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Position:Home>Visual Arts> What was your best junk store camera find?Question: What was your best junk store camera find!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: A zeiss Contaflex twin lens 35mm camera for $7!.50!. Yes, that is seven dollars and fifty cents!. That camera was one of a very small production run in either 1935 or 1936 and was the very first camera with a built in light meter!. It had a problem in that is was taken off a German soldier who had been shot and in falling, there was damage to the waist level finder!. I sold the camera in Europe for $800 and very recently saw it being sold again, literally stripped, for $100!. The light meter worked, the lens was accurate and aside from the damage to the camera, it was supurb!. Www@QuestionHome@Com A broken 50mm lens (the aperture is stuck wide open) for under $5!.00, which I am using for reverse lens macro photography!.Www@QuestionHome@Com How about this one http://i2!.ebayimg!.com/03/i/000/b9/82/90d!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |