Thumper
08-02-2015, 11:07 AM
When I got into photography, it was so long ago my 35mm Canon AE-1 SLR was the greatest thing going. To be honest, it didn't hold my interest and I eventually sold all my high dollar stuff and stuck with little point & shoot cameras from there on out.
BUT ... at these estate sales, I still get excited when I find that old stuff. I've scarfed up some real losers as my brain is stuck in the 70's and I remember how expensive that crap was back in the day. Problem is, I compare that to when I paid close to $6000 for my first computer back in '95. Of course some of it was all the accessories needed to get set up, but I paid through the nose for that top of the line 66MHz processor, eight megabytes of RAM and a 320-megabyte hard drive PC that I thought was the cat's meow! 'Course it's worth about 35-cents today! :(
Anyway, the reason I ask, I have a sale coming up and the guy was supposed to have been an amateur photograher (hobbiest) and judging from the pics I've seen, he was into landscapes. I have pics of a few of his cameras, but heck, I have no clue if there's any money there. I know there's very little to go on here, but figured I'd throw it out here to see what you think. Anything at all worth getting excited about here.
http://pictures.estatesales.net/952734/22524254/1.jpg
http://pictures.estatesales.net/952734/22524253/1.jpg
http://pictures.estatesales.net/952734/22524251/1.jpg
http://pictures.estatesales.net/952734/22524256/1.jpg
http://pictures.estatesales.net/952734/22524258/1.jpg
BUT ... at these estate sales, I still get excited when I find that old stuff. I've scarfed up some real losers as my brain is stuck in the 70's and I remember how expensive that crap was back in the day. Problem is, I compare that to when I paid close to $6000 for my first computer back in '95. Of course some of it was all the accessories needed to get set up, but I paid through the nose for that top of the line 66MHz processor, eight megabytes of RAM and a 320-megabyte hard drive PC that I thought was the cat's meow! 'Course it's worth about 35-cents today! :(
Anyway, the reason I ask, I have a sale coming up and the guy was supposed to have been an amateur photograher (hobbiest) and judging from the pics I've seen, he was into landscapes. I have pics of a few of his cameras, but heck, I have no clue if there's any money there. I know there's very little to go on here, but figured I'd throw it out here to see what you think. Anything at all worth getting excited about here.
http://pictures.estatesales.net/952734/22524254/1.jpg
http://pictures.estatesales.net/952734/22524253/1.jpg
http://pictures.estatesales.net/952734/22524251/1.jpg
http://pictures.estatesales.net/952734/22524256/1.jpg
http://pictures.estatesales.net/952734/22524258/1.jpg