What they'll do is tell you that ANYTHING you send them is in Bargain
condition, no matter if it is new in the box, so they can offer you 1/8 its
selling price, or less. Then if it is in good shape, they'll mark it as EX
or EX+ or whatever, and charge a fortune. DO NOT send them anything, the
will not price it honestly to you. Years ago I tried to sell them a near
perfect Mamiya C330 that they'd have sold for $600 back then (when old film
cameras were worth more than they are now). They tried to give me $50 for
it. I called them and the guy on the phone got snotty and claimed it was all
beat to hell. I told him to fuck himself and demanded he send it back. I
reminded him that I had photographed it showing the serial so I BETTER GET
MINE BACK. I did. I sold it locally for $550.
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On 1/18/09 10:32 PM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You might check KEH. There are a few Arca Swiss bodies here
> <http://www.keh.com/OnLineStore/ProductList.aspx?Mode=&item=0&ActivateTOC2=&BC
> =LF&BCC=7&ID=59&CC=2&CCC=1&BCL=&GBC=&GCC=>
> I didn't check for anything else that you have but it might be there.
> You can also check B&H, Adorama and perhaps a few other large stores
> with significant used sales departments.
>
> I've never sold anything to KEH but my guess it that you'll probably be
> offered about 1/2 of their selling price and condition can be extremely
> important to price. Selling it on your own elsewhere should get you
> somewhere in between.
>
> Yes, scanning film gets old. I haven't done it in a long time but need
> to get back to it. There's a huge backlog.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Andrew Dacey wrote:
>> Hey OMers,
>>
>> Been in lurk mode for far too long on the list, although I have poked
>> my head up a couple of times recently.
>>
>> As I mentioned in another recent post, I'm really starting to hear
>> digital's siren call. I still really love film but right now I lack
>> the facilities to do my own developing and printing and I also just
>> don't have the time. This means that I'm just not shooting much at
>> all lately and when I do I'm finding the task of scanning and editing
>> to share my work to be extremely tedious. This means that lately I
>> find that I'm just resenting photo and knowing how much work is in
>> front of me is a huge deterrent to getting me out shooting more. A
>> good example is that I was involved in a photo shoot back on Labour
>> Day weekend and I still haven't finished going through the shots from
>> that day, and a great many of them aren't even scanned yet. Let alone
>> the backlog of images that have never been scanned or added to my
>> website.
>>
>> This is really leading me to look toward digital as a way of solving
>> some of these problems. I realise that editing on the computer isn't
>> going to go away completely but I'm hoping that it's going to be more
>> adjusting colour and sharpening rather than ages removing dust spots.
>> The other big lure has been that full-frame bodies are starting to
>> become a little more prevalent and the prices have dropped quite a
>> bit, although still expensive.
>>
>> So with that in mind, I'm thinking that I should start unloading some
>> of my current gear and see if that couldn't go toward financing a
>> DSLR body. But, I've been out of my gear acquiring for a long time
>> and have no idea about the current state of prices.
>>
>> The big item that I'm thinking of unloading first is my Arca-Swiss
>> 4x5 kit, I bought it when I had disposable income hoping to get into
>> LF and it just hasn't seen much use ever. I've had it for several
>> years and it's time to accept the fact that I'm not using it and
>> could see the money it's worth better put to something I will use.
>>
>> I'm wondering what the prices are like for this stuff these days,
>> ebay isn't much help because Arca gear doesn't seem to come up very
>> often. Here's what I have:
>>
>> Arca-Swiss F monorail with fresnel and binocular viewer
>> Rodenstock Grandagon 75mm 4.5 in Copal 0 shutter plus matched centre
>> filter
>> Rodenstock Apo-Sironar-S 210mm 5.6 in Copal 1 shutter
>> Toyo 6x9 120 film back
>> 8 4x5 film holders
>>
>> This is more of a "what's this stuff worth" post rather than a "for
>> sale" post. I haven't had the time to put together a for sale listing
>> and post pics or anything like that so it is meant to just get a
>> sense of what I should list this stuff for.
>>
>> That said, if anyone wants a killer 4x5 kit, you know how to reach
>> me :-)
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