I visited the auction today.

[John Farrell]

There was one interesting lot - a Kodak Retina 11c, with 35mm and 80mm lenses, viewfinder, close up rangefinder, manuals and ER case. some of the items were still boxed.



The lot included a No6 Ensign carbine camera with dial set Compur shutter, f4.5 Aldis Uno Anastigmat lens, and an accessory rangefinder, permanently attached.



There was also an Agfa Click iii.

All for $62.

[philbirch]

We get nowt like that at our auctions. Whatever is being sold looks like it has been in a shed/barn for four decades and still has the dust and shyte to prove it.

[John Farrell]

It's only occasionally the auction room has good photographic lots - a previous auction, I bid on a Pentax Spotmatic, with 2 fungussy lenses, but someone else wanted them more than me.

[John Farrell]

I took the Retina out yesterday, with a roll of outdated Fujichrome in it. I picked up the processed film today.



We had coffee at the Esplanade Cafe.



Then we walked to the end of Second Beach.



Someone else was admiring the view.

[julio1fer]

It seems that your Retina is in good shape.

It seems that you got the tele and wide too. IIRC the IIc did not have interchangeable lenses, so those lenses would be for a IIIc? or did you get a IIIc?

[John Farrell]

The interchangeable lenses fit IIc, IIIc, IIC and IIIC cameras. They are a pain to use - they aren't rangefinder coupled, so you have to transfer the focus distance to a separate scale after focussing, and then frame the shot in the accessory viewfinder. Definitely not for sports shooting.

[John Farrell]

I visited the auction house again today, and there were more cameras - a Kallo 35 rangefinder, a Pentax Spotmatic F, a Pentax SP, a Pentax MG, all in different lots. I didn't buy anything.