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Post by John Farrell on May 3, 2009 23:41:45 GMT -5
I spent part of today looking around local second hand shops - for books, and cameras. The only interesting camera I found was a Lordomat. I didn't buy it....
A few years ago, I could buy SLR cameras on Trademe, NZs local auction site, for a very reasonable price. Today, there are few to be found.
Last weekend I was in Christchurch, and I visited the Riccarton market. I bought an Agfa Isomat Rapid there (it had 2 film casettes inside), but there were no other interesting cameras to be seen.
Camera searching has taken a back seat over the last year, while I've been settling into a new house, and a new job, and getting back into motorcycling, but I'm starting to think that all of the old cameras have been thrown out.
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Post by nikonbob on May 4, 2009 6:42:26 GMT -5
It seems to me that your situation is much the same as it is here locally. Not much of anything turns up in the line of film cameras at pawn shops, the Sally Annes and yard sales and it has been that way for a few years. Retail shops do not take them in trade and have not done so for quite a few years now. I suspect you are right in that people locally consider them worthless and they are now resting in local landfill sites. If that is the case it is a pity because they could have a good home here.
Bob
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 8:36:28 GMT -5
Pawn shops in our area won't take in film cameras because there simply isn't any market for them except for collectors who don't want to pay anything for them. I don't even see them much at garage sales.
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Post by Andrew on May 4, 2009 9:03:36 GMT -5
John, that NZ auction site used to have some VERY intersting camera for good prices, i only noticed that site after perhaps you or someone on here mentioned it a long time back...not that i ever bought anything from it, it seemed most people would only sell to NZ and not OZ.
ya know, we really dont have hardly any of the old second hand shops or pawn shops around like they used to be. now mostly they are franchises such as Cash Collectors (an american franchise) that have taken over the market share in that area and as pretty much a rule you would have to desperate or stupid to buy anything off them, still they are in business so some people must keep them in money, god knows why, they have ridiculous prices on anything let alone cameras (except i once , when they had only just opened years ago i got a fabulous set of near new camel hair artist paint brushes for $15 that were worth in excess of $1700 hehe)...for me its now a pretty rare thing to even find some little stall, second hand shop or dealer, let alone one that has old cameras...not so long ago i found one in a permanent type flea market but he had just kodaks apart from one or two nice old large format wooden camera that wer'nt for sale...a ridgy didge second hand shop in the hills country that had some cameras but nothing i was intersted in....the theme is i can pretty much count them on one hand the shops that carry old gear...one nice thing is there is still just one camera shop in town that still buys and sells oldish film cameras.
i happen to be in there this afternoon buying some chemicals and noticed an enlarger that i might upgrade to, so now i am bartering for the right price. also noticed some old barn door voigtlander and a Rb 67 pro kit with heaps of lenses, backs, hard kit case and every possible assesory for about $1300. its tempting but i think i might prefer to use 4x5 field camera than than that big ol bus though
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Post by Andrew on May 4, 2009 10:14:01 GMT -5
Pawn shops in our area won't take in film cameras because there simply isn't any market for them except for collectors who don't want to pay anything for them. I don't even see them much at garage sales. there is a market for them, you only have to look on ebay to see that. no doubt its a local market decision by the pawn shops in your area, not wanting to fill their shelfs with something that doesnt have a high enough turnover compared to something else for the warranted space. perhaps they know nothing about film cameras or their value so they dont purchase them from people off the street (lets face it some of these old cameras many people nowadays dont know the market value)...the shop i know does know about film cameras so they purchase them, stick them in the window, if they dont sell in quick enough time then they put them on ebay! they seem to brag about the prices they get from ebay sales! |
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Post by casualcollector on May 4, 2009 21:13:29 GMT -5
I've had some luck at thrift stores again recently. The downside of that is that I have time to visit them all regularly due to a layoff at work. Today's tour turned up a Honeywell (Mamiya) RF.
Bill
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Post by pressman on May 9, 2009 22:08:29 GMT -5
In northern europe where I live is increasingly difficult to find any interesting cameras from small stores and garace sales. Few times I have been lucky though. It seems in many cases people do not know what is really valuable and what is not, and they end up selling the most awful stuff and throw away all the valuable things.
A friend of mine who is an antique dealer says when ever he goes to see someone selling things to him, he first looks into the garbage or tells the seller not to throw away anything.
Jani
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