pennington Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Hello all.<p>This thing has been sitting on my desk for over a year now and I still can't figure out which model it is. I found it at a show under a dealers table in a junk box, I pulled it out and he snapped at me "20 bucks". So I handed him a twenty and walked off, slowly I realized I hadn't even looked at it yet. Yeah I got this disease pretty bad too. After taking a good look at it I was pretty happy with twenty bucks. Lens cleaned up real well except for some defects in the coating on the front, bellows is light tight, shutter nice and snappy at all speeds from one second to 1/200. Lens is a four element tessar type 75mm f/2.8. It also had the mask in it for 6/4.5.<p>Now my real question is, Is this thing rare at all? I've searched the web and found very little info on these cemeras. Found a lot of web sites in languages other than hillbilly so they were no help.<p>If anyone has one or can tell me where to look I would appreciate it. I'll post a couple of pics and see if that helps.<p>And before you ask the answer is no. I'm afraid I haven't made the time to run any film through her yet.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pennington Posted March 4, 2005 Author Share Posted March 4, 2005 Here's the back.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene m Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 That's an Olympus Six IIIB. It's from around 1953. McKeown's lists the value at $180-$220. Not rare, but nice. Go use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene m Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Ooops. It's actually an Olympus <b>Chrome</b> Six IIIB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjamin_cochrane Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Real handsome camera. I like the clean top-deck and square finder. Post some photos with it, if you get a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conrad_poulin Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Nice camera. Looks like it has a nice clear lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pennington Posted March 4, 2005 Author Share Posted March 4, 2005 Thanks Gene, now I can sleep tonight. Don't know why it was buggin me so much. Hopefully I'll get off my sorry butt soon and try her out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_shriver Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 That's a fast lens for a camera of that type! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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