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Found a little bag of gold...

  • 25-08-2010 1:22am
    #1
    chicken_food
    Closed Accounts Posts: 939 ✭✭✭


    So while I'm over in my girlfriends house messing around with my camera, her father comes over to visit and says he used to have alot of 'camera crap'. I said i'd love to see it someday-and didn't think anything else about it.

    So a week later, I show up to his house and there's this nasty smelling bag in the corner. After a while I ask 'what is that smell, smells like rotting fruit'. He opens up the bag and low and behold-this pristine Nikon FM 35mm film camera comes out. Then as I start playing around with it, he produces a few more lenses with it (CIMKO brand, which aren't the best apparently). But everything is in mint condition! I really want to take them out and put them to good use - BUT the G/F's father would love a DLR. So I'm half tempted to sell it for him and then get him a Canon. I really am torn between using it and selling it for him. I took it to a camera shop here in the states to make sure it was working etc and see if it needed anything replaced. The guy found the price sticker still on it, and said its probably only ever seen less then 10 rolls of film.(Not sure how he came to that conclusion, but he was amazed)

    So I've not got a
    Nikon FM Chrome
    Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8
    Cimko Mt Series 80-200mm 1:4.5
    Cimko Mt Series 28mm 1:2.8 Wide Angle
    Pentax Phase2 135mm 1:2.8
    Tamron 2x Teleconverter

    What to do....what to do!!


Comments

  • #2
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    chicken_food wrote: »

    What to do....what to do!!


    Take some photos.


  • #3
    joepenguin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭joepenguin


    You could just use it for a couple of weeks and then sell it on?
    How much would it all be worth anyway? You could always hold on to it for yourself and pick up a used 300d for him or something?


  • #4
    chicken_food
    Closed Accounts Posts: 939 ✭✭✭chicken_food


    Tbh thats what I was thinking of doing-I'd love to play around with it, as a Canon Ae-1 that I had a few months ago broke on me during my first roll. I had one of the tiny plastic cogs break off on me and seize up the inner wheels.

    I really want to get him a DSLR as he's playing around with my Xsi non stop. He loves the autofocus aspect as his eyesights getting worse. I'll try it out and play around with the Nikon (even though I'm a canon-fan-boy) and see what results I get. I love just having different available lenses handy-makes me want to go out and buy more for my canon, but just can't afford any!


  • #5
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,703 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    The FM isn't really a particularly valuable camera unfortunately. They typically go (just checking EBay) for about €100 or so by the looks of things.

    Never heard of 'cimko' before, but again looking on EBay they seem to go for next to nothing. There's a BIN for that 80->200 in K mount for £14.50.

    Personally I'd keep them and use them. The FM is a nice camera.


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