Some people are just too lucky!

These things happen. A few weeks back one of my neighbours pulled a plastic bag out from under the kitchen sink, asking me if I might know anything about the contents (which had been his father-in-law's old camera, and which has languished in the dark for a decade or so since the old man died). Turned out to be a very tidy lever-rewind M2 with self-timer, with 50mm rigid Summicron, meter, miniflash, and intact ever-ready case (which even held the diffuser for the meter). All it would have needed is a shutter tune-up to return it to active service.

Unfortunately She Who Must Be Obeyed would have kicked my arse had I offered to buy it.
 
I intend to make my son such a lucky guy one day, but his "dad" won't dig it out of the attic, rather just take it out of his routinely used camera bag. :)
 
Dan, you beat me to it... My son will inherit my M3 and my other M bodies, which by then will have been used and cherished and taken care of, not abandoned in an attic. :)
 
I really hope people who pass these cameras on to their kids have kids who will cherish and use them. I've seen way too many inherited cameras either abused or flipped for quick cash.
 
I've been incredibly lucky to have been given a leica IIIG + collapsable summicron by it's original owner.
I also inherited an Olympus pen FT + 40mm 1.4 from my late uncle.
 
Brian Legge said:
I really hope people who pass these cameras on to their kids have kids who will cherish and use them. I've seen way too many inherited cameras either abused or flipped for quick cash.
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My daughter will get my gear once I make a new home in a box. She knows the value and will use the gear..
 
ruby.monkey said:
These things happen. A few weeks back one of my neighbours pulled a plastic bag out from under the kitchen sink, asking me if I might know anything about the contents (which had been his father-in-law's old camera, and which has languished in the dark for a decade or so since the old man died). Turned out to be a very tidy lever-rewind M2 with self-timer, with 50mm rigid Summicron, meter, miniflash, and intact ever-ready case (which even held the diffuser for the meter). All it would have needed is a shutter tune-up to return it to active service.

Unfortunately She Who Must Be Obeyed would have kicked my arse had I offered to buy it.
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"Yeah, that camera isn't worth much... they made a lot of them. I'll buy it for $50..."

Then relocate.
 
it happens guys believe me. a month ago,(easter to be exact) i was visiting my dad and he comes out of his room and hands me a bag, in it was an old camera he says that he got from his uncle who passed away. "probably is not worth much, but maybe you can use it" he says. this is what was inside.

i had it cla'd and the curtains changed by a technician near our place. works fine and got some good results.
 

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That is a wonderful find. I love some of the comments regarding that post as well: "do you realize that some people would stab themselves in the penis to have a Leica rangefinder???"

I'm glad that I never had to go to those lengths to get a Leica, but it did hurt to sit down for a few months after I bought my M9... :D
 
I inherited a Leica R5 with Summicron 50/2, Elmarit 35/2.8 and Elmarit 90/2.8 from my grandfather. :)

Passed a few rolls through it by now and just ordered a Leica-EOS adapter to also use the lenses on the 5D, they're great!
 
I gave my Dad a Minolta Hi-Matic AF and we just got his Minolta Maxxum working again. What he gave me back is priceless...
 
Before he went in the nursing home, my Dad gave me some boxes with all the photo stuff he had. And his Argus CC. I was hoping for the C-3, but we never did find that after he passed. I cherish having the CC though because that's the camera he had with him during the war. The C-3 would have been nice too, as that was the one he used to take family pictures as we were growing up. I'm thinking he sold it to someone who showed an interest in it, and used Kodak's from then on.

Rarely was my Dad a subject in the family pictures till then, since Mom never got the hang of using the Argus. They weren't the most prolific photographers on the planet either, as it would take them months to go through a 12 shot 126 cartridge. I gave my Dad one of those Pentax IQ Zoom models, and he gave it back a couple years later. Mom said he didn't want to spend the money on film. Well, at least we have some of his artwork to keep him in our memories.

PF
 
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