Not getting paid, and still getting paid!!

[Uranus]

So: my wife works in domestic care, and a few months ago called me over to help out one of her recently widowed clients with her aquarium. Cool old bird af about 70. I went over and spent around 6hrs sorting the damn thing out (it was in an apalling state). She’s old and disabled, can”t maintain it too well herself, so I tell her to call me if ever she needs help.

Today I went over again because the tank was in the same shape as when I went there the first time – some fish hiding in 45gallons of algae. *sigh*

We get to talking about the annoying and pushy know-it-all who was supposedly looking after the tank, and she mentions that he’s really into collecting clocks. I casually remark that I don’t much appreciate clocks, but like old cameras….

She hops up and opens Aladdin’s cupboard and says, “Please help me out and take this crap off my hands – I HATE cameras, but my late husband kind of liked them.”

So I got paid in cameras for 4 hours work. Here’s the score:

1x Franka Solida
1x Praktica superTL3 SLR with 3 lenses
1x Izumar multi-image lens
1x Fodor box camera
1x Ilford Sporti
1x Fodor Flash unit
1x 1940’s aluminium and enamel tripod
1x ricoh focus free p&s
1x Minolta Panorama camera
a couple of pretty antique-looking lenses – small: seem to clip onto the front of an old rangefinder camera (which wasn’t in there)
1x Canon Powershot A540 with 3 memory cards

here’s some of the cameras:

Bonus! by J-B., on Flickr

Here’s a q&d test shot with the multi-image lens in front of my dSLR:

Multi-Image Izumar by J-B., on Flickr

[olavf]

Awesome!

[lokisbong]

Very cool score.

[orionid]

w00t!

[Farktographer]

Share? =P

[Uranus]

Share? =P

sure.
why not?

[Farktographer]

I kid, but that is an awesome assortment you got as a reward.

[Author]

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