🟡 eBay HACK! (Film Cameras FREE.. when you buy a Lens) (I got a ~£6K Linhof Technika) 😅
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- čas přidán 13. 05. 2024
- Value of free cameras will vary but you can find free cameras online if you shop smart
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Note* Value of free cameras will vary but you can find free cameras online today if you look
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✅ CHECK PRICES: (US) ebay.to/2F0HoxY (UK) ebay.to/3ijzle2 (DE) ebay.to/3iqDNYs (FR) ebay.to/2ZJ3E75 (HK) ebay.to/32A8xBu
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Matt- what was the lens you wanted and got with the large format camera? Thx
Some years ago I found a lot of bargains on ebay, first of all, if you can find an item where the end of the auctions is in the middle of the night or if there are a very big event like World cup football, then your chances of winning an auction is much better, I got a lot of items for next to nothing, but be AWARE of shipping cost !!! Second when I make a search for a bargain, then I write as little as possible fx Leica Leitz and search All categories, it can take hours to scroll through, but you will find bargains. Third, if someone have a fixed price, but also accepts offers, then be very polite and ask for a lower price without being too low, mention that it is for your self, many sellers do not like those who try to buy as cheap as possible and then later sell for a much higher price.
One of the most if not the most profitable purchases regarding cameras I've ever done so far; was to find a decent used Leica M2 for around 1,000$ and came with a Canon LTM39 35mm F1.5 canon lens + the Leica adaptor in perfect condition. I swapped the Canon lens for a Hasselblad 500CM + 50mm f4 CfFi lens + Planar 80 F2.8 second gen + 2 film back and Prism Top finder. Fixed some issues with the high speed on the Leica M2 and sold it for 1,600$. Blessed.
Wow amazing!! Congrats!
I've done this a couple times. I was looking for a Canon ltm 35mm, and found one on Facebook Marketplace for a cheap price in great condition. It came attached to a Canon 7 in fine working condition. Also came with a 90mm Elmar that had bad fungus, so the seller kept the Elmar and knocked the price down even further. Another time, I was looking for a 135W panoramic back for my Bronica ETRS. Found an ebay sale for another ETRS, and it had the lens, AE finder, grip, and lo and behold, there was a 135W back on the camera (plus another 120 back). Won the auction for around $700. These 135 panoramic backs routinely go for more than I paid for the whole kit, and everything came with original boxes and paperwork. So now I have 2 ETRS kits, but I'm not complaining.
Great! There are definitely deals to be found!
I just did this, too! I was trying to find a nice 28mm viewfinder, and the only one I could find came WITH the Orion-15 for the same price as the viewfinder by itself. And now I'm even more in love with the Orion-15 than the viewfinder!
Yes!!! I found some cool stuff this way too. That lens is great fun. I still have mine.
yes so true I have on my shelf - "fed with elmar" and "zorki with summar"
Nice! Stay tuned I have a video coming on one of those lenses :)
I’ve done this as well, don’t only look for the lens but also look for cameras the lens is likely to be attached to. If you pay the price for what the lens would have cost on its own the body will effectively be free. The bias on eBay is for people to sell their gear based on the body and less on the lens fitted, so take advantage.
Great to hear Steve! Agreed.
Matt! This is terrifying. My shelf is already groaning with M3, Barnack iiiC, Zeiss folders, a Japanese SLR...and lenses. More bodies could bring the whole shelf crashing down!
Haha thanks Jeremy and sorry in advance about your shelf! ..I hear NoNails glue is very good! 😆
build more shelves!!😁😁😁😁
Great job, Matt. I've been able to do this a few times myself over the years.
Sort of along these lines, I have a friend who, at a garage sale, found a Deardorf 8x10 camera and Teo lenses either 5 film holders for $300 from a lady who just wanted it gone.
Wow amazing, my Linhof was from an older lady too. Thanks!
I was able to do this with a 1961 Leica 35mm Summicron 8 elements lens, when browsing on Facebook Marketplace I came across a Leica M2 for sale. I already had a nice 62’ M2. The add showed the body with a lens for $1300.00 CDN, When I arrived at the seller’s sure enough he was advertising an M2 camera with lens. Both in excellent condition. I bought an 8 elements Summicron at bargain price that just happened to have an M2 attached to it! As I now see it 😊
Wow nice! I’m using the LLL version now (rigid) and I love it. Congrats! (A Patreon friend has the Leica one so will compare soon for YT!)
Thanks Matt, I’ll look forward to that comparison, keep up the good work 🙂
A few years ago I bought a poorly listed Panasonic GM1 and a 14mm lens (that I wanted) and it came with a Billingham bag and bunch of other stuff that I didn't pay much attention to in the advert - I sold the bag, the Novaflex Nikon MFT and Viltrox Canon EF to MFT 0.71 adapters separately for more than the £220 I paid for the whole lot. I've kept a Nikon 85mm f/2 AI-s that was also in the bag. I ought to sell that now - might get the same back for that!
Collections of anything, especially when they are badly listed, are nearly always worth buying!
Amazing! Yes bundle deals can be a goldmine, 100% congrats!
@@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom I also bought a Contax G1, GLA200 flash with the 28, 45 and 90 Zeiss lenses and another Billingham bag from Facebook marketplace for £1200 - sold everything separately other than the 45 which I converted using a Funleader helicoid for my M10 and still had about £200 profit! 😛
You should do a video on budgetting. Like if you buy a 50mm summicron for say 600 dollars or smth and saved maybe 1k you could use that 1k you saved to buy an additional 90mm cron at market. Or if you get that for half than you actually have another 500 on a voigtlander to boot!
Haha nice idea Thomas, I get blamed for people spending their money already! :)
I did this thing exactly with my Kiev-4a. Also I was able to find Konica III A, but payed around $50 for it, seller claimed it was in working condition but it was far from it. Long story short, I got full refund and a camera, except of delivery price which is like $3. I really hope it can be repaired (and maybe I'll try to do it myself), since all shutter speeds work, but shutter lever is quite stiff, and vertical rangefinder lines are misaligned ;c
Great re Kiev! I’ve done the same. I’ve also bought this and had full refunds as ‘bad’ like my Jupiter 85/2
The CZcams clips like yours are mostly constructively useful and informative but from the other side, they ruin the chance to buy cheap camera gear on eBay and this is why all the vintage cameras/lenses are just unreasonably overpriced. As both the buyers and sellers would watch the clips. Anyway, I'm a big fan, you're doing great. Peace
Thanks, only like 0.000001% of people buying on eBay will see this. Just trying to help my followers
Hi Mar have you ever tried leotax Japan made Leica I have bought one like new 150£ Ken
Great! I know of them. Good price! Congrats
Thats why i did a deal on my linhof 5x7 kit. Also bought bronica kit from japan which works out cheaper than just buying a body. I have loads of different finders now which can be sold on reducing the price even more. Also got two contax cameras together the ii and the iii. Same price as buying one.
Great!
Also, auctions! I know there's a Flints auction coming up. A few years ago I bought an original steel rim 35mm 1.4 with the M3 goggles for $3000, knowing it was worth way more. I used it for a few weeks and sold it for $6500. Maybe that's not free, but I'd argue it's better than free!
Wow that’s a great profit! The flints guys are awesome. My Leica ic silver is from there
This hack works for EVERYTHING! For example, I just got my week's groceries for free! I did have to pay $50 for a brown paper bag, but it's still a bargain...
🤣🤣🤣 but seriously, folks... I've had mixed results on this as a money-saving strategy (it usually works out like the old joke about the $75 elephant... that's a great buy, but ONLY if you really need an elephant and if you have $75) but sometimes it's the ONLY way to get a scarce item! Example: When I was trying to find the incident-light attachment for my Canon P's clip-on meter, the only way I could get one was to buy another meter that included it. Fortunately, these meters aren't expensive either with or without the attachment, so it was just a matter of looking until I found one that included it. So now I've got two meters (or maybe one meter and one $75 elephant...)
Haha thanks James. Yes 100% re. Hard to find items (like this lens)
I’ve been going overboard, but, in the last few weeks I got a free Nikon F2 (my favorite SLR) for free, considering it had a Nikon 50mm f1.4, and just last week I picked up a Leica 50mm F2 Summar, that’s attached to a 1939 Leica standard camera. It hasn’t arrived yet, but I can’t wait!
Haha nice! I go through phases too haha. Congrats!
Looked at some of your 4x5 in Flicker Matt , larger format is better detail. Just got my freezer stored ( another ) of FUJI ASA 50 RVP this makes 4 boxes of that , and a box of 20 same ...then the 100 speed RVP and a huge box of ILFORD HP5 100 / 100 sheets , there is more the freezer is a treasure house. 🤔
Thanks Chris, yes even the 6x9 back shots have tonnes of detail. Love that!
legit method and theory , have seen it myself!! not bought any but have seen them advertised!! and have considered them ! 👍👍👍👍
Thanks.. another great one is buy cameras "for parts only" and get a great priced lens!
@@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom yes that’s another good tip
Bought a Canon V for 500 euros a few years back and got a free 50mm Canon f1.2 ltm. Or bought the lens for 500 and got a free body.
Free body! Very nice.
Leica Q3 . Buy a F 1.7 Summilux with macro and leaf shutter and get a camera for free 🎉😊
Yes!! Doh I totally forgot the most obvious camera deal in the Leica world
@@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom That's why you have me 🤣🤗
Yep totally agree in my case a Q2! (No EBay, brand new). Thanks for sharing.
Yes, this trick works and works well. I doubt it changes postage enough to be a problem. You had no choice but to buy the lens when the seller was kind enough to throw in a LInhof with kit as a sweetener. Fate is cruel. LOL
Haha thanks Sandy, knowledge is the problem..too much and you find great lenses,.. as keeps happening to me 🙈
If money came out of your bank account, that was definitely not free however you try to spin it. You just got a better deal. It sounds like someone having buying compulsive disorder.
Thanks, yes fair point. I’m a numbers guy so that’s why I say it’s free.
@@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom Numbers people know well how people like to spin stories about numbers... That's what too many companies or politicians do.
no its free when to you understand!
Ok the title got my attention... :)
Great! Hopefully it will help a few people
Not going to help with that Rolleiflex 2.8F I'm looking for 😄
Haha hmm, yes you might have found a loop hole that doesn’t work sadly. Sorry!
Matt! You are the best!
One personal question;
Dont you never fall in love with someone of all the beatiful women you photograph and work with??
Thanks, yes absolutely. But then I meet the next model and the cycle repeats haha. As Peter Lindberg said, we fall in love 9-5 then go home. Mine is from shoot to shoot.
Matt! Such a Stud 😁👌
@@patrikfager7796 I didn’t say they felt the same. I’m just the geek with the camera haha
i bought a pentax sp-f with 50mm 1.4 SMC Takumar and 35mm 3.5 Super Takumar and some random 135mm 2.8 for 60 Euros. So the cam was for free i guess ;)
Wow that’s cheap! Yes free for sure, congrats!
Interesting but my wallet has bugged out and gone into hiding.
Probably a good idea. CZcams can be an expensive game! (I need to blame a fellow YT’er for this lens/ Linhof arrival!) I’ll explain in time
Hahaha, clickbait title 😜 - technically "free" cameras 😉
Sorry if a bit ‘baity’ but I wanted to try to help you guys and explain my recent Linhof arrival
sorry Matt nothing in this world is free never has been never will
Thanks Michael, I guess I feel better paying money for something when the value is like a 2 for 1..but yes not free.
Sorry Matt - you are better than this - smells of click bait.......
Thanks, it’s not, did you watch the video?
Why not watch the video first before allowing your mouth to take a shit?
How can it be clickbait when the comment section is full of similar stories to Matt's? He literally explains the title of the video, in full. I imagine for new film photographers, like young students or kids just starting out, this little tip would not have occurred to them.
This is no criticism of you, but there is nothing free in this world. As for ebay, the asking prices fro m people claiming to be private sellers are not far off camera shops. With ebay you getno guarantee and seldom the right to return, atleast with a camera shop you get three to six months warrany and usually you can return the item within a week or two. Forget ebay. Sorry to be blunt.
Yes shops are better for warranty etc
How often have you had to return something to a camera shop?
I have no issues with returns on eBay. Maybe it’s that jackass attitude you have. I think ProCamera in Va is a joke. Bunch of clowns use to run it a few years back. CatLABS in Boston also has really bad customer service. So what is your point.
@@FFVoyager Only as late as three months ago, to very famous online retailer. The VR function on the ' Like New ' all singing and dancing zoom worked intermittently. One email, two replies and the lens was exchanged. I could have got it about £100.00 cheaper from ebay, but no returns. Where would I be now, £500.00 out of pocket. It is also very difficult to get anywhere with ebay if the seller didn't want to cooperate. A couple of years ago it took nearly two months to get a refund on an item that the seller had said was in stock, but it wasn't. Really for expensive tech stuff, it really is not worth the risk. I can tell you another horror story about a lie that ebay told me last Christmas, but I think this is enough.