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benjiboy

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He'll probably find somebody who has smoked even more wacky baccy to buy it
 

kuyman

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Sure the price is ridiculous, but I've never thought of it as "Art Deco" before! That's got to be worth something, right!?!
 

edp

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It's rated 7/10 cosmetically, that's an extra 600 dollars' worth right there.
 

reverend jay

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That's funny, I was just thinking the exact same thing. Last night I was looking at Rolleiflexes on ebay and the prices on those have just gone through the roof. Most are going for triple what I paid for the two I have, and there are just as many selling way into the thousands. I knew I should have bought a few more of those a couple years ago because clearly there has been a resurgence in classic cameras......Damn hipsters and your fixed gear bikes, get off my lawn!
 
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Sethasaurus

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They are great cameras. I have two nice examples and they take excellent pictures.

The listed one is actually only worth close to one tenth of that price.
One recently sold for US$340 and previous ones for approx $100-150. Its a funny market and it kind of depends on who is buying and who is selling at any given time.

The prices for a lot of cameras have been slowly creeping up though, including the FSU rangefinders, for example.
The production run of Zorki 1s was about 800,000, so they aren't _really_ so rare or valuable (as the typical Eastern European ebayer will have you believe).

Also, I find it difficult to believe when someone lists three of the same camera and tries to tell you they're rare!
 
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