Comments on: Things I Learned in Five Years of Thrifting Film Cameras https://casualphotophile.com/2023/08/02/things-i-learned-in-five-years-of-thrifting-film-cameras/ Cameras and Photography Thu, 18 Jan 2024 08:53:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Jay Dann Walker in Australia https://casualphotophile.com/2023/08/02/things-i-learned-in-five-years-of-thrifting-film-cameras/#comment-22917 Thu, 18 Jan 2024 08:53:52 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=31334#comment-22917 Returning late to this excellent article. I spotted an error in my original comment (from 08.2023).

(What I wrote back then) “The other, in a nearby shop, was a Voigtlander Perkeo I with the legendary 75/3.5 Color Skopar, in its original case with the instruction manual, which I snared for AUD 450. The shutter speeds were a tad slow in those lower than 1/25 and I had to have these fixed, which added a further AUD $100 to my original cost. But well worth it.”

The cost was in fact AUD $50. I want to correct this so I don’t come across as a complete klutz…

Thank you, James, for your kindness and diplomacy in enduring my wayward posts.

The Perkeo is one of my favorites and often used, when I can afford to invest in a five-pack of 120 film. Ilford being my current favorite. If I stop drinking wine for two weeks I can (almost) save enough for five rolls, but hey, this is Australia!!

DANN in Melbourne

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Now if I could only work out how to shut off the Spell Check and Corrector on this MacBook. Sigh!)

]]> By: Lee https://casualphotophile.com/2023/08/02/things-i-learned-in-five-years-of-thrifting-film-cameras/#comment-22652 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:32:40 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=31334#comment-22652 Most antique shops and thrift shops have gotten wise in recent years, and are at least checking Ebay sold listings when setting a price for vintage cameras they are selling. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been to a new thrift shop, and they have a couple of dusty SLRs in their front case by the cash register, with hugely inflated prices. I’m talking about seeing dirty Canon AV-1 with crusty-looking Soligor 35-70mm shitty zoom lens, with asking price of $150. Or something like a Konica Autoreflex TC with no lens or body cap, with asking price of $100. Or even a shitty Kodak Instamatic, that you can’t even get film for, with price tag of $40-50. Seems there’s very few good deals to be found in thrift shops these days anymore either.

]]> By: James Tocchio https://casualphotophile.com/2023/08/02/things-i-learned-in-five-years-of-thrifting-film-cameras/#comment-22545 Sat, 19 Aug 2023 20:34:43 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=31334#comment-22545 In reply to Mike.

Yes! I love that camera. Wrote about it here – https://casualphotophile.com/2021/11/16/nikon-lite-touch-zoom-70-ws-point-and-shoot-film-camera-review/

]]> By: Mike https://casualphotophile.com/2023/08/02/things-i-learned-in-five-years-of-thrifting-film-cameras/#comment-22535 Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:49:02 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=31334#comment-22535 You pictured a Nikon Lite Touch 70 for your artcle. Possibly the best P&S every made. I have had it for 5 years with zero problems. I only shoot with it occassionally when I want something light as I perfer to shoot manual when the situation calls for it. Get close and make a portrait with this camera and be amazed. I recently enlarged a portrait in the darkroom to 30 X 40 and it was as good as any I’ve ever printed in 35mm.

]]> By: Michael Kay https://casualphotophile.com/2023/08/02/things-i-learned-in-five-years-of-thrifting-film-cameras/#comment-22522 Mon, 14 Aug 2023 10:52:44 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=31334#comment-22522 Good article. You can get some excellent buys. I bought an Olympus Mju Zoom 80 on eBay and as nobody else bid, I got it for its starting price of 1p. Okay the P&P was around £2.75 but as it worked perfectly, counted as a good buy. I also bought one of the excellent, and very underrated and commented on Pentax AF35 M compacts with its 5 element dead sharp lens for only £1.20 off eBay. Cheap because the seller listed it as faulty because ‘every time he switched it on it started whirring’. It just had a film inside that had come off the sprockets as he kept opening it up – it works perfectly and takes really sharp pictures.

]]> By: Alan https://casualphotophile.com/2023/08/02/things-i-learned-in-five-years-of-thrifting-film-cameras/#comment-22518 Sun, 13 Aug 2023 03:52:53 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=31334#comment-22518 In reply to Michael.

Why is Goodwill greedy? They have a duty to raise as much money as possible for their job training programs. Their responsibility is not to keep prices low for people like us.

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