for £13.50
A quick test on the a7 has revealed that it is VERY sharp from wide open...wasn't expecting that!!! |
I have that lens too
The CD series Soligors are very nice, but shhh, don´t tell anyone
This lens sells for $100 -$150
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Miles Teg
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 11:03 am Post subject: |
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Miles Teg wrote:
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| I dunno if it's really a bargain, but I've bought on market a Zeiss Vario-Tevidon 18-90mm/2 in pretty good condition for 20€. I won't use it, but it's a nice big lens, I thought it would be worth the price |
In my opinion, that is definitley a bargain! |
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Fabian
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Fabian wrote:
Post-war Trioplan 100mm f/2.8 Exakta: 35 euro, sold for about 200.
Pre-war Trioplan 10.5cm f/2.8 Exakta: 75 euro, sold for about 550.
Post-war Trioplan 100mm f/2.8 M42: 50 euro, sold for about 250.
Pre-war Trioplan 10cm f/2.8 C-mount: 175 euro, sold for about 475 euro.
Sold first three because I want to use lenses for their purpose (not cropped), bought last one because of exactly that but it was both too small to handle nicely and not sharp enough for my taste. |
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rafa1981
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rafa1981 wrote:
It has been a lot of time since my last bargain.
Minolta X700 + Minolta Auto 360 Px Flash (Low trigger voltage) + MD 35-70 Macro + MC W 28 f2 -> 88€
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Pontus
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Pontus wrote:
Vivitar Series 1 28/1.9 in Minolta MC mount. 75 euro including shipping. Bought it for the Bokeh but also because of the price.
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giornata
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Location: United Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 10:52 am Post subject: |
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giornata wrote:
Quite pleased with a mint Vivitar 55mm f2.8 1:1 Macro lens I bought recently for £43. Komine made. |
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Layer-cake
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Location: Cape Town
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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Layer-cake wrote:
Always searching and always seeming to find something
Konica Big Mini $5
Olympus Stylus Epic $1 I was shocked when there werent any other bids on it
Konica C35 The first version $1
Computar 12.5mm 1.3 6 blade version $15
British air ministry 5 inch lens $8
Leica pradovit projector with domiplan lens $10
Letiz colorplan $9
Kodak 15mm 2.5 c mount $15 |
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ferrick
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Location: Hong Kong
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 12:31 pm Post subject: Re: what are the biggest bargains you have found? |
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ferrick wrote:
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I know that some years ago you could find very good deals, but now prices seem to have gone crazy, especially with anything with zeiss or SMC written on it
In my case these would be:
-Tamron SP 90 2.5 macro with OM, FD and C/Y adapters, near mint condition 16€ on a local cash converters few months ago.
- Fujinon W EBC 35mm 2.8 with hood, quite beaten up on the outside but lenses OK, 5€ on a local market some months ago too
And also very good deals, my yashicas MLs, from 35€ (28mm, 50mm 1.7) to 150€(24mm), tokina 17mm 65€, mint Mir-20 150€, 3 leitz summars for 150€, etc....
Now tell me about your findings and make me cry |
My biggest finding is a GBP 5 Leitz Wetzlar Summilux-R 80/1.4! Would that make you cry! 
http://forum.mflenses.com/testing-a-defective-leitz-wetzlar-summilux-r-11-4-80-t64510.html |
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konicamera
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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konicamera wrote:
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| Quite pleased with a mint Vivitar 55mm f2.8 1:1 Macro lens I bought recently for £43. Komine made. |
That's a nice catch Congatulations
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Basilisk
Joined: 21 Mar 2013
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Location: UK
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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Basilisk wrote:
Minolta MC Tele Rokkor - PF 100mm f2.5, original style, lovely condition, sharp across the frame wide open - £14.99. Took me less than 2 seconds to decide to buy that one!
Wide open on NEX 5N. Looks OK to me, but it would be nice to use on FF. Seems to be a bit of a rare version - there are several different 100mm versions with different maximum apertures.
I prefer the look of these old style Rokkors, lovely action too.
Does anyone else have experience of this model? |
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CuriousOne
Joined: 31 Dec 2013
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Location: Home
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CuriousOne wrote:
Well, about 10 years ago, I had 24 inch telescope mirror. Never used, brand new in box. It was big and heavy, but don't wanted to throw it away, so posted on local ad exchange that anyone can take it for free. It was gone in about 15 minutes. Only years later, I've discovered, what a gem I had and let it go away 
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!Karen
Joined: 20 Jul 2013
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Location: Belgium Baby
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!Karen wrote:
My latest purchases...
Auto revuenon 55mm f1,4 -> 10€
Fuji GA645zi -> 15€
Yashinon tomioka 60mm f2,8 -> 20€
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Dogtag
Joined: 27 Jul 2013
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Location: Holland del norte
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Dogtag wrote:
Konica UC 28mm for 250€
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