Most that you ever spent on One camera Body?

Most that you ever spent on One camera Body?

  • >$10,000

    Votes: 4 1.8%

  • >$5,000

    Votes: 25 11.5%

  • >$2,000

    Votes: 83 38.1%

  • >$1,000

    Votes: 65 29.8%

  • >$500

    Votes: 28 12.8%

  • >$100

    Votes: 10 4.6%

  • >$10

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • Only use the ones people give to me for free.

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • Total voters
    218
  • Poll closed .
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What is the most money that you ever spent on One camera body, Either for Professional use or for Personal use?

Me:
Professional use: Kodak DCS200ir, $12,400. 1.6MPixel DSLR, Circa 1992. Explains why I was so excited that the D1x's were only $6,500 each for a 5.74MPixel camera.

Home Use: $1,900ea. Pair of Nikon SP's, Titanium Curtains, Mint-. Nikon S3 Millenium with lens, $2,400.

Hmmm.. That first one adds up to two M9's considering I bought a Spare $1,500 SCSI 80MByte drive for it.

And The Three SP's that I have add up to about one M9.
 
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$60 - Canon FTb + 50mm 1.8
>$50 - Kiev 4 + J-8

and I was thinking of making a bid on an M3 DS... but even 350 is alot if I can't see the corners. maybe I'll do it anyways...

cheers!
 
When i was in high school my dad bought me a Nikon F4s, which cost $1800 for the body. I carried it everywhere back then cause it was cool to have the top pro camera at age 18, but now i never use it. Too bulky and WAY too heavy! I don't like how Nikon's lenses render either so i am mostly using Olympus OM for 35mm work.
 
Professional: Early pro digital was expensive - early pro digital video was EXPENSIVE. Even rental would usually shoot past the $10,000 mark on large projects.
 
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Professional: Early pro digital was expensive - early pro digital video was EXPENSIVE. Even rental would usually shoot past the $10,000 mark on large projects.
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I bought a Panasonic TQ2026 Video Disk Recorder for >$20,000 in ~1988. I used to do stop-frame computer-generated animation. I had the Video cards custom made for the computer.

Anybody need some Panasonic Laserdisks? They were $100 each, could not bring myself to toss them. Maybe they will make pretty clock faces.
 
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Alpa 9d for my 13th birthday (still have it), no idea what it cost. Bummed my Dad's lenses through high school and then bought a Nikon in college. My Dad never understood why... I told him that if Nikon was good enough for National Geographic then it was certainly good enough for my crappy pictures 😀
 
Oops, I said >2000, but I meant >1000. (I always get greater than and less than confused. And I'm a teacher!!! 😱 )

I paid $1595 for my D100 in 2002. I still use that camera as my main digital camera, but also use a D70 that has in internal IR filter, and a Coolpix 950 as it attaches to a number of instruments I use.

None of my film cameras cost anywhere near that much.
 
...and for the past several years about the only 35mm camera I use is that cheap viewfinderless, rangefinderless, Bessa L, the one Cameraquest was selling for $59.95 "with a lens purchase".
 
I bought my Leica for $500 and it apparently had a fresh CLA days earlier and hadnt been marked up , little bit of a beater on the looks end of things , feels brand new otherwise.
Technically, I only cashed out about $200 on it but i traded $300 worth of stuff to get it.
 
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