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My recent flip: Olympus XA 2 35mm film camera. $5 at a thrift store. These are popular with film nerds because it was used by journalists in the past. They sell for about $70-90 most of the time.

Film cameras are pretty good flipping targets since there is only a little you need to be familiar with and there are usually clearly marked. Pick up a camera or lens and it says any F value below 3? Get it if it's under ten bucks. If it's F/1.4 or lower number get it if it's under $30. And maybe even pay more than that if you research it and find it might be worth a couple of hundred.

Lots of point and shoot cameras are popular and valuable that don't look too different from the rest of the cheap crap, so you can find them in bins sometimes. Especially range finder cameras.

>>3293426

Dayyumm tha XA2 is a nice camera desu.

If you flip cameras you probably shoot film. Whats your set up? I got a Leica M5 with a 35mm 2.8 and a bronica MF.

>>3293449
I keep no camera around for very long and I don't shoot film. My last personal camera was a Canon Mark II with a 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 zoom lens. I paid $225 for it and bunch of accessories and sold it for $500 after doing a sensor cleaning.

I have a brand new in box Konica FT-1 and brand new lenses I will be selling pretty soon. Sometimes I've thought about keeping it around and shooting some film with it because they say the Hexanon lenses are extremely sharp. But I probably won't because I need the money. That's the life of a vendor.