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To my knowledge, and I may well be wrong, India has nothing called EMS. I have always used registered air mail for shipping, which should cost no more than $15 US for a package containing a III. The Speed Post service is more expensive, but I have only ever used it for letters. Your seller sounds ignorant where camera equipment is concerned, or else is a person who cannot communicate well in English.
 
I thought perhaps they didn't know much about cameras, but all the equipment they have recently listed is photographic equipment. I believe EMS service and Speedpost are the same. At any rate, $60 US seems far too much for airmail, and also too much for speedpost as well. I assumed this and factored it into my bidding, it just concerns me when the seller charged so much for shipping and then claims they have to pay extra for the speedpost.
 
Over charing the S/H is, at least used to be what typical ebay seller would do or did. Now you can rate the seller base on what they charged for shipping, and if the score is low, the seller will lose power seller (or whatever that is) status so many sellers now charge moderate amount for shipping in exchange of good rating. So I guess you'll just have to give not so good rating for shipping charge part of feedback if shipping time ended up not so fast or actual postage was much lower than what you paid.
 
Luddite Frank, hang on in there and ignore the flighty digitals! I have hardly used mine since acquiring a Barnack! Keep the faith.
David
 
There are liars and cheats everywhere, iamzip. My country is no better than others, nor worse. I shall venture to say that those who sell photographic equipment do not necessarily know much about it, or anything at all.
 
payasam said:
There are liars and cheats everywhere, iamzip. My country is no better than others, nor worse. I shall venture to say that those who sell photographic equipment do not necessarily know much about it, or anything at all.
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That's a good point. Just because he's selling it doesn't mean he knows anything about it.
 
Let us know when it arrives and post some pics of it. Also, +1 for Youxin Ye. He just did a CLA on my IIIc, replaced the shutter curtains, and put in a new beamsplitter, for a very reasonable price, and did it all in a week! And he threw in a leather case too.

I'd be interested in hearing about the condition of the lens, too.
 
It's here! amazingly, everything seems to be working. Not that it couldn't use a CLA, but couldn't hurt to run a roll through either. The front RF window that appeared to be missing glass and a bezel has a square piece of glass behind the opening; is there another piece of glass that goes in front of this? bezel is definitely missing though, and the other RF window is cracked, but it's hard to tell when looking through it.

Biggest disappointment is the lens, it has fungus and looks like other stuff going on as well. So, who can I send the lens to?

I will post some pics later in the week when I have more time.
 
iamzip said:
The front RF window that appeared to be missing glass and a bezel has a square piece of glass behind the opening; is there another piece of glass that goes in front of this?
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There is a slip-on round wedge glass that fits in place them the bezel screws on over it..

iamzip said:
Biggest disappointment is the lens, it has fungus and looks like other stuff going on as well. So, who can I send the lens to?

I will post some pics later in the week when I have more time.
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I'd contact DAG for the lens cleaning..
 
Took me a while, but here are some pics. Upon playing with it some more, the shutter speeds appear to be way off - in fact, I'm not sure the shutter is opening at all. I told myself that if it didn't work, I would just try to resell it to someone who wanted to repair it, but now that I have it in my hands...

Well, how much does Youxin charge for a CLA, and how do I contact him?
 

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iamzip said:
Took me a while, but here are some pics. Upon playing with it some more, the shutter speeds appear to be way off - in fact, I'm not sure the shutter is opening at all. I told myself that if it didn't work, I would just try to resell it to someone who wanted to repair it, but now that I have it in my hands...

Well, how much does Youxin charge for a CLA, and how do I contact him?
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I have had Youxin Ye work on a lens and a camera for Me and he just updated the rangefinder glass so I can see better and this camera was a basket case
His price's are very resonable trust me on that an a lot of folks here use him:
his Email Youxin Ye <wye7@yahoo.com>

BTW he is leaving for china at the end of april 2010 so you best catch him before he leave's
 
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