Your Great Garage Sale 35mm Find?

Joe Grodis · Feb 10, 2010

My local flea market has been "Very" generous with camera gear! So far I found A Speed Graphic ($130, Kodak retina I & II ($10 ea, Fijica 35-EE ($10), Agfa Karrot ($20), Kodak 35 RF ($15), and a Very sweet and rare Edinex.

maderik · Feb 10, 2010

A local organization was clearing out it's basement and found a box of old loaner cameras. The following cost me a grand total $60 donation: Nikon FE2 w/Nikkor 24mm/f.2.8, Nikon FM2(n) w/50mm 1.8 series E, Minolta X-370 w/50mm f/1.7. Pentax K1000 w/50mm f/2. Chinon CM-4 w/50mm f/1.9, 35mm f/2.8 & 135mm f/2.8. 3x Vivitar 283 flashes (with intact hot shoes!) And the usual junky zooms (which I had to take as it was a single lot. Anybody have a good suggestion for things like a Sears 28-200mm MD-mount lens with lots of internal dust?)

Paul Goutiere · Feb 10, 2010

Contax IIIA, 50mm Opton 1.5, 35mm Biogon and finder. Spotmatic II with yellowing 50mm f1.4. Takumar.

Rick A · Feb 10, 2010

A Sears 500MX with a f2.0/50mm and a f2.8/135mm in good working condition with owners manuals and cases in a nice naugahide shoulder bag. Bought at a thrift shop for $4. Also a Petri TTL with f1.8/55mm and a Kotaishi f4.5/80-200mm zoom also Telesor 2x teleconverte given to me (someone set it on my porch with a note telling me to 'enjoy'. The Sears gear is rebadged Ricoh. It all works great, and I am havin' fun.

Rick

Roger Thoms · Feb 11, 2010

ralnphot said:
A Sears 500MX with a f2.0/50mm and a f2.8/135mm in good working condition with owners manuals and cases in a nice naugahyde shoulder bag. Bought at a thrift shop for $4. Also a Petri TTL with f1.8/55mm and a Kotaishi f4.5/80-200mm zoom also Telesor 2x teleconverter given to me (someone set it on my porch with a note telling me to 'enjoy'. The Sears gear is rebadged Ricoh. It all works great, and I am havin' fun.

Rick

Cool, for some funny reason I would love to have a Sears camera.

Roger

Rick A · Feb 11, 2010

rtbadman said:
Cool, for some funny reason I would love to have a Sears camera.

Roger

You can see it in M-42 group. The Petriis the crazy one. The shutter release is on the front of the body, not on top. Also the lenses focus backward from all my other lenses, and the Zoom not only focuses reverse, but zooms the wrong way.

Rick

Pompiere · Feb 12, 2010

Olympus Infinity SuperZoom 330. All the features of a compact point & Shoot, all the weight and bulk of a digital SLR. But it was only $3 at Goodwill, so I will have some fun with it.

darinwc · Feb 14, 2010

At this point I have too many fun cameras to need to buy these. And I see many of this class of camera at the thrift store.
Whoever thought of making a P&S camera bigger needs a swift kick.

leicarfcam · Feb 14, 2010

Minolta SRT-102 with 50mm f/1.7 Rokkor-PF today at a local flea market. $5

Seller said the meter was inop. Got it home and put in a new battery and the meter powers up and looks to be reasonably accurate. I'll have to convert it to use silver oxide cells now..

Uncle Goose · Feb 15, 2010

few months ago I saw a Minolta XG2 without lens but with bodycap on a table on a flea-market. I didn't need it but because I like Minolta gear I picked it up and I saw it was in very nice condition, hardly used. The lady who ran the stall said she didn't know it worked or not but she was asking only 1euro!! So I figured that the bodycap alone was worth that price. I also noticed that the mirror was halfway up and remembered to have read somewhere that this happens when the batteries die when you fire the camera. So at home I removed the slightly leaking batteries, cleaned the battery compartment and popped in 2 fresh ones and bingo, it was working like it was brand new. Not bad for 1 measly Euro.

removed-user-1 · Feb 15, 2010

Something I recently stumbled across that may interest those of us who read threads like this one. Goodwill now has an auction site of their own, and it seems to list cameras in Goodwill stores all over the US. I was wondering why I almost never see cameras in Goodwill anymore. Looks like there are some deals to be had...

I recently paid $20 in an antique shop for an almost-mint Mamiya-Sekor 50mm f/3.5 E Macro lens, with matching 1:1 extension. It was in a box full of slide projector lenses (which, thankfully, I did not have to buy as well). Needed a cleaning - and now I need a camera to use it on.

Dennis S · Feb 15, 2010

Goodwill now has an auction site /QUOTE]
I have been dealing with them for several years now. I have obtained a few fine lenses. The description of the condition of some of the lenses varies from store to store but it is an honest appraisal. Sometimes they only ship with UPS which can get quite expensive since I live in a different country.

Dennis S · Feb 15, 2010

OH now GREAT they no longer ship internationally !!! Seattle GW anyway. As if Canada is soooo far away.

mjs · Feb 16, 2010

dances_w_clouds said:
OH now GREAT they no longer ship internationally !!! Seattle GW anyway. As if Canada is soooo far away.

They're just jealous. Maybe you could rent a PO box across the border?

Mainecoonmaniac · Feb 16, 2010

I found an Minolta SRT, 50mm 1.4 and a 135mm lens with a pouch for $14 at a local thrift store. Keep in mind this was before the recession. Since then, finds in other house hold items are much tougher to be had.

Ektagraphic · Feb 16, 2010

My whole darkroom setup. Wasn't exactly a sale because he just gave it to me but close. It was in a garage

Brian Legge · Feb 16, 2010

My first 'the one that got away'? An unlabeled camera grab bag on Goodwills online site yesterday. Looking at the fuzzy pictures, there were a pair of Canonets (17 and 28) in it along with a bunch of less interesting cameras. It went for $20.

Roger Thoms · Feb 16, 2010

Brian Legge said:
My first 'the one that got away'? An unlabeled camera grab bag on Goodwills online site yesterday. Looking at the fuzzy pictures, there were a pair of Canonets (17 and 28) in it along with a bunch of less interesting cameras. It went for $20.

Yeah I saw that one too, it was temping, but I was worried that it was just away for Goodwill to dump non functioning cameras.

Roger

Christopher Walrath · Feb 16, 2010

Posted wirelessly..

Might as well have been. Got an as-is sr-T101 for $5+ s/h from sleezebay. Hot shoe bustitated. Shutter would not advance. Timer would not cycle through. Took a paper clip and worked it into the shutter cable port, ratcheted the film crank a couple of times. Good as new. Excepting the hot shoe and the timer of course. Could care less.

Marc Akemann · Feb 16, 2010

A friend tipped me off to a black Minolta Hi-Matic 7s at a newly opened consignment store (year-round multi-family garage sale w/business hours) in the area. So I picked it up and, for $25, it was pretty nice. However, I opened my big mouth by calling my friend to thank him and to give him a more complete rundown of the camera since he just gave it a quick look when he saw it. I also asked if he was sure he wanted to pass on it. Well, now he wants it. But that's okay. I'll drop it off tomorrow. In the meantime, I took a few of pics of it (one is attached here).

-Marc

BobD · Feb 16, 2010

FilmSprocket said:
A friend tipped me off to a black Minolta Hi-Matic 7s at a newly opened consignment store (year-round multi-family garage sale w/business hours) in the area. So I picked it up and, for $25, it was pretty nice. However, I opened my big mouth by calling my friend to thank him and to give him a more complete rundown of the camera since he just gave it a quick look when he saw it. I also asked if he was sure he wanted to pass on it. Well, now he wants it. But that's okay. I'll drop it off tomorrow. In the meantime, I took a few of pics of it (one is attached here).

-Marc

That's a beauty!

Roger Thoms · Feb 16, 2010

FilmSprocket said:
A friend tipped me off to a black Minolta Hi-Matic 7s at a newly opened consignment store (year-round multi-family garage sale w/business hours) in the area. So I picked it up and, for $25, it was pretty nice. However, I opened my big mouth by calling my friend to thank him and to give him a more complete rundown of the camera since he just gave it a quick look when he saw it. I also asked if he was sure he wanted to pass on it. Well, now he wants it. But that's okay. I'll drop it off tomorrow. In the meantime, I took a few of pics of it (one is attached here).

-Marc

This would be a great time to test your friendship. Keep the camera. All kidding aside, I would ask your friend for first right of refusal if he decides to get rid of the camera. I just got a Minolta AL-F which is similar model and it's a great camera. I really like these Japanese rangefinders.

Roger

Roger

Marc Akemann · Feb 17, 2010

BobD said:
That's a beauty!

It sure is, Bob!

rtbadman said:
This would be a great time to test your friendship. Keep the camera. All kidding aside, I would ask your friend for first right of refusal if he decides to get rid of the camera. I just got a Minolta AL-F which is similar model and it's a great camera. I really like these Japanese rangefinders.

Roger

Roger

Testing the friendship would be kind of interesting because as I'm testing him by keeping the camera, I would be the one failing the test. Now if this was a black Nikon SP, I would flunk big time.
On the other hand, I'm actually selling off most of my 35mm stuff so I won't miss the 7s, nice as it is. And yes, your AL-F is a great shooter, too, Roger.

-Marc

kameranerd.com · Feb 17, 2010

A friend of me visited me the other day, he started searching thru my shelf of old cameras. He picked out a camera i remember i bought in a second hand store for about $40. I had never heard of that camera before, it was a Neoca 35 Super with 45mm 2.8 Zunow lens. The shutter was stuck so i gave it a CLA, i've just tested it, it take's razor sharp pictures. And a search on ebay showed it goes for $1000++ I have also bought a Leica 135mm uncoated lens for $10. Cannon Pellix with 58mm 1.2 for $50.

Kent

TomMessenger · Mar 8, 2010

On Saturday I got a near mint Zenit 11 and very clean ever-ready case for £5, with not a mark on the glass. Also, my new favourite, the Olympus Trip 35 for £2 and a Kodak Brownie for £1. In the past I've bought a very good Canon AE-1 Program and FD 50 1.8 for £20, and a mint FD 135mm which I love for another £20.

I found the apertures were very sticky on the Olympus Trip as seems quite common, so I followed a great guide I found through google and got them unstuck. Now it works lovely

Tom

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