Nikon Collectors... Are They Mad??

[jasphotography]

I suppose a collector piece (Nikon SP Series) would be incomplete without its box. The eventual buyer probably wanted to complete his collection or resell his SP collection with its "original" box at a premium of 200% ???

So, the next question is, why the seller wanted to sell his SP camera and its original box separately? My analogy is since he is keeping the 5cm f1.1 lens, so selling the camera and its original box would still be incomplete and would be better off for him to sell the camera, box, case, whatever accessories he had separately for others to complete their collection, at a exorbitant price that we saw.

Maybe, they are not that mad afterall.


I can't seem to see any serial number on the box (maybe there wasn't any). So the box can still be claimed "originally" came with the camera?!?!?!

Just my wild, hopefully intelligent guess


PS: The next time I saw such box from a garang guni man, by hook or by crook, I make sure he resells it to me!!!

 

[hongsien]

I just paid about Sgd$60 for 13 old nikon caps + 4 mamiya caps on Ebay. Am I mad? :cry:

Last time, I paid Sgd$30 dollars for various 70's nikon or nikkor stickers too....
I am certain mental institution got my name somewhere :lovegrin:

Don't worry, as long as you like the stickers it is a good buy........

 

[hongsien]

I suppose a collector piece (Nikon SP Series) would be incomplete without its box. The eventual buyer probably wanted to complete his collection or resell his SP collection with its "original" box at a premium of 200% ???

So, the next question is, why the seller wanted to sell his SP camera and its original box separately? My analogy is since he is keeping the 5cm f1.1 lens, so selling the camera and its original box would still be incomplete and would be better off for him to sell the camera, box, case, whatever accessories he had separately for others to complete their collection, at a exorbitant price that we saw.

Maybe, they are not that mad afterall.


I can't seem to see any serial number on the box (maybe there wasn't any). So the box can still be claimed "originally" came with the camera?!?!?!

Just my wild, hopefully intelligent guess


PS: The next time I saw such box from a garang guni man, by hook or by crook, I make sure he resells it to me!!!

The serial no's of the body and lens is on the outside brown box.......

It usually sells higher if sold separately when the seller knows there will bea few people looking for it (the owner of the camerabody, and others who just need a box for their SP).

HS

 

[jasphotography]

The serial no's of the body and lens is on the outside brown box.......

Is it? I can't seem to see it leh. Anyway, am not surprised the serial number can be peeled off easily either off a label or off the box.

 

[hongsien]

Is it? I can't seem to see it leh. Anyway, am not surprised the serial number can be peeled off easily either off a label or off the box.

Yes, you are right, looks like it was peeled off..........anyway, the inner box should also have the numbers on the underside, but these were handwritten, and not always written there.

HS

 

[hongsien]

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But lens caps are genuinely useful things.
Their function is to prevent scratches to the front lens elements or the filter and keep out water, moisture, sand and dust. So it was a good buy.

Not so sure about the internal and external wrapping boxes. most people throw away at least one of them.

Some will keep in the hope that 55 years later (now) some guy will pay $$$ for it.
Their dreams come true.

If someone had told Nikon SP buyers in the 1950s to keep the paper boxes as they will be worth $$$ 55 years later, many will say he is cuckoo.

It is all about supply and demand..........

 

[Benign]

But lens caps are genuinely useful things.
Their function is to prevent scratches to the front lens elements or the filter and keep out water, moisture, sand and dust. So it was a good buy.

Not so sure about the internal and external wrapping boxes. most people throw away at least one of them.

Some will keep in the hope that 55 years later (now) some guy will pay $$$ for it.
Their dreams come true.

If someone had told Nikon SP buyers in the 1950s to keep the paper boxes as they will be worth $$$ 55 years later, many will say he is cuckoo.

Dunno, maybe I am abit overboard. I even thought of buying fungus lens, body parts then with hope that I might have enough parts to build one mint body or lens. :sweat:

Now I got fungus lens and imperfect bodies......:embrass:

The lens caps immediately got offer fromt his guy who want the Ai/Ais Nikkor 300mm cap out of the 13 caps....speak of the devil, the seller still hasn't sent me the item yet :angry:

 

[ricohflex]

Dunno, maybe I am abit overboard. I even thought of buying fungus lens, body parts then with hope that I might have enough parts to build one mint body or lens.

I do that.
Some stuff I have is already not made by the company.
The company refuses to repair it and claim that they do not have spare parts.
They want consumers to buy new cameras.
The only way to repair is to get parts from a damaged camera body and get your own repairer.

Lenses with fungus are ok if not too serious, can clean.
but if fogged - no rescue. it is dead.
i have bought lenses with fungus.

you must know the product. for example. i know that in the past asahi pentax made lenses with "hard" coating. karen nakamura also mentions this in the web
this was before the multicoating craze.
the fungus does not eat into the hard coating
but it may eat into your modern multicoated lenses.

it wipes off quite clean from the hard coated lenses.

by the way, ask 'roundg' CS member
he made his own minolta XD5 from parts from various minolta cameras
amazing skill for a hobbyist