apologies for my inadvertently causing confusion
( assumption is the parent of all f _ _ K ups )
I was referring to Olympus manuals.
Of the others, I know only that they exist ...
David
Walt Wayman wrote:
> 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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