620 spools are not that rare. They are available for $5.00 each from a number of sources. Freestyle photo being one of them, but there are other places that sell them and $5.00 seems to be the price most commercial places charge. You can usually visit a garage sale, or flee market, and probably pick up an old Kodak folder or box camera that takes 620 film often with 50-60 year old film still in it for less than $5.00 get both spools, (and if you're into peeking into strangers lives), develop the film to see if there's anything interesting that survived. I'm incredulous that someone would spend more than twice the going rate. I usually check e-bay for these types of things to save money, not spend more money.
-----Original Message----- >From: mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jul 31, 2007 3:55 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >Subject: Re: More ebay madness. > > >> >> From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2007/07/30 Mon PM 10:21:31 GMT >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> Subject: More ebay madness. >> >> As some of you may know, I enabled myself with a Kodak Medalist II some >> time ago, which has a magnificent 100mm f3.5 lens. Unfortunatly this >> camera takes 620 size film. Fortunatly 120 film can be re-rolled onto >> 620 spools and it works just fine. However I'm on the lookout for 620 >> film spools to have a reasonable supply on hand ready to go. Look at >> the price for EMPTY spools in this auction. >> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBUAA:US:11&Item=170133849423 >> > >I can't access eBay from work but I assume the prices are high. This is >simple supply and demand, due to 620 spools being quite rare. The obvious >thing to do is to manufacture some new ones and sell the excess. > > >----------------------------------------- >Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email >Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
