This has been a month or two ago, but I don't recall bragging about this one to the list, so I guess I'll blather about it now. :)
Saw a "35 mm Pentax camera and two lenses" listed in the P&S category. Clicked on it, and it's obviously an ME SE (M-series body with brown leatherette). Had two zoom lenses of some sort in the auction, but I also noticed a little bitty tiny lens in the picture - I emailed the seller to ask about it, and sure enough it's the M40/2.8 pancake lens. I negotiated a better shipping rate with the seller (listing quoted an obscene amount) and still ended up paying less shipping than I thought. So all in all, I paid under $30 shipped for the following: ME SE body, _very_ clean, seems to work except frame counter died after the first test roll M40/2.8 with caps and box Soligor 28-80, already resold it on ebay, got back nearly 2/3 what I paid for the lot. Sigma 80-200 with a foggy element inside Vivitar 283 flash and sync cord Pile of misc filters, paperwork, accessories, etc. I love this little ME SE. It's just in such nice shape, and I'm rather partial to the brown leatherette. I can't help but wonder what a 43mm Ltd. would look like on it. I am curious about fixing the counter though. At first, it jammed past the "36", but careful prodding where the back closes and enables the counter allowed it to spin back to the start, but now it acts like it wants to advance, but doesn't catch and falls back to the start. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
