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just won an auction for a minolta hi-matic 9.

actually i have been looking for a camera for a friend who wants to get a bit more involved in shooting.

i already have 2 minolta 7s cameras, so i may keep this one and give him one of the 7s cameras. this would just keep it simpler when i use both at the same time with different films.

oh what fun...

joe
 
Congrats Joe ! :)

It's always nice not to be outbid in the last 10 seconds by that auction snipers !

Keep us informed about your shots with hi-matics, Rokkor glass... hmmm...

Oscar
 
The Himatic 9 is a nice camera. I have one in very good condition. The focusing patch is a little dim, but usable. It is not a compact camera, but I think the 7s is about the same size. I just won a Yashica Electro 35 GSN. I sent the seller and email and of course he claims it to be in perfect working order, one that he has used on and off for the past couple years. So I bid low and won it for $13.00. Not much of a loss if it has issues.
 
13 bucks, thats a great price.
i only bid on 'in canada' items for the ease of no border shopping, but it also limits what there is to bid on.

have you guys noticed an increase in prices on these types of cameras lately. what used to go or about $20 is now selling for upwards of 30 or more.

joe
 
I really haven't been paying attention to the RF listing that much. I just was looking the other day, and saw this camera with a one sentence discription that sounded good, so I sent the seller an email with detailed questions that he answered positively, so I took the jump. If the camera is what he says he could have done much better by prividing a better description. When I was a kid the first 35mm camera that I ever used was an Electro 35. My uncle still has it in a closet he says, but I can't get him to search it out for me.
 
I know what you mean Joe, I've been watching for a while mainly Canonet auctions (just for curiosity, don't need another one) and their price has increased substantially.

The same happens with Olympus RCs, SPs, Konica C35s and so on. Not sure if it has something to do with the Xmas shopping bug or what, but anyway when something goes up some other things lose interest, so other kind of cameras may go almost unnoticed.

Rover, keep us informed on how the GSN story ends finally. Maybe you already visited this page, but you can find some useful information on this link.

http://homepage.mac.com/mattdenton/photo/cameras/yashica_gsn.html

Best!
 
Will do Taffer and thanks. I would have looked for that site when the camera came, and the Yashica Guy's site, just to brush up on the little thing.

I often think that the ebay auctions for these cameras are driven by Steve Gandy's web site. All of the cameras that he profiles command higher bids than ones he does not. Now, that said, he has profiled a slice of the "higher end" of compact rangefinders. And for these cameras he does provide the most and perhaps best information available. If you are confident in what you are buying, you are willing to pay a little more.
 
taffer said:
I know what you mean Joe, I've been watching for a while mainly Canonet auctions (just for curiosity, don't need another one) and their price has increased substantially.

The same happens with Olympus RCs, SPs, Konica C35s and so on. Not sure if it has something to do with the Xmas shopping bug or what, but anyway when something goes up some other things lose interest, so other kind of cameras may go almost unnoticed.

Rover, keep us informed on how the GSN story ends finally. Maybe you already visited this page, but you can find some useful information on this link.

http://homepage.mac.com/mattdenton/photo/cameras/yashica_gsn.html

Best!
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I am convinced that Solares-Larrave raised the price on Canonets with his popular thread on them in Popular Photography and Imaging (PP&I). Having the magazine point out his thread didn't hurt the trend of higher prices either.

I once purchased a perfectly working Yashica FX103 program, on ebay for about $10.00. I was sufficiently impressed with it that I bought two more as spares. Hey, a camera that will take my Contax 50mm f/1.4 at that price is good! Between the 2d and 3d camera, I mentioned several times on PP&I that it was a very good camera in its own right, as well as an acceptable backup for Contax lenses. I paid more for the 3d camera, and the price continued to rise. :bang:

I was scared. Then I checked the tide tables and the moon phases and felt better. No doubt saying good things about any camera on a popular forum will raise the prices on ebay. I have seen it on other cameras too. Still, I think the moon phases and changing tides play an important role also. :D
 
Hehehe, I've been wathing the auction site regularly lately just to check that drop in January and February prices that some of us were expecting...

Must admit that, at least for that above mentioned items (Canonets, RCs and SPs) it's NOT the case. But isn't also the case with Agfa Isolettes, Voigtlander Perkeos and some others classic folders, and I'm sure the same happens with classic SLRs and TLRs... Not to mention the "legendary" Pentax K1000...

So maybe we shouldn't write so many possitive reviews of our purchases and tell everybody to go digital ??? :D

Maybe, as the other day a Oly 35 SP went for $180 !

Anyway, let's take it easy, you can always search on ebay for "canonette", "olimpus" or "rollie" and cross your fingers ;)

And if everything else fails, pay a visit to the second hand shop, if online prices continue raising, you'll get better deals there.

Oscar
 
Same happened with Yashica TLRs (the 124 'Mats) about three years ago. They were touted as the next best thing to you know what on the Medium Format Digest, and subsequently prices on ebay went through the roof. It appears that things have calmed down a bit with the breakthrough of digital.

I'm sure this will also be the case for rangefinders three years from now.
 
Just won an auction for a very nice looking Oympus 35ED for 24 dollars !! I hope I will be as excited when I see it in person :)


(The Olympus 35ED came out in 1972 and is a coupled rangefinder with built in cds meter. The lens is a 38/2.8 lens with four elements in three groups (D.Zuiko)).
 
Yes it can!! :)

I'm actually looking for some sort of display cabinet. Hopefully I will have a full range of all Olympus 35 (60-70's) cameras this year and it would be nice to be able to have them somewhere nice.
 
I read a bunch of posts on Ebay last night, all saying about the same thing. "Camera in excellent condition, Selling because I have too many and just can't use this one."

That will be us some day.
 
Kind of having 100+ TV channels and spend all day recording with your VCR. A lot of recorded movies and programs and no time to watch them !

It's really easy to be caught by eBay, one must be careful !
 
The $13 Yashica GSN arrived today. I just checked it over pretty good and everything looks like it is working well. I think I will put a roll of film into it and go for a little walk. It came with a case, in distressed condition like all of them are now 25+ years later, and the instruction book. I guess I will read that later. Fingers crossed, so far it looks like money well spent.
 
rover said:
I read a bunch of posts on Ebay last night, all saying about the same thing. "Camera in excellent condition, Selling because I have too many and just can't use this one."

That will be us some day.
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Sadly, it already is for me.:confused: But I just don't know what I would be willing to give up. Maybe one of the 9x12's? Maybe? Naaaghh! At least not until I have had a chance to put it through it paces. Oh! What to do, what to do!!??:D
 
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