Scott Loveless wrote:
Howdy, gang!
Recently, my wife effectively reduced my fun money fund to zero.
Something about the baby being due in October, yadayadayada. Anyway,
the enablements bug bit at about the same time. I'm considering
purchasing a 67. I'll have to liquidate the C220, both of it's
lenses, and probably the Crown Graphic to do so. KEH has a few
outfits consisting of the body, unmetered prism, and 105mm lens. My
estimated price range is probably going to leave me with a "bargain"
outfit. Does anyone have any experience buying "bargain" items from
KEH? Are there any specific questions I should ask about the 67's
condition before ordering?
Experience with KEH and "bargain" items in general yes, the 67 no.
My experience of bargain items from KEH is that they look like they've
been used, but they work fine.
So far that's applied to four cameras and some lenses. (The only camera
I bought from them that wasn't "bargain" was an "excellent" LX. It
looked new.)
The worst-condition bargain items I purchased from KEH were two
Rolleiflexes, vintage early 1950s according to the serial numbers, whose
shutter speeds ran a little slow and one of them (fortunately the one I
bought for my father, not the one I bought for myself) had a very strong
odour of tobacco smoke. Like I said, those were the worst and they're a
half-century old; furthermore they *do* work.
The MX, the Canonet and the lenses just looked like they'd been used a
little bit.
KEH has what looks to be a very reasonable return policy, but I've never
actually tried to return anything so I only know about it in theory, as
it were.
