What have you just BOUGHT?

For the first time in about a decade... fixer. I let shooting with film slide for far too long, but recently found 200' of Polypan F and my box of IXMOOs in the back of a cupboard, as well as an unopened bottle of HC-110. Time to blow the dust off my Leica M3, and finally run some film through the Nikon F100 that I bought but never put to use.
 
A box of half a dozen box cameras. Mostly the usual suspects (but spare 620 spools are always handy) but in amongst the Kodaks is an Ernemann Film K in very nice condition.

I intend to clean the shutter as it is definitely slow, maybe 1/10th, but otherwise it looks really good.
 
So ... I'm delighted with the Leica X1 I just received, enough that I ordered the various accessory bits for it that I like as I posted before.
In the course of doing that, one of the sellers mentioned that he had an X2 that he wanted to sell, and would offer a heavy discount since I had just purchased an expensive accessory from him. I asked how much he wanted for it. He replied, and sent pictures of the camera. It looks perfect, and he's asked a price lower than what I paid for the X1, which I thought I'd gotten a very good deal on.

... !!! ...

I guess I have two Leica X now. 😉

G
 
I saw this ad on MPB. Nikon D200, $109.00. Excellent condition with 3,99X,XXX shutter clicks. Hmm. Almost 4 million shutter clicks but the photo of the camera looked immaculate. I really like the handling and the images from the D200s I have owned but all of them have suffered from gadzillions of dead pixels. Well, a 4 million click Nikon would be interesting if nothing else. And I guess I had too much money at the time. So I hit the "Buy" button.

It came yesterday. I wasn't enthusiastic about the package and my wife asked why I hadn't already opened it. I told her I bought a "junk camera" and I was kinda regretting it. When I did open the package I was gobsmacked. The camera, battery and charger looked new and just off the shelf. I did the setup routine, found a fully charged battery and a CF card and played with it. Everything worked perfectly. That's when I noticed the serial number on the camera. It is 3,99X,XXX. MPB confused the serial number with the shutter actuations? I then ran a JPG file through two different websites shutter click counters. Both agreed. The actual shutter actuations was 160. That's freakin' new! I examined the file images and I could not find a single dead pixel. Whoa!

Granted, the actual value of a digital camera this old is not much more than what I paid. Yet it's a camera I've always liked a lot but never lucked into finding a really good one. Now that I have one, I count myself as one of the fortunate few with a new 20 year old camera.

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I recently acquired from the family of the original owner a relatively extensive Leica M2 outfit, including 21/4 Super Angulon w/ viewfinder, 35mm Summaron, dual range Summicron with goggles, 50mm Summilux (ver. 1), and 90mm Elmarit, plus a few boxed filters, caps and hoods, MR meter and some time-fatigued cases. The seller said it had been purchased for a family vacation but rarely used since then. Everything in Ex+ to mint cosmetic condition; the camera and Summilux had been serviced by Leica w/in the last decade and hadn't been used since. Two of the lenses have sufficient haze they'll need professional cleaning.

This had been for sale locally for six weeks before I asked to see the equipment. Surprising, since everything was priced below fair market value. I did mention to the seller they would make more money if they sold piece by piece, but they wanted to keep the outfit intact as it had belonged to their grandfather.

I didn't need more cameras, but the M2 is my camera of choice, I already have several, and not all these lenses would be on my desire list, but everything priced so low, I had to take a look. Of course, once you take a look, it's all over.

I forked over a chunk of money. The seller was happy. Just from a value perspective, I hadn't gotten a deal like this on Leica stuff since the darks days of 2005, when I purchased some store inventory at dealer cost (since re-sold). This may even be a better deal but it's also pretty cool to have a camera outfit that has been together since 1960, several years before I was born.
 
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I recently acquired from the family of the original owner a relatively extensive Leica M2 outfit, including 21/4 Super Angulon w/ viewfinder, 35mm Summaron, dual range Summicron with goggles, 50mm Summilux (ver. 1), and 90mm Elmarit, plus a few boxed filters, caps and hoods, MR meter and some time-fatigued cases. The seller said it had been purchased for a family vacation but rarely used since then. Everything in Ex+ to mint cosmetic condition; the camera and Summilux had been serviced by Leica w/in the last decade and hadn't been used since. Two of the lenses have sufficient haze they'll need professional cleaning.

This had been for sale locally for six weeks before I asked to see the equipment. Surprising, since everything was priced below fair market value. I did mention to the seller they would make more money if they sold piece by piece, but they wanted to keep the outfit intact as it had belonged to their grandfather.

I didn't need more cameras, but the M2 is my camera of choice, I already have several, and not all these lenses would be on my desire list, but everything priced so low, I had to take a look. Of course, once you take a look, it's all over.

I forked over a chunk of money. The seller was happy. Just from a value perspective, I hadn't gotten a deal like this on Leica stuff since the darks days of 2005, when I purchased some store inventory at dealer cost (since re-sold). This may even be a better deal but it's also pretty cool to have a camera outfit that has been together since 1960, several years before I was born.
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Hey Steve, what's the serial # on the 50mm Summilux? I've got one that is the original lens for my inherited M3 [edited] double stroke. Mine's from 1959.
 
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2 Nikonos V underwater cameras with the purpose of using a 15 and 20 mm lens. Going to French Polynesia in September to photograph whales and sharks in b&w using Tri-X.

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Love the green but orange makes more sense in the sea.
Does the Nikonos btw sink or swim when left in the water? The Minolta Weathermatic does not sink.
 
Dogman said:
I saw this ad on MPB. Nikon D200, $109.00. Excellent condition with 3,99X,XXX shutter clicks. Hmm. Almost 4 million shutter clicks but the photo of the camera looked immaculate. I really like the handling and the images from the D200s I have owned but all of them have suffered from gadzillions of dead pixels. Well, a 4 million click Nikon would be interesting if nothing else. And I guess I had too much money at the time. So I hit the "Buy" button.

It came yesterday. I wasn't enthusiastic about the package and my wife asked why I hadn't already opened it. I told her I bought a "junk camera" and I was kinda regretting it. When I did open the package I was gobsmacked. The camera, battery and charger looked new and just off the shelf. I did the setup routine, found a fully charged battery and a CF card and played with it. Everything worked perfectly. That's when I noticed the serial number on the camera. It is 3,99X,XXX. MPB confused the serial number with the shutter actuations? I then ran a JPG file through two different websites shutter click counters. Both agreed. The actual shutter actuations was 160. That's freakin' new! I examined the file images and I could not find a single dead pixel. Whoa!

Granted, the actual value of a digital camera this old is not much more than what I paid. Yet it's a camera I've always liked a lot but never lucked into finding a really good one. Now that I have one, I count myself as one of the fortunate few with a new 20 year old camera.

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Nice find, I love my D200s, I have 3 but one is used for spares, so 2 working ones, one has the CF Card reader from the one with the dead sensor, if I find a cheap broken one but working sensor, I'll swap them out, they're quite easy to work on.

The sensor is lovely and just fits me perfectly, with or without a grip, easy to use with old glass and still using the original batteries! Nikon really did it right with these IMHO, don't think I've read a bad review for one although someone will no doubt be a grump about them somewhere....Lovely Camera.
 
Dear Board,

There is a local camera shop, Fine Art Photo in Lemoyne PA. They are only open Mondays through Fridays, but yesterday was my birthday and I had the day off from work, so I stopped in.

They have a lot of used bags and accessories. I was looking at some larger used bags and the owner said I just got a Tamrac 610 bag in trade if you are interested. He said it needs to be cleaned up a little, but you can have it for $ 20.00.

I said, sold and added a half dozen used filters, 3 Op-Tech straps, and an L-bracket so I can use a flash with my Canon 7. All for the princely sum of $ 70.00 plus tax.

I love these old Tamrac bags, and this will hold my OM2S, OM4, T32 flash and all of my Zuiko lenses with room to spare. As a bonus it came with an original manual for a Vivitar 285HV.

Regards,

Tim Murphy

Harrisburg PA 🙂

IMG_20250628_100037_MP by Tim Murphy, on Flickr
 
AlwaysOnAuto said:
Interesting, mine is 166xxx so must be earlier?
I was in a hurry when I wrote my post above, my camera is a double stroke that's been changed to single stroke.
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According to research docs accumulated over the many years, looks like there were at least 4 batches of this lens made in 1959.

2000 -- 166xxxx
1500-- 1688xxx
900 -- 169xxxx
2500 -- 170xxxx

So yours from the first batch of 2000 in 1959 and mine the last. According to the same doc, only two batches made in '58 of 1000 each, both SN 164xxxx.
 
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