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Hello everybody, please can you help? I am sorting out my loft and have come across some old camera equipment. I have just given away a camera tripod to a person reuesting one on Freecyle but I also have an old technology Chinon CM4, which I presume is a bin job, however what I would like advise on are lenses. I have about half a dozen but shall just list a couple -
Hoya Skylight 1B HMC 52mm
Topman MC 1.3.5. f=200mm 100821
Do they have value?
Thank you
 
The first one sounds like a filter (thin bit of glass on the front of a lens). No idea about the value of old lenses myself, but if you post some pictures of them it might help people to give you a better estimate.
 
Thank you, will post some pictures. Is there an article on how to post photographs? I have taken a photo on my phone but when I try to download it, a pop up asks me to enter the URL of my image, I am not sure what that means.
 
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Just stick them on ebay starting value of 99p won't cost you anything to list so have nothing to loose.
 
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This is an image of one of my lenses. Details -
TOPMAN MC LENS 1.3.5 F=200MM 100821

I think you might have to go to my gallery to see it.
 
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Would need pictures of the front of the lens really (that will say what lens it is usually: focal length, aperture etc). Check ebay completed listings when you know what it is and that will give you an idea of prices. If the Chinon has a 50mm 1.4 lens on it it might sell for maybe £40 or £50 IF it's in good condition. A slower Chinon lens (1.7 or 1.9) would only sell for £10 or so. (I think Chinon is the same mount as Pentax?).
 
The couple I had (many years ago!) were M42 screw mount (as used by Pentax before they started using their bayonet mount). That example looks like a bayonet one but could be almost any of them - it might say somewhere on the mount what fitting it is, otherwise it may be a case of trial and error to see which system it fits. Be careful though - some mounts are very similar and will sort of fit but not properly...
 
The CM4 was a PK mount camera.
 
Chinon cameras were pentax screw mount (M42) upto and including the CM3 and CE3.
The CM4 and CE4 onwards were Pentax K mount.

Pentax had hoped that the K mount would become a "universal" bayonette mount in the same way that the M42 had been widely used.

A few manufacturers used the K mount or a variant of it; Chinon, Ricoh, Cosina, Vivitar and probably a few more
 
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