Post by vbuynfly on Mar 23, 2010 23:17:45 GMT -5
Hi there, folks, I have a Bower 35 with Prontor-S, leather upper and lower case and set of Tiffen filters and hood that my father gave me when I was in High School taking pics for the yearbook. Haven't used it in years, but it took super crisp pics whenever you set the manual distance lens correctly. Kataplast 1:2.8/45 Staeble -Werk is what it says on the lens. I looked it up in Camerapedia and it says it is a Perlux 35 variant from just after the WWII. I was wondering if you experts out there knew the general range of value this camera holds in today's world of collectors of older cameras. Newer and digital fancy jobs have lots of nice bells and whistles, but this oldie was just point and click after setting lens to a general distance. I got pretty good with it and took some excellent pictures with really good depth of focus for such a little thing even though I carried around a Yashica SLR at the time as well. This was 1975-77, so as a non-collector of cameras, I'd rather see it in the hands of someone who would go oooh and aaaahhhh with it on their shelf instead of just throwing it on a yard sale table for $5.00. But what is the price of ooohh and aaahh with this little baby? Condition is excellent and all functional with good case, not all dried out and a set of Tiffen filters to go with it. If it's not even the price of a decent dinner, then, I'll just leave it on my office shelf as a nostalgia piece from my high school days for keepsakes sake. Thanks for any input. Cheers, Vince.
