Your Great Garage Sale 35mm Find?

BobD · Jan 10, 2012

Steve Smith said:
What is really stupid is judging a whole country by the actions of a few of its citizens. There is an equal percentage of bad sellers in every country and it is probably a very low figure.

Steve.

It has nothing to do with any country. It has to do with eBay and it's rules. Again, you are making an assumption based on ignorance.

How long would you continue to have your merchandise stolen from you before you said, "Enough!" ?

Steve Smith · Jan 11, 2012

That's fair enough. What isn't fair is to assume that you will have problems with buyers and sellers in any other country but your own. That is clearly nonsense.

This is why I hate the words 'US only' on a sale just as much as someone else might hate seeing 'UK only' for an item. The reality is that it's easy to post to a different country and the chances of anything going wrong or for a buyer or seller to cause problems are equal domestically as they are overseas.

Steve.

John Austin · Jan 11, 2012

If junk yards and charity shops count I will add these two gems a $10 Vitessa from a junk yard in Manjimup and a $30 Retina from a Charity shop in England

I also have a Leica M2, but that was given to me free and has cost more in repair bills than a new one machined from a block of platinum

BobD · Jan 11, 2012

Steve Smith said:
That's fair enough. What isn't fair is to assume that you will have problems with buyers and sellers in any other country but your own. That is clearly nonsense.

Yet another statement based on ignorance. As I said it has nothing to do with any country but on how ebay operates. Yes, it is possible for anyone to steal but fraud prevention is far easier for sales kept in one's one country.

For example, when a theft or fraud has been committed on a domestic sale it can be referred to domestic police agencies. But, when such a crime is committed with an international sale the seller's options are drastically reduced. For all intents and purposes there is nothing a seller can do in such a case.

After a seller has lost his merchandise and money to such fraud a few times he/she tends to stop selling internationally and to laugh at the ignorant buyers who assume it is because the seller has something against their country.

nsurit · Jan 12, 2012

Although I've shipped all over the world without a problem, part of the problem in overseas shipments is filling out the paper work required and making a trip to the post office when they are open. I'm about two gallons of gas away from a post office. Items shipped in the USA can be dropped in the self mailing box when I'm in town for another reason. Small (inexpensive items) are not worth the trouble to ship overseas. Bill Barber

Steve Smith · Jan 12, 2012

That's the difference then. In the UK it makes no difference where the item is going, you have to take it to the post office regardless. Some countries need a customs declaration but that's just twenty seconds of writing on a small label.

Steve.

Chayelle · Jan 13, 2012

Pawn shops, yard sales, estate sales...
you all are truly inspiring me!

I must get out more...

John Koehrer · Jan 13, 2012

It is possible to do custom declarations and postage online through USPS.com. Then give it to your carrier or drop it in a mailbox.
No driving to the P.O. or waiting in line involved.
Shipping by Registered Mail has to be done in person.

John Austin · Jan 13, 2012

Klainmeister said:
Scored a FREE Canon FX with the 50mm 1.8, 35mm 2.5 and 135mm 2.5 FL lenses. Gonna go shoot it up this coming weekend.

Wow, what good veins you have!!

wblynch · Jan 16, 2012

Not many Garage sales are worried about overseas shipping....

darinwc · Jan 18, 2012

John Koehrer said:
It is possible to do custom declarations and postage online through USPS.com. Then give it to your carrier or drop it in a mailbox.
No driving to the P.O. or waiting in line involved.
Shipping by Registered Mail has to be done in person.

You cannot, however buy insurance on international items online. And you need the special clear plastic envolope for the customs form. You can order the envolopes from the usps. But I can never seem to find them when I need them.

darinwc · Jan 20, 2012

QL17 porn

darinwc said:
On a happier note, i just picked up a Canon QL17. My second one actually, but this one is not as clean. Good price, not great. However what motivated me to get it is that I was able to test the shutter. It works perfectly!
Many of the ones for sale online dont work well. And the QL17 is a real pain to fix.

Ah, heres some nice pics of it.

darinwc · Jan 20, 2012

jbaphoto said:
If junk yards and charity shops count I will add these two gems a $10 Vitessa from a junk yard in Manjimup and a $30 Retina from a Charity shop in England

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Oh that Vitessa is purdy! I wish I had one on my arm but I havent had the chance yet.

kitanikon · Feb 26, 2012

mx-450 monopod with walking stick top-knob and SLIK SBH-100DQ quick release ball head...25¢
...seems just fine to steady the camera when I find the shot, and me on long walks while looking for it...

Ric Trexell · Feb 26, 2012

Bought a Minolta 100-200mm for $5.

I just stopped at a thrift store on the way home from work and they had a Minolta 100-200mm/3.5 for $5.00. It is the Celtic brand so not the best of Minolta's lenses I hear. I haven't shot anything with it but it looks okay. They also had another camera there in a case but I don't need any more cameras and I didn't even look at what kind it was. I should stop in and see what kind it is at least. The zoom is my first zoom lense and although I have other lenses and really didn't need it, I just couldn't pass it up for $5. I suppose in its day it was a $200 lense, so why not? Ric.

Steve Roberts · Feb 28, 2012

This past weekend at an antiques fair, two Pentax LX bodies, one 50mm f1.4 SMC-A, one 24-35mm SMC zoom and one 35 mm f2.0 SMC - £50 the lot.
All because, as the vendor said, "No-one uses film any more."
Steve

WMRphoto · Feb 28, 2012

Steve Roberts said:
This past weekend at an antiques fair, two Pentax LX bodies, one 50mm f1.4 SMC-A, one 24-35mm SMC zoom and one 35 mm f2.0 SMC - £50 the lot.
All because, as the vendor said, "No-one uses film any more."
Steve

Wow!! That is a great score, you can pay for the lot by just selling the 50 1.4. I need to go shopping more!! Congrats!

Steve Roberts · Feb 29, 2012

WMRphoto said:
Wow!! That is a great score, you can pay for the lot by just selling the 50 1.4. I need to go shopping more!! Congrats!

Nearly caught myself out - playing around with the two LX bodies last night it was obvious that although in auto mode the meters were indicating exposures (in the ambient room light) of, say, 1/4 second, the actual exposure when I pressed the shutter was closer to a second. However, as it was the same on both and yet the manual exposure indication was fine, I thought it worth a bit of a surf before worrying too much.

The answer was obvious when I found it (no doubt many are ahead of me!). Because the LX measures the light falling on the film during the exposure, as soon as I pressed the shutter and the first blind opened the reading was being taken from the black surface of the pressure plate, not from either the grey unexposed emulsion of a film or from the grey front surface of the blind. Tonight's job is to load an unexposed film and see whether that makes a difference.

The info I found on the web is that that scenario can make 2 to 3 stops difference, but no-one seems to be able to explain how the metering copes with different shades of emulsion.

Steve

nickrapak · Dec 22, 2012

I found a working Olympus XA4 with A11 flash in the thrift store's junk 35mm bin. $1.50 plus tax.

Steve Smith · Dec 23, 2012

nickrapak said:
I found a working Olympus XA4 with A11 flash in the thrift store's junk 35mm bin. $1.50 plus tax.

Almost as good a deal as my XA4. £0.50 ($0.81) - but without the flash!

Steve.

Someonenameddavid · Dec 23, 2012

Nikon mania

I found a Black 65 series F with black Photomic T head, 50 I.4 S 28 f2 35 f2 55 3.5 Micro, 105 2.5 Sonnar type in lightly used condition for $275 glass is excellent. All but the 50 1.4 have been AI'd . The F is not a red dot unfortunately but was precision engineered to take the Photomic T head. The Micro Nikkor, 35 and 105 were precision engineered to AI by non Nikon engineers but the 28 is factory adapted. Not a collectors set. There also is the adapter plate for an F36 and the battery pack but no drive: so either I need a drive or someone want to trade something for a battery pack?

David

Steve Smith · Dec 23, 2012

Steve Roberts said:
All because, as the vendor said, "No-one uses film any more."

It's good that they don't!!

Steve.

Les Sarile · Dec 23, 2012

Steve Roberts said:
This past weekend at an antiques fair, two Pentax LX bodies, one 50mm f1.4 SMC-A, one 24-35mm SMC zoom and one 35 mm f2.0 SMC - £50 the lot.
All because, as the vendor said, "No-one uses film any more."
Steve

What a fantastic find!

Steve Roberts said:
The info I found on the web is that that scenario can make 2 to 3 stops difference, but no-one seems to be able to explain how the metering copes with different shades of emulsion.
Steve

Excerpt below from Modern Photography magazine's May 1976 review of the OM2 - first camera implementation of OTF (off the film) metering, that provides a comprehensive answer to this.

BTW, the LX's unassisted single metering range of EV -6.5 to EV 20 is unmatched by any camera past or present. Heck, I don't even know of an external meter that matches it. It also monitors the scene in realtime for changes in lighting and will vary exposure time - up or down, for as long as it takes or your battery is exhausted. There is no other camera that does this either - Pentax or any other brand.

gliderbee · Dec 23, 2012

Les Sarile said:
It also monitors the scene in realtime for changes in lighting and will vary exposure time - up or down, for as long as it takes or your battery is exhausted. There is no other camera that does this either - Pentax or any other brand.

The OM2 does the same thing, and afaik, was the first to do this. It can even do this with it's dedicated flashes (e.g. when other photogs fire their flashes during your exposure).

Stefan

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Les Sarile · Dec 23, 2012

You're correct that the OM2 was the first implementation - even though Canon and Minolta applied for patents first, and that it meters in realtime OTF. However, all Olympus are limited to 120 seconds max in their aperture priority autoexposure according to the manual as well as testing I have conducted with my OM2 and OM4. Please let me know if there is another camera that can meter for as long as it takes or battery is exhausted in aperture priority autoexposure as that is my main interest and knowing of another would be great! I started with the Canon EOS and they are all limited to 30 seconds and exposure is determined at the time the shutter is depressed.

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