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Your reward will be in heaven.Some charity shops have forgotten that there is supposed to be a circle of virtue in which everybody benefits.
If they charge e-bay prices where is my benefit?
Your reward will be in heaven.Some charity shops have forgotten that there is supposed to be a circle of virtue in which everybody benefits.
If they charge e-bay prices where is my benefit?
Your reward will be in heaven.
I went to a couple of car boot sales today and completely struck out. The only cameras I found were APS and even know I like bulk loading odd ebay films, I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole of working out how to hand roll APS film, I did that with 110 and 16mm subminiature cameras, too much time. I did hit a few charity shops and found this for 50p.
A lot of the SLR's I shoot feel a lot like shooting digital and don't slow me down, as people often say with film. It's always fun to shoot toy cameras and oddities as they feel different and the images they produce range from questionable/kind of interesting to yeah I kind of like that.
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Car boot sale find. I've never shot one of the pop series and from the look and feel it very much feels like a cheap point and shoot, but it was 50p and I've always liked Hexanon branded slr lenses.
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I seem to recall those go for a few quid on eBay, especially the red ones, so if you don't like it then you can probably turn a good profit on it.Car boot sale find. I've never shot one of the pop series and from the look and feel it very much feels like a cheap point and shoot, but it was 50p and I've always liked Hexanon branded slr lenses.
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I had one of those (I might still have it somewhere in fact). The battery compartment on mine was corroded making normal use impossible, but I found out that, as it has a fixed shutter speed, by using various ASA settings and having the flash switch on or off, you can control the aperture manually and effectively use it with Sunny 16 settings.
I only ever shot one roll through it due to the faff involved, but it was nice and sharp.
I seem to recall those go for a few quid on eBay, especially the red ones, so if you don't like it then you can probably turn a good profit on it.
I seem to recall those go for a few quid on eBay, especially the red ones, so if you don't like it then you can probably turn a good profit on it.
Looks like they sell for £30-£50 . . .
I have a Yashica T4 that I bought for 50p. I really must get around to developing the test roll, before the bottom falls out of the Hipster Point And Shoot market.
Another £1 find (Canon AF35M), needs a bit of a clean but fully working. Anyway f2.8/AF/Manual ISO in a point and shoot is always nice.
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Another £1 find (Canon AF35M), needs a bit of a clean but fully working. Anyway f2.8/AF/Manual ISO in a point and shoot is always nice.
Saw a Gnome pixie at the bootie and immediately thought h'mm now who would be the sort of member that would use and enjoy it...well fishy fish is into Holga it could be him
Hi Lindsay, I've only ever sold a couple of my cameras and they were ones I had multiples of. When I got mine off eBay there were a couple of others on there too. Including one black bodied one for $85.@Manwithacam Steve, if you get to a point where you want to re-sell the MZ-3, please drop me a line. I'd like to add one to my Pentax collection, especially as it's the last model I used actively before going digital. I have an MZ-5 that works nicely, but the 3 is a little smaller and I was chuffed with it when I got it - shame I sold mine when I lapsed interest in photography for a few years.
Today I added a Voigtländer Bessa I to the collection. It came complete with case, and when I opened it to check to see if the 6x4 plate was in place, which was, I found a roll of Crumière Super Aviachrom Ortho which appears to be unexposed.
The film has Début/Start on the backing paper making me think it has never been used and wound on.View attachment 257002View attachment 257003
There are adverts between 1935 and 1969 for this film though I believe the camera was only made between 1950 and 57. The film has no indication of it's speed. What I have seen in the adverts is just marked 28° which equates to 500ISO.
Perhaps a 'test roll' kept to run through cameras to check everything was working as it should? I'm sure most of us have such a roll in 35mm for testing 'new' cameras.After taking a closer look at the film it turned out to be all backing paper. I didn't think there seemed to be much on the roll and there was none at all [emoji1]. At least I don't have to worry about what speed to shoot it at.
I wonder if the previous owner kept a roll of backing paper from each film he shot as there was a roll of exposed Ektachrome in the cabinet where the camera was, that I'm now thinking could be backing paper.