Nikon 80 with 50mm lens picked up in garage sale for $10 bucks!

4 years 8 months ago #655600 by Randy Shaw
My wife and I were out driving around this weekend looking around at the various garage sales we came across.  Saturday just as we were thinking about breaking off our garage sale quest to get lunch.  
We saw one last garage sale and stopped.  My wife found a 80 year old wood dresser to restore for $25.  While we were loading this up into the truck, the garage sale operator saw my camera and pointed out she had a 'Mystery box' under the table of items she didn't know much about that I could have for $10 bucks.  And in the box was an old camera she had picked up at a garage sale swap meet in another larger mystery box she picked up.  Seeing that it didn't have a battery, she didn't know if it worked. I looked in the box, and sure enough, it was a Nikon D80 with a 50mm lens on it.  9 rolls of film, a shoe box full of old negatives, few odd ball metal statues and a book on woodworking.

I paid her the $10 and must say this camera looks pretty good after I cleaned it up!  I just ordered a $13.99 cheap'o battery on Amazon for this thing.  Heck, worse case, this lens is worth a few bucks!

Crossing fingers!   


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4 years 8 months ago #655933 by Ian Stone
Score!  


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4 years 8 months ago #656176 by Luca
Oh yeah, you picked up a deal!  Congrats, have you tried the camera yet?


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4 years 8 months ago #656183 by Nikon Shooter
Are your fingers still crossed or have you relaxed them yet?

Made any tests?

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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