What have you just BOUGHT?

shawn said:
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Pentax 6x7 MLU with TTL prism and 105mm f2.4. Camera and finder are mint not even a mark on the bottom of the body, the lens is more of a user but glass is good. Think the prism is overexposing by about 2 stops and will be starting a test roll momentarily.

45/4 bouncing around the USPS trying to be delivered.

Shawn
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Very nice. I have my strap attached the very same way. When I bought it, the previous owner had the strap attached to the upper and lower lugs on the opposite side! I have no idea how they were able to use the camera that way - the strap interferes too much - but I guess it works for some people.
 
I picked up a very nice looking 1939 Contax II with a 1938? Zeiss Sonnar 2/50 for a low price, but there are issues. One of them would require to replace the film winding unit according to a local repair guy. But Oleg says he can fix it without parts. It will be interesting to see, I will have to ship it in a covert manner to avoid him having to pay twenty thousand Euros to receive it. The lens has a dent to the filter ring, is there a way to rectify it and possibly enable me to mount a filter or hood? It has quite a lot of cleaning marks, so I will test it to see if it's worth spending money on.


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A magnifying eyepiece -- Nikon DK-17M, that were previously discontinued and are now very hard to find at a reasonable price. I got one in like new condition with a new eyecup for $50, free shipping. The eyepiece has a magnification of 1.2x, but since it effectively increases both the horizontal and vertical size of the viewfinder image, the image is effectively 1.44x larger. This is perfect for my Nikon F6, as this is about as large as it can get while still allowing one to see all the viewfinder displays readily. Makes manual focusing much easier. Have another one for my Nikon d850 -- works great for this camera too. Shame Nikon discontinued this item as it works great and is of very high quality.
 
Kai-san said:
… Oleg says he can fix it without parts. It will be interesting to see, I will have to ship it in a covert manner to avoid him having to pay twenty thousand Euros to receive it. …
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20000€? Why? Unless he is on the Moon. What are the actual shipping costs? Is there some sort of “value added“ tax involved in this transaction? If so, I‘d like to what this value added is and who added it 🙂
 
Pál_K said:
20000€? Why? Unless he is on the Moon. What are the actual shipping costs? Is there some sort of “value added“ tax involved in this transaction? If so, I‘d like to what this value added is and who added it 🙂
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Believe it or not, such are the customs rules in Slovakia. Anything sent for repair will be put in a socalled "customs storage" and the recipient will have to pay €20000 in deposit to get it out of this storage. This has been confirmed to me by Oleg and another repair guy in Slovakia (Gejza Dunay). I have never experienced anything like this in other EU countries like Germany, Britain (when they were part of the EU) and The Netherlands. So this is most likely specific to Slovakia. The shipping cost to Slovakia from Norway is €30.
 
Kai-san said:
Thanks Malcolm, I will get one of those. For that price it's well worth having in the toolbox.
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Just be aware that these can damage filter threads -- I'm not sure how you can avoid that happening. Perhaps putting tape on the threads will help, though I've never found that particularly effective myself.

One tip -- get a hose clamp and tighten it down around the outside of the filter ring, to prevent the filter ring from being deformed outward as you tighten the vise tool.
 
KoNickon said:
Just be aware that these can damage filter threads -- I'm not sure how you can avoid that happening. Perhaps putting tape on the threads will help, though I've never found that particularly effective myself.

One tip -- get a hose clamp and tighten it down around the outside of the filter ring, to prevent the filter ring from being deformed outward as you tighten the vise tool.
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Good tip, I was a bit concerned too about damaging the filter ring on the opposite side. As for the threads I'll try to put a thick double sided tape in between.
 
I'm in love with the old Nikon 12 mp full frame sensor and I just took possession of a very nice Nikon D3. It was advertised as being in excellent condition and the price was right. It really does look nearly new. I just checked the shutter activation count and it's less than 3600 clicks. Nikon says the D3 should be able to handle 300,000. That should take me right on through til my ride to the mortuary.

Did I do good or not?
 
Dogman said:
I'm in love with the old Nikon 12 mp full frame sensor and I just took possession of a very nice Nikon D3. It was advertised as being in excellent condition and the price was right. It really does look nearly new. I just checked the shutter activation count and it's less than 3600 clicks. Nikon says the D3 should be able to handle 300,000. That should take me right on through til my ride to the mortuary.

Did I do good or not?
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I think you did more than good 👍
 
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