Help identifying the value of these film cameras at my local pawn shop

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dandunord

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Hi, I just recently found this pawn shop in my city where the guys have a bunch of film cameras piled up. Since lockdown, he has only opened the shop once for me to buy a few expired rolls and found a Contax g1 which I got for about 30$ (he doesn't know much about cameras plus my country has a bad economy).

This guy has so many cameras and lenses that I couldn't identify them all so I took a few quick pictures of the shop window. Since I'm not a film camera expert I would like some help to identify at least the most valuables~quality to use, of the cameras on sight.

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That is a lot of camera gear ! Too many to really give much accurate advice I think.
What many folks do is pick a few and look them up on Ebay. Under advanced search, list the camera in question and look for sold prices on closed auctions. Of course it would be best if you could test them to see that they function properly.
As for the most useable, look at the Nikons, Pentax, Canon and other well known brands.
The Chinon in one of the photos is not well known but they are capable cameras.
I am sure other folks will chime in here with more advise for you as well. :D
 
The Chinon CE memotron is not a very common Chinon camera and if it has the 55mm Chinon lens then it is a real bokeh-lishus lens like the ones on the older Chinon SLR cameras and their Chinon 55mm f1.7 lens.
 
Suggest clarifying your aim.
- A camera to use
- A shelf queen to adore
- Something to clean up and sell

I have bought a bunch of cameras because I like looking at them and playing with them. Many fewer actually to use. Buying what might be a bargain to make $ reselling; you have to be very disciplined to make this work.

Good luck with all this. Looks like a very interesting lot of cameras. Reminds me of the 2nd hand shops in Tokyo.
 
I'd look closer at all the TLRs, the Minox C, SX70, and then see what Rollei is in the black leather case (Rollei 35 maybe). Also check the brown leather cases (Retinas maybe and a Voigtlander). And out of curiosity figure out what that is next to the YashicaMat.

Shawn
 
ColSebastianMoran said:
Suggest clarifying your aim.
- A camera to use
- A shelf queen to adore
- Something to clean up and sell

I have bought a bunch of cameras because I like looking at them and playing with them. Many fewer actually to use. Buying what might be a bargain to make $ reselling; you have to be very disciplined to make this work.

Good luck with all this. Looks like a very interesting lot of cameras. Reminds me of the 2nd hand shops in Tokyo.
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You're right, mostly I'm looking for a camera to use and something clean up and sell.. since i can get them at a good price
 
I cannot put a value on these cameras, not knowing their condition or whether they're even functional, but the ones that interest me are:

Photo 2: the Nikkormat in the center and the black Pentax Spotmatic at bottom right. There seems to be a medium format camera left of center that I'd look at.

Photo 4: Canon AE-1 - a decent amateur camera and lens.

Photo 5: Polaroid SX-70 - film for this camera is expensive - real Polaroid film is no longer available, but there is a re-make by "Polaroid Originals" (formerly the Impossible Project).

Photo 6: the two black Spotmatic cameras look worthwhile - one is a Spotmatic II.

Photo 7: the Pentax ME and the
MX are nice compact cameras; the MX has a nice viewfinder display

Photo 9: Canon AE-1 again

Photo 10: Canon A-1 with motor drive; Olympus Pen half-frame right of center.

Photo 11: Rolleiflex at lower left is definitely worth looking at.

Photo 12: Rolleiflex with meter - also well worth looking at.
 
Almost all of the cameras, even good ones like the Nikkormat or Chinon aren't worth more than $25 to $30. Great to use if working but not any profit to resell. The Rolleiflex, if working properly, is worth money. The other medium format (which is a Bronica, can't tell what model) is probably worth something - if working, looks well used.


I think Waldo is in Pic #4
 
shawn said:
It is upside down in front of the YashicaMat and the Kodak Reflex.

https://postimg.cc/mPh0sqTb

Shawn
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Ah - so it is. I was distracted by the $1,000,000 bill.

As others have written, the Rolleiflexes are the possible jewels of the batch and are worth investigating.

Other than those, there may be a half dozen cameras there which would be good for everyday use with no worries regarding damage or loss. I don't think there's any money to be made by buying any of these and reselling.
 
I wish pics 4 and 9 were much bigger as I think I can see a 'chrome'/cheap silvery plastic 'Canon' with white writing on a black background on it's pentaprism at the bottom of each pic. it looks very much like one of those cheap plastic toy cameras that's been named to confuse the unknowing into thinking it's a proper camera and not one that has a curved film pressure plate, but I suppose it could be a more 'experimental'/weird design actually made by canon.
 
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