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I'm going to a shop to see if it's worth anything. Am I wasting my time? I've a Ricoh KR-10 body, a couple of lenses (one a Sigma 28-80) and a panagor 10x converter for close ups.
Body won't be worth much I suspect. Old lenses can still be worth a bit if they were decent at the time (ie fast primes/zooms) but standard kit type lenses won't be worth much at all.
Sorry, but yes, you are. Stick it on ebay and hope for £20-ish on a very good day. You almost literally can't give this stuff away now, unless it's older, metal-bodied Nikons or Canons (or proper Voigtlander or Leica stuff!).
I'll give you £20 posted for the lot.
I might take you up on that derek!
Tis your decision. Paypal?
Polaroid cams go for a small fortune still.
Derek if you are serious then I could probably do that delivered if you're not in too much of a hurry?
I'm on pmyers (talktalk net @ with a dot!)
Okay squire.
I'll make the payment.
I'll email you my work's delivery address.
Cheers
Potentially a half-witted question, but I've got a couple of lenses from a Nikon 35mm, are there any digital SLR bodies which would be compatible with them, or is all 35mm kit unusable with digital?
Legoman,
Which lenses?
Can't remember off the top of my head, will have a look when I get home
Should work on any Nikon DSLR but with a conversion factor of 1.6 if used an an aps c size sensor IE a 50mm 1.4 lens will become a 75mm F1.4 lens
Lenses are both Nikon AF Nikkor, one is 70-300mm other is 28-80mm
was going to eBay them but wasn't sure if they were worth anything.
Should work on any Nikon DSLR but with a conversion factor of 1.6 if used an an aps c size sensor IE a 50mm 1.4 lens will become a 75mm F1.4 lens
Which is true of ANY lens, not just old pre-digital ones of course. Conversion factor is 1.5 (actually 1.54).
Lenses are both Nikon AF Nikkor, one is 70-300mm other is 28-80mmwas going to eBay them but wasn't sure if they were worth anything.
They are indeed worth something, though not a lot. If the 70-300mm is the ED version it would help. People even buys lenses for parts (particularly the chips out of AF lenses to convert old Nikon manual lenses to modern metering).
Old AF lenses are fully compatible with some Nikon DSLR's on the newer consumer bodies that isn't the case as they need a lens which has the integrated AF motor. These I think don't and have the little socket for the AF motor drive.