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So I Found a Bunch of Camera Equipment...
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I was at my grandparents and just like I do every time I go there I look around the house for old cool stuff since their house is massive. I mentioned to my grandpa that I was looking to see if he had any tripods since he used to run an big photography company and he said his friend used to be a big photograher and when he died gave my grandpa all his stuff so after looking around for it my grandpa came out with 3 bags filled with lots of equipment. In the bags were 3 nice cameras, 6 lenses, a really nice tripod still in perfect condition which i'm going to use as my main tripod now and also a bunch of filters. So my question to you NS is would any of this stuff be worth much money.
For cameras I got a Contax 67mt, Contax 39 quarts and a Minolta Maxxum 7000.
For Lenses I recieved 4 very nice Carl Zeiss lenses, a 100-210mm, 55 mm and I'm not sure about the other two. I also recieved two Minolta lenses. One was 60-200 and I think the other was another 55mm. All the lenses have clear filters over them as well.
It was really interesting seeing all the old stuff and my grandpa said I should try to sell the stuff if it has good value because he has no use for it. It would be nice if I could trade it in at a national camera and get a new lens.
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Could you take picture maybe? What's the f stop range on the lenses?
And I'd love the zeiss 55 :)
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that is really cool how do the cameras work?
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They all work and I can take pictures tomorrow. If you want to make offers I'll concider it. I just don't have a good idea of how much the stuff is worth. I know it was amazing for its time though.
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Yeah, but sometimes companies make several lenses with the same focal length but some are faster than others. The faster lenses are generally worth more. That's why the f stop matters in determining value.
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if one of those other lenses is a planar 135mm f/2 I'll take it.
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thats so tight. lucky find.
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how much for the 100-210mm or the 60-200mm?
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I would consider the 100-210 dependent upon how fast it is.
Just take pictures of any identifying marks on the lenses, if there's info on the barrel that looks important, plus looking directly into the lens where the info is around the glass. That will give us that know more what we are looking at a good idea of what it is.
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and are you sure it's not a 70-210? I've been looking around and can't find a 100-210
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PAY IT FORWARD
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I'd love you forever of the zeiss 55
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I get back to my house late tomorrow and then Im gonna take them to national camera to see if I can get them to work with my camera and to see how much they're worth. So I'll have pics and more info once I get home. I dont have my laptop and I've been posting from my
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Here's the info you need.
what mount are they (what types of cameras will they naturally mount to)
focal length
min and max apertures
other info that's on the lenses
any scratches, haze inside the lens, dust in the lens (ask the camera person to look at it for you)
Pics please!
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since the two of the cameras are conatax, I beleive the zeiss lenses may be C/Y mount. This is a good mount because it is adaptable to Canon EF and Nikon mounts.
Again, if one of those lenses is a clean 135mm f/2 I'll pay proper for it.
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