Buying the same camera twice

In a small town, boy meets a country girl and they fall in love. Somewhat later the boy meets an older woman from the city who seduces said boy with riches and glamour. Boy leaves girl and dives into the the corrupt nightlife of the city.

Soon the boy realizes his terrible mistake. He returns to his home town to win his girl back. They get back together. A marriage takes place and within a year, a child is born. But soon, the young father grows restless. The girl, now preoccupied with changing diapers and preparing meals appears boring to him, no match for the dashing manners of city people...

:D :D :D

some analogy to gear swinging, if you will...
 
But I never treated the used camera market like a rental bank. The sheer hassle of buying and selling, and the uncertainty of getting something as good as you sold, strikes me as too much trouble...

this is where we differ the most...for me the used camera market is like a giant rental bank...for a few bucks and a trip to the post office (2 blocks away and where i get to flirt with the ladies) i can try a lens and see if i like it.
i just sold a 90 and bought a 75...it took a trip or 2 to realize that i prefer a 75 on the rd1 to a 90 on the rd1...i didn't really lose any money and i got to sell the 90 to one of my favourite rff people...it all worked out beautifully.
 
ottluuk said:
In a small town, boy meets a country girl and they fall in love. Somewhat later the boy meets an older woman from the city who seduces said boy with riches and glamour. Boy leaves girl and dives into the the corrupt nightlife of the city.

Soon the boy realizes his terrible mistake. He returns to his home town to win his girl back. They get back together. A marriage takes place and within a year, a child is born. But soon, the young father grows restless. The girl, now preoccupied with changing diapers and preparing meals appears boring to him, no match for the dashing manners of city people...

:D :D :D

some analogy to gear swinging, if you will...
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Co-incidentally, reading this thread a similar, though not identical, thought entered my mind: never date your exes. There must have been a reason (even if you have forgotten it by now) you didn't get along in the first place. Or if not, going back would be admitting you were wrong, which is not the done thing!
 
As the saying goes: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result

However I don't think it quite applies. The piece of equipment hasn't changed, but the user might have. Maybe something clicks were it didn't before, or you find a use for the camera or lens that you didn't have before.

Personally I don't like admitting I was wrong, so would stand over my original decision!
 
Not cameras, I tend to have long term relationships with cameras but I do regret selling a very well used Pentax Digital Spot meter, which I intend to replace. And then there is the 20 valve Quattro, that I never should have sold :(
 
I bought a used M8, sold it for the same price a year later, then rebought it a year later for 1/2 the cost. Have it still -- that was the plan.
I bought a demo M9, tested my lenses on it, and sold it locally and I plan on buying the M9 in a year or so when it becomes cheaper. And now I know which lenses work on it.
 
Should have held onto my mint OM4Ti. Made a mint out of it though :)

Cameras I miss...my first SLR: Pentax P30n, the camera that taught me about dynamic range:Fuji S3, about 24mm: Nikon 8400 and camera ergonomics :Oly E-1.

Cameras I dont miss: Nikon F100, F4, F3, Oly e-500, Oly 7070, Oly XA

Cameras I would want to play with: R-D1, Sigma SD1.
 
I have only made sales I regret, never bought a camera or lens back (or again so to speak). But this is probably just nostalgia, rather than the cameras being better than what I have.

Funny, cameras I have given away I rarely miss.
 
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone,
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
Euuu, dat, dat.
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot!
Joni Mitchell

It's happened to me with a Hexar AF, Hasselblad CM, Leica M2, Canon 28mmf3.5 ltm lens.
If I had had money to burn, I would have just kept the originals and bought the new stuff I wanted, but that wasn't possible. Once more fun-money was available, I re-bought the gear that I missed. Not so hard to understand.
 
So I just spent the last four hours building a J-3 out of parts. A black J-3, horrible machining with the first-triplet misaligned, aperture is not circular, the optics module GLUED into place, and the distance scale way-off from the RF. Took all the glass out and let the fixture soak in nail polish remover for WEEKS! The glue finally gave it up.

So now I have a Black 1955 KMZ J-3, German Glass for all but the front element. Came out pretty good.

It is the only Black J-3 with a mix of Russian and German glass that I own. All of the other J-3's either have all German glass or all Russian glass, and they are all chrome. At least it is different from the other four.
 
Never the same camera ... a few years ago when $ were few and far between I sold all my OM stuff, sad but you can't eat on Olympus there are laws :)
Have just bought another OM-2 with a 35mm f2.8 and I'm pleased that i did. The shutter speed ring that used to annoy the hell out of me is actually rather clever and I like it. The small size which i didn't like after my FD Canons now seems sensible and the camera is a pleasure to carry all day. Guess people change or mature or just have different needs at different times of their lives.
Due to the loss of one eye i now have to focus with my left eye, so i hold the camera differently and a winder just gets in the way, maybe that's allowed me to see an old camera in a new light, of course it might just be old age :)
 
I've only done it once with a camera and lens - a Contax IIA with the Zeiss Opton 50/1.5 Sonnar. The first one I got had a shutter issue so when I had an opportunity to return it to the seller I did so. Came across another copy here on RFF by a local seller that had been serviced by Henry Scherer while still under warranty and jumped on it. It too had a shutter issue but since it was under warranty the seller agreed to send it back to Scherer for service. Since it returned to me it's been running 100% perfectly.

The only P&S camera I've ever bought and sold and bought again (but finally sold for the last time) was the Yashica T4 Super. I'm officially done with P&S film cameras - no matter how good the lens may be - the lack of control or poor ergonomics aren't worth it.
 
All this makes me want to go out and buy another M3. I will probably get another 50 Summicron for it too.
 
Sometimes you sell something because you need the money. Later, you miss it, you have the money, and you get it again, especially if you see it at a very good price. Like a Nikon FE2 for instance. It can happen.

You can miss things you've sold for the money, and suspect you'll get them again one day, when you're rich and king: Canon Serenar 80mm f2, pristine, with finder, might be one. There are others.
 
I sold my Canon AE-1 once because I liked my Olympus OM-10 more and would have liked some extra cash. Ended up buying another Canon AE-1 2 months later because I missed it so much. Paid more for it then I sold the other one though, but I had to have it.
 
newspaperguy said:
Let me offer a weird one: I bought a Rollei MX at an AFEX in France in 1953.

Used it heavily, and traded it in at Chicago's Central Camera Co. in 1956.

Bought a used MX at a shop in Bloomington, Indiana in 1958...

Yep - the same damn camera.

Dumb me section: I've sold and then replaced, at least six Barnacks.
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So, is it fair to say you have a love-hate relationship with Barnacks? :bang:
 
Never done it with rangefinders, but a year after parting with my Canon 1V SLR, I bought another. For me, it is the best 35mm SLR ever made, and a joy to use. For the life of me, I couldn't remember why I sold it, and when a good deal came along, I grabbed it. Never regretted it.

I think I'd feel the same way about my M6 classic -- but that is still safely in the bag, and not changing owners anytime soon :)
 
I bought my fourth Nikon FE2 body a few months ago, after a ~10 year gap where I didn't have one (that was operational). Love that camera, and I'm completely used to it. All the features I like, essentially none that I don't like, and now they're cheap.
 
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