Is any of this photography gear worth anything?

Hi

So my mum knows someone know works at the dump.
Recently he bought her a whole box of photography equipment to give to me.
I've had a very quick google but don't have time to do a proper search. Is any of this stuff useful?
Particularly, can any of it be used and/or used for film making? Ie, the light meter?

Here is the list:
Minolta X-300 SLR

· Minolta 100 - 200 mm zoom lens

· Minolta 35 - 70 mm lens

· Minolta autoflash/light meter

· Ricoh TLS 401 SLR

· Raynox 5.6 - 300 tele lens

· Weltblick 45 - 135mm auto zoom lens

· Nikon

· RMC Tokina 35 - 70 mm lens

· Weiton 28mm lens

· Topman TV-3230 tripod

I understand most of it will be junk but I'm wondering if there's any gems in there? Apparently there's more as well.

Quick way to tell whether a lens is worth money is its aperture or f/# the lower the # special on zoom lens more money there worth. For zoom anything around 2.8 is good and for prime non zoom lenses 1.2-1.8 range isn't bad.

Any of it can be used as long as it isn't broken of course. As for being "gems", a true gem is whatever you have with you at the the you took the shot.

Jonathan Uriah Denney
Uriah Gallery

Film equipment has quickly gone out of style. Digital Equipment is price affordable and more commonly in use.
The best thing to do is to check on eBay for people who collect these items.
That would be my recommendation.

As the holder of much of the same type of equipment that you're describing, I don't think there's really a market for this gear. It's sad because it works fine, but even film is getting difficult to find.

1- The film SLR's won't be worth much.
2- The lenses might but we need to know hat they max aperture is as well (f5.6, f2.8, f1.4… F4.6-5.6 so on so forth). Also, the condition of th elns will be important (scratches on the glass, fungus inside the lens, damage or loose focusing/zoom ring… )
4- "Nikon"… Nikon what? Nikon is a brand.
5- Light meters ar great for studio work and it doesn;t matter how old they are (as long as they are still working correctly). You might want ot be a bit more precise about the model.
6- A tripod is a tripod. As long as it has a standard 1/4-20 thread then it will work for all modern cameras.