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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...
 
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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