Mudman
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A Rolleiflex Automat EV-MXS
$40
$40
I went to a garage sale and I got home with...
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JeffL
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Small local auction - Minolta SRT201 with standard lens and a Zeiss Ikon 6x4.5 folder with Tessar together for (I think) $15. Both work great and the bellows are still light tight after about 80 years and the shutter is fine (amazing).
photovdz
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In Belgium, we call that "brocante"... a mix between the british car-boot sale and the french vide-grenier... but the main purpose is the same : taking stuff from one attic to the other... creating wealth in the meanwhile (sort of national sport around here ;-) .
Very rare to find photographic stuffs in brocantes for me... I hate to wake up early on sunday mornings.
Very rare to find photographic stuffs in brocantes for me... I hate to wake up early on sunday mornings.
nikon_sam
Shooter of Film...
I hate passing a garage/yard sale because I just know that there's great camera gear there and the sellers have no idea what it's worth and just want it gone...
Roger Hicks
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In France, 'brocante' is slightly more grand or pretentious than 'vide-grenier': it implies (often misleadingly)that there's some decent stuff there.
Cheers,
R.
Cheers,
R.
Brian Legge
Veteran
My best is probably an Olympus RC, RD and SP for $3 each. The RD and SP both need a CLA though so this will be a quite expensive little 'best find'. I'm really excited about the RD as I'd been looking for one for months after finding a DC.
Fortunately I also picked up a dozen other cameras - including a dead Contax IIIa and a small herd for Canonet 17s - for $3 each as well. Hopefully selling those, I'll manage to break even in the end.
Fortunately I also picked up a dozen other cameras - including a dead Contax IIIa and a small herd for Canonet 17s - for $3 each as well. Hopefully selling those, I'll manage to break even in the end.
Fujitsu
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Good find! I was looking for Leicas recently at the flea market. One girl had a very beautiful M4 hidden among other photographic stuff. She totaly did not know anything about cameras. Asking price was around 300 Euros but I would have preferred a chrome M4.
How much are the M4s going on eBay these days?
Pompiere
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I read somewhere that the only difference between a yard sale and trash pick-up is how close it is to the curb.
batterytypehah!
Lord of the Dings
Ah, but there is one intermediate step: The "Free" pile after the yard sale. I once found a perfectly good Konica SLR kit. The body is a lowly FP-1 but I like the lens a lot (AR 50/1.8) and the bag was really nice, too.