Buying the same camera twice

Never regretted a slae enough to buy it back. Stolen gear is another story managed in the last couple of months to replace a pentax 645 stolen some 4 years ago. had a spotmatic stolen 12 years ago wouldn't mind having another but would rather expand my lenses for the 645 for now. Had to do the coin toss on that and knew the answer as the coin started up. The fed 5v will work till I get the 150mm 3.5 and by then I'll know if i need the 55 instead of the 75 I have. Pretty sure I'll just keep the 75.
 
Bought an old beat up Yashica Mat 124G as my first MF camera years back. Gave it away When I got a nice near mint Bronica SQ-Ai. Then when my first son was born I sold the Bronica and have regretted ever since. Even the Pentax 6X7 I then bought couldn't fill the gap. Now I have myself a nice little Mat 124G again (hmm when will I get another SQ-Ai 🙂 )
 
I'm mostly with Roger on this. I'm a working Pro. I've sold an entire Canon F-1 system, a Pentax 6x7 system and a Hassy system in my lifetime. Never looked back, since both my needs and technology changed. I would NEVER buy any of those model cameras back. If I needed a Hassy for a project, I'd merely RENT one cause they're cheap enough to rent!

Buying & selling is a hobby unto itself. Some are smart enough to NOT get attached to a particular model or make of camera, some do so (sell & re-buy) out of necessity when funds are short, and yet others (lots here) buy & sell stuff and never really put a roll of film through what they've swapped or dealt. It's all part of the menagerie of what comprises the "photographic community". Further, if not for the collectors, most of the outdated tools some of us like to use would be left to scrap metal recyclers. For as long as someone is willing to buy a camera that no one makes parts for, there will exist a monetary reason for this crazy collecting to continue.
 
Never. But I am only new to photography, now that I think about it - it's only been 3 years since I first had an dSLR! But I sold all my SLR gear and got into rangefinders (M8) within the last year. So far I only have a 50mm Summilux, I probably need more time...
 
I have to confess that I traded my original "classic" Leica M6 in a fit of rage after struggling like a man with six thumbs on each hand whilst trying to load film on a particularly freezing cold day. I swore I'd never buy such a stoopid contraption ever again. I now own an M6TTL and an M4-P.

Live and learn.
 
Minox 35GT. I had one in the 80's and always remembered how much I liked working with it, the lens, the smallness and the overall brilliant design. Bought one again a couple years ago and will keep it this time.
 
Bessa R with 35/2.5 Skopar

Bessa R with 35/2.5 Skopar

I foolishly sold my Bessa R when I got something "better".
Turns out it wasn't better for me, just more expensive.
So I sold it and got another R. This one's a keeper.

Chris
 
I know a fellow who had bought the exact (kept track with serialnumbers) same Contax camera 2 or 3 times. The last time it had been completely overhauled as when he had sold it the previous time it was "a mess" according to him and the last time he paid less for it than he had sold it for and got a lot more when sold off for the final time, maybe it was his pot of golden coins? I recall that he owned the same camera 3 times.
On my own account, must admit that the Olympus OM series stuff is on a second run for me as is also the Contax T2 and T3 cameras, the only on still with me that is the same old one is the Olympus 35 RD and the mju:II that i had to switch for a working one last year. The Original Olympus Mju:II i had was bought when they first came out and was the Japan version if i recall, then it started to leave more and more blank frames and was not working properly and i let it on retirement.
 
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I sold a lot of stuff to get into digital but when that did not workout I sold the digital and bought back the stuff I sold mainly 6x6 stuff and blew tons of cash in the process. Oh well..
 
I enjoy Mr. Hick's columns very much, to the point that I have been following M3's auctions over eBay for quite a while, like a bond trader trying to ascertain the point of buy or sell. So far I haven't had the nerve to drop in, however, at $1,100 with 50mm Elmar, case, MR meter I've come pretty close. I believe that these cameras will need some sort of Leica service and I would have to compute that too into the price, the owner agreeing to ship to another address in the USA to a friend in NYC for him to ship to Leica and then bring it to Costa Rica where I live. Quite a Roman enterprise, like we often say here!

I come from a Yashica Electro 35 GSN that in 1978 was given to me by my father. I learned photography from him. We used to shoot landscapes for the calendars we printed in our printing shop, with the Electro 35 using Ektachrome 64 mostly. The Yashica is now in CT for a reviving POD issue and for CLA.

Later I owned a Maxxum 3000i wanting to have long lens and SLR compact body, but I missed my RF for its small footprint and finally I settled on with a Maxxum 600si. My main lens a Sigma 28-80/4 stuck at infinity, no English humor here, and I have to recuperate it from the technician that has had it for the last four months, perhaps airmail it to NYC for repair also my first 600si body that I left there for CLA and grip replacements.

Out of curiosity and fondness with my 1995 choice, I found another Maxxum 600si on eBay. I have been using her non stop, shooting a roll of film every week and enjoying it thoroughly. I even bought two more lenses a Maxxum 35-70/4 and a Sigma 18-35/4 that is noisy I but a pleasure to use in landscapes and candid photography. I still have the old Maxxum 80-200/4 and use it more than before! I am considering developing and printing my own black and white pictures in one of the former dark rooms that we have left at the printshop having fallen prey of the digital era due to a violet CTP.

I have bought Aerochrome EIR in England and will attempt E-6 process if I can smuggle the chemicals somehow. So far I have bought three filters for EIR, a 950 Nm, a 750 Nm and a B+W 099 filter, the most expensive one. All of the filters in the size for the Electro35 and since I have a step up adaptor for my Maxxum lenses I might as well try EIR with her.

What else, I own dad's Mamiya Standard 23. I have the three lenses, a 65/3.5 an 85/3.5 and a 150/3.5 but the backs leak and I have yet to repair them with the correct tools or find a technician in Costa Rica that will do it with the parts that I have imported from Japan. I like this system very much as it has three sizes, 6 X 4.5, 6 X 6 and 6 X 9, it is an all manual system, it seems practical for landscapes and portrait.

I was going to buy a Mamiya 645AFD to do Ektachrome, however, it is becoming scarcer and there is nobody in Costa Rica that will process other than with C41 and I don't want to damage my landscapes. So I decided to repair the backs before the 645.

Today I bought an Olympus XA2. I wanted to get an XA for my 8 year old son, we have been doing photography together and it seems that the mistake was a fortunate one since this rangefinder has zone focusing (that is my rationalization to justify it, Mr. Hicks) and it might be easier for him to learn the ropes or I will have a nice camera to do street photography. The Yashica, my sweetheart camera will be used for people photography as well as landscapes. I don't think it can be used for street photography that well!

Returning the path of the Maxxum I wondered what happened before the demise of Minolta and found a Maxxum 7D used on eBay. It might be after all my path into digital, perhaps not!

Too many cameras and too many projects. I'm going to tackle each one on a one to one basis.

So this is my letter of introduction to you all,

Regards,

Robert
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbruce63/
 
I have bought the same model twice a couple of times. Once building an OM system, and again when I discovered second hand Olympus Mju II on ebay. I bought another soon after in case the first one ever died on me.
 
Roger Hicks said:
Sell a camera (or lens)... Realize you miss it... Buy another the same. Surprisingly many RFF members seem to regard this as the norm. Why? Who else has never done it, and who makes a habit of it?
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I couldn´t see myself doing this. I bond too much with my equipment to sell it in the first place. On the other hand I consider very carefully, before I acquire anything (mostly because I tend to buy expensive things).

A few years ago, I sold some digital equipment (which I don´t bond with) and included my Arca Swiss ballhead in the sale. Within a few days I had regrets, but the ballhead was gone from the store I sold it to. A year after, the same ballhead appeared in the same store´s secondhand list. I bought it at a price not much lower than I had paid for it from new, but this model is not manufactured anymore, and I´m not so sure about the newer models. I know it´s the same ballhead because of a mark on the friction-setting knob.
This taught me how much I would suffer from selling equipment I have bonded with - it won´t happen again.
 
My first real film camera was a Zeiss Ikon, and I do miss it on occasion. I sold it on a whim for an M6, and did not really like the M6. I've since sold and bought others, but my mind does sometimes wander to re-buying the Ikon. I currently use an MP, and it's great, but I do sometimes consider a trade for another Ikon.
 
For me, it happens with TLRs.
I've sold my first TLR (a Rolleicord Vb) in 1976, and bought the very same camera from another owner eight years later.
Three years ago I traded my Rolleiflex 2.8 F white face for M3 DS outfit (+ Summilux 35 (v.3), Summaron 28 + Elmar 50 2.8 collapsible) and bought the very same Rolleiflex a year later, when the new owner decided to sell it. Rolleicord is long gone, but the white face is not for sale.

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In the past I owned 2 cameras in particular that were very good cameras, but I sold them because my aging eyes could not clearly read the engraved information numbers for the lens and shutter settings on the shiny chrome of the lens. Since then I've gotten eyeglasses (bi-focals) so this is no longer a problem. I've already re-acquired a Retina lla and am awaiting a Perkeo ll in the mail.
 
I have some real trouble with the selling part in the whole buying selling cycle.

Autocord x2, Yash Electro 35 x3, Welta Waltur x2, Zenobia x3, Iskra x2, Mamiya RZ Pro x2 bods, about 8 similar tlrs

Also if you like a camera system alot it makes sense to have a second body for different films and backup.

FranksS - I also recently started with bifocals. distortions took a while to get used to, but seeing again was a hoot !
 
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