Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Adding to my vintage collection

Last Saturday, Kamal (fellow photographer, my wife's ANU schoolmate and Malaysian) and I went to the Canberra Camera Collectors sale at the Irish Club here in Canberra. I have never been to one so naturally I was excited to see what was on sale. I had no intention to buy anything (because I am so poor) but limited myself to $20 if I did so. There were many vintage stuff and also some earlier DSLRs.





Price was very reasonable and I was tempted, plus an auction at the end of the sale was really good.


The auction

At the back of my head, I was thinking, "Where in Sabah will I get these kinds of cameras?" So, with my 20 bucks, here is what I got.


Got this from the auction for 5 bucks


And what I thought was a good buy was this 1961 Yashica J series in working condition.


$10 for this

The remaining $5 was spent on a vintage leather strap for my Minolta Hi-Matic G, which I bought at the Salvation Army Thrift store or Salvo's.

1 comments:

Jason Sparks said...

the yashica will prove to be a great carry around camera. you can tuck it anywhere. the vintage lens will surprise you with it effects and it's own style of patina. have some great fun.

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