I apologize if I misled anyone into thinking everything there was scarce.
Certainly, none of the Olympus stuff is, and the prices are certainly a bit
high. For instance, he's got a BIN price of $20 on a couple of volumes of the
Time Life Library of Photography. I sniped the entire 17-volume set, plus
index, for $9.05, plus shipping, last October. I know the seller was
disappointed, but I wasn't. And I passed on the duplicates of the stuff I
already had for just the shipping cost.
However, I would definitely consider such things as an original Leica IIIc
manual or a Bolex H-16 Rex manual fairly rare, although certainly not quite in
the category of an ivory-billed woodpecker, which I'm extremely pleased to
learn is not really extinct after all. I had a Bolex H-16 back in the '60s,
and it was neat, and the ivory bill's cousins, the pileateds, live and nest in
our back yard, and they're neat too. Maybe I'll post a few pictures someday.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: David Carter <spotz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> $15 ( minimum ) seem a TRIFLE bit expensive, as these don't seem especially
> rare. I haven't had to pay much more than $5 for mine
>
> David
>
> Walt Wayman wrote:
>
> > A bunch of instruction manuals, some probably pretty scarce, plus a number
> > of
> odds and ends of interesting gear for sale here:
> >
> > http://stores.ebay.com/BILLSCAMERAS1938
> >
> > Most of the Olympus stuff begins on page 16, but there's a thing or two in
> other places.
> >
> > No connection, except I just did a BIN on the original manual for the
> > Mamiya
> RB67 C lenses, 50mm, 65mm, 127mm, 140mm macro, 180mm, 250mm, and 360mm. Now
> I
> just need to get the 250 and 360 to go with the manual. I think I really may
> be
> a gearhead after all. :-)
> >
> > Walt
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