Cameras you regret selling or not buying?

[bluesun267]

I eventually regret selling about 20% of the things I sell. Not so much cameras as lenses. My big shame is the V.3 Summicron 35mm Bokeh King for which I got $600 in about 2005, which was not unthinkable for a less than mint copy at the time. I used to justify it by telling myself it was just like dipping into a savings account, and that I could buy it again later when I was less cash poor. Prices were pretty stable on used Leica stuff for about 20 years (1990~2010ish) but not anymore

 

[bluesun267]

Oh, and there's one particular camera that I regret selling (but this has nothing to do with cost):
I once had a working Rolleiflex SL35E.
Since then I've gone through at least 10 other copies and have yet to find another perfectly functioning example

 

[helen.HH]

No regrets
They found good homes, their living their Essence... Shooting !

 

[raid]

No real regrets. I got good deals on cameras and I had to sell some cameras off anyways.
I bought an Olympus XA4W for $20 and sold it for a 100% profit 🙂
I traded a very clean Canon VI-L for a Leica Standard plus some cash. Regrets? Not really.

I sold off a Leica M4 MOT to KEH. I did not know much about Leica cameras and I did not have the MD for it.

Stuff like that. As Helen has said above, they found good homes.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

None as regret. I'm selling if not using.
Sold M4-P and M3 DS ELC, serviced Rolleicord and many other cameras.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Konica Hexar. Perfectly working original black version. I sold it to help fund my first Leica, an M2. Still lol would rather have that Hexar over the M2.
Phil Forrest

 

[Deleted member 65559]

No real regrets. I got good deals on cameras and I had to sell some cameras off anyways.
I bought an Olympus XA4W for $20 and sold it for a 100% profit 🙂

Me? The original black paint M2 & M4. I bought each for $700cdn/ $560USD/473 Euro ..... & also sold them for double!! 😱

 

[Retro-Grouch]

Graflex Norita 6x6 that I had back in college in the 70's. I would love to have a 6x6 eye-level SLR, but there's really nothing out there that wouldn't be a major headache. Pentacon 6? Kiev 6C? No thanks!!!

 

[brusby]

Hasselblad SWC -- my fave camera. Sold with all my other photo gear in the mid 70's when I gave up photography completely for over 30 years. If I weren't too lazy to shoot film, I would have replaced it when I started shooting again.

 

[Nokton48]

Mamiyaflex C2 and C33 bodies, and a couple of 105mm Mamiya lenses. And Mamiya Stovepipes for both, and a 220 back for the C33

 

[madNbad]

Sold a lot of gear that someone got a really good deal on. A M6 TTL Millennium that went back to the factory for all the updates, an M2 that Don Goldberg finally fixed the problem two other techs had missed, countless Nikon Fs' and Nikkormat's that had full CLAs. The only one I regret was my first M6. It was a first run, marked made in Wetzlar. I traded it plus a 21 Super Angulon and a V2 35 Summicron for a Hasselblad 500 C/M. Sold the Hassy after two years and always missed that first M6.

 

[agentlossing]

I don't think I've ever regretted selling a film camera. I'm still on an upwards trajectory in terms of film bodies with quality and pleasure of use.

I sometimes regret selling my GRII and GM5, that's about it.

 

[Godfrey]

I don't regret selling anything. As delightful as a piece of equipment might be, if I sell it, it means I wasn't using it enough to warrant storing it anymore.k

I do miss having a Hasselblad SWC. Might miss it enough to buy yet another, dunno yet. It's about the same cost, these days, as getting an XCD 65mm lens for the 907x, which I might get more use out of.

G

 

[Pál_K]

In the last 40 years I’ve sold no cameras. None. When I buy a camera, it’s for life.

One exception: when I was a teenager, I once bought an Argus C3 in a pawn shop - the only 35mm camera they had. Very quickly I didn’t like it: focusing was stiff and tough - like scraping your finger with a coarse metal file, shutter release felt like being jabbed with an icepick, handling was uncomfortable. Surprisingly, I sold it a few days later at a local camera store at the same price I bought it for. I don’t miss it and would never own or use another one.

 

[raid]

I once had a used M5 for a few weeks only. I sold it without using it even once.
It looked large in size, and the overall comments on the Leica M5 were not good then.
Oh well. No regrets.

 

[raid]

Me? The original black paint M2 & M4. I bought each for $700cdn/ $560USD/473 Euro ..... & also sold them for double!! 😱

I remember another "100% profit sale".
I bought from Germany a just Leica serviced R3 or R4 for DM500, and I old it for $500. The exchange rate was then 2:1.

 

[jsrockit]

Ricoh GR III… that’s about it. It’s just too expensive in Chile to rebuy after paying nyc prices.

 

[Bill Blackwell]

M2-6 FrankenLeica w/ Leicavit-M

 

[Doug A]

My first "good" camera was the IIIf RDST I bought in 1965 from a little Mom & Pop camera shop on 14th Street in Manhattan. I still have the camera and use it regularly. That may be why I don't particularly miss any of the many cameras I have bought and sold since then.

 

[olakiril]

Epson R-D1. Didn't realize what I had before I sold it. I was afraid that it would stop working any day, but it would have been worth it.