Cameras you've sold and want back

My 2 OMs and that 28mm f3.5 that was so damn sharp!
The OMs were the best film cameras I've ever had.

My f3hp - it was so clean and beautiful, and was such fun to use.
 
Hexar AF...
I had to sell it, I still do not need one back actually, but everytime I think about it, I wish I would...
 
My Minox GT-X i bought the first summer i started working in a camera store, cute camera, miss the pocket size and the double winding :)

My chrome Nikon FM, was in nice condition, but at then I was way into the G2 so i did not "need" it, bummer, could have had camera for ages!

Rolleiflex planar 75mm 3.5 not that sure which model but i liked it, should not complain since i have a Planar F,
but it was the first really decent camera i had, sold it because it was more convenient to use the Contax G2 with the 90mm, and I had a Hassy ;)

Should I really complain?

Not sure, but GT-X appears to be rare, have a XA thou, and film in the fridge too.
Mabye a FM2/T would make all become whole again? ;D

vha.
 
Well, I'm glad I got rid of most cameras I have sold. Either I did not like them (Leica Minilux, Olympus mju-II, ...) or I had to many of one kind (Bronicas, old Voigtländers, ...).

The only camera I want back is my dear old Olympus OM-2n - but then, it was old and not working well anymore when I sold it. It was my (almost) only camera for more than 20 years.
 
M4-P ... sold one last year in sometime in spring and bought another one two weeks later... Recently, I found quite an increase of M4-P sample photos over there at pBase, had a closer look and voila, it were photos uploaded by the guy, who bought my M4-P. So I know it sees some good use. :)
 
In the late 1960's I got my first good camera, a Pentax H3v. Another older friend got me a 50 1.4 Takumar used from one of the big downtown Chicago stores. I was about 12. I have since bought other H3v's but would love to have that first one back. Great finder, great lens and a pleasure to hold and use. Joe
 
A few years ago I sold my Nikon FM2n to help pay the rent. I wish I had sold my F100 instead. The FM2 would be worth more now and I would probably use it more.
Although about once a year I use the F100 to it's fullest electronic, autofocus, autobracketing matrix metering extent!
 
My Canon FL 85/1.8 lens.

I sold it because a got an FD Canon 85/1.2 L. I also got an FDn 85/1.8 in an attempt to recapture the lens I sold. Neither can replace that lens.
 
Mostly I keep stuff I like and don't sell it, but I do sell sh*t I don't use in a long time or stuff I just don't like. I have sold:

In the don't like category –
Konica Hexar AF
Konica Hexar RF body (kept the 50mm lens)
Minolta CLE

In the like but didn't use in ages –
My 2nd Mamiya 6 body. (kept one, and both lenses)
Polaroid peel-apart pack film cameras (various)
90mm Summicron, last version before ASPH

Don't regret selling anything. I don't buy OR sell a lot, just use what i have.
 
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I sold the Petri V6 that I got from my wife (then girlfriend) when I bought a Canon EF (FD) back in 74, and immediately regretted it. Then I sold the EF when I got the Canon A-1 in 79, and again immediately regretted it. When the Tokina lens I had on the A-1 didn't come off one day and even Canon's repair service couldn't offer more than to saw it off, the insurance company wanted it in return of a nice sum that I used to buy the new Canon EOS10. I used that for over 10 years. I still have it, but I've hardly used it since buying the EOS D60 in 2002, EOS 20D in 2005 and EOS 40D in 2007. I gave the D60 to my son. It was stolen when his house was broken in to. The 20D is now with my daughter and it's good to know that I could get it back if I wanted, it's a great camera! The 40D is too, but since a couple of years I only bring it on vacations and use my film cameras more and more.

I've bought the Petri V6 back on the bay, including the clip-on lightmeter. The same for an EF in exc condition and an equally nice A-1. After that I scored a black FTb, and a Canon F-1(n) on the web.

My back-to-basics regression started a couple of years ago with the two M4s and an MDa that I got when the photo lab at my work closed. Other M Leicas followed (M2, M3, M5, M6) but these were paid for ;). The same for a number of Barnacks (IIIa, IIIc, IIIf, IIIg and a Canon IVSb).

Recently a nice M1 with micro visoflex found my way when also the other photo lab at work had to be cleaned out before moving to another building. It was accompanied by an F-1N with three finders, motor winder and a couple of lenses, a black AE-1 and a TLb. Two weeks ago came my first Olympus (OM2n).

It's nice to be known as a film camera collector; colleages and friends give me their old stuff, because otherwise they'll be thrown away.

I haven't sold a camera since 1990, but my wife is starting to complain... Who knows, one of these days I grow wise and get back to real basics: one camera + two lenses.
 
Carlos Cruz said:
I recall buying m5 from you last year :D
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Correct! But I had two, you got the black one as I like my Ms in chrome!
How do you like the camera? Still have it?

Now that I think of it, I sold one of the two EFs I had bought on Ebay and one of two FTbs also :)
 
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M3 (my first one, sentimental reasons)
SL2
M7

I now have an M8 that I'm quite happy with, but just picked up a M2 that I'm having Robert J paint and looking for a SL or SL2.
I can't justify another M7, but you never know.

The rest were mostly tools that served me well, but did not miss when they were replaced.
 
The cam I miss the most? None, actually. I still have the cams I want. Perhaps my EXA I.
But lenses I miss some:
- Olympus Zuiko Auto-T 3.5/135
- Pentax-M SMC 2.8/28
- Canon EF 2.8/28
- Canon EF-S 4-5.6/17-85 IS (really!)

I still have almost all of my RF gear.

And I miss the Epson RD-1, although I have never bought one. ;)
 
I'm trying to figure out what I can sell to help fund a Mamiya 7 purchase...problem is, I think I'd regret just about anything I could sell at this point.
In the past, I've been ruthless about selling and never kept any camera that was replaced by another camera. Now, I'm having a tough time with that. I could sell my FSU gear for a few hundred...I don't shoot any of it much, but I think I would regret not having it even so.
 
I miss my Zuiko 24mm f2.8 and the 100mmf 2.8 i had but i don't miss the OM2SP they were attached to ... think if i had got an OM-1 and a winder i would have kept them. I need a winder as the Om's are so small i have trouble holding them in my XXL hands.
I missed my old Canon Ftb and bought another recently .... big mistake as it was not the beautiful clean well loved camera i used to own, but then mine was almost new when i got it. Sometimes you can't go back to the good old days.
 
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