|
|
Post by Rachel on Feb 19, 2009 14:19:57 GMT -5
I've not posted much over the last few months but I've still been collecting. Here are a couple of cameras at oppostite ends of the price spectrum ...  The Olympus mju cost me £3.50 at a local charity shop. The Leica Minilux Zoom was a little more expensive  I've yet to put films through them but I'm hoping for some nice spring weather soon. |
|
|
|
Post by Rachel on Feb 20, 2009 8:28:40 GMT -5
Hi Brac. I now and then have a look in the charity shops for cameras but don't often find any. Most have got wise to the value of the "better" cameras and sort out the best to sell on eBay or similar. I should have a look around the boot fairs but I always forget to see where and when the local ones are. Needless to say I didn't buy the Leica in a charity shop |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2009 16:24:04 GMT -5
Stephen:
Most of the thrift shops in our area overprice most of their cameras, the only plus being they usually lump all older cameras into the same price range ($35 to $65) and once in a while a real collectible shows up . Unfortunately we don't have anything resembling boot fairs here and pawn shops hardly ever have a film camera worth looking at.
|
|
casualcollector
Lifetime Member
In Search of "R" Serial Soligors
Posts: 619
|
Post by casualcollector on Feb 23, 2009 17:29:46 GMT -5
I picked up three lenses from a case of 8 or 10 at a thrift shop today. I think they price them by size. Wides and normals were $5, teles $10-$15 and zooms $15-$20. I examined the three that appealed to me and negotiated the price based on condition. There's the usual dust and a bit of scum and one lens has a nonworking iris. I got a 35/2.8 Vivitar, 55/1.4 Mamiya/Sekor and 135/2.8 Vivitar for ten dollars U.S. plus state tax. The willingness to negotiate surprised me a bit but maybe they've been gathering dust for a while.
|
|
|
|
Post by Just Plain Curt on Feb 23, 2009 23:45:27 GMT -5
I've found the thrift stores around here are getting silly with their prices or auctioning off the better bits at live auction. Auto everything plastic cameras for $4-20 (often broken or APS or even disc) or auctions that start at $40 and in increments of $5 so they get silly fast. Pawn shops have little or nothing except digital point 'n shoots. I was at a pawn shop in Nevada where the owner wouldn't even take any lens off a shelf to show me because I didn't have a specific model in mind. Told him I buy all types but he wouldn't budge so I told him I hope he enjoys them and walked out.
|
|
|
|
Post by Rachel on Feb 24, 2009 5:36:23 GMT -5
Thanks for all that information Stephen.
All the same it's very rare to see any cameras in my local charity shops. All I've seen so far are the odd P&S. When I look at the secondhand prices in a nearby camera shop I wonder how they manage to sell any at all. Having said that their expensive stuff (Leica and suchlike) are not too far off.
|
|
sl
Contributing Member
Posts: 10
|
Post by sl on Feb 24, 2009 23:50:27 GMT -5
The Olympus mju cost me £3.50 at a local charity shop. The Leica Minilux Zoom was a little more expensive I've yet to put films through them but I'm hoping for some nice spring weather soon. The µ Zoom is a great little camera. Apart from the faster lens and more manual control I doubt the Leica has much over the µ. But then again I don't own any Leica compacts, so I wouldn't know. |
|
|
|
Post by Rachel on Feb 25, 2009 9:05:31 GMT -5
The µ Zoom is a great little camera. Apart from the faster lens and more manual control I doubt the Leica has much over the µ. But then again I don't own any Leica compacts, so I wouldn't know. Welcome sl (how do you pronounce that?  I expect that you are right .... I will have to look for a µ Zoom now ... I don't know. This collecting lark never ends |
|
