I have a Minolta XK with the early version of the AE finder and a 58mm f/1.2 MC lens. They are in good condition and fully functioning. If I sell them can I expect to get enough money to buy me a nice Nikon F2AS (which I think about $500)?
I have a Minolta XK with the early version of the AE finder and a 58mm f/1.2 MC lens. They are in good condition and fully functioning. If I sell them can I expect to get enough money to buy me a nice Nikon F2AS (which I think about $500)?
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- too much hype on the F2AS. I sold mine and traded it for the F2 standard. It shows the f-stop in a clearer way, analog needle is nicer (and far less distracting) than the nervous flickering LEDs, works.wirh pre-AI and AI lenses, and probably draws less battery power.
- you have one of the most desireable Minolta standard lenses...
Circa 1978-1982.....i was completely and foolishly blind to Minolta.
They had (i now know) some really awesome cameras.
If I'd had different friends i might have owned some type of Minolta, rather than my Canon AE-1 and AE-1P.
And to get a good F2AS I would have to pay about the same price as the original price in the 70's. I paid $550 for the black F2AS brand new. I also got the plain prism for $42 as nobody wanted the plain prism back then. When my camera was stolen I gave away the plain prism. If I kept it I may be able to sell it for good money. That's the reason why I didn't buy an F2 outright. I currently have the F3HP (my favorite), an F4S (my least like) and the F5 which I bought new in 2002. The F5 I think would have fewer than 5000 actuations and it's in like new condition and yet if I sell it I would get at the most 1/4 of its original price.The good news is that you can buy them now at a fraction of their original 1970's price.
Yeah, Canon A-Series (it seems) have not held their value very well..
I bought the Canon AE-1, A-1 and AE-1P recently and the one I paid the least was $5 for the AE-1 and the most is $25 for the AE-1P. All with the f/1.8 lens.
When I shoot film I think my choice is the F3HP. I do own an F4 and an F5. I don't care for the F6 I think it's a lesser camera than the F5. After the F2AS I might want to get an F but not the F6. As I said in earlier post I want the F2AS because it was my first camera.Your 58mm f1.2 is worth more than the body and combined worth at least $400. Many people don't realize that many of the old Rokkor lenses were better than the Nikkors of the same period. The new Nikon glass which is superb won't work on that F2. Consider a F6 if you want to stick with film.
It can only be their ubiquity that accounts for the disdain, the Canon A-series are perfectly good cameras carrying some great lenses. My A-1, AT-1, AV-1 get regular use. Curiously, the Canon F range hold their value as well as any Japanese professional camera of the era, and better than most. It must be the plastic bodies that modern consumers resent, the slippery technological and construction slope that gave us the modern DSLR.Yeah, Canon A-Series (it seems) have not held their value very well.
I used my A-1 camera A LOT and it served me well. I rarely used the AE-1P...probably because it is so similar (in what it can do) to the A-1, not because it was "no good".Here's another one who'd stick with the XK. That said, cameras are a visceral pleasure as much as a practical one, some register in our affections while other leave us stone cold - even if the rest of the world thinks otherwise. I bought a used F2AS to replace the plain prism F I'd sold some years earlier, and the camera did absolutely nothing for me. It was sold a few months later with no regrets whatsoever. Like your earlier camera, my F was a low number model in near perfect condition, and finding another plain top F in similar fettle would cost way more than I'm prepared to pay. We move on.
It can only be their ubiquity that accounts for the disdain, the Canon A-series are perfectly good cameras carrying some great lenses. My A-1, AT-1, AV-1 get regular use. Curiously, the Canon F range hold their value as well as any Japanese professional camera of the era, and better than most. It must be the plastic bodies that modern consumers resent, the slippery technological and construction slope that gave us the modern DSLR.
I also use my F3-HP, but I just bought a near-mint F5 yesterday, and I just can't leave it in the closet. I also rotate the F4-S in the mix. Tough to not use one.When I shoot film I think my choice is the F3HP. I do own an F4 and an F5. I don't care for the F6 I think it's a lesser camera than the F5. After the F2AS I might want to get an F but not the F6. As I said in earlier post I want the F2AS because it was my first camera.
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