FstopSwap

After a long hiatus the local photographic swap meet re-convened last weekend. It had been going for 37 years but the owner’s health issues followed by the Covid shutdown had halted it for five years. That gap made for a sparse turnout. In its heyday there were dozens of vendors, this sale had ten, many had given up, some had died. There were only few young “shutterbugs” in attendance. Classic photo gear doesn’t bring the prices it used to since the dawn of the digital age, and digital equipment is a whole ’nother animal. Still, there was some good stuff:

I even sold some things but when looking at some of the older gear I felt as if I was at a buggy-whip and sealing wax meet: