Well, Not a huge haul for me. (One of the other Exakta collects snaffled a huge tray of cameras before I spotted it - Doh!)
Bought a Kodak Beau Brownie (Brown) (Loads of box cameras and folders to choose from through) for £15 (Plenty of cheaper box cameras around, but for the sake of a tenner i generally go for something a little better looking)
An ensign ful-vue (£8, slightly iffy shutter)
An Exakta RTL 1000 (Prism) with Oreston lens (£10, wanted it for the lens - the RTL is a horrible fake exakta)
Got myself 10 rolls of assorted horendously expired slide film for a tenner - XPro Fodder! and Ten rolls of lucky 100 in 120 for a tenner.
Not a huge haul for me. But I kept cash in my pocket and spent the money on a cosemtically good (IE Broken!) Kine Exakta on ebay (Yay
) Ummed and Arred over a Minolta SRT101 with a 1.4 and a Penticon Six with a Biometer and Flektogon, but couldn't justify £60 and £180 respectively to myself.
Worthwhile going, i spent about 4 hours in there, but honestly i think there was just too much to look through - i barely did any bargin box digging! (Although I have learnt to look at how cheap the cheapest camera on the table is, if its a fiver or a tenner, you know that the bargain box is going to have a significant quality of ****)
Traffic was dead easy on the way in. I then went to belfron tower (MMM Grungy Brutalist buildings) and back to the hotel, which was an absolutely mare. But hey, a car with a working engine that doesn't cut out on idle made the job a lot easier! Wish I'd done more in London, but i were fed up with the parking and didn't really fancy leaving the shiney new car in east london and getting the tube in!
Has anybody got any suggestions for places to get to from Chertsey for a bit of early evening photography?
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