Henryzx
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Sorry, this isn't a rf, but I have to let it out.....saw this beauty seating inside the glass case with whole bunch of Time "color optic" cameras lol. an OM-4t in pristine condition (I couldn't tell from new) with 2 zuikos, 1 50mm f1.4 and 1 50mm 3.5 Macro, plus a brown leather case...for $120. I just couldn't believe my eyes. Anyhow just want to share my t with yall. btw, also got a brand new vivitar 285HV flash for 10 bucks....couldn't ask for a better day. 
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sweathog
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Well ruddy done.
capitalK
Warrior Poet :P
I spend far too much time at thrift stores hoping for the same kind of find. I've done pretty well but nothing that good!
Stop telling people, it'll be more competition for us when there's more bargain hunters
Stop telling people, it'll be more competition for us when there's more bargain hunters
pesphoto
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very nice find. Last weekend I found an argus brick in an antiques store for $7.
Almost scored a YAshica GSN as well, but it was a mess so I left it behind.
Almost scored a YAshica GSN as well, but it was a mess so I left it behind.
raid
Dad Photographer
I bought a Voighlander Prominent with 50/1.5 Nokton and 35mm/4.5 plus viewfinder for $75.
The OM4T used to be my goal to find ...
The OM4T used to be my goal to find ...
Henryzx
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It was so insanely unreal at the time I paid for it, my hands was shaking as if I was stealing something from the store...lol...in the course of 10 yrs since I started to visit those thrift stores, this is the second luck and best so far...the first time was a $5 35RD.
I spend far too much time at thrift stores hoping for the same kind of find. I've done pretty well but nothing that good!
Stop telling people, it'll be more competition for us when there's more bargain hunters
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Nikon Bob
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Good scoup on a great camera and lenses.
Bob
Bob
sooner
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I think you are morally obligated not to hang on to the camera...so send it to me! Good find, and happy hunting. Just before seeing your post, I was wondering if the financial crisis will have all kinds of people dumping product on the Bay. Who knows, we'll all be trying to eat our cameras if this keeps up.
oftheherd
Veteran
I gotten a few bargains myself, so I know the rush you felt. Congrats!!!
charjohncarter
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Great, a good deal, but the flash was the best deal.
Henryzx
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lol...I almost felt off my chair reading ur comment....send it to you...NO....eat my cameras (if there's a depression)...YES..lol
alan davus
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Mongrel, hope the bloody thing is broken. If not enjoy it and good luck. Mongrel.
Henryzx
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David Murphy
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Every once in a while one can score big at a thrift store. I picked up a Leica I (a) for $20 once (it was worth $400-500). These deals are few and far between however.
Al Kaplan
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In a lot of thrift stores you can make an offer. Ask them to throw in the flash and maybe take $100 for everything after they turn down your initial offer of $75. After all, it's just a "junky old film camera" without a built in flash. (Don't ever let them see the gleam in your eyes!)
Henryzx
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see that I don't have the bargaining skill...for the OM-4t of this condition with those two lenses, I'd take it in a heart beat even if they asked for $220..let alone asking to include the 285hv..lol...like I said, I felt like committing shop lifting at that time ..lol...
Spyderman
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OMG !
I paid € 200 for mine... :bang:
OM-4Ti is THE best manual focus SLR camera in the world. Enjoy it.
I paid € 200 for mine... :bang:
OM-4Ti is THE best manual focus SLR camera in the world. Enjoy it.
kuzano
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Mutually agreed Oral Consensual Shoplifting>>>
Mutually agreed Oral Consensual Shoplifting>>>
No Crime!!! Ask and ye may receive.
I picked up a Canon EF (The Black Beauty) in Excellent Plus condition. I never use the word MINT, but .......
No brassing and a 1.4 lens with cap. Everything worked. One of the few excellent SLR cameras using mercury 625 cells that has circuitry to adjust for later 1.5 batteries designed in.
$60.
Eventually sold it for $300.
I am never to proud to be seen in a Goodwill Super Store. It's incredible how many fine things some people donate.
Mutually agreed Oral Consensual Shoplifting>>>
No Crime!!! Ask and ye may receive.
I picked up a Canon EF (The Black Beauty) in Excellent Plus condition. I never use the word MINT, but .......
No brassing and a 1.4 lens with cap. Everything worked. One of the few excellent SLR cameras using mercury 625 cells that has circuitry to adjust for later 1.5 batteries designed in.
$60.
Eventually sold it for $300.
I am never to proud to be seen in a Goodwill Super Store. It's incredible how many fine things some people donate.
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Platinum RF
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I pick up a New Om4Ti in the box in a trash can, still have the original stick. It is the orginal Titanum color not black. I am hoping I can pick upo a occean blue jem stone some day If I am keeping dig artound the trash.
JohnTF
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I hope more generous than incredible, that said, I donate clothing, some of which has the tags on it, I just did not return it, so better to go to the thrift shops, especially warm stuff in the winter. I also arranged for a donation of a $10,000 mini lab to the local high school.
If you walked in to a camera shop with this rig, they might offer you $25, so perhaps the person who donated it did just that and thought better to donate it.
I have a lot of cameras, read, a lot, and many do not look like much, in fact many are not much, but I have no illusions that someone will access and rationally sell it all when I disappear someplace.
I just tell my friends to watch for the yard sale, all those old Fuji's and Lickas, will be outside, am hoping it does not rain, and hoping the people who get the stuff will enjoy and post. Would be nice if the bits and pieces end up with the right cameras.
I sometimes sit behind a table at a camera show, and I try hard to balance the risk of buying something used and a problem child and the potential for something very enjoyable. Have bought some clunkers, (Anyone need some Mamiya 35mm camera lenses?) but have bought some bags of goodies at a hundred dollars more than others were offering.
The M3 with three lenses and accessories for $500 comes to mind, but I did have the camera CLA'd, traded what I did not "need", and kept the rest -- it happens, and this story is not old enough to have grown-- " Well I bought that M6 for $50, and he threw in the Thambor, Tom A winder, a hundred rolls of film, and an MG TD to put it in" He was gettilng offers like $200, he wanted $500.
It is better than Vegas. Good buyers count on doing it at almost every show.
They announced that people who parked on the grass had to move their cars, so I watched a table while Hunter went to move his car, he returned with a good size box of SM Leicas and lenses, the guy did not want to pay to get in to the show, so he sold them for the asking price in the parking lot for $100. He did not even try to talk him down. ;-)
Good buyers pay a bit more at a show, KEH's buyer at the last show spent $10,000 or so for equipment KEH will sell for $30,000.
And finally, I hope when people get these deals, I hope they remember the beginners who would give them a good home when they are ready to part with them.
I hope A RFF member bought the Fed 5 with the Jupiter 12 that sold for $22 last night I ebay, I posted the URL in my post and refrained from bidding as it would be just for money if I bought it, and I would not care to drive the price up against a fellow "artist", plus I have one. Maybe he will give the body away to some beginner?
Am sure the thrift people put the money to good use, congratulations for the efforts that paid off.
Regards, John
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