Holga, Toy, Charity Shop, Car Boot and other Bargains (film only please)

They do it when out of stock , saves ending the listing and then paying to re list again when in stock
 
Strappy said:
Not quite a bargain ... the same seller has lots of 3-film lots at ridiculous prices. Anyone know why they'd do this? Is it some kind of SEO?
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A lot of sellers will do this if they're out of stock, I believe, because it's easier than withdrawing it from sale and re-listing it later. (Or at least, that's how I've seen it explained by other people)
 
Strappy said:
Not quite a bargain ... the same seller has lots of 3-film lots at ridiculous prices. Anyone know why they'd do this? Is it some kind of SEO?
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I've bought film from them before, he seemed fine so I expect it's purely an eBay manipulation as the guys above say.

What surprises me is how much people are prepared to pay for Vista, a few quid a roll it seems. Don't poundland deliver...
 
steveo_mcg said:
I've bought film from them before, he seemed fine so I expect it's purely an eBay manipulation as the guys above say.

What surprises me is how much people are prepared to pay for Vista, a few quid a roll it seems. Don't poundland deliver...
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If you look at the sold items they are £14.99 per pack still to much for a £1.00 film,but,when they are OOS they just bump the price untill stock is back in. I think it saves them re-listing fees. Sorry did not look above.
 
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My find today is a Konica FS-1 with a 40mm F1.8 lens in a leather case , The condition is very clean , I was skeptical as to whether it would work as it had no batteries fitted , Arrived home popped in 4 AA , Woo it works including the meter inside , It is quite heavy at 820 grams , No leakage in the battery holder either . Not cleaned it yet so it still has a coating of boot sale dust on it , All for a £5 note :cool:


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Excellent buy as the FS-1 is a decent camera and the 40mm is a good lens...well all Hexanon lenses are good. The fault with later Konicas is unreliable electronics and not forgetting the flimsy contacts in the battery holder.
 
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Slim pickings at car boot city yesterday. Although I did walk away with a Minolta Himatic AF2 for a fiver. It works fine. I love Minolta so I had to buy it.
 
I picked up a nice clean Kodak Colorsnap 35 for a fiver from a car boot on Saturday. Unfortunately I had to bin the top of the case as it was in a sorry state but the rest of it is fine. Nice smooth focus and aperture rings and the shutter *seems* to fire really well. Very clean inside too. Just waiting to get hold of some cheapo film so I can shoot a test roll and see if the old girl needs some TLC.
 
The nice Chinon 135\2.8 at the bootie was strange to me as I couldn't work out the mount, it didn't look like a Pentax and the little round pin that operates the iris was recessed inside h'mm anyway she wanted £4 and I said "do you want to get rid of it for £2" .....humming she said it's worth £4...well it's only an average prime for results so walked away.
 
Car boot bargains in my collection:

Olympus XA2 50p
Immaculate XA2 with A11 in it's jewel case £5
Immaculate Lubitel 166B with case and strap £3
Fujifilm Instax 100 £1
VGC SMC Pentax-M 28mm f/2.8 lens £3
Immaculate Kodak Box Brownie Flash III in case, with a slightly rough (for spares) Konica Auto S2, three disposables, and a few other bits for £5
Immaculate Kodak Brownie A44 loaded with found film of steam trains from the 1950s for £2
A VGC Agfa Isolette I with ... good bellows! For £4. Nice pocket (large pocket) MF camera.

Not car boot, but a certain online auction site, I recently procured a bundle of five SQ-AI film backs including dark slides for my Bronica, for £27 plus tenner p & p.

Taken some cool photos recently with expired disposables, and cross processed in B/W.

The XA2 for 50p became a project. Using budget film (mainly Poundland), I created this 50p camera photo gallery on Flickr.
 
Excellent XA2 project well done....I too try to promote "everyone should try film" on mainly digital forums by posting shots of a bootie Nikon compact for 50p with bootie Kodak colorplus for 10p...and dev and scan at Asda the total price would be £3.60 (y)
 
Paul, that's an amazing haul. I'm particularly jealous of the Pentax-M lens; I'd like to get a faster 28mm!

As Brian says, the XA2 project is excellent. Interesting colour sometimes; some Vista seems to come out like that, some more natural. Not sure if the camera optics have anything to do with it, or whether its batch differences? Anyway, you've obviously had a lot of fun with some of those shots, and there are some real crackers there.
 
Thanks both. I've almost totally given up on C-41 these days, so either been running the XA2 with FirstCall (Agfa Gervaert) 400S budget b/w film, or cross processing Poundland AgfaPhoto with b/w chemistry. I've not been getting great results, and that combined with problems on my 35mm SLRs is driving me more to medium format. Still, I carry the XA2 almost everywhere!
 
Good day at the bootie buying things I don't need only cos they were cheap :rolleyes: Anyway a guy had three dev tanks for 50p each, anyway thinking of newbies on this forum I bought one, so if anyone wants it for 50p + £2.80 postage they are welcome..it's the paterson universal (one with the red rim) and can take up to 220 film....looking in the inside and I don't think it's ever been used but the outside doesn't look mint.
 
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Never been to a Car Boot Sale, perhaps I should?
 
Jao said:
Never been to a Car Boot Sale, perhaps I should?
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You should esp if a home owner and have kids etc as I don't specifically go for camera gear and get many other useful things...but today I couldn't resist a mint Praktica TL5B, with 50mm and the 135mm 3.5 Sonnar lens (even though I already have one)....and the Tamron 80-210 was useful as it came with a PK adapter (which I didn't have).....erm now I have two Tamron 103a wish it was a SP version. :rolleyes:
 
I've been looking for some storage bottles for my dev chemicals and didn't fancy paying £23+ for three 'official' collapsible ones. Just found these on eBay which look like a good deal at £8.99 for 5:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-X-1-Lit...ural_AlternativeTherapies&hash=item3cd0b46c27

I recently bought some cleaning alcohol from this eBay shop and the service was excellent.

Or you could buy bottles of Sainsbury's basics 1 litre bubble bath @ 45p each, like I did...and spend an hour trying to clean them out!
 
I was walking past the media services room in work about half an hour ago. There was a table outside with a "Free stuff, please take" notice. Ok, I will have that three-reel patterson tank with all 3 reels in it. Now that's my kind of bargain :)
 
An old lady at my mother's knitting group said she had a Minolta camera for me, that her daughter had been given and forgotten about for years. I was hoping for a nice SRT, but I guess I shouldn't be ungrateful for a free camera ;-)

Minolta Dynax 7000i, which I gather was quite swish in 1989, but kinda duplicates the shiny-black-plastic role that my Nikon F601 is taking. The lenses look quite nice - Sigma 35-70 f3.5-4 and Sigma 70-200 f4-5.6.

Just have to get a battery for it now. Typically, it's a kind I don't have. Camera manufacturers really like to play the field, battery-wise, don't they?

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For those of you near Oxford - Oxfam on Broad Street is doing their camera clearout from today. A couple of nice things for sale, and their prices are reasonable. I picked up a Pentax 135mm f3.5 for £18 and an official M42 -> K mount adapter for £2!
 
Today bought thirteen OOD rolls of mainly Kodak gold + with some Jessops Diamond, all for £2, and because of CRAB bought a mint OM10 kit with manual adapter, two Zuiko zoom lenses, camera case, eyepiece, receipts, hoods etc......amazing as I threw away a working OM10 because I hated it for letting me down once:eek::rolleyes:o_O Next the OM20 goes in the bin.

Also at the bootie was a camera I've never heard of Firstflex TLR
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Firstflex
 
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Turned down on an offer for a Kodak Box Brownie 620. Checked it over, seemed sound (I've a few working box cameras), and had an empty 620 spindle (I've a few already). The seller wanted four quid. I offered two quid. Turned down, walked away...
 
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Turned down on an offer for a Kodak Box Brownie 620. Checked it over, seemed sound (I've a few working box cameras), and had an empty 620 spindle (I've a few already). The seller wanted four quid. I offered two quid. Turned down, walked away...
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Some sellers are out of touch.... in another bootsale a seller wanted £50 for AE1 with 50mm lens and it might have needed a battery as it wasn't working :rolleyes: (n)
 
Today I picked up a contact printing frame and some tongs for a fiver from a lady who'd just stared which led to an interesting conversation with a chap who used to do film stuff in the past. He sold me a big ass brass lens for which I've no immediate use (£2) but I'm sure I'll find one; I directed him down to another stall where someone was selling a decent looking Om1 if only to stop me owning another OM...
 
At the bootie I was glad the foreign lady was phoning her son about info on a Prinzflex lens, and said to me in broken English "it's Russian" Huh? Well why she was phoning I bought the mint Tokina 24mm f2.8 she also had her eye on...he who dares wins ;)
.............and another 24mm lens I don't need :D
 
steveo_mcg said:
Today I picked up a contact printing frame and some tongs for a fiver from a lady who'd just stared which led to an interesting conversation with a chap who used to do film stuff in the past. He sold me a big ass brass lens for which I've no immediate use (£2) but I'm sure I'll find one; I directed him down to another stall where someone was selling a decent looking Om1 if only to stop me owning another OM...
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Last week a guy just beat me to a pro film light box for £10 (mind you I would have haggled for about £6)....but thinking I suppose it would be easy to make a home made one, but never thought of doing it.
 
I'm now officially the 'guy who collects old cameras' at work, and as a result was today given a Yashica FX3 with 50mm, 28mm and 70-200 zoom, flash and bag. The covering on the camera is in pretty terrible condition although I understand this to be normal with these. After reading online about the Zeiss lenses you can get on this mount I got quite excited but it seems the shutter sticks. The mirror has also moved into range of fouling with the lens barrel although I hear this can be resolved with a hair dryer.

EDIT: It also came with some Superia 200 and Kodak VR 200 film that expired in 2001 and 2005 respectively.
 
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Had a good day today, if you ignore the 4 page MOT failure, got a MJU II for a fiver from a charity shop looks to be pretty mint. I can see why they go for so much money I didn't realise just how small they were even compared to a Canon contemporary.

Also remembered I got a Lomo Fisheye One the other day. Not had the results back yet but so far I'm a little unimpressed. Full review later and depending on the images possibly a FS thread...
 
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so my latest haul from the bootsale is one patterson 3 reel tank and 3 reels for 3quid and he threw in a load of papers so now have a wedge of darkroom papers to play with . on other news tbe guy also had a load of darkroom kit for sale so if anyone needs an enlarger or frame let me know n i will pass his contact info over he is in south wales
 
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