@@mipmipmipmipmip-v5x Some gems, but Pentax is a confused company. Maybe less drinking, and more relevant marketing and engineering would be nice. I loved my K5ii though.
Good to see someone else addicted to importing boxes full of random stuff from Japan 😆 I'm sure I'll find a use for the delicate gold-leaf appetiser bowls I bought someday.
The eye control part is actually literal; you can choose the focus point by looking through the viewfinder at the spot you want to focus at. I have an EOS 3 film SLR with the same feature. It’s neat, but isn’t something you want to use often since it’s not perfect of course. It does work pretty well for what it is though
I wish that technology progressed and continued to be used honestly. Apparently it didn't work well with blue eyes though, so that's why it kind of died off.
@@Moonstone-Redux I had the original Eos 5 with eye control AF - and it worked fairly well for me in spite of blue eyes and glasses. Never heard that eye color was a problem before, but it certainly did not work for everybody. It didn't die off and after some year without it was back in the R3 and you get it on R1 and R5 II too.
So being a 90's kid I have to have a guess that the purpose of that Fujifilm Fotovision FV-10 would be to auto-convert negatives and display your pictures on a TV screen. It might be meant for digitizing, but connecting that to a TV was my first thought. Seems like a very 90's way to look at your pictures with the whole family
That Fujifilm film "scanner" appears to actually be a digital video device and not a scanner. The "serial" cable looks more like an S-video cable, a higher fidelity SD video cable than the simple RCA jack also included. My guess is that this is for showing your film and slides on a tv directly, and not for scanning per se.
Oh God, my 3 hobbies together! Photography, flipping things and hoarding!! 😂😂😂😂 (That's what my wife says, but I'm not a hoarder!! I own a lot of stuff, that's a different thing!) (Well, maybe I'm a bit of the hoarder type)
japanese here. as horrifying as seeing all these not wrapped and protected, people selling camera gear in bulk on yahoo auction (assuming that's where you got them) usually don't even care to bubble wrap and they say that in description. so it's like by placing bids you tell the seller you'd be ok with it.
@@mrmet7 some years ago I bought a box full of lenses, some very good vintage lenses. Without caps, without wrapping, no protection at all, completely covered in dust. It was painful. I got it very very cheap, I cleaned the lenses and learned that scratches on the front element aren't so bad, but in the rear element could be very noticeable in photos.
Watching your channel is the true cure to GAS 😀 I don’t need to collect cameras if your eloquent voice can expunge upon them. Your mic is nicely matched to your voice by the way
SDM lenses have a capacitor that will discharge in time if the lens is not mounted on a working camera for a period of time. And they can revive if you just let it sit for a while on a powered on camera
15:12 dang. That listing for 165 cameras bidding at $3,500 before shipping. You would have to hope at least 90% are in somewhat a working order and get a minimum of $25 per camera (after costs of order shipping, and shipping to buyer) just to break even. That's a wild gamble someone is playing.
One downside of importing camera lot from Japan is you will see something cool, goes "damn that's cool" just to find out it's broken or beat-up and you will be sad
ahhrgghh cant wait to travel to japan and make a bunch of hauls myself. Until then I love watching your videos, its like watching your cool uncle unbox some cameras :)
The Pentax MZ-5 and MZ-3 are my favorite Pentax 35MM of the late 90's. BECAUSE they do not have multiple button "modes" with a big LCD. The small LCD is for frame count and battery check. None of those redundant "creative mode" icons. They just have the green "A" for automatic on the traditionally looking shutter dial and the lens aperture ring. Exposure modes are manual, aperture priority, shutter (time) priority, and fully automatic (program) mode. The MZ-3 is slight newer and has a slightly better top layout for metering mode and self timer.
This was really fun to watch! It was like a box of mystery candies! 😂 Some terrible and others a pleasant surprise! I enjoyed oogling vintage gear I didn't know existed! 😊 I too made an audible cringe when seeing everything just tossed into the box with no packing material! 😮😮😮💀
the eye control is one of the most awesome technology you can find on any camera and i don't know how it works, it's like black magic. Basically the camera focuses on the focus point your eye is looking at and it works soo good every time it's scarry XD
The EOS 630 was my first camera, which I still have and use today. Excellent AF film SLR with really good features we take for granted today. Solid build. The 28-70 with it is the mark 2 version of the lens I had - super sharp and contrasty. Do try a roll of film or two through it - it’s a beaut.
Wild because these devices are probably like rare collection to others but the seller just goes "nah imma ship this raw!" and threw everything in a box together
Serendipity happily rather than schadenfreude! Went to a trash and treasure market last weekend and bought an Olympus E-330 in new condition in the original packaging. The seller had a number boxes of cameras and lenses randomly arrayed. Collection included some late film era gear but also some stuff from the very beginning of the digital transition. Disc drives and other oddities.
I enjoy watching these, and am quite impressed/pleased you are able to turn a profit on this gear. Good work. I tried briefly in 2020 to sell off some extraneous cameras/lenses/gear I had laying around that I got in thrift stores years prior. Every listing included my assessment, that everything was tested working but not every item was in good shape. (even included developed film that I had shot using the gear) Even though (unbeknownst to me at the time) old camera prices were rising. I listed about 10-15 cameras, lenses, camera+lens combos. Each with a roughly 2 week bid window, starting at $1. Now looking back at that, possibly foolishly. Every. Single. Item. Sold for $1. I forgot to select the buyer covers the shipping on about half the listings. So it actually COST me money to get rid of the gear. Would have been better off donating them lol. But that's life. Live and Learn some say. But it put a sour taste in my mouth to ever try flipping cameras again.
Brilliant and fun video to watch. Not much of a flipper myself, but looks like you did get some decent lens though and some sweet cameras. Can not imagine why more things did not get destroyed with no protection, but lucky you! Always great content and thanks for sharing!
you might be able to find a cord that is serial on one side and usb (or another computer connection) on the other side to test the film scanner or an adapter that plugs onto one side of your serial cord to convert it to another connection. essentially, the conversion cord is more reliable than an adapter.
I shot a EOS 620 and 630 back in the - HUGE bang for the buck and very robust cameras. Kind of a prosumer level body and they did get used a lot professionally. Very fast for the time as well. I seem to recall the 620 was slightly more desirable I think because it had a higher flash sync speed.
The new version of Pentax SDM motor not failing like the older version, I had my 300mm F4 repaired 2 years ago and it is still working, the older version would last only 6 months. Mine was repaired 3 times.
Perfect, I'm excited to give it a try and see if it will work. I also do have an older laptop I can plug it in directly, if I can find the software (if needed)
Man after my own heart...although I'm not that much into Pentax...more Olympus and some of the more obscure "by the wayside" companies like Yashica, Mamiya, Minolta etc). Despise Nikon for their snobbery - except for the F2 which is my fave camera of all time and the Nikon FM2 which I loved and used until it was stolen. Great video again. Keep the industry alive Ian, Birmingham, UK
It's not the "star ist" it's the "ist." The * is a wildcard, so the concept is that this is the camera meant for everyone, if you're an artist, linguist, guitarist, snowboardist... uh... golfist...
Ah geez, poor lenses and cameras. Once loved and then just tossed in some box without covers. I guess that the source is coming from those actions like "give us your old camera, we will give you 5% off for the new camera". I have that same ring flash. Unfortunately on digital you cannot use the TTL much. FW switch on DA*16-50/2.8 is 5 minute task. FA50/2.8 Macro is excellent lens! Very sharp. FA24-90 is very good lens, definitely much better than 28-70/4. Clean it and put it on your K1 :) That grey F28-80/3.5-4.5 has brutally fast AF on modern DLSRs.
16:35 I actually do have a Pentax *ist D that I got for roughly $10(shipping included, since both the seller and I are from Romania), and it is a tiny BEAST of a camera. At 17k shutter count, it was also pretty much unused before I got it
This channel all started with a Pentax *ist DL :) (you can go back and see the video from 5 years ago. It's cringey, but a good piece of snappiness history)
The 28-70/F4 AF is a good Pentax AF lens...i still have that on my Pentax. MZ-5. Gosh, so many APS-C 16-50/2.8 zooms...its just a shame, being handled like crap....really sad, to see them treated with no love like that.
My country puts too much import tax on things it can't make. Indonesia and Philippines suck for these types of massive packages without getting robbed via bureaucracy in the ports.
The moment you open the box I have an uncomfortable feeling, one man trash is another man treasure. I understand it's just trash to them but at least try not to make it worse. They just throw a box of everything they have delivering all its way to US and magically somehow these not become a mesh after all.
OMG, everything just through the mixer....shuffled, bumped, dumped together...not into bubble foils wrapped, you can be sure, many lenses are just being de-centered, just because of this...and we do all know, how terminal officials handle packages....gosh...even worse, than local postal services...for instance, everything here in my country must be drip-proof for up to 3.5m....go figure...poor lenses & gear.
Make your first purchase on Buyee and get a discount using my special link (affiliate link): buyee-link.co/snappiness
Can u give me a pentax camera it will mean alot for me
If by mystery, you mean PENTAX.
In all fairness, Pentax and Pentax products are a big mystery 😀 Who else would think 21mm f3.2 is a sellable lens configuration 😂
@@mipmipmipmipmip-v5x Some gems, but Pentax is a confused company. Maybe less drinking, and more relevant marketing and engineering would be nice. I loved my K5ii though.
Good to see someone else addicted to importing boxes full of random stuff from Japan 😆 I'm sure I'll find a use for the delicate gold-leaf appetiser bowls I bought someday.
Am from Japan
The eye control part is actually literal; you can choose the focus point by looking through the viewfinder at the spot you want to focus at. I have an EOS 3 film SLR with the same feature. It’s neat, but isn’t something you want to use often since it’s not perfect of course. It does work pretty well for what it is though
I wish that technology progressed and continued to be used honestly. Apparently it didn't work well with blue eyes though, so that's why it kind of died off.
@@Moonstone-Redux I had the original Eos 5 with eye control AF - and it worked fairly well for me in spite of blue eyes and glasses. Never heard that eye color was a problem before, but it certainly did not work for everybody. It didn't die off and after some year without it was back in the R3 and you get it on R1 and R5 II too.
@@Moonstone-Redux Some of Canons recent RF cameras have reintroduced the feature.
I use it for film concert photography…the a2e really works scarily well
@@Moonstone-Reduxeos 3, and for the digital r5mk2 and r3 have that tehnology.
The film scanner is great! Please try it and show us the results! I imagine it's low resolution because the age, but anyway, it could be interesting
It was such a fun random find! It'll go perfect with another project I hope to show in a few months in the same film->digital tech era
So being a 90's kid I have to have a guess that the purpose of that Fujifilm Fotovision FV-10 would be to auto-convert negatives and display your pictures on a TV screen. It might be meant for digitizing, but connecting that to a TV was my first thought. Seems like a very 90's way to look at your pictures with the whole family
That Fujifilm film "scanner" appears to actually be a digital video device and not a scanner. The "serial" cable looks more like an S-video cable, a higher fidelity SD video cable than the simple RCA jack also included.
My guess is that this is for showing your film and slides on a tv directly, and not for scanning per se.
Oh God, my 3 hobbies together!
Photography, flipping things and hoarding!! 😂😂😂😂 (That's what my wife says, but I'm not a hoarder!! I own a lot of stuff, that's a different thing!) (Well, maybe I'm a bit of the hoarder type)
I love going through odd camera gear
It's like a treasure hunt!
japanese here. as horrifying as seeing all these not wrapped and protected, people selling camera gear in bulk on yahoo auction (assuming that's where you got them) usually don't even care to bubble wrap and they say that in description. so it's like by placing bids you tell the seller you'd be ok with it.
@@mrmet7 some years ago I bought a box full of lenses, some very good vintage lenses. Without caps, without wrapping, no protection at all, completely covered in dust. It was painful. I got it very very cheap, I cleaned the lenses and learned that scratches on the front element aren't so bad, but in the rear element could be very noticeable in photos.
Watching your channel is the true cure to GAS 😀 I don’t need to collect cameras if your eloquent voice can expunge upon them. Your mic is nicely matched to your voice by the way
SDM lenses have a capacitor that will discharge in time if the lens is not mounted on a working camera for a period of time. And they can revive if you just let it sit for a while on a powered on camera
This is a case where paying extra for the "add protective packaging" option would have been a good idea.
Holy shite catching snapp iness within 1min of uploading is kinds cool
yooooo! 🥳
15:12 dang. That listing for 165 cameras bidding at $3,500 before shipping. You would have to hope at least 90% are in somewhat a working order and get a minimum of $25 per camera (after costs of order shipping, and shipping to buyer) just to break even. That's a wild gamble someone is playing.
But there was no bid, atleast at that time.
@@Gabriel-wv1uz touche
That canon 28-70 is actually a really good lens. Back then their kit lenses had genuinely good optics.
One downside of importing camera lot from Japan is you will see something cool, goes "damn that's cool" just to find out it's broken or beat-up and you will be sad
Always a fun time watching your hauls. Cheers!
ahhrgghh cant wait to travel to japan and make a bunch of hauls myself. Until then I love watching your videos, its like watching your cool uncle unbox some cameras :)
Boy the Pentax MX brought back some great memories!
The MX brings back some memories - I had a black one with a motor drive in the mid 80s. Terrific camera.
The Pentax MZ-5 and MZ-3 are my favorite Pentax 35MM of the late 90's. BECAUSE they do not have multiple button "modes" with a big LCD. The small LCD is for frame count and battery check.
None of those redundant "creative mode" icons. They just have the green "A" for automatic on the traditionally looking shutter dial and the lens aperture ring. Exposure modes are manual, aperture priority, shutter (time) priority, and fully automatic (program) mode. The MZ-3 is slight newer and has a slightly better top layout for metering mode and self timer.
Very enjoyable and relaxing video. Lots of fun in those boxes.
This was really fun to watch! It was like a box of mystery candies! 😂 Some terrible and others a pleasant surprise! I enjoyed oogling vintage gear I didn't know existed! 😊
I too made an audible cringe when seeing everything just tossed into the box with no packing material! 😮😮😮💀
❤ Pentax back in with a KF for digital and still shooting Pentax for film.
Can't wait for a separate video about that Fuji camera
I did bring in a box of 12 Pentax lenses from Buyee and yes there was no bubble wrap. What's the deal with them lately?
the eye control is one of the most awesome technology you can find on any camera and i don't know how it works, it's like black magic. Basically the camera focuses on the focus point your eye is looking at and it works soo good every time it's scarry XD
The EOS 630 was my first camera, which I still have and use today. Excellent AF film SLR with really good features we take for granted today. Solid build. The 28-70 with it is the mark 2 version of the lens I had - super sharp and contrasty. Do try a roll of film or two through it - it’s a beaut.
Wild because these devices are probably like rare collection to others but the seller just goes "nah imma ship this raw!" and threw everything in a box together
Literally late-tech archaeology......... Fab video, many thanks for sharing.................
Serendipity happily rather than schadenfreude! Went to a trash and treasure market last weekend and bought an Olympus E-330 in new condition in the original packaging. The seller had a number boxes of cameras and lenses randomly arrayed. Collection included some late film era gear but also some stuff from the very beginning of the digital transition. Disc drives and other oddities.
Love to see other people risk their money 😂
The Canon with eye controll lets you look to the left, center or right, and it will change focus area from where you are looking.
I enjoy watching these, and am quite impressed/pleased you are able to turn a profit on this gear. Good work.
I tried briefly in 2020 to sell off some extraneous cameras/lenses/gear I had laying around that I got in thrift stores years prior. Every listing included my assessment, that everything was tested working but not every item was in good shape. (even included developed film that I had shot using the gear) Even though (unbeknownst to me at the time) old camera prices were rising. I listed about 10-15 cameras, lenses, camera+lens combos. Each with a roughly 2 week bid window, starting at $1. Now looking back at that, possibly foolishly.
Every. Single. Item. Sold for $1. I forgot to select the buyer covers the shipping on about half the listings. So it actually COST me money to get rid of the gear. Would have been better off donating them lol.
But that's life. Live and Learn some say. But it put a sour taste in my mouth to ever try flipping cameras again.
Brilliant and fun video to watch. Not much of a flipper myself, but looks like you did get some decent lens though and some sweet cameras. Can not imagine why more things did not get destroyed with no protection, but lucky you! Always great content and thanks for sharing!
The Powershot A200 was my first digital camera, I still remember it!
you might be able to find a cord that is serial on one side and usb (or another computer connection) on the other side to test the film scanner or an adapter that plugs onto one side of your serial cord to convert it to another connection. essentially, the conversion cord is more reliable than an adapter.
I am jealous of you getting a lot of those K20D DSLRs
The Pentax MX was my #1 35mm SLR into 1987, together with the SMC-A 50/1.7 prime...
Very interesting, I’m very interested in early digital cameras/ photography too. I’ve been watching a lot of camera shopping videos in Japan.
I shot a EOS 620 and 630 back in the - HUGE bang for the buck and very robust cameras. Kind of a prosumer level body and they did get used a lot professionally. Very fast for the time as well. I seem to recall the 620 was slightly more desirable I think because it had a higher flash sync speed.
that scanner is so cool
The new version of Pentax SDM motor not failing like the older version, I had my 300mm F4 repaired 2 years ago and it is still working, the older version would last only 6 months. Mine was repaired 3 times.
Serial (RS232) to USB adapters are pretty cheap. I've used a lot, but they can be finicky.
Perfect, I'm excited to give it a try and see if it will work. I also do have an older laptop I can plug it in directly, if I can find the software (if needed)
With the state of the packaging, I'm surprised the boxes got there in 1 piece as I'd expect lenses and bodies all over UPS warehouses.
Man after my own heart...although I'm not that much into Pentax...more Olympus and some of the more obscure "by the wayside" companies like Yashica, Mamiya, Minolta etc). Despise Nikon for their snobbery - except for the F2 which is my fave camera of all time and the Nikon FM2 which I loved and used until it was stolen. Great video again. Keep the industry alive
Ian, Birmingham, UK
It's not the "star ist" it's the "ist." The * is a wildcard, so the concept is that this is the camera meant for everyone, if you're an artist, linguist, guitarist, snowboardist... uh... golfist...
That's a steal, I just paid $140 for a MX and the 50 1.4
Ah geez, poor lenses and cameras. Once loved and then just tossed in some box without covers. I guess that the source is coming from those actions like "give us your old camera, we will give you 5% off for the new camera".
I have that same ring flash. Unfortunately on digital you cannot use the TTL much.
FW switch on DA*16-50/2.8 is 5 minute task. FA50/2.8 Macro is excellent lens! Very sharp. FA24-90 is very good lens, definitely much better than 28-70/4. Clean it and put it on your K1 :) That grey F28-80/3.5-4.5 has brutally fast AF on modern DLSRs.
I'm really interested in getting some Pentax for decoration
I would love to see a video on that scanner. Please.
I'll get something working with it. It looks pretty fun.
16:35
I actually do have a Pentax *ist D that I got for roughly $10(shipping included, since both the seller and I are from Romania), and it is a tiny BEAST of a camera. At 17k shutter count, it was also pretty much unused before I got it
This channel all started with a Pentax *ist DL :) (you can go back and see the video from 5 years ago. It's cringey, but a good piece of snappiness history)
The 28-70/F4 AF is a good Pentax AF lens...i still have that on my Pentax. MZ-5. Gosh, so many APS-C 16-50/2.8 zooms...its just a shame, being handled like crap....really sad, to see them treated with no love like that.
Change the font I thought it says 13lbs
33.112 Kg
I would like an Olympus pen with a 17mm F2.8 🤤🤩
Where are you gonna post them for sale?
Great video!
Looks like an S-VHS connector.
My country puts too much import tax on things it can't make. Indonesia and Philippines suck for these types of massive packages without getting robbed via bureaucracy in the ports.
You can turn a big enough profit on this Lot after flipping it that you might be able to buy a new Pentax camera with the proceeds.
yaay new vid
Bro how can I contact you, id like to buy nikon lens 50mm lens that comes with nikon body
where do you sell?
Might be time to get yourself a retro mod Windows 98 build to use legacy devices and vintage software! Lazy Game Reviews built one
20:18 Sell it as a base for a lightsaber Comicon prop.
The moment you open the box I have an uncomfortable feeling, one man trash is another man treasure. I understand it's just trash to them but at least try not to make it worse. They just throw a box of everything they have delivering all its way to US and magically somehow these not become a mesh after all.
Assuming so you can't tamper with evidence
And a pivot to gear flipping makes for a fast unsubscribe.
Really liked this channel too…..
In 7:52 it looks like the lens is in MF
Not to be that guy but who would buy $250 on a vintage zoom lens?
OMG, everything just through the mixer....shuffled, bumped, dumped together...not into bubble foils wrapped, you can be sure, many lenses are just being de-centered, just because of this...and we do all know, how terminal officials handle packages....gosh...even worse, than local postal services...for instance, everything here in my country must be drip-proof for up to 3.5m....go figure...poor lenses & gear.
The poor * lenses 😢
Why do I watch every one of these videos? I don't know but I do.
anything you're willing to sell, like pentax fa 16-50?