Today I was wandering down a street in Rangoon and happened to see a small phone shop that had some dusty lenses in a back cabinet. I bought two, a 300mm Universal Heliar and about a 14-16" Cooke Portrait Anastigmat, for $140. Both are pretty beat, and have fungus on some lens surfaces (I thought fungus only attacked coated lenses?), but I figured if worse came to worse I could use them as door stops or paperweights. The two other lenses were a Xenar 240mm 4.5 and a Fujinar 250mm 4.5 - both in barrel. They were in a bit better shape, but still beat up. He wanted $80 for the pair. What do you think. Worth picking up?
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