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For Sale Pentax K 1000 classic manual SOLD ELSEWHERE

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SirRobert

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This was noted as the last fully manual camera, so I bought one each to teach my two children how cameras worked. This was my son's, who shot three rolls of film and gave up. Forty years later I bought it back from him because he was going to get rid of it in a recycling bin. I would use it myself except that I have to clear out 'stuff' as I turn 75. SORRY, I FORGOT TO TYPE A PRICE. ASKING $150.
You pay for packing and shipping in North America by UPS or FedEx, which will guarantee it.
 
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I will take it as a gift to kids of my friend in Massachusetts. Will send PM shortly.
 
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SirRobert said:
Sorry, I'm new here. What is a PM? And I won't know what the packing and shipping will cost for a few days yet. Thanksgiving seems to get in the way.
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A PM is a private message. If you look at the top right of the page there's an inbox and when you get a PM it should have a red number next to it. I sent you a PM on a separate thread about the 500c. If you click on the little letter icon you'll see a bunch of messages. You can respond to them and only the person who sent you the message will see the conversation. Hence, private message.
 
SirRobert said:
Sorry, I'm new here. What is a PM? And I won't know what the packing and shipping will cost for a few days yet. Thanksgiving seems to get in the way.
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Hi just check your inbox at top right corner next to alerts
 
SirRobert said:
Sorry, I'm new here. What is a PM? And I won't know what the packing and shipping will cost for a few days yet. Thanksgiving seems to get in the way.
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Regarding packaging and shipping no rush, have a good holiday time first.

And PM is needed so any details can be exchanged directly between us as some of it becomes sensitive info and not for everyone to see.
 
To add just a bit of confusion, the site software calls it a "Conversation", rather than a Private Message.
 
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I love the K1000. It's what I cut my photographic teeth on, back in the 80's. Still have it. Still use it.
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How's your water situation? I moved to New Mexico from Anacortes, just south of you, so am familiar with your part of BC. Tend to have a little more sunshine here, which is good for photography.
 
SirRobert said:
How's your water situation? I moved to New Mexico from Anacortes, just south of you, so am familiar with your part of BC. Tend to have a little more sunshine here, which is good for photography.
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Water situation as in drinking? It's fine. Water from the sky? Rivers in the sky! Too much! I'm originally from Saskatchewan, which gets blue sky and sunshine most of the time. I don't think I'll ever get used to these dark, gray, wet winters. It does make photography a challenge!
 
I went out to the deck this morning and turned on the Christmas lights that I put up yesterday - just to dispel some of the incredibly wet darkness and gloom!
 
I think you'll find that that weather is a Santa's Bag of never ending opportunity.

While the Western third of Washington State, with the Gulf of Japan bringing mostly mild Winters, the dogs, clouds, and landscape in general was, to me, a cornucopia of photographic experiences, and I still feel some of my best work was done there almost 45 years ago.

Perhaps you'll be able to get out and enjoy the changing days of your new home with camera in hand and haunt the weather from morning to last light, in the future

Godspeed and Good Luck.

 
This (from a couple of years ago) is just down the road from where Andrew lives :

 

I've lived here for 20 years. There are many places around here that I like to photograph, in various lighting conditions and weather. I just posted a video to my channel photographing near my house. I do like the foggy mornings, when they happen. I'm more inspired though, with the interior of the province.
 
Actually, we first moved to a blue hole in Tacoma in the late '80s, and moved back to the blue hole of the San Juans two decades later, but the weather has changed considerably. It used to start raining on Oct 1, like clockwork. Now it starts raining in early September. It used to stop misting in May. Now it actually rains, and doesn't stop until July. Yes, there are plenty of opportunities, particularly going up to the Cascades, as one or two cloud layers break, leaving just two more layers of clouds between you and the sun. I found that I was increasingly suffering from SAD.
 
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This (from a couple of years ago) is just down the road from where Andrew lives :

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Your photograph is a very nice example of what I am talking about with regard to cloud layers. btw, I know Delta, and Richmond (for Vancouver Bullion Exchange), and White Rock, where we shopped periodically for Marmite and Dilmah tea. Having Nexus cards, we made special trips monthly to eat at Hope Drive In, whose owners retired a few years ago. Great food, and where I took a snap of a warning sign in Hope's town park warning visitors to beware of falling branches while walking under the trees. Hope has a community curling rink, and we pictured robust and healthy Canadian women earnestly practicing their sweeping skills.
Whatever happened to the concept of Cascadia?
And what happened to the 'residents' of Vancouver's Downtown East Side during those torrential rains a week ago?
 
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And what happened to the 'residents' of Vancouver's Downtown East Side during those torrential rains a week ago?
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Probably about the same sort of near misery that the November rains usually bring, along with the resilient stuff that that community seems to manage as well.
That wasn't one of the flooded areas.
 
SirRobert said:
Sorry, I'm new here. What is a PM? And I won't know what the packing and shipping will cost for a few days yet. Thanksgiving seems to get in the way.
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So, are you saying that you want to buy it? This is a small, and very rugged, camera. How about if I pack it with enough material to fill a Medium (or Large if necessary) Flat Rate Priority USPS box. Bubble wrap, and maybe crumpled paper around that if it is needed to make the box rigid. $20 over the asking price.
 
Sorry for change of mind, for your asking price I am not interested. It is up for grabs to whomever wants it now.
 
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Would make for a perfect camera for my photo 1 students. I sent you a private message.
 
I also am somewhat sensitive to SAD, but I'm a Vet, spent about three years up in Ft. Lewis, but I loved being out in the weather there, except one week, ten days in a blizzard atop a bald hill in Yakama.

I think my SAD started after several years of no being up and about outside as my illnesses and pain from radiation kept me more.

I asked the VA for a SAD LIGHT, last year and they sent it in a couple of weeks.

I now use it every morning and it helps somewhat.

If you need one, ask your Doctor of if a vet, the VA, so your suffering might be lessened.

Cheers and Godspeed,
Eli


 
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