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Peter - 18 Nov 2007 21:38 GMT

I am thinking of selling my Olympus kit.

Looking at how much things go for, most lenses go for under £30 but
occassionally some go for a lot more. I've just seen a Tamron 500mm
mirror lens go for £102 - can anybody suggest why?

Why would people buy the old kit - is it because it's a cheap way to
do decent photography? Decent film is not cheap, by the time it is
developed etc.

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newshound - 18 Nov 2007 22:27 GMT

> Looking at how much things go for, most lenses go for under £30 but
> occassionally some go for a lot more. I've just seen a Tamron 500mm
> mirror lens go for £102 - can anybody suggest why?

Well coupled to a compact digital, CCTV or webcam that would give you a very
long but compact telephoto, e.g. for wildlife photography.

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Chris Savage - 18 Nov 2007 23:18 GMT

> I am thinking of selling my Olympus kit.
>
> Looking at how much things go for, most lenses go for under £30 but
> occassionally some go for a lot more. I've just seen a Tamron 500mm
> mirror lens go for £102 - can anybody suggest why?

There's no prediciting what things will go for. But Sundays are always
more expensive, I always sell stuff on 10 day auctions ending on a
Sunday evening.

> Why would people buy the old kit - is it because it's a cheap way to
> do decent photography? Decent film is not cheap, by the time it is
> developed etc.

As long as the camera, lens whatever, works then why wouldn't someone
buy it? There is still a large constituency of folk who prefer to shoot
film and shun digital. I'm not one of them but I do shoot 120 and 5x4.

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Fred Anonymous - 19 Nov 2007 18:24 GMT

>I am thinking of selling my Olympus kit.
>
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> do decent photography? Decent film is not cheap, by the time it is
> developed etc.

Hello Peter.

I'll buy second-hand so that I can get the equipment that I could not afford
from new.

I do buy only from camera dealers and not from eBay. It's just my
preference - I prefer to support the dealers,

Regards, Ian.

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DB4 - 28 Nov 2007 17:41 GMT

There are also many of us that spend up to 8 hrs a day stuck in front of a
ruddy computer and can think of nothing more unbearable than coming home to
more of the same as a consequance of our interests!

like many, I shoot digital on a modern (Nikon D80) SLR but get more of a
'thrill' from the Mamiya 645 that I can now afford second hand. There's
something about the anticipation of a 'latent' image on film that you just
don't get with digital. With my Nikon, I just find the hard drive on my MAC
getting more and more cluttered with RAW files that I REALLY DO intend to
'develop' at some point...

...when I can find the stamina to endure an hour or so per image on the
computer. Just feels so much like being at work though and where's the fun
in that.

I feel there is much truth in the quote I heard recently in the BBC's
'Genius of Photography documentery series '...we are at risk of being the
most unrecorded generation'.

My plethora of digital images are souless, uninspiring and warrant deletion
except for the fact that I'm not sure if one day I may be able to rescue
'something' from them. The few crusty old photographs my mother keeps
however are a delight to my sister and me and will be treasured for the rest
of our lives.

Funny, but the stained old family snaps of other peoples families (even
complete strangers) carry the same facination for me as well?

Dennis

On 19/11/07 18:24, in article fht1r1$s5f$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk, "Fred
Anonymous" <anon@anon.org> wrote:

>> I am thinking of selling my Olympus kit.
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> Regards, Ian.

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Duncan - 28 Nov 2007 19:57 GMT

I quite agree. Even to the point where a whole tranche of social history
will be lost due to the problems taking pictures of people and places and
the real innocence of youth without it being misconstrued to being anything
untoward.

> There are also many of us that spend up to 8 hrs a day stuck in front of a
> ruddy computer and can think of nothing more unbearable than coming home
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>>
>> Regards, Ian.

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Nick Maclaren - 28 Nov 2007 21:01 GMT

|> I feel there is much truth in the quote I heard recently in the BBC's
|> 'Genius of Photography documentery series '...we are at risk of being the
|> most unrecorded generation'.

Don't bet on it - this is another aspects of "It was all better in my
day." And I have been an old fogey for years :-)

I have a large number of old photographs taken by my father and
grandfather, many of quite serious historical interest, but most
are loose and unannotated. There is virtually nobody left who even
MET my grandfather (I didn't), and I was rather too young to be
able to annotate most of my father's.

Modern image collections aren't really all that different!

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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