How many times do you try?

[Vickko]

Or, maybe I'm slow to learn.

I tried a camera combination last year, and swore that I hated it. "Too heavy" was my final determination. But maybe my judgement was clouded by the kit needing a repair before I got it fully working. I did like the results, but still, too heavy (so I thought) and I sold it.

Now, a similar kit is for sale, at a fair price, with a known user history.

I am so tempted to try again.

Does this happen to you?

 

[splitimageview]

No. If it’s too heavy, I don’t go back to it. 🙂

 

[thegman]

I've only ever had a couple of cameras which I truly disliked, the one that springs to mind is the Leica R8. I think it looks beautiful but functionally, I found it a real pain compared to other manual SLRs. The FM3a for example is just so much nicer to use, and about half the size/weight. I don't think I'd ever return to an R8 or R9.

 

[back alley]

are you stronger now?

 

[gb hill]

You have some nice gear listed in your signature. Just use them & take some Pepto Bismal for the GAS.😉

 

[Vickko]

Funny

The kit I'm talking about involves an R9. In fact, a DMR/R9

I really liked the R9 but recently sold mine because I didn't want my money tied up in it, and preferred to stick with my old stand-by the R6.2

Yeah, going back isn't the best / smartest thing to do.

I've only ever had a couple of cameras which I truly disliked, the one that springs to mind is the Leica R8. I think it looks beautiful but functionally, I found it a real pain compared to other manual SLRs. The FM3a for example is just so much nicer to use, and about half the size/weight. I don't think I'd ever return to an R8 or R9.

 

[Kent]

Sometimes, even years after I did not like a certain combo, I suddenly like it a lot.
Or the other way around. 😉

 

[Roger Hicks]

Ideally, once.

Twice if you are by nature indecisive, or if you realize that the kit you sold does things you can't do otherwise.

Three times if there's a profit in it..

Cheers,

R.

 

[David Hughes]

Hi,

It could be worse.

You could have decided that you didn't need it as you've not used it for years. Then looked on ebay and realised that they don't sell. Then given it to a charity shop and then weeks and weeks later seen it still unsold and bought it because you missed it and needed it.

It gets worse, a couple of weeks later I saw the genuine item in another charity shop, in a box with instructions and bought it for a pittance. So the generic version I bought twice is unused again...

Regards, David

 

[Murchu]

Happens to me every so often. Seems for me, small details like how uncomfortable or heavy a kit is, are quickly forgotten in favour of the aspects I find appealing. I find it quite annoying to find myself reconsidering kit I have already found disagreeable, and almost as annoying as having to admit I have gotten great results with kit that has been otherwise cumbersome. I find it silly really, yet still find myself reconsidering things like a Hasselblad or some cumbersome dslr kit, which I know will sit in a bag or on a shelf in favour of smaller kit which will get used.

 

[pvdhaar]

Two times at most, but not often.

If I sell gear that I later find out I miss, I may buy it a second time; usually to find that what bothered me the first time about it still bothers me the second time round. That's a lesson learned, and there's no third time.