I'm helping with an estate sell. This particular sale includes some film photography equipment including some cameras and assorted lenses. Is there any demand for non digital photo equipment?

Mike

I seen guys on ebay sell some of that for $10,000 apiece each! :yikes:

I've looked at e-bay and prices seem to be all over the place. Since I'm not into photography, I don't understand the nuances involved in pricing cameras. I have a inkling that its not so much the camera body, but the lense, but beyond that, I know nothing.

Mike

Of course there are many millions of people still using film based photography. B&H photo in NY and on line sells over 80 different 35mm films.

I moderate a Canon FD forum on Photo.net and we have a very active group of people using cameras made from 1971 to about 1990. All manual focus and all film based.

I have many film based cameras I use. I think 40 of them work


The price guide I have lists over 40,000 different cameras so like LP's the value varies greatly!

From a couple bucks for a junky instamatic to $100,000.00 or more for a rare or historical camera.

Check the photography forum here if you're sort of interested. E.g., this thread:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=172605

I'm a analog type of guy both for audio and photography. I suggest you look and www.keh.com and check their used prices and price yours a bit under their prices. Of course many factors are involved such as light leaks and any shutter problems which would severely decrease the value from there. And like MRH said go to the thread he posted and ask your question there.

-Mike

definitely still a demand for film camera gear. A good, used, and usable (entry level) 35mm SLR should still bring 50-100 dollars to someone taking a high school or college photography class. Many classes still require you to use a manual 35mm to learn basics.
Beyond this, many of the older lenses can be adapted to work on newer cameras for example, all of the old fd/fl lenses can be be mounted on the newer eos cameras with an adapter. They have to be manually focused but will still work-and in many cases are much higher quality products than the modern counterparts.
There is also an extensive collector market that comes into play with certain cameras and lenses for example anything with the Leica name on it is money same with zeiss lenses and if they happen to be gray or have Luftewaffe or other wartime German markings, then they are likely worth stupid money.