Depends. Sometimes the equipment was bought and stored in a closet
for 30 years because the purchaser transferred. You gotta inspect.
tOM
On 15 Jul 2005 at 10:09,
ClassicVW@xxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Be VERY careful when government auctions appear. Everything is sold "as is".
> Only even consider it if you can get the gear for next to nothing, and you
> really really have no problems with being seen using "butt-ugly" gear! I once
> bought a lot ("lot" as in an auction lot) of OM gear- body, lenses, flash,
> etc
> from either Oregon or Washington, I forget, via an eBay auction. The stuff
> was
> technically "working", but VERY butt-ugly, and tremendously scarred. I have
> never seen any OM equipment look that bad.
>
> I know some of you may be thinking that the reason they're selling off film
> equipment is to go digital and the gear isn't that bad, but, believe me, as a
> former person in charge of a couple of police department's photo gear, and
> having transitioned them to digital, they keep things almost FOREVER. We
> still had
> in our storage and ready to be used if needed, the several Graflex kits that
> were used from the 1950s thru the early 80s, when I bought them their first
> digital gear in ~1998.
>
> George S.
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