#camera hunting

I went to Bic Camera to use the free wifi and mess around with the new Canon 5DIV. Well, I wasn’t the only one. I looked around a bit and found this. It’s the Fujifilm X-Pro 2. The build quality is solid, the electronic rangefinder is interesting but the clearest I have ever seen. The glass is fantastic and there is already a mount of Canon lenses.

Nice finds, but not thrifty enough

We stopped by an antique store and, as usual, the cameras were far too pricey. This Nikkormat Ft with 50mm f/1.8 was $100!  The shutter was slow and it was missing a cover on the bottom.  As much as I wouldn’t mind having one of these, $100 is far too much for a non-working example. I wasn’t able to test this Nikon L35AF, but I don’t doubt that it would work.  They wanted $35, which is too rich…

Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 35 522/24

I picked this one up for $10 on eBay.  It’s having some shutter problems, but I hope to be able to fix them!                    

Today, I checked out a new (to us) thrift store and found some low end point and shoots and a few odds and ends.

I bought a whole box of stuff marked darkroom equipment.  It was marked $15, but I got them down to $10.

Why I don’t usually buy cameras at antique stores

    Usually, these can be had for under $10.

  These are usually around $20.

I…