Door Stops... My A$$ !!!!
I have been selling film cameras on eBay for a decade now, and making good money. Film cameras have been enjoying a resurgence, and prices rising in the last couple of years. The community college where I teach still has a film class every quarter and it's more popular than ever. SRO
I've donated a lot of camera's to that class in the last 5 years.
Many are finding digital too complex or too sterile and returning to film. Even young people who have only shot digital are taking up film. Film is readily available if one looks, and a few of the niche film companies are even restarting new emulsions. Surely Fujifilm is still selling in almost all big box store locations. I just got a roll of film back through Walmart in 120, processed for $8 and back in ten days..Prints and Negs.
I shoot quite a bit of 135 (35mm), Medium and Large Format film myself, aside from selling a goodly amount of film camera's. I just shot a car show with a Canon EOS A2E, and then sold the Canon and Sigma lens for $200.
There have been over 200 Nikon 8008 camera's with 2-3 lenses sold in the last 60 days alone. A kit like you describe, if put up on a properly configured auction just sold for $237. Many sell for $100-200.
Or you could donate it to a school photography program and get a receipt for a couple of hundred dollars, or Goodwill and do the same thing. If you donate to GoodWill, it will end up on the Goodwill auction site, along with a good number of other film camera's..
That site is
www.shopgoodwill.com where I buy a lot of camera's to sell on eBay.
At the very least, I will pay the postage if you want to donate it to me (not a non-profit, as I enjoy eating). I will part it out and sell the body with one lens, and then each of the remaining two lenses. I suspect I could turn up about $300. (if all the pieces work)
The 8008 was a decent film camera, while the 8008s was considered pro caliber.
Or, you could get creative.
Shoot black and white film, develop it in Instant Coffee, Vitamin C, and Washing Soda.... a process called Caffenol, which is very popular. I've been having fun with that.
You can find a number of web sites that explain the Caffenol Process.
All in all, beats the humdrum and complexity of shooting digital, as many seem to be finding.
Door Stop....Hmmmph....
Where have you been... Oh yeah, trying to decide on the next new "wonderkin" digital, and ruining your eyes trying to decipher manuals?????