this made my day...$4 flash

i was looking for another flash to add to my strobist kit and was going the budget route -- i just wanted something to put some filters on and fire remotely...well i stopped into one of the local pawn shops and there she sat...an Achiever Auto Thyristor 260T sitting on the shelf all by herself, and with a sticker price of $5.95....well that was bargain enough but the rep said "if you but it just give me $4"....i figure, heck it's $4, if it does not work, what they hey....but sure enough, I stick it on my cactus receiver, prop it on a tripod, and fire away....and it never missed a shot...works like a charm....WOOHOOO....an​d that's my find of the day!!! just figured i'd share

Congratulations! Gotta love deals like that

mcphotography wrote in post #4886387
i was looking for another flash to add to my strobist kit and was going the budget route -- i just wanted something to put some filters on and fire remotely...well i stopped into one of the local pawn shops and there she sat...an Achiever Auto Thyristor 260T sitting on the shelf all by herself, and with a sticker price of $5.95....well that was bargain enough but the rep said "if you but it just give me $4"....i figure, heck it's $4, if it does not work, what they hey....but sure enough, I stick it on my cactus receiver, prop it on a tripod, and fire away....and it never missed a shot...works like a charm....WOOHOOO....an​d that's my find of the day!!! just figured i'd share

Good work!
Obviously the boards will be quiet for the next couple hours as all the POTN'ers race out to their local pawn shops!

thanks..now i just have to convince my son to pose for me tomorrow.....it may be easier to find another flash for $4...lol

While I live in an area where pawn shops are far and few between (Madison, Janesville, Wisconsin). I used to live in Denver and figured that when I would make a visit back to the area and paruse the local pawn shops I probably would find treasure in piles of trash.

It's amazing what stuff you can find in pawn shops if you know what to look for. Now granted I haven't been able to find another 200mm 1.8 yet for $1000 I have picked up my fair share of filters and other things at minimal fractions of cost as what retail would pull from my wallet.

Ross

what pawn shops do you GO TO? every single pawn shop i have anywhere near me, i swear the most expensive thing they will have in them are those dollar toys you get out of those vending machines or some dirty jewelry

i've looked in pawn shops before and usually is nada but this time i lucked out....i do find deals on little electronics - $5 cd players, one time they were selling portable tv's for $5, one time one sold some portable dvd players for $10...but hardly ever any good camera equipment