Clark.EE
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alienmeatsack
Well-known
For the price it went for, I'd guess it's a fake, stolen or a replica perhaps. A truely genuine prototype should go for a huge chunk of change to me anyway, even if it didn't work. Maybe it's an abused display model that is non-working, who knows.
It looks gawdawful, the leatherette and gaps in the edges look suspect by themselves. Almost like someone wanted to make a fake yet real looking camera.
I don't know the M240 or the M8/M9's well enough to know whats what. My first thought was that someone took a M8 and made it look like an M240 and then played with the look enough to make it feel like it was a prototype and thus "incomplete" to add to the believability.
lol. Funny the stuff people will sell on eBay.
It looks gawdawful, the leatherette and gaps in the edges look suspect by themselves. Almost like someone wanted to make a fake yet real looking camera.
I don't know the M240 or the M8/M9's well enough to know whats what. My first thought was that someone took a M8 and made it look like an M240 and then played with the look enough to make it feel like it was a prototype and thus "incomplete" to add to the believability.
lol. Funny the stuff people will sell on eBay.
pieter
Established
Though I have never dealt with them myself, I think Schouten Select has a good reputation as a second hand camera store. Although they are very expensive, they do have weird or rare items.
It looks exactly like a bunged up production M typ240. The 4444443 serial number may be indicative of a very early item.