Do Surviving Family Members Know What to Do With Your Junk?

[Pfreddee]

Yeah! Toss it!😀

With best regards.

Pfreddee(Stephen)

 

[sanmich]

No need for dirt, I will be buried under my gear with the besseler 23c as my tombstone.

Alternatively, I thought of writing on my tombstone:

Here lies our beloved blah blah...
For sale:
M6 black great condition CLA'd by DAG
Mp 0.58
Hexanon 50f/2
etc.
etc.
etc.
etc.
...

 

[back alley]

whadyamean junk?

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I needed this camera like a hole in the head, have two already, but REALLY like them...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/230674186005?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Bid on it after reading the description and thinking, older person- needs the money.

Arrived in great working condition, even the light meter is accurate. Need to clean the VF/RF, a quick job for me.

 

[ampguy]

note to self: update docs, donate artwork and gear to the Smithsonian 😉

 

[Jack Conrad]

I plan to haunt my favorite camera.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Oh yeah. Donate IBM Mark I manual to Smithsonian.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

But sell-off the pair of early Nikon F2's.

 

[tunalegs]

I would hope everybody has a plan if they have anything of value.

There's one particularly sad story I know of about a collector who amassed an irreplaceable collection of software and vintage computer literature; although his friend was supposed to catalog and sell the collection off - his widow made up every excuse to keep them (or even other family members) from accessing the collection and when she died a couple years later, nothing of it was left to be found.

She was apparently shocked that his collection had any value, and resented that he actually had a life... So either she made a pretty penny off of it selling it piece by piece, or she sent a lot of prototypes and last of their kind items to the dump out of spite.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I got the IBM Manual Surplus from a technical library. In 1980. same with the EDSAC Assembly language manual. Need to get the Mark I manual appraised...

What's crazy- I saw the Number 1 issue of the Star Trek comic book sell for the same price of a Mark I manual on Ebay, ~$4000. and the #2 issue go for $3300.

Anybody want to trade an Asph Summilux for my #1 and #2 issues of Star Trek?

 

[nikon_sam]

Hopefully it will turn up in the "Best Bargain Find" thread sometime far off in the future...
If the kids want any of it that would be nice but I doubt they would be interested in actually using any of it...
Other than that I really don't care what happens to any of it...

Oh yeah, the wife will be singing on her way to the local library when she dumps all my photo magazines there...what will she do with all that empty shelf space...

 

[Rollmo]

Only my GF can touch my junk...if you know what I mean.

 

[Rico]

No family burden: my junk is coming with me. 🙂

 

[rbiemer]

I don't really care what happens to the gear but I hope somebody in my family will keep the photographs I've made.
Rob

 

[Bill58]

I just hope my wife sells the stuff for more than I told her it cost!

 

[oftheherd]

My wife considers it all junk, and lamented a while back about what was she to do with all my junk.

I have told my son-in-law to be sure to take possession of all of it and do what he thinks best. He is also a photo enthusiast and will know what to keep and what to sell, and for how much. My daughter, his wife, also uses a P&S digital mostly, but loves the Fujica ST 801 I have her several years ago.

Much of what I have doesn't have great value, but value it does have. A few items, such as the Welta Perfekta still go for good money, even in non-working condition. My Mamiya outfit can be pieced out for about $1500. My Fujica gear is important to me, and still holds some value, but again, no fortune in selling it. Basically, I just want my daughters to keep what they want, then sell the rest.

 

[btgc]

Years ago on RFF were similar thread and I loved someones hope his successors will sell every single bit in a separate auctions. I mean, that's very optimistic as those listings "You are bidding on a batch of photo gear found in basement, has some greenery and fungus around but still looks nice" are really depressing 🙂

 

[39per1]

Some days ago my 4 year-old daughter ask me to take photos (!)....I gave her a digital compact camera but she said. "I want one in which you can look inside, like yours..." (!-!)....she wants the finder (!-!-!)....
My junk could have a nice future, I hope.....

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

You die and your $100,00 in photo equipment, known as 'junk', is left sitting like a weight on a drowning swimmer. How have you directed your family to sell off/give away your photo equipment when you join Ansel Adams and Eugene Smith?

1) Family didn't know what to do with my stuff when I was a kid, so in absentia I wouldn't expect anything better.

2) What if you join Andy Warhol and Winogrand? Ask your family what they would do right now with that Campbell's soup.

 

[Mablo]

I'm sure my photog buddies will take care of my gear. I'm fine with that.