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

Hi all, new to the forum. Found this fella in a local charity shop....

Goldammer Goldeck IV ...



First test roll currently away for developing. My first go at medium format as well so I'm hoping it's in decent order. I'll hopefully be posting some shots soon!!
 
Sproston Green said:
Hi all, new to the forum. Found this fella in a local charity shop....

Goldammer Goldeck IV ...



First test roll currently away for developing. My first go at medium format as well so I'm hoping it's in decent order. I'll hopefully be posting some shots soon!!
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Welcome to the best bit of the TP forum, be sure to post up some of the results when you get them.
 
I don't think that it was that much of a car boot bargain okay though! Today at a car boot I bought a Pentax Spotmatic SP500 35mm SLR, an Agfa Isolette I folding camera, and a Weston Master II light meter. All three were VGC with their leather cases also intact and in good condition. Price - more than I'd normally pay, but I was hankering for a Spotmatic, and although I have a working Isolette I I couldn't resist this one in its leather case. I paid Thirty Quid.

The Agfa looks okay - my last Isolette was fine, even the bellows, although I think they are just now starting to leak - so see how this one works.

The Spotmatic is beautiful. I've put a test 400S through it, just developed it and it is now drying - but the wet negs look promising. It included a Super-Takumar 55mm f/1.2 lens protected with a sky filter. I've fitted a cheap Lr41 battery for now, but I've ordered some better batteries online.

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Aren't those lovely? Maybe I should get a Spotmatic again? I last bought one in early 1975, AFAICR, a (now) very rare black Electro Spotmatic (not ES). Supposedly only sold in Japan, I bought it in Hong Kong. No idea where it went in the end, after I got my ME...
 
I have had a couple of bargains from Cash Generator, the Edixa-Mat Kadette with Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Lydith 30mm f3.5 and bag of stuff (135mm lens, flash guns, meters, extension tubes and filters) for £19.99. I also bought a Canon EOS 3000N for £9.99 complete with Canon 28-90mm EF II lens.

From Cash Convertors I got a Nikon F55 with Nikon 28-80mm AF-G for £25, days later I was given an F50 with a Nikon 35-80 AF-D and a Praktica BX20 kit which was slightly different from the one I'd owned since the 80's. It has a 35-80mm zoom and a hinged battery cover, my other one had to be taped on. Also after a gap of many years, I had forgotten to set the camera to B when loading film and the 50mm f1.8 that came with my original body no longer meters. Be warned.

From eBay I have bought mainly Canons. I bought two Canon EOS' a 650 and a 5000 for 99p each from the same seller with £5 postage on each. He sent them together and it cost him £11 so I effectively paid 98p for the cameras. I then paid £19 for an EOS RT with a Canon 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 EF. I paid £10 for a Sigma 28-80mm to find it only works on pre-90's EOS cameras. I bought a 500N with a Tamron 28-80mm 177D for £15.01, then a couple of days later, a 300x body for £6. This week I bought a Canon FT QL which was supposed to arrive today, make that yesterday, just noticed the time. I also got a Yashica Minister D.

In charity shops, flea markets and car boots I have mainly had compacts, the odd flash gun, a Miranda MS-2 Super for £10 with Miranda 35-80mm, a Kodak Coloursnap 35, which had a Boots Colour film in it, the cassette was rusty so I binned it.

My best charity shop buy was at the British Heart Foundation, who always overcharge. I saw two camera cases in the cabinet a Minolta ERC and a LowePro zoom case both priced at £25. I opened the LowePro one and inside was an F75 with a Nikon 28-100mm AF-G lens. Then I noticed the broken battery door, bargaining mode kicked in. I said I wasn't prepared to pay more than £10 as it might cost £20 to get it fixed. She went and asked and I got it. I borrowed the door off the F55 until I get a replacement. It's compatible with all of my Nikon lenses, even the VR ones. The Minolta was a 7000.
 
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Hello Steve and welcome to TP and F&C! I'd never heard about that first camera or lens, can you tell us more? You're clearly a man with an eye for a bargain.
 
My copy of the 30mm Lydith was razor sharp, only had it briefly as I sent it back to the seller as the focusing needed mole grips....stupid of me sending it back as I could have greased it myself and it was only £8 off the bay.
 
This is the camera, it's very similar to the Edixa Reflex. I believe it was the budget version. It has shutter speeds of 1/30 - 1/500 and B and everything seems to be ok apart from a dusty viewfinder.

The lens, I have seen has been referred to as having a cult following. It has been rebadged as Pentacon more recently I'll let you know if I drink the kool-ade (if that's how you spell it?).

The camera has the interchangeable viewfinders and focussing screens and I would love a split screen for it. Rocky Cameras have several waist level finders for under a tenner so I may get one of those to add to it.

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The other lens in the bag I can't find anything on. It's a (Sigma?) Photopia 135mm f3.5. I say Sigma because it has the letter for sigma in front of the serial number. Has anyone on here got any info on this? Thanks.
 
My aunt is an inveterate car-booter. She got me this for £2, along with a flash, pouch, some cheap films, the original box, and most important of all, three mercury cells that seem to be working, so it won't cost me £5 to find out whether the camera is worth the effort. I do like the look of it, though - I'm sure Olympus did too, when they saw it. :P

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At the bootie it's all luck and it's so annoying when someone buys something you want down to seconds before you, anyway my luck was in today when this guy was handling a Canon FL 19mm f3.5 R lens and he said "how much"....answer "£10" and he put it down:rolleyes: well you can guess the rest (y)(y)(y)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=canon fl 19mm 3.5 r&biw=1440&bih=739&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LK0eVKOxFuWC7gbx04HYAw&ved=0CHEQsAQ
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Now that might even tempt me to buy a Canon.
 
....works on a T70 :D The lens has a handy auto/manual switch so once you have set your aperture manually i.e. f-stop for exposure, you can focus WO then flip the switch to your preselected F stop to take your shot. h'mm but the lens has such a depth of field there is not much focusing to be done ;)
 
excalibur2 said:
At the bootie it's all luck and it's so annoying when someone buys something you want down to seconds before you, anyway my luck was in today when this guy was handling a Canon FL 19mm f3.5 R lens and he said "how much"....answer "£10" and he put it down:rolleyes: well you can guess the rest (y)(y)(y)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=canon fl 19mm 3.5 r&biw=1440&bih=739&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LK0eVKOxFuWC7gbx04HYAw&ved=0CHEQsAQ
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Good find Brian, a rare and excellent lens! Stunning buy for a tenner!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Canon-FL-...=UK_Lenses_Filters_Lenses&hash=item3ce7aa2267
 
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excalibur2 said:
At the bootie it's all luck and it's so annoying when someone buys something you want down to seconds before you
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I hate it when I see something, decide I definitely don't want it, then find out it's not there when I go back for it later!


Steve.
 
Steve Smith said:
I hate it when I see something, decide I definitely don't want it, then find out it's not there when I go back for it later!


Steve.
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That happened to me today as well.....a seller had a well made as new, long, 400mm lens complete with tripod mount and it was a sunagor well I thought Nah! I'll never use it and "Sunagor" h'mm so didn't bother asking the price...anyway 2nd time around the stalls thought I'd offer a fiver for it and it had gone.
 
XA2inmypocket said:
I don't think that it was that much of a car boot bargain okay though! Today at a car boot I bought a Pentax Spotmatic SP500 35mm SLR, an Agfa Isolette I folding camera, and a Weston Master II light meter. All three were VGC with their leather cases also intact and in good condition. Price - more than I'd normally pay, but I was hankering for a Spotmatic, and although I have a working Isolette I I couldn't resist this one in its leather case. I paid Thirty Quid.

The Agfa looks okay - my last Isolette was fine, even the bellows, although I think they are just now starting to leak - so see how this one works.

The Spotmatic is beautiful. I've put a test 400S through it, just developed it and it is now drying - but the wet negs look promising. It included a Super-Takumar 55mm f/1.2 lens protected with a sky filter. I've fitted a cheap Lr41 battery for now, but I've ordered some better batteries online.

Apologies for the digital images below - I'll remove them if they contradict any dogma:

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I too have an Isolette I. I have never put any film through mine but the shutter works fine on all speeds. I haven't checked the bellows for light leaks yet either.
 
Hi, I got a job lot box of camera stuff from a charity shop for £50 today. It contained:
Minolta X-300 & 50mm f1.7
RMC Tokina 80-200mm f4.5
Jenaflex Minolta dedicated flash
Canon EOS 5000 & 38-76mm EF
Canon 80-200mm EF II
Zenit 11 & Helios 58mm f2 44/4, manual & warranty card
Helios 3x Auto Teleconvertor
Helios Flash
Helios case
Ilford Envoy
Halina 110
Fuji APS
Olympus Trip compact
Nikon Coolpix 995
Vivitar 5.1MP Compact
Pink Avon digital camera
8mm film splicer
Sony Handycam CCD-TR718E

I'll apologise in advance for mentioning the digital cameras. Coincidentally I had been looking at the Minolta X-300 and needed an 80-200mm for my EOS cameras. I have eight now, all 35mm, but only standard kit lenses.
 
Looks like a good box of interesting kit.

Seems like Brian may have found a bargain-hunting rival. :D
 
Andysnap said:
Looks like a good box of interesting kit.

Seems like Brian may have found a bargain-hunting rival. :D
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Wish I could get everything for peanuts Andy as I just had to pay £71 for a 50mm ETR lens :(
 
excalibur2 said:
Wish I could get everything for peanuts Andy as I just had to pay £71 for a 50mm ETR lens :(
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Blimey Brian, you could have bought an F100 for that!
 
RaglanSurf said:
Blimey Brian, you could have bought an F100 for that!
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Well Nick I did try to get a F100 for peanuts but had to settle for a F90x with Nikkor 50mm F mount lens for £10...dunno why the seller stuck this lens on as some say it can damage modern Nikons, anyway the camera works OK (with AF lenses) and am pleased with it.
 
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Just received an Adaptall 2 - MD adapter from ebay. It was 99p & £2.50 postage.

My Canon FT QL arrived too, with the battery cover missing. I contacted the seller and she found it under her packing table and is sending it on.
 
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Ooops. Accidentally bought a yashica mat TLR in Auction for £40....I was going to get another Automat but I spotted this at the last moment...
 
I had better avoid looking at the uber auction that is going on tomorrow. Mr @RaglanSurf mentioned actually attending in his actual person it looked that good!
 
Nice FT....my Minolta SRT10b has a dent in the pentaprism housing also but works OK.
About 5 years ago I bought the FTB with 28mm, 135mm and 50mm lenses for £10, the FTB needed a service as the wind on had practically seized anyway did a home service with the oil can but it wasn't good enough as after a few uses the stiff wind on broke the mechanism inside:arghh: ....another camera for spare screws.
 
That was a bargain just for the lenses. You could sell the top plate and parts on eBay. I've seen FT top plates for sale, but only before I bought a camera with a dented one
 
srichards said:
I had better avoid looking at the uber auction that is going on tomorrow. Mr @RaglanSurf mentioned actually attending in his actual person it looked that good!
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Yeah, thanks Suz, I'm now the proud owner of hundreds of pounds worth of photographic equipment I neither wanted nor needed.

Keep an eye on the classifieds, there'll be a whole list of bargains for sale very, very soon.
 
RaglanSurf said:
Yeah, thanks Suz, I'm now the proud owner of hundreds of pounds worth of photographic equipment I neither wanted nor needed.

Keep an eye on the classifieds, there'll be a whole list of bargains for sale very, very soon.
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But they're shiny!
 
Why would you buy stuff you didn't want?! You hooley'd an auction ;)

I did see the box of Dynax cameras went for about £40 and nearly chewed the desk in annoyance. I totally forgot about it until it was nearly over.
 
RaglanSurf said:
Yeah, thanks Suz, I'm now the proud owner of hundreds of pounds worth of photographic equipment I neither wanted nor needed.

Keep an eye on the classifieds, there'll be a whole list of bargains for sale very, very soon.
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There were some great lots up for grabs - were the realised prices near the estimates on most of the lots? (they haven't published realised prices yet)
 
freecom2 said:
There were some great lots up for grabs - were the realised prices near the estimates on most of the lots? (they haven't published realised prices yet)
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Most went for well over the estimates, the stuff I had originally earmarked as interesting shot waay over what I was prepared to pay. Not to say there weren't bargains to be had but nothing really went for peanuts. Having sat through this auction one thing I'd recommend is to go to the auction in person unless you're 100% satisfied of the condition of the stuff you want to buy.
 
RaglanSurf said:
Most went for well over the estimates, the stuff I had originally earmarked as interesting shot waay over what I was prepared to pay. Not to say there weren't bargains to be had but nothing really went for peanuts. Having sat through this auction one thing I'd recommend is to go to the auction in person unless you're 100% satisfied of the condition of the stuff you want to buy.
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With smartphones and eBay completed listings, people are probably pretty clued in to the true value of most of the lots (the estimates did seem rather low on some of them).
 
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