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[Ambermile]

Yesterday, my Canon Demi arrived. It was in a sorry state with a seized shutter, crud everywhere, glue for seals... spent a few hours on and off with it today and now it's ready for some tests in the week (hence the film cutting session!)

Earlier in the week, I bought a "Yashica 35mm camera with 45mm f/2.8 lens" unseen for £10 and it arrived also. I had actually expected an IC maybe but this is what was in the box (and all perfect, I have done nothing to it)

Fer chrissake don't tell the wife... :nono:

 

[ujjwaldey8165]

Arthur...whats your phone number again. I need to talk to Mrs. Ambermile.....

 

[Ambermile]

... and you know I got that Taron Wide and Tele adapter set in 46mm with the flash shoe finder... dead fit on the YL

 

[pepper]

LOL I sold a mint Canon Demi the other week and bought a Konica FS-1 for £25 this week, mainly because of the lens.

I will have a play and probably sell it back on again.

 

[ujjwaldey8165]

ha ha ha ..arthur...I am not Jealous at all....

In fact I am thinking of selling up my whole collection....just listed a Jupiter 8 on the ebay ( along with a darned teak wood sofa that the dear lady is so desperate to get rid off)

 

[Ambermile]

LOL I sold a mint Canon Demi the other week and bought a Konica FS-1 for £25 this week, mainly because of the lens.

£25? I bought another TX with a Hexagon AR 50 f/1.7 for £5

Also got a very nice Fujicarex coming...

ha ha ha ..arthur...I am not Jealous at all....

In fact I am thinking of selling up my whole collection....just listed a Jupiter 8 on the ebay ( along with a darned teak wood sofa that the dear lady is so desperate to get rid off)

Demi as I bought it...

Keep thinking about your old Bronny Ujjwal... dammit!

 

[ujjwaldey8165]

Nah...you should get the hassy....now thats the lens....

 

[Ambermile]

If I could afford one of those I'd get a decent 35mm instead...

anyway, aforementioned Fujicarex II on the way, bit of a fixer-upper no?

 

[pepper]

It didn't go for that much more £38 plus postage.

 

[Ambermile]

I meant the Hassy!

Just back from the big city clutching an awesome little Rolleinar 55mm f/1.4... so if you were interested in buying the SL35E - tough, it's off the sale list unless you want the body and 50mm Planar as a package!

Also incidentally, I bought a job lot of cameras because nestling in the back of the picture was a pair of 16x24 UCFv Pentax bins... When the parcel arrived sure enough there they were, boxed and baged alongside a pair of Minolta 8-17x25 UCF zoom bins as well. To say I am a tad chuffed is an understatement!

Trouble is, I now have to figure out how to explain 10 more cameras... but I have a cunning plan

 

[david1701]

does it involve hitting her with a rock in the doorway, then saying a camera thief must have dropped them on the way out?

 

[Ambermile]

Well it didn't... but the idea does have possibilities

I was thinking more of taking them to the workshop

 

[david1701]

meh, my first idea involved murder

 

[Ambermile]

Oh yeah... in a house bursting with cameras...

 

[david1701]

Oh yeah... in a house bursting with cameras...

LOL

 

[Ambermile]

The cunning plan failed, if you fancy a peek check the classified section

Whatever, here's the thing... a while back I had to "borrow" certain parts from a Zenit B to allow the MT-1 project move forwards. That left me with a few bits and pieces and so today while the mill was busily making telescope parts I sat in front of the polishing wheel.


You can of course imagine my complete and utter surprise (oh my yes, stunned I was, absolutely stunned... ) when I got home only to find a box with a sorry-looking Zenit B inside - works well, looks terrible, yours for a fiver, so I did

Put two and two together...

Arthur