Advice needed on a couple of old(ish) cameras

[PeteHall]

Hoping some of the camera types on here can help.

I'm currently in the Orkneys, helping clear my late grandmother's house (she was a Mendip caver once upon a time).

Obviously, I've packed her stinky into a box to keep, but not sure if it's worth bringing these two cameras (and spare lens) back south.

Both cameras have been to the Arctic and Antarctic, but I doubt either has been caving...

Any advice very welcome.

Thanks

 

[royfellows]

An easy way to check the value of anything is to see what they fetching by auction on ebay

 

[ZombieCake]

Hi,
Short answer is yes. The star (in my eyes) is probably the Pentax K1000 film body. In good working condition can go for £100 or more give or take. There's increasing demand for film cameras this days, and film is still plentiful. The Canon 1100d is a 12.2 mega pixel digital camera, and can still take good pictures, again if working c. £100 or so. Canon 18-55 is a good kit lens. The Pentax lens is also OK and has the advantage you can mount it on mirrorless cameras using a 'your camera body' to Pentax K mount adaptor, £20-£30 on Amazon. Check to see if the aperture is snappy when it opens encloses and doesn't stick and the focus and zoom aren't too stiff. Don't know much about the Tamron, but they do make good lenses.
With all old lenses have a look to see if there is any fungus growing on the elements - thin wispy white threads. If there then that is bad news. Internal dust specs are not usually a problem.

 

[pwhole]

Also the 'A' designation on the Pentax lens means 'Automatic', which means all the 'Auto' metering options work with it - sounds obvious now, but in the days of yore, most were manual. I've still got the Pentax 'Super A' film body, but I'm using all my 'A' lenses on the Pentax digital SLR as they all use K-mounts. It's only a 2/3 sensor, so it's slightly cropped when using film lenses, but hey-ho, that's just less edge-distortion to worry about. I also have a Tamron zoom lens, which I use for most underground work now and it hasn't died yet.