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Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 191
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 09:21 am: | 
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Time for a bit of speculation here!
Yesterday our local "antiques and craft" (AKA tat) market had a trader on it I hadn't seen before, who had two cameras - a Coronet box camera and an Asahi Pentax outfit. I didn't buy it - I didn't even ask the price in case I was tempted! Too many already - 4 SLRs and nearly fifty in total...
But it got me wondering as to just what you'd call sensible value. Ebay is a guide, but condition, and associated bits and pieces, can really slew results.
So... Asahi Pentax camera, model uncertain - not the earliest with the two shutter speed dials, but pre-Spotmatic. Very good cosmetically - shutter appeared to work but not tested exhaustively (again - might have been tempted!). Lens was a Super-Takumar f2-point-something, can't remember the focal length. ERC and a case for the whole outfit, plus a couple of filters - UV and yellow, I think.
Came with the clip-on CdS meter. I rather think it hasn't been used for a great many years as there were two boxes of flashBULBS in the case.
So... should I have grabbed it and ran, or was I better off leaving well alone? (you can tell it's Friday afternoon...)
Adrian |
Zook
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Username: Zook
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 11:01 am: |
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Hi Adrian!
I have those same moments,sometimes going back and finding that my first impulse was usually the correct one.
I also buy & sell on Ebay,but never expect to pay or receive the actual value of an item.There are much better guides for that.
I think you were better off leaving it.
Doug |
Barnum
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Username: Barnum
Post Number: 53
Registered: 10-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 11:36 am: |
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Hello!
What was the asking price? |
Dgillette4
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Username: Dgillette4
Post Number: 235
Registered: 04-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 12:07 pm: |
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Sounds like an H3v or H1A, They are both good user cameras. I am curious to the price too. Don |
Adrian
Tinkerer
Username: Adrian
Post Number: 192
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 01:58 pm: |
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I didn't ask! Just in case I was tempted... Of course if it's there next week, and anyone is interested, I can always ask... I got the impression the dealer was a bit of a wide boy, but you never know - my people radar has some funny settings!
Don, a little Google suggests that you are spot on with the ID - I recall now that the lens had that strange cut-out as shown here: http://www.camerarepair.com/Used-Cameras/Pentax-SM-C210/Bodies-C212/Asahi-Pentax -SV-Honeywell-Pentax-H3v-P119/
Only difference is branding - obviously not a US import! |
Dgillette4
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Username: Dgillette4
Post Number: 236
Registered: 04-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 07:40 pm: |
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Good luck Adrian, you might just get a deal. These good mechanical cameras will out live any digital camera. They just need a little tlc or cla, he he .Don |
Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 193
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 02:29 am: |
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Interesting...
He hadn't sold it yesterday, was asking £20 for an old Coronet box camera... but £50 for the SLR! Weird logic... Don, it's an S1a (ie without the Honeywell branding) so you were spot on, and it's a 55m f2 lens.
Wonder if he'll sell it while I'm away (off away from camera shops and email for a week or so)
Adrian |
Dgillette4
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Username: Dgillette4
Post Number: 237
Registered: 04-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 - 08:41 am: |
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Hi Adrian: If you are a collector the S1A is a good addition, I remember a light meter that coupled to the shutter dial, There was a lot of copying back then, very early pentax to look for had the slow speed dial on the front of the body like the screw mount leica did. Still all in all it is a good user with great lenses. |
