Found a second #HP12C while out thrift shopping, a later model made in Singapore. I keep hunting for one of the older scientific models with the molded rather than painted keys, but still fun to find another. The top one is today's find, a '93 from Singapore, the bottom an '86 from the U.S. #AlwaysBeThrifting

Bought a half-dozen lens filters from Goodwill for $5 USD because there was a Heliopan and a B&W in the set.

Also found an 85A filter for shooting tungsten film in daylight. Looking through it, it really warms up these blue-gray winter days, pulls out the sun's highlights in the clouds. Makes me want to shoot daylight film with it.

#AlwaysBeThrifting #BelieveInFilm

So, a couple of weekends ago I picked up a JVC XL-V211 CD player for about $8 USD to replace the Sony DVP-SR200P DVD player that has been doing duty in my thrift shop stereo stack. It's from like 1989, has a solid but functional build, amber LEDs, etc. Probably the component CD player in your head.

After hooking it up, found it wouldn't play through or past track 5 on Journey's Escape, so hooked the Sony back up and was immediately heartbroken. Even with these old ears and a couple of decades of road noise pounding on these eardrums, I can hear it in the cymbals, the fingers sliding against the steel electric guitar strings, and the ring in Steve Perry's voice. So, patched the Sony back in, sighed, and waited.

This weekend scored a JVC XV-N40 DVD player for $12 and thought I would roll the dice. Only a few reviews out there, seems to get good reviews with a digital patch, possibly decent DACs, but I can still hear a difference. The old CD player is better.

But, it's not horrible. It might be better than the Sony, but I'd really need two copies of this CD to A/B test. At least it has the standard suite of physical buttons (the Sony assumes you're going to shove in a Shrek DVD and hit play), so makes for a better piece of gear.

But with track 4 now playing for the fourth time in the last hour, I can still tell. It would be so much better if I couldn't.

The hunt continues.

#💿 #AlwaysBeThrifting #LazySaturday

Picked up a JVC XL-V211 CD player for $8. #AlwaysBeThrifting

Wishing I was browsing at charity shops? #AlwaysBeThrifting

Spent Not Thrift Shop (TM) dollars on a(nother) #Nikon FE kit at Goodwill today, but still a fair price. I'll figure out which FE is in better condition, flip the body and at least one of the lenses, and I'll have picked up an 50/1.4 AI-S for free. #AlwaysBeThrifting

Spotted an Olympus Stylus 1050SW while thrift shopping but it was overpriced. Otherwise it would be in my pocket. 😂 Maybe it'll still be there on sale day.

Instead, I picked up a nifty Sharp EL-525 solar scientific calculator, $2 USD.

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Who's gonna tell him. #AlwaysBeThrifting

My wife scored me a Lomo'Instant Automat (Adventure Challenge edition) for $4 USD. Apparently it was in the wrong aisle and I missed it.

In white, it looks like a Stormtrooper's camera. 😂

#AlwaysBeThrifting