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Post by lloydy on Jan 25, 2014 13:29:58 GMT -5
I got this very tidy, fully working Olympus from a charity shop yesterday for £20. Even the leather case is good. It's a lovely camera, very advanced for its day ( 1969 to 1976 ) with center weighted and spot metering, and aperture priority as well as manual operation. All it needs is some light seals and it's good to go!
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Post by olroy2044 on Jan 25, 2014 21:29:32 GMT -5
Nice little camera, Lloyd. Always had a hankerin' for one of them. Finally wound up with 3 and none of them work!
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Post by daveh on Jan 25, 2014 22:30:12 GMT -5
I always wanted a "proper" Olympus Trip, the one with the selenium cell. I've got a 35-ED which I doubt will get much use. It came with one of those soft cases which is now rather perished. It does work (at least everything seems okay when fired without a film in place).
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Post by Stephen on Jan 26, 2014 7:30:36 GMT -5
Keep away from sandy beaches...The designs that Olympus used then are not sealed against sand and dirt, they used rather loose tolerances for some reason. Sand got in many and jammed things up. Maybe being popular, more got taken to beaches.?... The lens is very good indeed...... Stephen.
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Post by lloydy on Jan 26, 2014 17:53:33 GMT -5
I've never been much of a 'beach bum', but I do use my cameras in just about any conditions, so it's good to know about that known problem. I've done all the light seals today and given it a good clean. It's ready to go. Along with the Yashica FX-D Quartz and the Contax RX that I picked up last week, and I've got film in about half a dozen other cameras as well. Once the weather gets better I shall get out and waste some film - I promise!
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Post by philbirch on Feb 1, 2014 20:30:57 GMT -5
Nice camera Dave, theres nothing in the charity shops round here. 2 bargains in 5 years. You get 'em every week!!
What battery? the 625?
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Post by lloydy on Feb 2, 2014 5:00:10 GMT -5
Yes, I've packed a bit of soft foam around the sides and a bit of kitchen foil under the battery cover to make contact with a LR44 battery, which seems to work just fine. The sun is shining today for the first time in ages so I think I'll throw a film in it today. I'm haunting the charity shops at the moment, I picked up that Yashica / Contax kit the other day - Contax RX camera, Yashica FX-D camera and a bunch of Yashica lenses, no Contax lenses. But, in the bag and on some of the lenses there are Contax lens caps, so I'm guessing whoever owned it had the Contax lenses? So where are they, did someone spread their donations around the different charity shops? The trouble is, as I carry on my search I find other stuff like this lovely Olympus !
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Post by daveh on Feb 2, 2014 5:24:22 GMT -5
Many of the charity shops now seem to bundle everything up and send it to their expert who values it and then sells it on ebay. There was one shop close by, Oxfam, which used to have a constant stream of photographic equipment on sale. There has been nothing in almost a year. It was another, Claire House (a children's hospice) that told me about the ebay disposal. It's a shame because I don't tend to go in and look now, and so I buy less other "junk" from them which as spotted while searching out the cameras.
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Post by philbirch on Feb 2, 2014 6:03:52 GMT -5
Yes, I've packed a bit of soft foam around the sides and a bit of kitchen foil under the battery cover to make contact with a LR44 battery, which seems to work just fine. I do that too, tried tested and proven yet people still hack into the electronics and buy expensive adapters...
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Post by lloydy on Feb 3, 2014 13:28:58 GMT -5
Some of the bigger OXFAM shops sell a good range of camera stuff, they do get it assessed by someone and then send it to those busy branches and list it on their web site. I've had some good stuff from the Keswick shop, and the last time I was there they probably had about 25 lenses and maybe 10 or 12 cameras. Obviously they now charge more than they used to, but they are still cheaper than ebay, and they refund without question if there is a problem. I bought a Tamron 500 mirror for £100, which would have been £130 + on ebay, that was decentered and got a refund the next day. The best bargains are found in the small charity shops, the local dog and cat rescue type of charity, and especially in rural market towns. But you've got to beat the other guys, and there's getting to be more of us hunting the bargains. I know 2 other guys local to me that get a lot of stuff, and they just bang it on ebay the same day with nothing more than a wipe with a polishing cloth.
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Post by philbirch on Feb 3, 2014 18:12:22 GMT -5
...they just bang it on ebay the same day with nothing more than a wipe with a polishing cloth. Not me... I don't get bargains in charity shops...I don't do it every time, sometimes I use it first. Probably
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Post by matty on Feb 8, 2014 18:45:15 GMT -5
The small town charity shops are the best for bargains,especially the local charities but even there things seem to be drying up a bit around me. I haven't seen much for a few months now, had a Zenit TTL with a Helios flash, 3x teleconvertor and extension tubes, plus a genuine TOE kit bag with it from one in Bangor just after Christmas but nothing else. I've seen a few items listed from charities on the evil bay, the other tactic seems to be using evil bay prices as a guide for pricing in the charity shop. This seems to lead to a few highly inflated prices, saw a Minolta X300 yesterday, it had two sigma zooms with it, 35-75 and 70-210. The price? £90, a bit much when I managed to pick up a X300 with the original Minolta 50mm, Minolta 28mm and a Sigma 70-210 for £30 from the local auction house. Regards Matty
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Post by lloydy on Feb 9, 2014 18:46:47 GMT -5
I had a look at Oxfam's web site tonight and there were no real bargains there. Maybe a Kiron Macro 80-200 / 4.5 in excellent condition for £45 was the best buy? And there was a couple of decent Tamron zooms at sensible money, but most of the stuff wasn't worth bothering with. Interestingly, they seem to sell everything as 'untested - spares and repair'. The charity shops just don't want the hassle of selling something that might turn out to be faulty. So the camera stuff ends up in a big box in the store room, and when it's full it gets binned. I always ask if they have they have anything camera related, and always explain that I'm an enthusiast collector and will buy stuff 'as it is' with no comeback on the shop. I'm finding that you have to push the shops into letting you see and buy camera stuff, but that in a strange way makes it better, you get to see everything.
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Post by matty on Feb 12, 2014 15:55:30 GMT -5
I had a quick walk round Bangor on Monday and managed to find a few bits and pieces. A Zenit B for £5 (already got one), Canon EOS 5000, no lens though and a Photax Blinde for a tenner. Not quite sure how a nineteen forties French Camera ended up in North Wales but now it is in my collection. I usually ask if there are any cameras in but in Bangor they seem to put everything out on the shelves rather than keeping them in the back. One of the shop managers keeps a list of contacts who are interested in specific items, he's got me down for any camera pieces. One place that I try to check out regularly is the local auction centre, there is not a huge amount but every so often there is a gem, last week I missed out on an Olympus OM1n. It was buried in an old carrier bag and described as "a cased pair of binoculars etc" so I put in a commission bid at £25 as I couldn't get to the actual auction but was beaten by £3.
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Post by lloydy on Feb 12, 2014 17:11:33 GMT -5
I posted this on another forum just last night -
House clearance stuff generally ends up in the small auctions, the kind that are held in village halls once a month. I've had some luck at these auctions, but often the camera stuff is in with a mixed box of general crap. Probably the best bargain I got was a gorgeous vintage Vivo chrome tripod that was in a huge box of filthy old kitchen pans and crockery. Which I just took outside and tipped straight into a skip. The whole lot cost me £1-50. At most of these auctions the punters are re - sellers, the junk just gets divided up between the people who sell a particular type of junk, so they're not interested in camera gear and pull out of bidding early on, it's easy to outbid them and still get a bargain. The downside is, you have to go to these auctions every time they hold one, and then search through box after box of utter crap in the faint hope of finding something good.
I don't go to the auctions very often, usually when I've got some crap - sorry, antiques, to sell. But I have had some decent bargains.
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