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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    I don't even want to say how cheaply I found a Bessa II with a Heliar recently. Sold it to buy some fun brass lenses. I think I am posting in this thread too much lately..
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    Ha I don't think KEH is really much of a secret and you don't see me releasing my source code to my RSS tool..someday KEH will upgrade there website and have an RSS search tool like E-Bay and every...
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    It pays to watch the KEH As-Is section closely.. It also helps that I wrote a Java program that "watches" KEH for me and updates an RSS feed when they list a new item in the As-Is or LF Lens section.
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    Not a huge "steal" but I recently got a 300mm 5.6 Orbit S (same as Symmar-S) in a Copal 3 for $45 from KEH. They listed the lens as Ugly but it's really quite usuable. It has schneideritis and a...
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    I've made a few finds at estate sales but never garage sales it's true. The best one was the estate of a photographer/collector who frequented estate sales. More cameras and lenses than you can...
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    A whole box of 4x5 camera parts, mostly B&J but also got a basically complete New-Vue Camera, the real gem in that box was a 165mm Scheneider Doppel-Anastigmat Symmar, yes an early Dagor Symmar. The...
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    Dang nowadays that would be on Goodwill Online where the prices go higher than E-Bay (I suppose because it's charity?).
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