[pathdoc]

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

This time He Giveth... and then some.

[BrianR]

I was disappointed for you when you missed out on that macro, this should ease the sting of missing that deal! Nice find.

[boriscleto]

I've bought things on shopgoodwill.com and have had mixed success. But over the last year or two a lot of the stuff goes for way more than it's worth, especially when you assume all of the risk.

But you can still get good deals if you're lucky. I picked up a Phoenix 100mm F3.5 Macro with the 1:1 adapter last February for $82 after shipping (Same lens as the FA 100/3.5). But I haven't even bid on anything since.

I'm always hoping to find a Vivitar 35ES (never seen one) or an Olympus XA, but they always go for more than I would pay...

[WestBug]

I was disappointed for you when you missed out on that macro, this should ease the sting of missing that deal! Nice find.

Well thank You. I have had plenty of Good luck over the last few years scouring thrift stores in Arizona and Oregon.
Goodwill Auctions has also paid off handsomely , but not in the last two years

[ramseybuckeye]

But you can still get good deals if you're lucky. I picked up a Phoenix 100mm F3.5 Macro with the 1:1 adapter last February for $82 after shipping (Same lens as the FA 100/3.5). But I haven't even bid on anything since.

I'm always hoping to find a Vivitar 35ES (never seen one) or an Olympus XA, but they always go for more than I would pay...

I had that lens a few years ago under the Promaster label, but I did not have the adapter, I sold that and bought the DFA 100 macro, but sold it to fund the DA* 300, I didn't use the macro enough to justify having that much money tied up in it. I've looked for a bargain macro since and just goit the Sigma Macro 50mm 2.8 on Goodwill last month for $65.26 with a K-1000 rear lens cap, I was pretty happy with that price too. It does have the Sigma body coating that gets sticky, but cleaned up decent with alcohol.

[monochrome]

There's a Contax 167MT with a Tamron medium zoom (28-xx) with C/Y Adapter for $44 for ten minutes. The adapter's worth $44.


shopgoodwill.com - #37078668 - Contax 167MT 35mm Film Camera & Tamron Lens - 2/16/2017 7:06:00 PM

[boriscleto]

I had that lens a few years ago under the Promaster label, but I did not have the adapter, I sold that and bought the DFA 100 macro, but sold it to fund the DA* 300, I didn't use the macro enough to justify having that much money tied up in it. I've looked for a bargain macro since and just goit the Sigma Macro 50mm 2.8 on Goodwill last month for $65.26 with a K-1000 rear lens cap, I was pretty happy with that price too. It does have the Sigma body coating that gets sticky, but cleaned up decent with alcohol.

The manual focus Sigma? I bought that on eBay for like $100 in 2010...Mine isn't sticky, but the DoF scale has worn off. It's a nice lens. 1:1 without an adapter unlike Pentax A.

My other Goodwill macro was a Tamron Adaptall 90mm 52BB with a PKA adapter. $99 after shipping. That was in 2014.

[ramseybuckeye]

The manual focus Sigma? I bought that on eBay for like $100 in 2010...Mine isn't sticky, but the DoF scale has worn off. It's a nice lens. 1:1 without an adapter unlike Pentax A.

My other Goodwill macro was a Tamron Adaptall 90mm 52BB with a PKA adapter. $99 after shipping. That was in 2014.

That's the one, the goop was probably already cleaned off if the dof scale is gone, I did a little research and that is pretty common. Either way it will meet my macro needs.

[Not a Number]

So what's this "macro rail for K-mount"?

[Jonathan Mac]

Wow, the A 24-50 and M 50/1.4 were great deals there.