[aslyfox]

HI Sly

Just........the 70 to go.......easy wasn't it

Dave

that isn't what some folks here think

Congratulations! But I can't help but notice that you seem to be staying away from the FA limiteds... You can't offend them like that. I think you should explore the magic numbers 31-43-77

not to mention the step child:


HD Pentax-DA 20-40mm F2.8-4 Limited DC WR

[D1N0]

A zoom, just because it was only ten pounds on Ebay and I "needed" a mate for the 35-105 3.5

[Canada_Rockies]

for all the boot sales you have reported

no boots bought ?


mark me confused

Boot: a compartment, usually on the rear of an automobile, in which one carries luggage.

A zoom, just because it was only ten pounds on Ebay and I "needed" a mate for the 35-105 3.5

My daughter is using the one I bought back in the dark ages to good effect.

[aslyfox]

I can help with a Like New silver HD DA70/2.4 Limited if the wallet is willing.

as for me, wallet is exhausted

[aslyfox]

Boot: a compartment, usually on the rear of an automobile, in which one carries luggage. . . .

I knew that

I also ask at " yard " or " garage " sales how much for the " yard " or " garage "

[Canada_Rockies]

I knew that

I also ask at " yard " or " garage " sales how much for the " yard " or " garage "

Why am I not surprised?

[Marcus Rowland]

for all the boot sales you have reported

no boots bought ?


mark me confused

Short for car boot - what Americans call the trunk. It's the type of sale where people turn up with a car loaded with junk and set up a trestle table or similar to sell it.

I didn't go to one today, because a friend had spotted some lenses in the window of a charity shop in North London and thought I might be interested. So I got there, couldn't find the shop he'd mentioned, but did find a charity shop that had a lot of photographic gear, and spent £50 there. Asked if there was another shop and got directed to a second where I spent another £20 for more lenses etc. Then as I was heading home I finally found the shop I'd been told about, and spent another £15 there. It's rare to find one charity shop with this stuff, three within about 50 yards is extraordinary, and the stuff I got was amazing:

• Auto Sears 55mm f1.4 m42 - horrible condition but the optics don't look too bad, I'll know when I finish cleaning it
• Canon Eos 20D with EF 35-80 - I'll need to buy a battery charger before I know if it works, it isn't the same battery as my 400D
• Holga 120 CFN Lomography camera
• Canon EFS 18-55
• Canon EF 80-200
• Tamron Adaptall f2.5 135mm (no mount)
• Pentacon Electric f2.8 135mm (M42) - slight fungus I think, won't know for sure until I clean it
• Canon FDn f1.8 50mm
• Olympus Trip 35 camera with closeup lens
• Galaxy f3.5 135mm with M42 mount
• Optomax f5.6 300 with M42 mount and M42 to Praktica bayonet converter - except that some idiot has cross-threaded the PB adapter onto the lens and it's badly stuck, the mount was loose with some other stuff below
• APS variable x2 and x3 teleconverter, M42
• A couple of skylight filters, a 52mm polariser, a 58mm x8 ND I will be keeping for myself, some body and lens caps and a Nikon battery which again is for a camera I don't own.

None of this stuff is tested yet, but it's looking good.

Later - Everything seems to be working well (apart from the Eos 20D which will have to wait on a battery charger), and now I've given it a first clean even the horrible 55/1.4 is looking optically good - cosmetically horrible, unfortunately, peeling paint and dented filter ring are the main problems. It turns out to be a rebadged Rikenon 55mm f1.4. Both of the cameras work well, as do all of the lenses. I was right about the fungus in the Pentacon 135, unfortunately, and there's a little in the Galaxy 135 too, but that's pretty much it so far. And it turns out I was wrong about the Nikon battery, it is the right one for my camera!

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Last edited by Marcus Rowland; 09-22-2018 at 11:38 AM.

[cyberjunkie]

A zoom, just because it was only ten pounds on Ebay and I "needed" a mate for the 35-105 3.5

This is a typical example of low price and high quality.
IMHO it's the best zoom Pentax has made in this range (in MF times).
So much for so little!
It will match your 35-105mm nicely... and will support any exposure mode, P-TTL flash, etc

[WPRESTO]

I knew that

I also ask at " yard " or " garage " sales

If we have yard and garage sales, do you Brits have meter and mews sales?

[aslyfox]

Why am I not surprised?

because you are smart ???

[Canada_Rockies]

because you are smart ???

[Jean Poitiers]

for all the boot sales you have reported

no boots bought ?

mark me confused

Ha ... !

In French, it's called a "vide-grenier" ... literally "empty-attic".

Here's tomorrow morning's stalks ... not a lot near me that will be good ... Brocante et vide-grenier 86 - Vienne - Brocabrac

[jeallen01]

If we have yard and garage sales, do you Brits have meter and mews sales?

NO we don't (and if we did it would be a "metre", not "meter", sale, and what sense would either make anyway?), and NO (AFAIK) again.

[Cerebum]

Lol, nooo, metre sales would be European, we are imperial and cling tenaciously to furlongs and chains. As for yard as in back yard, yeah, we have them but the problem we have with mews is the number of alternatives. Taking a mews as a passage containing houses, the name depends on where you are. In a twenty mile radius of Lancaster they are also called yards, ginnels, alleys and winds. We are a very complicated lot us English, after all we have had a long time to master it

[aslyfox]

. . . . We are a very complicated lot us English . . .

" complicated "


variable

confused

inconsistent

mixed up


yeah, I get it

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