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Travelling Salesmen

  • 29-07-2008 11:21am
    #1
    Phototoxin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else encounter travelling 'salesmen'. My dad thankfully had the cop on to wake me up. Said 'security camera' with a lens that zooms was some chepo plastic minolta looking rip off thing (felt too light to be anyway solid).

    the zoom was a 50mm standard that FOCUSED manually. hence the 'zoom' since it moves in and out a bit when focusing. As it was a 35mm FILM camera I don't know how its a security camera or how you can connect it to your TV. It did have a flash bracket but even then ... fleabay would you that whole thing for about 50 euro anyway. (I got a nokon f80 for E40.. and that's much better!) I didn't check the metering .. didn't even look trough the eyepiece.

    guy was looking E150. Said he sold 3 of them already. If he did poor guys..

    So just filling people in and wondering if they've encountered the same ?


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  • #2
    sunny2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭sunny2004


    Phototoxin wrote: »
    Anyone else encounter travelling 'salesmen'. My dad thankfully had the cop on to wake me up. Said 'security camera' with a lens that zooms was some chepo plastic minolta looking rip off thing (felt too light to be anyway solid).

    the zoom was a 50mm standard that FOCUSED manually. hence the 'zoom' since it moves in and out a bit when focusing. As it was a 35mm FILM camera I don't know how its a security camera or how you can connect it to your TV. It did have a flash bracket but even then ... fleabay would you that whole thing for about 50 euro anyway. (I got a nokon f80 for E40.. and that's much better!) I didn't check the metering .. didn't even look trough the eyepiece.

    guy was looking E150. Said he sold 3 of them already. If he did poor guys..

    So just filling people in and wondering if they've encountered the same ?

    ??????????


  • #3
    Phototoxin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭Phototoxin


    some bloke is flogging cheapo 'olympia' cameras. Practically toy ones. for 150 euro.

    Bit sad really.


  • #4
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    Might be more suitable in Consumer Affairs, rather than here.


  • #5
    Phototoxin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭Phototoxin


    maybe but its about cameras. I figured the photo crowd would be the most noticing of this sort of thing ya know ?


  • #6
    sunny2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭sunny2004


    Phototoxin wrote: »
    maybe but its about cameras. I figured the photo crowd would be the most noticing of this sort of thing ya know ?

    I think the "photo crowd" are the people who would not be caught out by this.


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  • #7
    Ricky91t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Ricky91t


    Fleabay????
    selling them as security camera?(maybe survalence :pac:)
    And why are you mentioning a nokon f80??


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