A short Post-Christmas giveaway thread

[cary]

Up for grabs is a Nikkormat EL with 43-86mm Nikkor. Camera worked ten years ago, USA only, $10 postage.

 

[cary]

Nikkormat EL has been claimed.

 

[seany65]

Sheeesh, it took my struff nearly a ruddy month to be claimed, lol.

Cary, is that the first version of the Nikkor 43-86mm, and is it as bad as it's rep?

 

[cary]

Yes it is the first version, I actually got it to see how bad it was. It really is not a bad lens.

 

[seany65]

I've got a "TAKUMAR (BAYONET) 1:2.5 135mm" with "554128 ASAHI OPTICAL CO." around the barrel just beyond the chrome ring. It has a pattern of squares for the focusing grip. Blue (ft) and Green (m) focus distances almost at the same level on the dull chrome distance ring. White location dot, Blue 4 and Orange 8 on the aperture ring, which is clicked in half steps. Built in lens hood (probably plastic, but it's not easy to tell) and it has "Made in Taiwan" on it.

It looks practically new and unused.

I'll post a couple of pics tomorrow.

This time I'm going to try and stick to UK only.

Edit:

As promised, here's a couple of pics, (which I'd hoped would've turned out better, but we can't have everything.):

 

[seany65]

I was wondering if the Taiwan Takumars are any different than the Japanese Takumars?

 

[seany65]

Don't be worried about the apparently "slanted" piece of plastic with " 135 mm" on it in the first photo, that's just an optical illusion - I've just double-checked.