Free to a good home ...

[dmr]

Although I already have more cameras than can use (more on that later), I found on my doorstep today (well, my office doorstep), in a basket, wrapped in a blanket, with a note "please take care of me", I found a Nikon One Touch 35mm point-and-shoot.

I figure I'll give you nice folks here the right of first refusal. 🙂 I already have enough+1 cameras and I already have a nice P&S.

It's an auto-focus auto-exposure fixed focal length 35mm f2.8 lens, which really isn't bad for something like this. "Auto focus with macro close-up." The kit appears to be complete with box, case, instruction manual, and still-blank warranty form. 🙂 There's some dust and a few minor scratches but it looks like it's in good shape. It has built in flash and self timer, and, get this, parallax-correcting viewfinder. 🙂

It also has one very dead 223 battery and as I discovered when I popped open the back, one very dead roll of Kodak 400 film! 🙂 🙂 <LOL!> 🙂

The description from the former owner is: "This used to belong to one of my kids. It's been sitting around for a few years, but it used to take real good pictures. If anybody can use it ..."

When it was given to me, the lens "cap", actually a 2-blade shade type thing was open, and TFM says this is how you turn the camera on. My guess is that they were mid-roll, left the thing on, ran down the battery, and just left it as-is. TFM says that one battery should last 5 years (yeah, right). 🙂

Anyway, if anybody can use this, please PM me and I'll drop it in the mail. Otherwise I'll probably take it down to Salvation Army or Goodwill.

 

[GermanB]

I sent you a PM.

Barret

 

[dmr]

Thanks, I would prefer a stateside address, though, as I'm just going to eat the shipping and I want to avoid customs and any formality. 🙂

 

[dmr]

Sold! (claimed, taken) 🙂 Thanks, gang! 🙂

 

[Rob]

BTW I had a nice size picture of mine published in the Atlanta newspaper with the Nikon one touch 200 camera about 10 years ago..It has a good lens on it.

 

[dmr]

BTW I had a nice size picture of mine published in the Atlanta newspaper with the Nikon one touch 200 camera about 10 years ago..It has a good lens on it.

Oh, I'm sure it's not bad at all. It's just that I know I won't use it that much, and if somebody else can, all the better. 🙂

What's funny is that there was one person here at the office who was kind of interested and finally asked "how many megapixels is it?" LOL!

"Oh, you mean it's not digital?"

I almost thought of answering with the double-talk that's been discussed in another thread. 🙂

 

[titrisol]

Thanks DMR436!
My Rollei prego gave up the ghost (after many years of service) so if this camera works It'll be great!

 

[dmr]

Thanks DMR436!

You're very welcome. I'm glad somebody can use it. 🙂 It went out in the morning mail, about an hour ago. They guessed 5-6 business days for delivery. I hope that's ok.

My Rollei prego gave up the ghost (after many years of service) so if this camera works It'll be great!

I hope it does work. If nobody wanted it, over lunch I was gonna run and get a battery for it and try it, but since you jumped on it, I just boxed it up and sent it out.

You can post some of what you take with it. 🙂 🙂