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Forum: General Photography
04-16-2024, 11:52 AM
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It looks like the biggest packet of cigarettes I have ever seen.
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Forum: General Photography
04-09-2024, 12:07 PM
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Forum: General Photography
04-09-2024, 11:52 AM
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Looking at past prices, the F1.4 lens is worth about £50, the ME Super body about £30, the Winder M about £10, the AF200S flash unit about £15 (surprisingly high), and the rest about £0. (I have tried to sell a Sigma zoom like that and no-one wants it). Maybe the seller found the receipts from new 40 years ago, and summed them as his price guide.
But that is as a job lot, so if someone wants only one or two of those items (the F1.4 comes to mind) they must also pay for a heap of stuff they don't want and are lumbered with the job of selling on, if they can. So who buys job lots? A dealer perhaps, but only if the price is far lower than the sum of what they could sell them for individually (which is as above).
Someone on PF once said a dealer told them they offer to buy at half the lowest price that similar items sell for, regardless of condition because they don't have time for a proper examination. On that basis, a dealer would offer £50 at most for this job lot. On top of that, although the seller claims "good", there are no photos detailed enough to assess the condition for ourselves, photos of the insides of battery compartments for example. The seller obviously does not know enough to assess things like lens fungus, in the light of his claim that the 50mm lens has an F14 aperture and the wide angle has F28 - are these pinhole lenses?  |
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Forum: General Photography
04-03-2024, 01:00 PM
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Forum: General Photography
04-03-2024, 06:19 AM
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"Nice Item"
Nearly £30 with the postage
Filthy dirty, very basic, very common 40-50 years ago, low power, and an ancient design with a trigger voltage that could fry a modern camera. No assurance that it works, and I wonder what the inside of the battery compartment looks like - no pictures of that. All for nearly £30 with the postage! My father left one - it went in the bin, best place for it
They say :
True, those images say much more than the words.
VINTAGE SUNPAK AUTO 170 CAMERA MOUNTED FLASH | eBay
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Forum: General Photography
04-01-2024, 06:10 AM
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Forum: General Photography
04-01-2024, 05:58 AM
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Fungus, chewed screw heads, bashed, and marked, sold for "parts not working" - but "Good" condition? Is there anything right with it? I'd hate to see one in bad condition. Sold it though, with some lively low-end bidding.
Item description from the seller
Key words there are "when" and "if".
But they also say it has a Canon mount. I wish sellers would include a photo of the mount anyway.
Life's a bummer isn't it?
Canon Sigma 12-24mm F/4.5-5.6 EX DG HSM FULL FRAME Good condition UK seller | eBay
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Forum: General Photography
03-27-2024, 04:39 PM
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So "BOGOF" as it says on the Tesco receipts.
Should have called these "Belfast Stinks". Anyway, did Elon Musk drop and knock chunks out of that sink after he carried it into the Twitter HQ on his way to sack the staff?
belfast sinks | eBay
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Forum: General Photography
03-26-2024, 06:30 AM
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Is that €30 for each half or a bargain for both? We need to know.
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Forum: General Photography
03-21-2024, 07:25 AM
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A couple more :
"Refurbished" - This probably means the thing has been damaged and someone (of unknown skill) has had a go at mending it.
AI generated descriptions, which is now being offered by Ebay when you list something. I am starting to recognise it : bland BS seemingly grabbed from Wikipedia and elsewhere, often comically out of date like saying "latest tech" for something 30 years old (which is probably from the maker's advertising at that time). It is not description particular to the item on sale, but is the text equivalent of using stock photos instead of ones of the actual item. I think the item in my post #3454 was an example, bubbling away about "supporting" Windows 98 and ME.
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Forum: General Photography
03-19-2024, 12:54 PM
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Forum: General Photography
03-17-2024, 05:13 PM
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For starters :
"Can't test, no batteries" (when only a couple of AAs are needed)
"No effect on image quality" (it means lens damage)
"Very rare" (seen it applied to a K1000!)
"Dealer"
"Fantastic" (and so on and so forth)
"Professional" (seen it applied to a plastic P&S)
"I know the true value of this"
"Takes great pictures" (the "Still takes great pictures" variant means it has serious damage or only half works)
Large purple or red fonts
Screenfulls of legalese
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Forum: General Photography
03-17-2024, 06:30 AM
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Yet you only have to look around on the very same page ("People also viewed" etc) to see others for a small fraction of the price. What is also funny with some of these ads are details in the description, like for this for the $999.99 one :
Er... true, if they are trying to say that portability never did look like an APS-C DSLR with a zoom lens - that portability looks like a smartphone instead.
Newly developed over 20 years ago, but I suppose everything was new once.
And from the $599.99 one :
 Quote: Operating System Supported : Microsoft Windows 98SE, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Mississippi Windows XP, Mississippi Windows ME, Microsoft Windows 98, Mississippi Windows 2000, Apple Mac Os 9.X, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Apple Mac OS 8, Apple Mac Os X Wow, I didn't know these things "supported" operating systems. Windows 98! Mississippi Windows 2000 ?? It's a clue to how old this camera is, so I'm surprised the seller left that in - I guess it's pasted in from Pentax publicity of the time. At those prices, a buyer who knew no better would think these cameras were latest models.
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Forum: General Photography
03-15-2024, 03:00 AM
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Any lens looks huge on an MX, especially if the photo is taken like that with a wide angle lens, close to the front. That MX looks good except the self-timer lever looks broken - flopping around? The lens is the budget Takumar, not worth much these days. However, who knows how the bidding will go? Things are selling so slowly on Ebay at present (don't I know it?) that you could win with £9.99.
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Forum: General Photography
02-29-2024, 06:32 AM
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Forum: General Photography
02-28-2024, 12:03 PM
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Forum: General Photography
02-21-2024, 02:01 PM
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Broken Elderly Little Flashgun
The foot is broken, but it's OK - they fixed it with a kludge involving an extra adaptor.
It is an ancient manual only unit with a single low power setting, and I'm fairly sure it has a high trigger voltage you wouldn't want on a modern camera. But they seem to think £7 (plus postage) is a fair price. Actually there are others in good condition for less on the same Ebay page of search results when I looked.
Sunpak Auto 14 Flash Unit, Hotshoe Not Working But Has Adapter, Please Read | eBay
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Forum: General Photography
02-02-2024, 07:12 AM
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There is the Radcliffe Camera at Oxford :
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Forum: General Photography
01-14-2024, 06:42 AM
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I notice that when selling on Ebay it now offers to generate an AI item description for you. This is very worrying because the description will simply be of a typical example of the item, not the actual item. It will be no better than a seller using a stock photo of the item (like when new) rather than of the actual item. I expect that if the item turns out to be poorer than described, you will be told that the AI cannot be wrong, and even if it was it was not the seller's fault.
Ebays "justification" for this is that some sellers are too illiterate (my term, not theirs) to write a description. But illiterate descriptions were fine, I simply did not buy from them - their poor writing skills should not be made my problem.
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Forum: General Photography
01-13-2024, 01:07 PM
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Must be some of the worst photos I have ever seen on Ebay (apart from some totally blank or black ones) :
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Forum: General Photography
01-13-2024, 03:32 AM
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Perhaps the price is not so bad though, I have seen sellers asking £5 or more just for a lens cap, especially camera branded ones, and I once bought a ruined lens for a similar price just to get a spare flange screw. That front element is spectacular though, I'm trying to imagine how it happened. Paperazzi scrum? Bullet? Struck with the Princess Royal's riding crop? - she has been known to do it.
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Forum: General Photography
12-12-2023, 02:21 AM
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I guess that any SLR camera is going to be called "professional" these days.
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Forum: General Photography
11-13-2023, 09:49 AM
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Looks like the owner had an accident with a spray gun. Apart from that, from the advert :
Don't tell me this think can talk, like that Minolta P&S camera in the 1980s. It must soon get tiresome listening to it bragging on about its own construction, in a silly squeaky voice no doubt. Perhaps it will say that it has a brain the size of a planet too.
The K1000 has a built-in flash! - That's something that no-one else has spotted [sorry] until now.
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Forum: General Photography
10-31-2023, 02:54 AM
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I've never heard of Ultimax flash and I don't think I have missed much. The Ebay ad doesn't give a clue how powerful it is, and even the box (of which there are several pictures) doesn't seem to say. With a bit of research I find it has a Guide Number of 14 metres which is about as low as it gets for a separate flash. No modes except full power manual but I suppose with a flash that feeble you always want full power anyway . Its selling point is that it can be used as a slave, which I suppose is what the photosensor on the front is for. I will add it to my website Table of Flashgun Data
But the best part is that I found the Ultimax website and was greeted with this; they obviously believe that a great way to advertise is to make you jump through hoops to see their product. I didn't bother :-
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