btgc
Veteran
Recently I discovered ability to pass items I wanted. So far I let go Canon AF35ML, Pentax Espio Mini and Ricoh 500G. Nice cameras, worth having in their class. Do I need them ? Not really, practically speaking. Wish they go to hands they'll use them. But again, I'm not blaming collectors - they are useful to help cameras survive and be ready for use many years later, instead of being smashed in first year of use. And picture takers are making part of demand when collectors sell some item.
So both kinds of buyers are complementing each other, this is like in nature - both vegans and predators are needed.
So both kinds of buyers are complementing each other, this is like in nature - both vegans and predators are needed.
btgc
Veteran
...and now passed Big Mini, which I always have wanted so much...it went for so small money, OMG !!!
amateriat
We're all light!
Our wants and needs, for better or worse, do evolve. Sometimes they expand, sometimes they contract (crystalize, if I may be so bold to suggest?). In the latter case, this might lead to casting off unnecessary items, which, even if left idly about , can be regarded as distracting (that bleeping Mamiya 645 has been around for years collecting dust...what to do with it!?). With few exceptions, it's never been too difficult to cast off major possessions no longer used by me. (Minor possessions are another story...they tend to pile up over a decade or so until a major purge is engeged, though sentimentality, in my case, has little to do with it.)
I have my father's old Polaroid 95, even though Polaroid hasn't made film for it for over a decade; I still have scans from the many photos he took with it, and that's part of the reason I keep it. There's an old Kodak Starmite that he likely used for some of the shots of me in my first months from the womb. I've got that, too. None of my cameras from most of the intervening years is still around. Some broke prematurely; some worked fine, but no longer were a good fit for my purposes (for good or silly reasons). The photos, of course, matter most. The cameras do matter, too, but mostly in the moment of photographing, and how well I work with them. My sensibilities at 51 are at least a bit different from what they were at, say, 25.
- Barrett
I have my father's old Polaroid 95, even though Polaroid hasn't made film for it for over a decade; I still have scans from the many photos he took with it, and that's part of the reason I keep it. There's an old Kodak Starmite that he likely used for some of the shots of me in my first months from the womb. I've got that, too. None of my cameras from most of the intervening years is still around. Some broke prematurely; some worked fine, but no longer were a good fit for my purposes (for good or silly reasons). The photos, of course, matter most. The cameras do matter, too, but mostly in the moment of photographing, and how well I work with them. My sensibilities at 51 are at least a bit different from what they were at, say, 25.
- Barrett
btgc
Veteran
I'll guess that most of amateurs keep at least biggest part of their tools because of some emotional bindings to particular tools. Maybe like as with people too 
btgc
Veteran
oh, well....my good will broke....another 3 cameras, and two of them almost same - different flavours of Big Mini. Probably I have to see "cameraholic club" - my name is ..., yesterday I bought another camera - ....
btgc
Veteran
Seller of one of BIG minis contacted me with excuses that sale was meant for domestic buyers only. I could NEG & report him as this is complete BS (no limitations were put on bidders), on another hand I can just leave one BIGmini and be fine with only one.
Again, I feel that seller isn't very fair and maybe I have to report him as refusing deal, just to maintain ethics of trade. What do you think ?
Again, I feel that seller isn't very fair and maybe I have to report him as refusing deal, just to maintain ethics of trade. What do you think ?