I wish I'd never sold my...

[Roger Hicks]

... doesn't matter what. Two questions. First, why did you sell it? Second, why don't you replace it?

For me, the answers have almost always been first, I needed the money, and second, to be honest, I don't miss it that much. Occasionally, it's true, the second answer is that price is now so high that I can't afford it, or I simply can't find it; but even then, I can't help feeling that if I liked it that much, I'd find the money, or find the lens (or whatever).

What are your answers?

Cheers,

R.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Black Konica Hexar AF.
Sold it to buy my first M2.
Now I have 2 Leica film bodies and 2 digitals, so I don't really need another film camera.

Phil Forrest

 

[johannielscom]

M6 Classic 0.85 & M-Hexanon 50mm 1.2

Sold for money and not buying it back because of money. It brought me good cash and I really needed that, but I keep being sad about it...🙁

 

[Roger Hicks]

Black Konica Hexar AF.
Sold it to buy my first M2.
Now I have 2 Leica film bodies and 2 digitals, so I don't really need another film camera.

Phil Forrest

Dear Phil,

Exactly. Neither need nor really want all that much. The nostalgia is in effect separate from the camera.

Cheers,

R.

 

[benlees]

Minolta Autocord. Has a lovely lens on it. However, 1/30th was inconsistent and PC was corroded. My cameras don't have to be pretty but I prefer everything works. The prices have really gone up more than my desire to replace it.

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

luckily, I never sold anything that I seriously regret selling so far.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Minolta Autocord. Has a lovely lens on it. However, 1/30th was inconsistent and PC was corroded. My cameras don't have to be pretty but I prefer everything works. The prices have really gone up more than my desire to replace it.

Beautifully phrased!

Cheers,

R.

 

[retnull]

Konica-M 90 / 2.8.

I now have another 90mm that I love, and use, even more. BUT I took two images I really like with the Konica. So if I'm emotionally attached to the images, I'm emotionally attached to the lens. Do I know that the Konica is the reason I like these two images? NO, it was probably just the right shot at the right time. Yet the lens gets all the credit...

 

[andredossantos]

My old Contax G1 with 45mm Planar.

I sold it as I was saving up for something or other I can't remember. In the end, I got so little for it at the time that thinking back I kick myself for not just keeping it. Mostly, I miss the lens. I always seemed to get great shots with it (this is most definitely a statistical aberration which distorts my memory and emotions, but nonetheless...).

Currently, prices are so inflated that it's just not worth it. Maybe in the future I'll get another.

 

[Mackinaw]

I wish I never sold my first 35m camera, a Canon FTb bought brand new back in 1971. That's the camera which really got me interested in photography.

Jim B.

 

[Nikon Bob]

Lots of things-divorce-been there done that why do it again.

Bob

 

[Roberto V.]

Mamiya 7 with 65mm lens.
Sold it to buy a screwmount leica kit.
Will probably buy one again after I get a couple of Leica M lenses.
I have owned a Hasselblad SWC/M, and I actually liked the Mamiya even more! 😱 It's one of my favorite cameras that I've used.

 

[shimokita]

Had a camera stolen and only sold one over the years. About 25 years on I did replace the one that was stolen and it ended up being the only one I ever sold. It wasn't as good as I remembered ;-) and my eyes are not as good as they use to be.

I was able to sell it for what I paid, so no loss except for a few rolls of out-of-focus images.

Did move on from a few cameras that were left with family and friends but other than that I tend to keep what I buy...

Casey

 

[paulfish4570]

Winchester Model 12 field grade 16-gauge shotgun with original Polychoke, manufactured in 1917.
My word, i could hit with that beautiful machine.
sold it when i was in college to buy a zenit slr and couple of lenses. what a mistake, in effect trading one of the finest examples of firearms industrial art in the world for camera kit that immediately set about frustrating me.
no need to replace the shotgun. my father-in-law a few years ago gave me a world war II military police riot version of the winchester model 12. it's in 12 gauge and is all business.

 

[sdotkling]

This is easy: My M2 with 35mm Summicron and 90mm Tele-Elmarit. Sold it 35 years ago to pay the rent. Times were tough, and I got terribly ripped-off by a grandfatherly man in New York. "The lenses are a disaster!" he said. "Fungus! I'll give you $200 for the two, and another $250 for the camera." Never having heard of fungus before, I caved, feeling guilty about my sloppy camera-storing habits. It wasn't until years later that I looked at the perfectly good final photos I had taken with the lenses, and realized I had been had. The end of youth, the beginning of cynicism.

 

[oldoc]

M7.
No question about it.
I loved that camera...

 

[wjlapier]

1989. Sold my Rolex Submariner for $600 to a pawnshop. I bought the watch a year earlier and pawned it once for money. Got it out of pawn before it's time was up and decided to sell it because I needed money. Back in those days I was carefree with money and never considered saving. Now it's kinda funny. I spend +$5000 for an ala carte M7, but think +$5000 for a watch is too expensive.

 

[charjohncarter]

My '53 MG TD, my '68 Triumph Bonnevilles (two of them), but all cameras sold I have no regrets.

 

[siracusa]

I sold a handmade classical guitar to pay a fee instalment during my M.A. year and got but a fraction of its value. Having been through that I've never truly regretted selling anything since. For a while I missed a summicron r that had seen much better days & which I sold to get one in better condition. The replacement was never as good & I eventually sold all my r gear. More likely to regret purchases than sales - such as a CV 21/4 I just got to try ultra-wide again; immediately realised it's the wrong focal length for me.

 

[jbielikowski]

RB67 Pro SD, I was too greedy to buy a strap for 30$ so I sold it.