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Post by Just Plain Curt on Mar 18, 2008 19:18:56 GMT -5
Hi Peter, Right you are, after several looks from different angles with my extra eyeballs on, it's a stylised but readable 520/18 not a 530 after all. The Dan 35 was made by The Dan Camera Works in Tokyo, later to become The Yamato Koki Kogyo Co. Ltd. makers of amongst others, the Pax line of cameras. I have a Pax M4 also but the grease/epoxy they used on the focus ring has since congealed to crazy glue.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Mar 17, 2008 19:05:40 GMT -5
A quick photo of my newest (so far addition side by side for comparison with a DAN 35. The Zeiss Ikonta 530/18 folder (127 film): Pardon the size but Photobucket's new resizing tool seems to have goofed as this was supposed to be forum sized.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Feb 19, 2008 19:09:23 GMT -5
I finally managed to buy a Topcon Super D, something I've wanted for years since I cheaped out on a local one. Tomorrow I'm going to pore over my notes and count my goodies to update exactly what I have and don't have. Friday I'm picking up my latest goodies (a few hundred more rolls of expired film, a Kalimar A, hopefully the Topcon, a few lenses for tinkering, etc.) at the border store I use for a mail drop. We bought a new refrigerator so last night I had to remove my film from the freezer to make room for real food. Lo and behold I found two more boxes of film at the bottom. Final tally after going thru all the boxes: 1090 rolls of 135mm (various makers, speeds etc. including the 320 still coming), 2 rolls of 110 Fuji, 4 (I know I have 4 more somewhere) rolls of Fuji 120, and 40 Kodak 400 Max disposable cameras I once received as part of a film lot. Needless to say, no more film shopping, I'll stick to lenses and old fixed lens cameras for a few.....years, LOL.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Jan 8, 2008 18:12:33 GMT -5
The Ikonta 523/2 looks exactly like this: Thanks Bob, one of the nicer folders in my collection.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Oct 14, 2007 20:47:30 GMT -5
Anytime you find an SLR with lens for $30 or less it's a great deal, let alone a Minolta. Good score.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on May 27, 2007 6:58:35 GMT -5
Beautiful Reijo, I have a Prismat myself but not nearly as nice as your camera. Like Peter's, mine has been used hard so has battle scars but keeps on ticking like a Timex watch. I've been bidding on these for over a year now and always get outbid. Keep your fingers crossed, I'm bidding on two more now.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on May 17, 2007 18:54:11 GMT -5
Good deal Randy. Nice camera, great price.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on May 17, 2007 13:10:10 GMT -5
I always feel a bit left out if I'm using aperture priority, shutter priority or program slr's. Feel separated from the picture using point'nshoot auto everything cameras. I used both a Kodak Cameo and Olympus Infinity Tele earlier this week and was actually glad to be done with the film in them. Not that they don't have their place, just more for grab 'n go snapshots than anything serious.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on May 9, 2007 16:06:23 GMT -5
Hi Walker, No problem, just glad someone I know got this one. I only half heartedly bid anyway, usually if I really want something I'll snipe it too. I always say there are no friends during an eBay auction, full speed ahead damn the torpedoes, LOL. It's actually surprising how many familiar names I come across during bidding. Nice to know we share the same good taste, in Ricoh TLS too. I have my eye on another good lens in a local auction at the end of the month. How 'bout a 1957 M37 mount chrome preset 83 f1.9 Takumar ? The auction also includes a Zeiss Contina and a few trinkets. Since nobody else on the forum lives here, just gotta sneak this one by ol nikonbob, LOL. Crappy part is the auction ends the night I'm in hospital to have my knee scoped so I might be too groggy to attend.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on May 8, 2007 22:45:07 GMT -5
Good snipe Walker. If I'm to be outbid by someone, at least I know someone on our board also recognised the lens. Oh well, there's always the next one, LOL. P.S. I'm ramblerfixer on eBay.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Apr 26, 2007 6:18:35 GMT -5
Hi Peter, That is certainly some beautiful glass you have there. Even the Tokina is a very good lens, wish I had any one of them. Congratulations.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Apr 20, 2007 14:47:29 GMT -5
Very nice buy there Frankie. Why don't I ever find those sales? I think I paid $20 just for the lens I needed for mine. Feel free to post a few of those pictures.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Apr 14, 2007 14:49:10 GMT -5
Very cool. I like old movies/slides and photos of travel and nature. Over ten years ago I bought a box with 8 movie reels in it of a lady's travels in Europe as well as ten carousels with travel slides. Like everything else they ended up in a box under the bed for future viewing. I bought two different slide projectors and one movie projector so guess I'll have to dig it all out and actually see what I've got. Not as old as yours but hope there's something neat there. Good purchase and thanks for sharing with us.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Apr 11, 2007 6:49:21 GMT -5
Ha ha, Well, since I paid about $20 US for mine, I'd consider selling it for even half of what he's asking, LOL. I might even throw in a pack of lens tissues. There are actually several loons like this on eBay, one from Germany, a couple from the US and a few in the FSU.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Mar 15, 2007 22:51:06 GMT -5
Hi majikman, Cool, a Univex Model AF-5 Minicam. Don't see many of those except the Univex I believe Mickey posted a few days back. I have a Univex Mercury but not a Minicam. Thanks for sharing this with us.
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