Rolleiflex SL35M outfit

Description: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 239 1366 storehouse 11 2 1677 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Rolleiflex SL 35Mwith suite of lenses This is an outfit left over from my shop stock. The camera comes from a time when Rollei and Voigtlander were in together ad moved production to Singapore in a despersate attempt to survive. The SL35M is a very solid, heavy German designed SLR, fully manual, match needle metering. QBM mount (Quick Bayonet Mount). It's in good condition though the lever wind is a little stiff. It's also wearing a Voigtlander 50mm f1.8 Color-Ultron; excellent glass. It also has a set of very nice QBM lenses to go with. A Rollei/Zeiss Tele-Tessar 135mm f4, a Zoom Rolleinar MC 35-105mm f3.5-4.3 and an 80-200mm f4 Voigtlander Vario-Dynar plus a Rollei (QBM) to Sony (NEX/e-mount) so you can use all the lenses on a didge.This is good leftover stock from my shop which I've now closed down so I'm selling it all off cheap as a batch. Potential bargain for the Rollei/Voigt collector or user. NOTE:I am a recognised authority on some camera types and I have written a series of film camera collector’s reference books and other books, through Blurb (print on demand). These are ‘Compendia’ on the Prism SLR, TLR and Half Frame/24 square formats and on early Kodak/Eastman. In each case, they list and describe EVERY camera in that category that I could find (and I'm good at research so that's probably all of them). Search Blurb/afildes to find the books. Important!I KNOW – IT’S EVERSO BORING BUT – PLEASE READ!I’m infamous for talking a lot – I used to be a High School teacher so I can’t help it. But most of regular customers seem to think I’m worth listening to! But please read - there's some good and important stuff down below. Including jokes and anecdotes. Important NOTE:IMAGES – I try to provide high quality, hi-res images but, if you pixel peep the images, you’ll often find that they seem to show a camera or lens covered in mysterious white spots and whatever. These are usually digital artefacts and reflections, not real. And no matter how well you clean the item, there are always dust spots and hairs and UFO's. It’s frustrating. I had an image of a camera recently where it looked for all the world as if the lens had a huge crack in it up front. You wouldn’t buy it in a fit. But the crack did not exist and did not show in any of the other images. It was an odd combination of reflections and the lines of shutter blades inside. It was so worrying that I had to go in panic and recheck carefully. Had I dropped it? No, there was nothing there! Perhaps I need to use better light diffusion?So, please look at all the images carefully and accept my word if I say it’s in good or fair condition. I will refund if there is a problem. In 20+ years I’ve sold well over a thousand items online and I have a 100% record.For all listings I have described the condition here as best as I can. If it does not measure up, then contact me immediately so that we can discuss it and I can make it good. __________________________________________________Tommy Cooper Joke of the Week (To keep you going)I went up into the attic and behind a pile of junk I found a Stradivarius and a Rembrandt.I thought. 'That's it! I'm rich!' Called all the family. Ordered a new car Then I headed for the auction house. Unfortunately they said that Stradivarius was a terrible painter ...and Rembrandt made lousy violins. ___________________________________________________________ But wait - there's more, much more....If you want to check me out, put three 'w's in front of - soultheft - and add the usual dot and com after it. I've been in this business full time for over ten years, twice that online and I stand behind all my my stuff - if I say it works I've checked it as best I can and I'll make good any reasonable problems. I deal in gear up to 150 years old so I have to be philosophic about such things. I started using eBay in the dark ages, when it was USA only and only had used stuff! I sold stuff to Americans mostly, back then. In over twenty years of trading on ebay I've had just one negative feedback response - from an irritable French buyer who did not even contact me first. I would have given him a refund, quite happily, but... So any problem, contact me so we can sort it. I try to describe fairly and honestly and I do distinguish between collectible examples in good cosmetic condition, ‘users’, display only collectibles and…a useable beater! I have missed a fungus spot or a mark in a lens before now (we all have) and of course apologised/refunded where appropriate but every old lens has a few dust motes inside – that’s unavoidable. Please do not expect something that looks perfect unless I say it is! This is mostly quite old gear.Condition claims? MINT you say?Be aware that ‘Mint’ strictly means ‘new in the box and never used’. Yes really – it comes from collectible coins where a coin is mint only if it came directly from the mint and was never even touched except with cotton gloves. Anything else is ‘used’ whatever the Tokyo sellers think. Japanese sellers used to be good but now they think that ‘mint’ means 95% of original finish. No it does not and as a collector myself, I’ve had disappointments. Sure, they’ll offer to refund but by the time you’ve fiddled with postage and tried to get the import duty back (!) then it’s all a mess. I had a bit of mint stuff to sell recently, as in never used, but that’s very unusual. Stock Clearance – Closing DownBargains online!I’ve closed down my store after many years and I’m selling off most of the stock– the better items online. The good stuff and some items perhaps I’d only get an interested customer every few months - so online makes more sense anyway.I also tend to buy odd and special interest stuff myself sometimes to resell or out of curiosity, and then pass it on. These items are bargains in two senses – either they are really good items offered at a regular, everyday price or they are unusual items at a reduced price on the usual listings I see. Some are things like rather special lenses and cameras that I bought to play with myself for a while. Others are my own personal collectibles or gear that I used myself. Either way, it’s tested, checked, guaranteed.I will post cheerfully to anywhere in Australia - but only with appropriate insurance cover and tracking for high value items. The ebay postage indicator above only shows basic postage cost calculated by eBay, often inaccurately - insurance is extra and I make no charge for handling/packing of course. I use recycled packaging where possible and I’m known to pack very well. Discuss it all with me if you have special requirements. Special items, collectibles and so on I'll post overseas but again, tracked postage and insured for high value items to protect us both - so these days it won't be cheap! For very valuable items, I will insist on courier/EMS unless you specifically agree to accept the risk of loss. You are responsible for all import duties, fees and taxes of course and you will have to discuss that with your own national customs agency - they should notify you when an item is ready for clearance but...not always! If you want to reduce GST/VAT import tax exposure, please ask. Sometimes it’s possible, sometimes not. NOTE – There has been a rise in creative online scamming of various kinds. And eBay is not always particularly good at protecting sellers despite their very high fees – they emphasise protecting buyers, sometimes to my cost and recently to my benefit as well! Due to a few actual or suspected or obvious scam attempts on me on eBay, I reserve the right to reject bids from some international 'buyers' - in particular those with zero, low and unrelated previous feedback on cheap items - or from anyone in or outside Australia who asks for the item to be posted to a different address, especially in another country - for however plausible a reason. This would void my seller protection and allows charge backs without my control. I lose. These are almost always scams. I may accept bids from those I deem to be legitimate bidders by personal negotiation – contact me. If you try what appears to me to be a scam bid and then win, I will send an explanatory rejection message and then offer a second chance to what appears to be the last legitimate bidder. If this seems to be a problem for you, please message me through eBay and discuss it.Oh, and please do not bid if you have no intention of going through with the purchase. It’s annoying, causes me a lot of extra work and I’ve been exploring creative ways of getting my revenge! J A little true story to finish off...A Dealer’s Tale Among antique dealers and collectors, there’s what we might call the Antiques Roadshow bargain. The apocryphal bargain that probably never existed. But then some lucky punter turns up with a Chinese vase they found in a car boot sale a couple of years ago for $5 and…it turns out to be worth $2 million minimum when they bring it in for assessment, despite a couple of careless chips. They go a bit pale and wobbly and then wrap it up carefully, or make a quick phone call. Doesn’t happen often but it has happened. That’s a persistent story or myth in the hopeful collector’s community and no-one you actually know ever seems to get quite that lucky.I deal in old cameras and we all hope beyond hope that a seriously collectible camera will turn up in the bottom of a box of rubbish. There was one guy in the States who found a Nikon One in a garbage bin. Worth tens of thousands of dollars. But that was a long, long time ago. And he may have been exaggerating. We refer to it as the myth of the $5 Leica. Leitz Camera almost invented the modern camera, back in the 1920’s and rare, early ones and prototypes are worth a lot. In a couple of cases really a lot. Millions. Especially the odd and rare gold plated ones and one of those did turn up in the Antiques Roadshow – it eventually sold for a half million or so. So, we always look very carefully, check serial numbers, that sort of thing in the hope of early retirement. And hope that it’s found in the bottom of a box with a $5 sticker on it.Well, Matt walked into my shop one day. He’s had a pretty rough trot in life – He’s a disability pensioner thanks to a bad birth, diabetes and some mental issues. He won’t mind me mentioning all that as he’s at peace with his problems. So now he supplements his meagre disability pension by digging around the markets looking for anything good that he can resell to antique traders. He gets by quite well it seems with a little help, like us all. I met him for the first time a couple of months before this all happened when he wandered in with a couple of junk cameras – “Are these worth anything to you, mate?”Not really, although one had a clean and useful lens so I was able to give him something. So then he asked the worst question.“What should I be looking for? What are the good brands.”Oh no! It’d take a week to answer that. I’ll buy any good SLR that’s working well, but he doesn’t have the skills to check them properly. I was rather busy at the time so I’m afraid I fobbed him off with, “Leica – they’re always worth something even in poor condition.” I had to spell it for him.So time slips by. And then he shows up in my shop one Sunday a couple of months later with a battered leather case clutched in his hand. He’d been rummaging in a box of ‘stuff’ in a weekend market somewhere, he said. Opened the leather case along with others and it said Leica on the camera’s top panel inside. He remembered that I’d said they could be valuable so he bought it on the chance. “Oh’, I said, a bit worried that he’d done his dough.Because I’m first thinking he’s found a battered, scruffy and broken 1930’s Leica III with a ruined Elmar lens perhaps? Worth a few tens of dollars for parts? But no. He had in his grip a 1958 M3 model in really quite good cosmetic condition, looking clean with no dings or scratches or missing bits. The shutter was very slow, not closing properly and the viewfinder a bit hazy. But all the tiny clockworks inside whirred appropriately, although a bit harshly and needing lubrication. So it needed a clean, service and calibration which would cost me about $300. Further it looked very swish as it was wearing a nice 35mm wide angle lens - with the front glass a little bit grubby from the dust and grime deposits of years. I took a chance with that but it cleaned up perfectly in the end. And it had a working, matching light meter which hadn’t scratched the engraved top plate as they sometimes do and so halve the value. So he’d found a very decent collectible camera indeed. I relaxed, happy for him and we sat down to agree a price; a fair one I think given the need for service, my knowledge and my profit margin of course.And then, business settled, I asked the big question. “What did you pay for it?” Successfully serviced and cleaned, which it soon was, it had a retail value with that lens of well over $3000. But I knew he would not have paid much – he doesn’t have much.“Oh,” he grinned through a couple of missing front teeth. “Eight dollars.”I made little choking noises. “Really?!”“Yeah. Found it in a junk box, closed it back up in the case, waved it at the guy and arsked ‘how much for this’. That’s what he said. Eight dollars.”“Strewth. He must have thought it was just an empty leather case?! So then you got out of there fairly quickly before he realised?”“Something like that.”He insisted I pay him cash and later, when I dropped it off at his home, he looked at it all spread out on the table in front of him. “This’ll come in really handy,” he said. “The rent is due.”I’m sure it will, I thought to myself. Just don’t waste it as you’ll not get another strike like that again. And he hasn’t yet. He came in again the following month with a nice Voigtlander Vitessa worth a couple of hundred but not in the same league.So there you go. Eight dollars is about $5 American at the moment so this really is the legendary $5 Leica. It lives and breathes. It really happened, right here. But not to me directly, dammit. Because for once it happened to someone who really did need the luck. Sometimes fortune favours the deserving.

Price: 325 AUD

Location: Selby

End Time: 2024-11-08T23:05:52.000Z

Shipping Cost: 58.44 AUD