Buying the same camera twice

The only camera I have bought more than two of is the M3. I've bought and sold four of them :bang: before I decided I don't like them :eek: as much as the M2:D


Steve
 
Letting us do your article research for you, are you, Roger?

I notice that no one so far has admitted to doing what you asked about. I fall into the needed the money category (for rent, food, or medicine). I have owned two Mamiya Universal Press cameras and just missed buying a third because a salesman at the store sold it out from under me. I would buy another in a New York Minute if I could.

I sold my Pentax MX kit back when I quit the business, because I was using the Mamiya almost exclusively, and it was in the shape you would expect a 10 year old professional kit to be. And after a major illness a decade back bought basically the same MX kit again when I wanted to get back into photography.

The two other cameras that I would replace would be the Super Technika 4x5, and the Rolleiflex 2.8E2, if I could afford to. Although I would get a STv instead of the STiii I had back then. In fact the ST would be the only one I feel needed to be upgraded as the others were 100% satisfactory to my use.

There is another category that I have not seen mentioned so far, the serial collector. That is a collector that wants a lot of different models of things but does not have the money to own more than one. I was that way many years with firearms. It is kind of like, this year I own what I feel like shooting this year.

Then there are collectors, I do not really understand collectors, but there are those who want to own one of everything. There are those who want to own one of everything ever made by one manufacturer. There are those who want to own the TOL of every manufacturer. Anyway you get the idea...

I doubt that buying the same camera over and over again really qualifies as insanity. Maybe it shows a bad memory, "I forgot why I did not like this camera".
 
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Buying the same camera model twice - could be nostalgia too. My problem is that I have bought back the same cameras that I sold - usually after some years gone by.
Mainly it have been M4P's - and when I pop the backdoor - I have recognized the "notches" that I filed into them! It has happened 3-4 times. Most of my old M4P's seems to circulate around Vancouver (I had and used a lot of them - either 15 or 17 over a period of 15 years) - mainly used for shooting K-chrome for AV shows.
The funny part is that I paid roughly what I sold them for - even after 4-5 years. The other part is that they usually had a service when the new owner got them - so there was a small profit in the deals for me!
 
I know that there are as many different reasons for buying/selling/re-buying items, as there are members on this site.
but to answer the original question of last month, no, I have never sold gear to buy like models back.

With the diversity here, Roger should find plenty of "material" for stories, articles, etc.
good luck, I have no problem with providing "inspiration". (hmmm, never sold gear, how odd is that HERE!)
"keep smiling".
 
After purging myself of a pair of beautiful black Nikon F's (black Apollo, black NKG), and a black F2 titanium, I bought back into a chrome F and chrome F2. I would have preferred black, but they are so hard to find, and are more expensive.
 
Over the years I have sold off about four or five cameras and eight to ten lenses, and so far I have never repurchased any. I may someday repurchase a Hasselblad 500 C/M with an 80mm CF T* lens, but that will likely be down the road.
 
I'm guilty of buying multiple examples of the same camera. So enamored of the OM-2n that I now own three of them. Wouldn't want to run out....
 
Well, I had a period of "collecting", where I was constantly trying to get a better version of this or that camera or lens. Finally realised that I wasn't using any of them enough and sold almost everything - the MP will stay forever, and I missed my M3 so much (even over a recently sold M4) that I had to have another. I now have two of the best ever RF cameras, and no GAS.

It's wonderful :D
 
I tend to hold onto things way past when I stop using them, so by the time I let go of something it's so clear it needs to be let go that I've never later had regrets and bought another one. It helps to generally be a cheapskate, so I don't have the motivation of having to sell an existing camera to buy a new one.
 
n5jrn said:
I tend to hold onto things way past when I stop using them, so by the time I let go of something it's so clear it needs to be let go that I've never later had regrets and bought another one. It helps to generally be a cheapskate, so I don't have the motivation of having to sell an existing camera to buy a new one.
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Elegantly phrased!

Cheers,

R.
 
Paul Luscher said:
I'm guilty of buying multiple examples of the same camera. So enamored of the OM-2n that I now own three of them. Wouldn't want to run out....
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Ah, well, that's another matter, which is why I have 5 Nikon Fs. But I've never sold one and bought another because I missed it (because, for the laast 30 years or so, I've always had plenty).

Great quote from Marty Forscher, a good few years ago:

Me: I've got 5 Fs, because I want to keep on using them. How long do you think they'll last?

Marty: How old are you?

Me: 45 [or whatever I was at the time].

Marty: Don't worry, they'll outlast you.

Cheers,

R.
 
Brian Sweeney said:
I have sold some equipment to RFF members with the understanding that if THEY want to sell the item, I want to buy it back. The only reason I sell some of the stuff is because someone asked for it.
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MY kind of posture too...
Thank you Brian-San
 
My record remains with the Hasselblad: I put together a kit through meticulous eBay research and bidding; then sold it. Bought another one (with an excellent screen); sold it. Bought it again. Sold it.

I still miss it. Again.

I sold it all those times because it was just sitting there, and processing the negatives, scanning, etc. was so time consuming, and my job (then) didn't really allow me much free time.

Anybody have a 500 c/m? :D


The next one in line was the 50mm f/1.5 Summarit. Sold it. Missed it. Bought it again. But kept it.
 
I've done it with a couple of cameras. The first time was when I sold my Minox 35 GL a while back. After some serious reflection about what I wanted in a pocket camera I decided it was worth buying another one (I did and it should arrive next week). The second time was when I sold my Olympus XA and A11 flash outfit. Technically I didn't rebuy the camera because a friend of mine who passed away left me his XA and A16 flash.

Even though I may miss the other cameras I've sold, I have little desire to rebuy them. I've no more time and money for buying gear just because it would be fun to play with or cool to collect. If I'm not going to use it, I won't buy it.
 
rbiemer said:
I have done it. And felt a bit foolish about it at the time.
I bought a Bessa R from our head bartender, used it for a while, (this is the foolish bit coming up) thought I'd got all I could from it and sold it, decided that I had made a mistake and bought another one from Stephen.
Now that I have mostly sorted out what works for me and what I like to use, the R will be sticking around even though I most often use my R2A lately.
Yes, I can and do use almost all of my LTM lenses on the R2A with no trouble but I'm keeping the R. It makes a good second to the R2A on the rare occasions when I want to carry two bodies.
Other than that first R, I don't really want to duplicate any of the other cameras I've owned.
Rob
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EXCEPT, that was all mooted in July of this year when I sold that R. :bang:
Which I just bought back from the person I sold it to.:D
So, I have bought a Bessa R 4 times and sold one three times...maybe I have learnt by now that I really do like the R and should just keep the derned thing!
Rob
 
I havent done it.. yet.. but that's probably because i WANT so many things so the funding process is an ongoing one..

but oh, i did sell my Bessa R4A to fund for some stuff.. went down the Leica route.. then found myself getting a R2 again.. i just love the feel of Bessas! but that's not quite the same is it
 
It happens. It's easy to sell things these days and easy to buy them back...sometimes without a loss of cash even.
 
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