mfophotos Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 A few weeks ago, a colleague at work told me that he wished he'd known that I collected cameras, bacause he had put a couple of old ones into the dumpster a few weeks before. What!! Throw out cameras? I was bummed, wondering what they were. Today he stopped by with a small box containing accessories for an Asahiflex! A bellows, and a microscope adapter as well as a lens hood and filter. Now I am really bummed. An asahiflex would have been a real treasure! The other item was a lens froma Miranda - a 35mm f 2.8 in original tear-drop case. Wish he'd known about me collecting cameras earlier.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne_cornell2 Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 It pays to get the word around about your passion. A year ago a collegue came in and dropped a really nice black Pentax Spotmatic II with 1.4 lens on my desk. Said he didn't use it anymore and it might be of use to me. Camera is in great mechanical shape, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonsignore_ezio Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 But, there always are two sides to a coin. Spreading the word about my camera mania did indeed land some nice things onto my desk. However, it also caused a not insignificant number of friends, acquantances and relatives becoming persuaded that I would or rather should buy their garbage at astronomic collector's prices, and in quite a few cases it took a lot of diplomacy to turn such offers down without ruining an otherwise pleasant relationship. A lady who unfortunately is very close to my wife is still mad at me over my refusal to buy her late fater's Konica Autoreflex T3 (a nice camera, though) for what she regarded as a "fair price" well in excess of 1000 euro... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennybee Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Just tell'em you're poor... (and hide your Porsche in the garage). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennybee Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 I only get free stuff from poor people : a plastic AF Samsung with leaking battery and a no-brand 110 camera (if you can call it that - I've never seen anything simpler). That's the only time *I* threw cameras in the dumpster... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeivnitsky Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 I got a canonet ql gIII(from a guy on photo.net)and I might get a friends granfather TLR (if she finds it)which is probably a rolleiflex. Also got a soviet Start in mint condition,Zenit E,a leningrad 2 meter,,elicon 35cm camera and several point and shoots of good quality(one konica and one minolta) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_smullen Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 There are plusses and minuses to being known as the office camera buff. Sometimes you are given junque cameras by people who really think they are worth something. Other times you get to help, and that's fun. I was able to get a Minolta P&S camera of a co-worker going again after about 15 minutes of fiddling. For others I've had the pleasure of showing them how an SLR can be used to make pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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