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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 28, 2016 3:41:16 GMT -5
I couldn't find it on ebay, probably been sold. The wind-on lever looks like a Voigtlander or Agfa detail!
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 27, 2016 13:41:52 GMT -5
Stephen I did report this listing. Tonight it is back on, it is a digital back for a Rollei 6008 AF at £1.
PLEASE READ
WARNING. This time I clicked on the listing and was immediately asked to reset my ebay password! I have checked this out with ebay and this is suspicious activity, it was interference by an outside agent and they are dealing with it. Watch out for similar listings. Have done the appropriate things.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 27, 2016 4:31:18 GMT -5
Just arrived via eBay, a Sigma 70-210 zoom in amazingly good condition. It was described as screw mount but in the fuzzy photo the mount was obviously bayonet but I couldn't see which maker's mount it was. Took a chance and bought it. It comes in original Sigma square section case with both end caps, a skylight filter and original lenshood. It is Pentax mount, not bad for £8 B.I.N. + £3 postage. Will go on my Pentax Program A.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 23, 2016 16:43:13 GMT -5
You probably won't get affected or taken in by this, but there is a seller that keeps putting really expensive Rolleiflex items on ebay at a starting price of £1 this listing directs observers to another website address where the items are for sale at £1000+ obviously to avoid ebay fees. The item is withdrawn shortly afterwards. Just a waste of everybody's time. There might be other examples but I haven't seen them.
SEE BELOW....................
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 20, 2016 8:30:52 GMT -5
There is an article of furniture for sale on ebay at the moment. It is described as 'shabby chuc'. That would be a good description for some of the older cheap photo gear that I have in my garage waiting to go to the recycling.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 17, 2016 12:04:04 GMT -5
One that I avoided. I have very rarely found a camera worth buying in a charity shop. I did get a Pentax ME Super with Pentax lens for £10 in my local shop. I also have Mint Nikon F40 in box from further afield, this was in a shop that I had never been to before, in an affluent area. Today I found just about the worst Minolta SLR that I have ever seen with a label on saying 'prop? £5'. It was dirty and corroded on every surface. The lens was a Tamron Adaptall 28mm f2.5. All the engravings were worn and full of dirt. I thought that it might be worth it just for the lens, if the exterior was cleaned so I took it off and looked at the light through it, no fungus, just a network of hundreds of scratches. Not even worth buying it for the Adaptall. In the same shop, a box camera priced at £119.99p, I couldn't quite work that out but I now know that it is a 'Bear Photo Special' which is a rare camera. Somebody knew it was valuable, but £120? Separate post made.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 14, 2016 14:33:02 GMT -5
The Vivitar V 6000 that I bought recently is apparently based on the Cosina CT-1. The top controls are situated in the same place. I have put a Pentax 50mm f1.7 lens on it but haven't put a film through the camera yet, the wind on certainly seems smooth and the mirror and shutter work quietly. For my hands, the shutter release is too far over to the right.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 14, 2016 12:24:40 GMT -5
I know that the cameras that I desire are the ones that I used to see in my local camera shop window when I was a youth. Nearly every Leica, the Nikon SP, Canonflex, Hasselblad, all well out of my price range. Then there are the ones that I sold and think that I should have kept hold of, especially the Bronica 645, Mamiya 330c and a Kodak Retina 11c that used to go everywhere with me. The shutter seized up and I sold it.............
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 13, 2016 12:26:29 GMT -5
Just arrived from ebay, an Agfa Silette 1. Bought for sentimental reasons. It is almost the same as the second 35mm camera that I ever owned which was the type 4 or 5 with an Agnar or Apotar f 3.5 lens. (Two stepped top deck with a two 'viewfinder' apertures for a brightline VF This one is a Type 6 with the one step in the top at the rewind knob end. The lens is a Color Solinar f 2.8. It seems to work OK, but there is still a film in it so I haven't opened it up. Not a classic but it will do me.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 11, 2016 6:01:04 GMT -5
How about a L for Lordomat and Leidolf. I found this one on the ground at my local car boot sale three weeks ago. The ERC is quite good. There still is a film in it. I have cleaned it up, everything seems to work. Cost. £5.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 5, 2016 19:54:29 GMT -5
I keep dipping in and out again...... Happy New Year.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jan 1, 2016 12:00:49 GMT -5
I put 28 exposures of a 36 exposure Fujicolor through the Pentax, using three different lenses. I then wanted to use the other 8 exposures in a recently acquired Pentax MZM . So, having wound the film back to 0 I took it out and loaded it into the MZM. As soon as I closed the back and switched on, it decided, all by itself that the film was finished and wound it back into the cassette. Haven't got a film retriever so will leave it as it is and send it off.
I found a way of retrieving the film, on the net. And it works.
Use a piece of scrap 35mm film or an old negative. Put a square of double sided adhesive tape onto the lower (emulsion) side near the end, push it into the cassette through the slit for about an inch, then rotate the spool until you feel it catch, then pull the scrap length out, the film leader should be attached. Sounds more difficult than it is.
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Post by yashica1943 on Dec 28, 2015 16:30:43 GMT -5
I think that as far as I am concerned it is just a matter of luck or bad luck sometimes. I go into charity shops in various towns if I have time. I have bought two or three really good film cameras in good order, but not at spectacular prices. If I go to my local small car boot sale, eight out of ten times I buy nothing, but when a good one comes along it is usually cheap. Three very recent buys stand out. A Lordomat in case in good working order, £5. A Ricoh SLR with a good Pentax 50mm on the front. £5. A very clean working Olympus OM-10 in case with manual adapter, £8. Best of all, two years ago a Leitz Afloo manual film winder, I picked it up off the table, the seller said. "You can 'ave it for 50p.!". I sold it for £50. But I keep an open mind, there are quite a few cameras out there that are dirty, ill treated or just don't work at all. I once bought a good Olympus OM-10 from ebay for £0.91p. The seller had listed it as 'Olympusom 10. But this sort of thing seems to be very rare now.
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Post by yashica1943 on Dec 23, 2015 4:48:02 GMT -5
Went to my local car boot sale again today. A seller had two big boxes of reasonably clean cameras. I selected a Chinon CP-7 which looked quite clean, but the mirror was in an up position. But it was fitted with a Pentax 50mm f1.7 lens. £5. Brought it home, the camera is obviously finished, but the lens is nice and clean and bright, with a Hoya UV filter. Thursday, Christmas Eve. I scanned through loads of K mount bodies from Pentax, (lots of Pentax bodies were for parts or repair) Ricoh, Cosina, etc. Purpose- partly just idling the afternoon away, but also to look for a clean, working body to put my new Pentax lens on. I decided on a nice clean Vivitar V6000 body at a good price, made by Cosina, so it puts me into a relationship with the Cosina Files! I expect Phil will be along to tell me that it is unreliable! Anyway. Happy Christmas and New Year. I have also acquired a Voigtlander VF 135 in mint condition. From the distance it is quite a handsome little compact, get closer and 'built down to a price' is the reality. Nasty cheap wind-on lever and very clunky shutter. The interior seems to be made of a very cheap grade of plastic, just about the worst I have ever seen.. I will put a film through it though because it really is pocket sized. Edit. The Vivitar V 6000 has arrived, clean, in good working condition with a battery in for a change. It is compact, has a very sensible control layout and the wind-on is smooth and the shutter quiet. (Like my Kiev! Which doesn't work I would think that it would have been a good buy for a beginner or enthusiast who didn't want the complication that some contemporary 35 mm cameras had.
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Post by yashica1943 on Dec 22, 2015 9:25:09 GMT -5
re The M42 adapter, I was wrong. I originally tried the converter on a Tessar from a Practika that I bought, but never actually used. I have now found that the lens, on camera or off will not focus past 5 metres towards infinity. Why, I do not know. The other lens was a 58mm Helios from a Zenit. Having tried it again, nothing is wrong with it. What I dd the first time I have no idea, so I now have Canon EOS with a Helios.
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