A friend of mine died recently and left all of his cameras and lenses to his wife. She asked me to see if they were worth any thing. I checked ebay for all of the items and got some numbers but I'd like to run them by you as well. Here's the list: All the equipment is "film period" Asahi Pentax. All of the lenses are like new and I could not even see dust inside the glass. All but one lens had a case and sunshade. All had front and rear caps. All are M42 screw mount. Here is the list:

Asashi Auto Bellows/Slide copier, as new in original box with instructions.
50mm f1.4 Super Takumar
50mm f1.4 SMC Takumar
28mm f3.5 Super takumar
135mm f3.5-f4.5 Super Takumar
80-200 f4-f5.6 Super Takumar
Kenko 2X Teleconverter.

Anyone here working in pinhole?

(I know this is the unlikeliest forum on the Internet to find anything except the latest
Japanese digital gear -- so here's a chane of pace.)


SOME FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO TOOK PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHS

Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA(Scot) FSSA MICE -- Scottish physicist,
first known description of pinhole photography, discovered of Brewster's
angle)

Sir William Crooks, FRS -- English chemist and physicist--discoverer of the element
thallium, inventor the Crookes tube (an ancestor of the CRT) and the
familiar Crookes radiometer)

William de Wiveleslie Abney, KCB, FRS, FRSE -- English astronomer, chemist and
photographer, inventor of the Abney level (used by surveyors) and Abney
spectroscope)

Thomas Alva Edison -- American inventor

John William Strutt, FRS, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (English physicist, Secretary of the
Royal Society, discoverer of argon, recipient of the first Nobel Prize in Physics,
known for his work on Rayleigh waves, Rayleigh scattering, Rayleigh-Jean law
for black body radtion, and for the Rayleigh number)

(Sir William) Flinders Petrie, FRS, FBA (Englsh Egyptologist -- devised sequenced
dating system for Egyptian pottery, numerous important excavations

(Johan) August Strindberg (Swedish Dramatist)

George Davidson (English photographer, proponent of pictorialism, Deputy Director
and later Director of Eastman Kodak)