jbylake
Dodging the Men in Black
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I'm always reading on this and other forums about someone scoring an old mint camera for 2 or 3 bucks at a flea market or someone just giving them one. I always thought to myself, "how come this #*(* never happens to me?".
Well an elderly couple that comes into the shop occasionaly, and happens to know that my second passion is amateur photography, brought me a little christmas gift. The story is that they bought it, but couldn't remember when, new, years ago, and never used it. It's an absolutely mint Ricoh 500G, although the sorry P&S photo's (all I had handy at the time) don't do it any justice. The original bag, manual, and flash came with it. The bag has deteriorated slightly over the years, and the manual, too, but the rest is mint, inside and out.
Did a lot of searches and the info concerning it's quality and collectbility varied widely. I just know it's a "compact" 35mm, and I think I got it narrowed down to circa 1970 -1972. Have four rolls of spare Ilford sitting around, so I'm going to take it out when it warms up a bit, and find out for myself. Value ranged from practically nothing to $175, but I don't really care about that, it's a gift, and I'll keep it. Again, apologies for the crappy P&S shot's, they really don't do it any justice, but here it is. If you know anything about these please share.
J.:mrgreen:
Well an elderly couple that comes into the shop occasionaly, and happens to know that my second passion is amateur photography, brought me a little christmas gift. The story is that they bought it, but couldn't remember when, new, years ago, and never used it. It's an absolutely mint Ricoh 500G, although the sorry P&S photo's (all I had handy at the time) don't do it any justice. The original bag, manual, and flash came with it. The bag has deteriorated slightly over the years, and the manual, too, but the rest is mint, inside and out.
Did a lot of searches and the info concerning it's quality and collectbility varied widely. I just know it's a "compact" 35mm, and I think I got it narrowed down to circa 1970 -1972. Have four rolls of spare Ilford sitting around, so I'm going to take it out when it warms up a bit, and find out for myself. Value ranged from practically nothing to $175, but I don't really care about that, it's a gift, and I'll keep it. Again, apologies for the crappy P&S shot's, they really don't do it any justice, but here it is. If you know anything about these please share.
J.:mrgreen: