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Adapters may exist that would make the 50mm lens compatible with a Canon digital camera back.
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
The main problem will be condition: if someone wants to actually use it rather than having it as a shelf ornament, it needs to be clean and in good working order : the lens needs to be clear with no scratches or fungus on the glass, the shutter needs to work accurately at all speeds, the metering needs to be spot on and it needs to be light-tight or the film will get fogged. The foam seals round the edge of the film door perish and crumble with age. You can buy replacement seal kits, which are about £10-12 and it’s a reasonably straightforward job to install them, but it is quite fiddly as you’re dealing with 1mm strips of foam.
Even after all that, it still won’t be massively valuable. I sold a Canon AE-1 recently. It was immaculate, the lens was clean as a whistle and I’d put in a new battery and a set of light seals (about £15-worth all told). I got £60 for it, including about £10 for p&p.
As @boogieman says, condition is the thing; lens fungus and seals are the most common problems but once addressed you have an excellent bit of kit that could work for years. I found a really clean Pentax ME that just required new seals to get it fully operational again.
My suggestion? Use it. Film is having a continued revival, and I have a stock of about 50 rolls of agfa 200 speed negative from pound land. You might find it's quite fun, and that 50mm 1.8 lens is good.
If you're not using it, and you're not much of a photographer, have someone who is check it out for things like fungus, oil spots, slow aperture blades, helicoid issues, slow shutter timings (cloth shutters can get a bit tired) then you can say this in the listing (which will get much higher money for you!).
Nice little camera though. I use an ae-1p to this day (was out shooting yesterday with it) with a 24mm f/2.5 adaptall lens and it's fantastic. One day I'll have it serviced to fix the shutter squeak.
Me too, to be honest. I still shoot film, but not nearly as often. however, if you really enjoy it, spending £1000 on medium format gear, film and development will probably get you something quite different than spending 1k on a camera and lens.
But yes, digital is convenient and if you're not experienced, much easier to learn on.
I don't do photography - 20 shots a year on a mobile phone at most
Can't be bothered with all the checking out palaver ..........first £75 gets it
Without checking it out at all you'll find it quite difficult to sell I imagine - people want to know the shutter speeds are accurate, the film winder correctly winds with no skipping, the lens has no fungus etc