Buying the same camera twice

I don't feel so bad now. A few years ago I traded a Leica M3 and many lenses for....
a Contax N1. Nice camera but now worthless. Recently finished rebuilding an M4 outfit with 4 lenses. And I'm old enough to have known better.
 
While I've never sold a camera only to find that I miss it and so purchased another of the same model, I do have multiple copies of the same cameras;
three Nikon S3 rangefinders because I love their simplicity, and two Nikon FA SLRs, because I literally shot the first one to death and so recently bought another to replace it.
 
I sold my 50mm Planar and after only 2 weeks I bought a new one.... In that time I realised that how good the lens was...
 
My biggest regret was selling my 50 Cron, the one with the sliding hood and it was in chrome too ! I now have a 50 Lux ASPH but I have this urge to re-buy that Cron. Weird.
 
I'm not sure if this qualifies as buying the same camera twice but...
I bought a Vivitar 400/SL camera body a few years ago to replace the original one I still have...my parents bought me that camera in 1976 and I used it a lot...it's been retired after replacing broken or missing parts from a donor body...
I wanted another camera with a brighter viewfinder than what's in the Spotmatic...I have some nice Takumar and other M42 lenses that I would love to use so I got the Vivitar...
 
I'm working on buying my second Fuji X-Pro 1, to replace my other one that was stolen.

I'm also considering buying a second Zeiss Ikon ZM, as it's out of production and I don't expect to ever want a different film RF.
 
I cannot resist the original Olympus Pen viewfinder camera, the all manual type, no interest in the EE models. My latest, off the bay, came to me 2 days ago and has already been partially disassembled to clean the vf and replace light sealing foam. Got it loaded with a short roll of Pan F. This makes the third all manual VF pen in my collection, all useable.
 
Stuff happens along the way.

I'm on my third Nikon F, second Olympus E-1, sixth Leica M4-x (they're all so close they seem the same), third CL, and second SWC and 500CM. I've had three to five Nikon FM/FM2n, gosh knows how many Minox subminis, three Olympus Pen FTs, and just bought two more Polaroid SX-70s.

Let's not talk about lenses.

Obsessive ... eh? Dunno. I know what I like, and sometime circumstances require that I sell, and other times I can afford the luxury of reacquiring.

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I got myself a Rollei 35 S! It is not a range finder it is a zone focusing camera, perhaps, it is a hyper focal distance guessing camera.

Most of the pictures that I take come in focus, however, I loose some to bad exposures or erroneous focusing.

With my Yashica Electro 35 GX all the pictures that i take come right in sharp focus and exposure plus, I get the bonus of three or four more frames out of a 36 roll!

Perhaps, it's the same minimalist equipment bought all over again!
 
Selll? SELL?" I do not recognize the concept. I do not collect cameras I rescue them Why else would I have three Bilora Bellas? (One 44 and two 66. Ir is the other way around....)
 
Of all the cameras I have now, the only one that's a double of what I've had before is the OM-1 and that's been in my possession for 20 years.
I sold my first one to buy a motorcycle, which allowed me to travel to work, to earn enough to buy a house, and then bought another OM-1, which for sentimental reasons, I'll never part with. I still love using it, clunky though it is. Actually it's not clunky at all, it's like oiled silk compared to some of the clankboxen of the digital world.
Come to think of it, that first OM-1 is only the second camera I sold in fifty years of snapping - I haven't sold one since.
 
Sold a real nice Rolleiflex Automat MX 3.5 Tessar. I bought another Rollei Automat MX, less than 60days later.

Something about a 60yr old Rolleiflex.
 
um, did I tell you that I currently own three Leica M5 cameras?

Previously I've had two (chrome and black), zero (when I got to a period of "no more film M's), and phases when I've only had one.

Addictions don't go away, they just go into remission.
 
I sold a Bessa R4m, along with an R2a, and recently bought an R4a back - with 21/4 and Leicatime case included. I haven't felt any need to replace the R2 as I have enough standard fov rf's, but I decided I was wrong about the lens intrusion on the R4 and bought another for the occasions I want a wide agile camera.

It will be seeing use next weekend at a local bike show, with some Ilford Delta 3200.
 
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