From: "Brian Walters"
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:39 -0400, "P. J. Alling"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/25/2010 6:58 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
> > From: Jeffery Smith
> >> I paid $35 for a Soligor 135, but that was in 1968.
> >>
> >> Jeffery On Sep 24, 2010, at 6:42 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>>> >>>> Albinar
> >>
> >
> > Paid $50 for a SMC-A 24f/2.8 ... 1980ish.
> >
> > Have to admit that at the time I didn't know any more than the guy at
> > the pawn shop.
> >
> Ignorance is sometimes an asset, if you;d know what it was he might of
> sensed it and refused to sell...
>
It's often worth checking out pawn shops.
A few years ago our local Cash Converters stocked a bit of interesting
camera gear, usually at an inflated price. On one occasion I noticed a
Tamron ES adapter for the Adaptall system for $25. As I'd been looking
for that adapter and the price was a bit less than what they bought on
EBay on the rare occasions that they appeared there, I was interested.
When I had a closer look, I found the adapter was attached to a Tamron
SP 1:3.5-3.8 24-48mm zoom - at which point I paid my $25 and walked out
of the shop as quickly as possible....
I still look around in them occasionally, but don't often find any good
deals.
I got an Auto 110 Super with flash, motor, 18, 24, 50, & 70 lens from a
pawnshop for $125 a couple years after I found that 24mm lens -
different pawnshop, mid-80s.
Got a 1965 Fender blackface Vibrolux Reverb amp for $300 from a pawnshop
one time - around 1990 or so.
Turned it on and it started whistling. Pawnshop guy says he's GOT to
have $300 for it, "'cause that's what I got in it; took it to my VCR guy
and he says get what you can; it's all tubes and they're obsolete."
So, I *reluctantly* paid him the $300 and took it off to a repair guy I
know, who did a $50 cap job on it, and it was beautiful. Not a happy
ending though, because I eventually let a musician friend talk me into
selling it to him.
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