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Forum: General Photography
01-15-2021, 12:30 AM
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Well there is always cheaper, I was only talking the top end. A good K1000 could make close to £200 while a good Nikon FM3A will go over £500. Much will govern price like what lens is with it, condition etc.
Problem with eBay is half the sellers havent a clue and the buyers are not much better. Just sold a Nikon lens only to have the buyer want to return it cos ‘it doesnt fit my camera’ .........clueless or what.
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Forum: General Photography
01-14-2021, 10:57 AM
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Well I am not so sure the money is completely mad. A lot of lenses go to people adapting for digital but there is a resurgence of film. Hard to know why that is but I am grateful that its still around. A decent 35mm film camera will hit no more than maybe £200 to £500 depending on make, model, condition. That seems pretty reasonable compared to the open wallet surgery needed for most digitals :)
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Forum: General Photography
01-08-2021, 12:47 AM
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That yukky stuff showing theough the lens looks as if it has major problems with its prism. Either delamination or desilvering. Alternately its decayed crud on the focus screen....either would make it a non starter unless you happen to have a supply of spares. I love the way eBay sellers condidently state ‘could be repaired by somone who knows what they are doing’.....the same could be said for my car id is was wrapped round a tree but I wouldnt be asking the same price as a mint one.
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Forum: General Photography
12-11-2020, 03:03 PM
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Forum: General Photography
12-10-2020, 12:34 AM
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Its an ‘ant scale’ medium format :)
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Forum: General Photography
12-07-2020, 11:44 AM
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Forum: General Photography
12-03-2020, 12:53 AM
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Yep, I was buying cameras from a local charity shop, picked up a few ‘bargains’ but then they started pricing up. They get a complete banger in, most recent was an ME Super in truly awful shape, filthy dirty, massive dent in the top plate, bigger dent in base plate. They look on eBay and find a mint one and price theirs slightly cheaper ignoring the fact that the mint one is ahem well mint and works and theirs is one with bashed in casework and untested. Thats a hard pass from me. They keep doing this. Series 1 Vivitar 70-210 with scratched up optics and full of drek and they want £60 for it. They said when I looked at it ‘you could probably clean it’ ....yeah maybe I could a little but why would I bother when I could find one in good shape for not much more cash.
They keep doing this so these days I buy almost nothing from them and they have a shelf full of rubbish to get rid of. If they priced the ME at a couple of quid I would take it for spares but I am not going to cough up £30 on a complete wreck and I doubt anyone else will either....they seem worried that they could sell too cheap and someone makes a profit which is daft. Its cost them nothing so if they get a tenner for it thats money in the bank for the charity but they seem to have become fixated on getting a big price which means they sell nothing.
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Forum: General Photography
11-25-2020, 12:42 AM
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Yep, someone took some pics of something exciting, murder, proof of aliens, someone famous in an awkward situation. The camera was lost and they have seen it reappear in this pile of junk and are sweating the film is still there.
Alternately its an intelligence services dead letter box to transfer secret photos or its a scam to shift junk into cash in order to clean the money or evade tax.
More probably its an idiot selling to another idiot and we should really just be happy for both of them.
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Forum: General Photography
11-14-2020, 05:34 AM
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Could just be the lens, some lenses do have a flatter surface towards the centre and this can be magnified by the front kens group which can create, with the right light, a kind of glowing crescent when seen from certain angles. You woud need to see the kens in your hands to be sure.
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Forum: General Photography
11-12-2020, 02:59 AM
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And just look at the reviews...
‘From a distance it looks almost professional’ ....what distance is that....about 50 miles I would guess.
‘What I got was everyting I expected and more ‘....I think they meant deserved rather than expected.
‘It was a gift so dont know if it worked ok, I assume so as I never heard back’ ....nope because whoever hou sent it to probably put it in the bin and struck your name from the Hanukkah list or maybe put out a contract on you :)
The other reviews are clearly ‘brushed’
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Forum: General Photography
11-10-2020, 03:16 PM
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Hell I think or some place similar :).
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Forum: General Photography
11-09-2020, 07:20 AM
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Well for some stuff you are right, its complete junk but I leave stuff on eBay for ages sometimes.
I have some items up at the moment and I dont expect some stuff is exactly in high demand, its a limited market of collectors out there but where else is someone going to find a vintage lens cap for a Sigma in 65mm size. Someone out there will be restoring te lens and hoping they can find an original cap.
Some stuff maybe wont ever sell and that definitely applies to broken electro flashes but I would pay happily for a mint Agfa bulb flash and some bulbs and I would pay at least £15 for a Tamron lens cap, old style logo in 67mm size for a vintage lens I have. There may well be someone out there who badly needs an old SunPak flash :) who knows it may have bits inside at allow a stranded time traveller to construct a time machine to get home. :)
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Forum: General Photography
10-13-2020, 11:46 PM
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Experiences over last 10 days.....
Bought a pair of Minolta XGMs off ebay. The gulf between seller description and what arrived is huge.
Minolta XGM no.1 ....the fantasy...described as fully working and beautiful. Seller even sent me a message to say how thrilled I would be by its beautiful clean condition, he had been using it and what a joy it was blah blah blah.
The reality.....camera was filthy, focus screen wrecked by debris and scarred by decomposing mirror buffer. All light seals shot, lens was completely filthy, worst haze I have ever seen on an MD lens ( at least until the next one ....read on) and they can be bad. Focus would not come to close focus as the focus ring would jam. Lens mount loose and wobbly. Some clown had taken it to bits I expect who didnt know how to set the focus helicoids up.
Anyone using this who had the slightest knowledge about cameras would have been very well aware of the issues. No response from seller so we will be going the dispute route on this one.
Minolta XGM No. 2.... the fantasy....described as fully working, lens clean and clear of dust and fungus.
The reality, camera has lost its viewfinder aperture display, mirror has been lost inside but the real shocker was the lens. Clean and clear of dust and fungus. A blind person could see the lens was hazed to hell and the fungal strands are so large they are visible to the naked eye under indoor lighting. As its an MD its totalled as the fungus is between the rear elements. Sent a message off to voice my displeasure.
I swear these idiots just cut and past stuff like snappy aperture, sharp at edges, fungus free without having a clue what any of it means.
I cant decide if the majority of ebayers selling cameras are stupid, clueless or just plain dishonest. If they bothered to look at my buying history it should red light to them I know what I am talking about and I aint going to be suckered by a crap camera. I have just seen it too many times now and just send stuff back, let em eat the postage costs a few times and see if it teaches them anything.
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Forum: General Photography
10-02-2020, 05:16 AM
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Forum: General Photography
10-01-2020, 09:45 AM
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Forum: General Photography
09-27-2020, 11:26 PM
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Haha yes...for sure...I see no problems with this lens.
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Forum: General Photography
09-26-2020, 03:11 PM
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Forum: General Photography
09-23-2020, 12:17 PM
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I just bought a camera off the cookie monster on ebay. I have to assume it was the cookie monster as the camera bag, camera and even inside the lens is full of biscuit crumbs. Thankfully its all cleanable outable but you really have to wonder at people.
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Forum: General Photography
09-20-2020, 02:01 AM
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Forum: General Photography
09-17-2020, 11:17 PM
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“I don't go to Facebook Marketplace much. Having just spent a few minutes there, I now feel very low. The classified websites are bad but Facebook sellers are next level cuckoo!”
Etsy is another one for delusional seller.........mostly selling tat to hipsters so I guess they maybe deserve it each other :)
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Forum: General Photography
09-16-2020, 02:06 PM
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Somone suffering reality dysfunction....
Check these out for ‘great condition’ and ‘perfect to add to any collection’
The only collection I would add these to woukd be the trash collection. Check the rust and obvious signs of rot in everything.
Check the username......dopeyjenny. Jenny needs to put the crack pipe down perhaps :)
MINOLTA 2 X 35MM CAMERAS ZG-M AND XG-1 GREAT CONDITION | eBay |
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Forum: General Photography
08-31-2020, 03:36 PM
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Lord forgive them for they know not what they do :(
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Forum: General Photography
08-26-2020, 03:34 PM
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PMSL.....and THATs a perfect example of what I posted in the thread about advice to sellers of camera gear. The clueless messing with things. Yes we have all done it but I am girl enough to have messed up a lens while learning the art. I didnt put the lens on eBay with a big tag. Shoved it on eBay as ‘I messed it up but there are usable parts I didnt manage to wreck.....for a start bid of .99p......think it sold for about £2 in the end. Had I not buggered with it it would have been worth maybe £50. It was my first lesson in lens repair. The lesson being the pursuit of knowledge is not without cost.
Confucious says there are three ways to wisdom, first is by imitation which is the easiest, second is by reflection which is the noblest and third is by experience which is the bitterest. That Fuji lens told me Confucious knew a thing or two about lens repair.
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Forum: General Photography
08-02-2020, 11:40 PM
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“Surely anyone wishing to sell an item has the nous to present it in the best possible light ?”
You would think so but judging from pics which often show the item filthy dirty maybe not.
I think there is also an element that people today see it as ‘not my job mate’ I seem to see a lot of people on a daily basis who think the rest of the world is there to fetch and carry for them and behave as though they are royalty. Only last week I had someone telling me it wasnt there job to unbox a product and that should be provided as part of the service. If they were buying a body scanner they would be right, as they were buying a consumer product its hard to understand.
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Forum: General Photography
07-28-2020, 03:06 PM
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Yup.....have seen many eBay auctions go that way....a numpty is still trying to shift an F2 Minolta MD at £99. Everytime it lists I watch it.......just to annoy really, kind of hoping he sees a watcher and thinks ‘ooooooh maybe this time’ :)
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