Biggest "steal" you ever made...

[atlcruiser]

Lets see.....

Seal 500T 24 x 36 press for $100

JOBO lift processor for free

All sort of odds and ends seem to amke it to the darkroom; many jsut appear!

[richardhkirkando]

I've had some good luck at garage sales, antique stores, thrift stores and craigslist.

Yashica T4 for $2
Rollei 35 for $8
Contax 139Q w/ Distagon 28/2.8 for $60
Technika V for $450
Yashica-Mat LM for $30
weird Busch Pressman knockoff for free w/ purchase of a $100 Nikon F3HP
pre-Anniversary Speed Graphic and Mamiya 645 kit for $90 total
Canon FL 55/1.2 for $40
Caltar-S II 210/5.6 for $50 on KEH - listed as UG, only problem I could see was a tiny bit of fungus that rinsed right off.

[Michael Wainfeld]

I was reading a little about print spotting, and, almost a year afterward, still coming to appreciate this set-up. Spotone kit, Marshall's Spot-All kit, brushes. Omega D-2 with Zone VI variable contrast head. 50, 80, 100mm Componon-S lenses. 162mm enlarging Raptar. Negative holders, lens cones. All excellent condition. Saunders 11X14 and 28X30 easels. Trays to 16X20. Graduates. Kodak process thermometer. Thomas Duplex safelight. Zone VI drying screens. Obviously a well thought out collection, purchased on Craigslist from a few blocks away. A young couple, originally from the woman's teacher.
$300, I bargained to $250 but gave her the full $300 when I picked the stuff up. All set up and being used now, (except the large trays and easel). Month by month, as I learned more, I'd take stuff out of the box and say "wow".

[Heiko Stock]

Last month i picked up a Seal Commercial M 210 + Logan Mat Cutter 301-S for 50,-€ .
Nobody like me was bidding on it on Ebay. So i got it. I am a lucky photograper..

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Well, it was my 16" Darlot for 90 bucks but the recent Century 8A with stand and all the bells and whistles is a close second and not that much more either!

[Curt]

A Gitzo Studex tripod with all the accessories that it could take for $100.00. If I need to be up in the air with the biggest camera on the planet it's the one.

Did I mention it was new, the fellow didn't actually know what to do with it and just picked a buy it now figure that looked good to him. I could tilt my Calumet C1 8x10 on its side and not strain it one bit.

Got some other good buys too but lost a nice lens because I was late with the bid, the above posted gentleman got that one.

[mcfactor]

An Eversmart jazz+ scanner for $25, all I had to do was carry it down 3 flights of stairs

[Ash]

Made a great steal this week:

Ensign Special Reflex (1/4 plate)
Dozen holders
Rolex Rollfilm adapter
Thornton Pickard outfit case

£20

The whole thing works and took 10 minutes to tweak the shutter. The viewer hood is complete with the eyeglasses, but is flimsy where a bit of wood snapped by the spring. Currently taped it up until I can be bothered to fix it, or build a new hood.

[atlcruiser]

this week:

minolta color meter $200 shipped

[ic-racer]

It did indicate "BIGGEST"...