The quarterly San Jose Photo Fair was held last Saturday. I've been to them several times, and I always came back with some cool stuffs, and this time was no different. The SJ Photo Fair is where about 30-40 used camera dealers get together and buy/sell anything related to photography - cameras, lenses, darkroom equipments, books, etc.
I usually bring along several cameras to sell that I am not using much. This time I brought my Horseman VH outfit, a couple of large format lenses and a Fuji GA645Zi. I ended up selling the Fuji and a 135mm lens at a decent price.
I've been having a leica bug for the past couple of weeks and I wanted to get a M6 TTL with a couple of lenses (50mm Summicron DR + 35mm Summicron Asph, recommended by my dear friend). As always, nothing goes as planned, and I ended up buying a M6 classic with a 3rd version of the 50mm Summicron along with a 28mm f2.8 (old version). I'm going to later write about how I liked (and disliked) this combo.
I also found some other decent deals. I bought a mint 4x5 grafmatic holder at $70, a Copal 0 Linhof lensboard at $15, a Hasselblad 10mm extension tube for $60 and a Pentax Digital Spotmeter (great for b&w) at $250. I could have bought a Olympus Pen FT at $250, but I decided to pass since there was no way to know if it worked or not.
The showfloor is not that big (around 5 or 6,000 sqft) and among all the sellers, I found less than handful of them carrying good stuffs. The one at the entrance (they are always there) with a Chinese lady as the owner, always carries good Leica &Hasselblad gears and this time was no exception. I bought an excellent Hasselblad FlexBody about a year ago from this shop which I sold later at eBay at a much higher price. This shop is where I bought and sold most of my stuffs this time again.
There always is a huge filter collection that carries pretty much everything, but don't expect to get a great deal here. Most of the darkroom & large format stuffs are pretty old and useless and you won't find much digital equipments here as well. This photo fair is pretty much for collectors, 35mm old equipments, and medium format cameras. I made it sound a little bit boring, but if you are looking for Hasselblad, Mamiya gears or 35mm old body/lenses, or photo accessories, you'll have a lot of fun here. I surely did!
his photo fair is pretty much for collectors, 35mm old equipments, and medium format cameras but this is a boring stuff for me sorry to say buddy.....
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