Thrift Store Finds

[donkee]

The camera gods are with me again. Found a really nice Yashica YK with an old roll of Kodachrome II in it at the SA store for 9.99. Popped out the film after rewinding it into the cassette and checked the shutter operation and the lens. Looks like a winner. Test roll in progress then if it really checks out it gets a seal kit.

 

[Jeff Kubach]

Those were great finds.

Jeff

 

[Toffle]

I just noticed today that our local Value Village has a Yashica D and a Yashica 44. The D is listed at $149, so it's no great find. Still, it's nice to see some classic gear available locally.

 

[wiltw]

My $25 thrift store find, and fully functioning!

 

[alienmeatsack]

My most recent thrift store find was several rolls of Walmart branded Fuji Superia 400 and a set of 52mm diopter filters which all set me back $5.

Most of the thrift shops here rarely have cameras since either someone else finds them before me, or they know they can sell them online for way more money.

 

[Trask]

My $25 thrift store find, and fully functioning!

Now that's sweet find! I've been looking for a clean Super D at a reasonable price for some time -- congrats!

 

[Terrence Brennan]

I haven't had any great thrift store finds, but my dream is to walk into a secondhand book shop one day and find William Henry Fox Talbot's Notebook L (never found to date).

It was 1999, and I had been looking for a copy of Bill Mauldin's book, Up Front, for many years. In a St. Vincent de Paul store in Ottawa I spotted one, minus the dust jacket, and I grabbed it! My wife, who was with me, told me afterwards that I didn't just grab it; she told me that I fairly leapt at the book shelf.

 

[alienmeatsack]

Does buying things from Goodwill via their website count? I've got quite a few great deals there lately including a gorgeous Minolta Hi-Matic E for $30 USD shipped including a nearly immaculate case and a perfect Yashica Electro 35 GSN for just over $25 USD shipped.

 

[Melissachipman]

I just scored an eastman view 2d with a reis tripod and a calumet lense! For 50.00

 

[AgX]

It was that cheap as nowadays 3D is the in-thing.

 

[sly]

I just scored an eastman view 2d with a reis tripod and a calumet lense! For 50.00

Oh my freaking goodness! GREEN with envy!

 

[pbromaghin]

Oh my freaking goodness! GREEN with envy!

+1

Screaming deal.

 

[bdial]

I just scored an eastman view 2d with a reis tripod and a calumet lense! For 50.00

Wow.
I go to the wrong thrift stores.
congrats.

 

[Newt_on_Swings]

Beautiful find! You really lucked out on that one! Happy shooting

 

[Mark Fisher]

Yashica T4 for $2 and it works! Voigtlander interchangeable lens leaf shutter camera....works well with a nasty, dirty prism.....but it just looks cool for $10.

 

[patrickth]

Yashica Lynx 14 with 45mm f1.4 for $5.00 at Lynwood, WA. Goodwill
Rolleichord tlr $50 at a no name thrift store in Eastern Washington

Cook Hobsen 12" at St Vincent DePaul in Everett, Wa. $5.00 in soft leather pouch.

 

[Toffle]

Cook Hobsen 12" at St Vincent DePaul in Everett, Wa. $5.00 in soft leather pouch.

Lesser known than the otherwise serviceable Cooke Hobson lenses, but quite nice, I hear.

I'll give you $10 for it.

 

[pen s]

Just yesterday at a flea market;

A Gossen Luna Pro. Checked it out with a couple of #675 zinc air batteres and readings were right on, less than 1/3 stop difference compared to my digital SLR and a Gossen Pilot.

Total price, $15

 

[patrickth]

Lesser known than the otherwise serviceable Cooke Hobson lenses, but quite nice, I hear.

I'll give you $10 for it.

Sorry, traded it for a nice Sekonic meter.

 

[Kawaiithulhu]

Just recently, 5 half-way not destroyed fidelity 4x5 holders for $10

 

[Sirius Glass]

Just yesterday at a flea market;

A Gossen Luna Pro. Checked it out with a couple of #675 zinc air batteres and readings were right on, less than 1/3 stop difference compared to my digital SLR and a Gossen Pilot.

Total price, $15

Why am I not finding opportunities like this? It is not for lack of looking.

 

[Rick A]

Just picked an Olympus Stylus 120 with two rolls of Fuji Superia 400 film for the outrageous sum of one dollar. They wanted two bucks, but I held firm at one, and got it. The battery was dead in it, and I thought I would have to buy a new one, but found a spare in the case with it. Running a test roll through it now. Flash works, seems to fire correctly and advance the film as it should, we'll see.

 

[Jim Jones]

Nikkormat, Nikkor 50mm f/2, Tamron 28mm f/2.5 Adaptall 2 that focuses to 10" and stops down to f/32, and a monster Vivitar Series 1 135mm f/2.3. The camera's meter is shaky, but usable. There is a touch of fungus in a few of the more accessible lens elements. All for $12.98 in a Land's End case.

 

[bvy]

Polaroid 450 Land camera - six bucks.

 

[pen s]

Why am I not finding opportunities like this? It is not for lack of looking.

My "finds" come few and far between. And besides $15 for the older Luna Pro is not a steal, OK but not great. My last find was more than 2 years ago when I found a "jammed" Canon QL17 GIII also for $15. Really clean externally I found they had it set on 'auto' with no battery installed and naturally the shutter would not release. I took a chance that the meter was ok and when I walked the few blocks home tried it out with a #675 hearing aid battery and the meter functioned correctly. Of course I had already checked the manual control and found it within nominal limits.

So keep searching, go early after opening, check often and you'll have a better chance of a good find.