Where to sell old cameras and lenses: I have several vintage 35mm Olympus and Minolta camera bodies along with a number of lenses and flash units. All are in near mint condition. Can...

scrollerman

I have several vintage 35mm Olympus and Minolta camera bodies along with a number of lenses and flash units. All are in near mint condition. Can anyone suggest where I might sell these for a fair price.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

UHH For Sale section has knowledgeable buyers. Otherwise, eBay is your best route.

Andy

vonzip Loc: cape cod

Don't forget MPB.com

jmccl Loc: Western Shore of Utah Lake

scrollerman wrote:

I have several vintage 35mm Olympus and Minolta camera bodies along with a number of lenses and flash units. All are in near mint condition. Can anyone suggest where I might sell these for a fair price.

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Dave327 Loc: Duluth, GA. USA

Just keep them and put them in a display cabinet. You can try looking on E-bay and checking to see if any are listed and then check the sold price history - not the ask price. I have an Olympus OM-1n and it just sits in a display cabinet. Yup, that’s the camera I started with in 1978. Vintage 35mm stuff is all over Facebook Market Place and it just sits there months with the ask price declining. Old glass, depending on what it is, can be worth more if a buyer wants to get an adapter and use it manually on a DSLR.
Vintage collectors are your best chance or some one still shooting film.

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

scrollerman wrote:

I have several vintage 35mm Olympus and Minolta camera bodies along with a number of lenses and flash units. All are in near mint condition. Can anyone suggest where I might sell these for a fair price.

Ebay!Welcome to the forum. KEH also buys used cameras.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

AndyH wrote:

UHH For Sale section has knowledgeable buyers. Otherwise, eBay is your best route.

Andy

mflowe Loc: Port Deposit, MD

AndyH wrote:

UHH For Sale section has knowledgeable buyers. Otherwise, eBay is your best route.

Andy

I've had good luck selling photogear on Craigslist. I suggest using ebay only as a last resort. you'll certainly reach more potential buyers , but with ebay and paypal fees, you'll lose 20% of your gear's value.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Rather than sell it how about this. I have a 501(C)(3) charity. Our finances are available for review too. I would give a tax deduction for a good camera. I want to donate these cameras to a local high school for their photography program.
Some people want cash. I get that! But a tax donation is also good for the pocket in next year's taxes. My charity will acknowledge the donation by putting a plaque on the camera with the owner's name. The charity will pay the shipping and insurance, too.
As for my charity, please go on line to www.BGMFoundation.org. I can be privately messaged for more information.

BebuLamar

Scruples wrote:

Rather than sell it how about this. I have a 501(C... (show quote)

Tax donation doesn't work for me. Unless I donate something like $10,000 my tax doesn't go down a penny.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

scrollerman wrote:

I have several vintage 35mm Olympus and Minolta camera bodies along with a number of lenses and flash units. All are in near mint condition. Can anyone suggest where I might sell these for a fair price.

Sell them right here or on eBay. Look up your camera on eBay and click on "Sold items," down the left column. That will show you how much they have sold for recently.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xolympus+35mm.TRS0&_nkw=olympus+35mm&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=kodak+brownie&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1

BebuLamar

To the OP!
I think if the OP takes pictures of the cameras. Post here on the UHH classified sections. He may sell some. If not we see what he has and can give better advice.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Please accept my apology. I hope you don't think of me as presumptuous. I just wanted to help a fellow photographer with a courtesy and favor.

BebuLamar

Scruples wrote:

Please accept my apology. I hope you don't think of me as presumptuous. I just wanted to help a fellow photographer with a courtesy and favor.

I don't mean anything but every year I do about $1000 in charity donation but that doesn't help my tax a single penny. Of course when I did the donation I wouldn't care about the tax break.

However, I feel if I sell my old film cameras on Ebay it would be put to better use than donate them to a high school. I sold an old film camera to a fellow UHH and I believe he is happy with it and use it. I doubt that I would have a happy high schooler using the camera I donate.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

scrollerman wrote:

I have several vintage 35mm Olympus and Minolta camera bodies along with a number of lenses and flash units. All are in near mint condition. Can anyone suggest where I might sell these for a fair price.

Hey, I may be interested in some of your lenses, please let me know what you have, I collect old film lenses and there are some Olympus and Minolta lenses I am interested in acquiring.