Oh well after much moaning about the dearth of "bargains", I walked into the Monday market in the town hall today and picked up a Zorki-4 kit, including Orion-15 28mm f/6, Jupiter-8 50mm f/2, and Jupiter-11 135mm f/4, as well as a "BDB SUPER-SCRU" filter holder (?) and Supplementary lens, a Boots KL-6 light meter ... and a fitted faux-leather hard case for it all ... oh and a partially-exposed roll of Kodachrome-64 ...
all the glass appears in good shape (no fungus, no scratches but a fair amount of dust and paint particles within), and the Zorki shutter seems to work OK though the rf patch is rather faint, and the body seems to be in very good nick ... everything mounts and rf couples on the Bessa, and the Orion in particular is nice (despite it's f/6 maximum aperture!) as it's so tiny it doesn't block the viewfinder (as my CV Ultron 28mm does) ... of course, the R2a doesn't have framelines for the 28 and 135 ... but I can stand it.
All this for £40 (USD64) ...
all the glass appears in good shape (no fungus, no scratches but a fair amount of dust and paint particles within), and the Zorki shutter seems to work OK though the rf patch is rather faint, and the body seems to be in very good nick ... everything mounts and rf couples on the Bessa, and the Orion in particular is nice (despite it's f/6 maximum aperture!) as it's so tiny it doesn't block the viewfinder (as my CV Ultron 28mm does) ... of course, the R2a doesn't have framelines for the 28 and 135 ... but I can stand it.
All this for £40 (USD64) ...