What Photography Related Item Have You Bought or Sold This Week?

[Unframed Dave]

Some of you may know that I'm a bit of a collector. I've been after one of these for a few years, and this one came up at a fairly reasonable price in Japan. Unfortunately I underestimated the import tax, but by the time I'd found out how much it was, it was on it's way. Amazingly, it took less than 3 days to get here.

Minolta MC Rokkor 40-80m f2.8 Zoom Lens MC MD

I know there are a few on here that use vintage lenses via converters, if any have recommendations for this to sony, I'm all ears. When I'm mobile again, I want to take it out for a wet night in the city. One of it's characteristics is fabulous sunstars, which work well on dark skies and bright lights.

I'll bet a tenner, no one on here has touched one.

• SM-G981B
• 5.4 mm
• ƒ/1.8
• 1/50 sec
• ISO 160

• SM-G981B
• 5.4 mm
• ƒ/1.8
• 1/50 sec
• ISO 400

• SM-G981B
• 5.4 mm
• ƒ/1.8
• 1/50 sec
• ISO 640

• SM-G981B
• 5.4 mm
• ƒ/1.8
• 1/50 sec
• ISO 640

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Started to sell the old Nikon gear and some other bits we recently acquired. Managed to sell the Nikon 85mm Macro we had for more than trade in, so that's all good.

 

[Chris 3754]

Some of you may know that I'm a bit of a collector. I've been after one of these for a few years, and this one came up at a fairly reasonable price in Japan. Unfortunately I underestimated the import tax, but by the time I'd found out how much it was, it was on it's way. Amazingly, it took less than 3 days to get here.

Minolta MC Rokkor 40-80m f2.8 Zoom Lens MC MD

I know there are a few on here that use vintage lenses via converters, if any have recommendations for this to sony, I'm all ears. When I'm mobile again, I want to take it out for a wet night in the city. One of it's characteristics is fabulous sunstars, which work well on dark skies and bright lights.

I'll bet a tenner, no one on here has touched one.

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Very cool lens! I am an old Canon shooter, started in 1979 with an AE-1 in the Army in Germany. My son still shoots with that camera and I have been collecting Canon and Topcon for years. I use K&F converters on my A7iv with all of my legacy glass. They are well made and for my vanity bent they have a nice Sony-ish orange stipe that looks cool. More importantly, for they are good quality at a good price. Just remember you are inserting several CMs between the lens and camera so focal length scales will be off but who uses them anyway.

 

[maegis]

Hi. Two days ago I bought back my Sony A1 Mark I that I sold to a dear friend of mine a few years back. Also my old Sony 135 mm GM and Sony 70-200 Mark II. I added a lighly used Sony 16-35 Mark I and Godox V1 S flash. Looking forward to learning more from my fellow Alpha shooters.

All the best,
Matthias Aegisson

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Now sold a D7500, a Sigma 24-7- 2.8, a Canon Battery Grip I acquired and some macro rail bits. Quite surprising.
Our insane neighbour was going to skip a few items, because she couldn't be bothered to sell them, but didn't want to give them away (nut job). We looked into the values, told her and she still had no interest, so we kept hold of them. I have a lovely condition OM10 to move on as well, and an old SLIK 50 Tripod, but the biggest item, and I really can't believe she would have skipped it, is a Gitzo Carbon Tripod and Video Head. I'm keeping it!

 

[Unframed Dave]

Nice catch on the Gitzo. The carbons are seriously expensive bits of kit.

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Nice catch on the Gitzo. The carbons are seriously expensive bits of kit.

Or ridiculously overpriced bits of kit... £800-1000 for a tripod is insanity.

 

[Unframed Dave]

Or ridiculously overpriced bits of kit... £800-1000 for a tripod is insanity.

Kingjoy “Goliath” Tripod – Mc2 Photography Shop

shop.mc2photography.com

Allow 3 months for delivery!

Don't forget the head:

Kingjoy T50X Ball Head – Mc2 Photography Shop

shop.mc2photography.com

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Precisely! Honestly, it does beg the question... What makes a tripod worth £1000+ when you can buy an extremely good, equally stable, carbon tripod for less than £300, be it branded or otherwise. I get the Gitzo thing to an extent because some togs are complete gear whores, and need to have the best brands, but for 1k I would expect it to make its own way to the site and set itself up