I suspect that it might be late 1940s judging from the other stuff that came with it, and at the earliest mid 1930s. Hard to be sure though.

It depends whether you are a wide angle or telephoto photographer by nature.

Personally I would take the 16-50mm (although in reality I would take the 16-45mm as it's much more compact) as the 24-90mm is a rather long lens for general use on digital. For me that is.

However, you know your photographic style better than we do.

Well it's up on eBay and item number is 300304587142

This one will be interesting to watch!

It does indeed seem to be working, but I wouldn't fancy it as my main camera!

To be honest, the type of shutter that has been used almost always works regardless of age. And without batteries...

With apologies for the delay, here's the camera:
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I have another batch of cameras here ready for eBay (when my migraine lets me) including the oddest thing I have found so far.

A home made 35mm camera.

I'll try and get an image of it later. It's based on a box, maybe a cut down box camera, with a Kodak rectilinear lens and shutter grafted on maybe from an old folder and with a hand built transaport mechanism. It has a specially made lens hood and filter holder assembly as well. Very curious.

It might appeal to someone who is really into bespoke engineering solutions!

The FA lenses have been steadily phased out in favour of the Vietnam-made DA series. Now that the 55mm f1.4 DA lens is with us, I wouldn't be surprised if the Japan made FA 50mm f1.4 doesn't disappear eventually,

My vote goes to the Pentax 50mm f1.4 as well. Get one while you can.

George, I hope the wee lass was impressed by how you fell for her....

Breathing on a filter or front element is fine (I've never carried a fridge around with me so can't comment on that!) but I thought this enquiry was for more stubborn finger prints, in which case a little more may be needed.

My usual clean would be to breath lightly on the lens, allow to evaporate and then wipe with a microfibre cloth. Not on a sensor though. Don't forget to flick off any grit first otherwise you will wipe it across the glass and scratch it.

Clean of last resort is lens cleaning fluid. Only very rarely necessary though.

Sensors are something else entirely.