I wish I'd never sold my...

Νοthing really Roger... I've sold some expensive gear but never looked back. My test is infallible: if it's been sitting on the shelf for more than 6 months it's dead money and it has to go. Even if it's very cheap it still has to go to make room for books.
 
My couple regrets include my Contax N Digitals and the related 85/1.4 N Zeiss lens. I miss the NDs as they have/had massive pixels that created a very unique look. The 85mm in N mount was a re-worked version of the 85/1.4 in C/Y mount and it was probably my favorite lens I have ever owned, very unique signature.

Why did I sell them... I wasn't using them that much and was concerned their prices would fall through the floor. They didn't. Oh well, live and learn!

Kent

PS- Also regret selling my black S3 2000 Nikon but that is purely due to the fact it is the most beautiful camera I've owned, nothing to do with actually making pictures.
 
Camera gear? ... not really!

My copy of 'A Hard day's Night' autographed by all the The Beatles during their tour of NZ in the sixties! I've mentioned this one before ... it still haunts me. LOL
 
I've never sold anything. I've traded away a few cameras and given away more, but the only one I regret letting go was my Pentax SL - and that only because I later found a 50mm f/1.4 SMC-Takumar, 50mm f/4 Marco-Takumar, and 35mm f/2 Super-Takumar sitting in the bottom of my box'o'bits and in need of a mount (manual-everything lenses on my Pentax K20D having lost their appeal by this time).

The tale has a happy ending, though - a £10 punt on eBay provided me with a tidy Fujica ST-705. Now I just have to avoid the temptation to use this as an excuse to buy more M42-mount lenses.
 
My ol' OM zuiko 18/3.5 and the rest of the bunch..
The Rolleiflex 3.5F White face... for 420 €.
Zeiss (HBL) 50/4 for 100 € ...
M6 with the 50/2 Dual something (that close-focus version with the glasses) for 600 €
 
My enlarger, darkroom timer and light. I never thought I would use it again - then I bought into M cameras... I haven't replaced it as I am not quite ready to rebuild a darkroom; I'm just frustrated I have to replace what I already had and liked.
 
I haven't regretted selling anything yet. I am thinking of selling my M4 and I am not so sure I should do it. I have three other very nice Leicas to use. Jim
 
Pentax 6x7 with 105 and 45mm lenses. I've been going through many years of photographs recently and have realized that I had a higher percentage of keepers with that camera than any other. I sold it in a mad rush to digital, but would buy another with the same lenses plus the 200mm if I could afford it.
 
My Nikon F and F2. I was moving out after a nasty breakup and offered up my Nikons to a guy at my epic yard sale. Sure, the meters in both were toast, and I got more than I paid for them, but still. Thinking of getting an F with a plain prism (cheaper than an F2 with same).

The FM I spent $3 on at KEH (an As-is I tore apart and fixed) netted $75 at the same sale. I do not miss that, hehe. The broken Canonet 17 G-III I sold for $50 made me happy, too. The couple crudely AI'd lenses that went with the cameras are not missed.

I only kept an old Ricoh my mom gave me, my F3 and an FM I bought on vacation. Only kept the F3 because it had a meter, and I had just bought the FM 2 months before and felt it hadn't had a good enough shake. Thinking about ditching the F3 and FM shortly (Don't need the meter, and the finder's too small on the FM for my taste). I keep forgetting to take pics of the cameras for a classified sale :bang:.
 
51 ford pickup

51 ford pickup

it was many years ago .
1951 ford pickup - flat head v8 with dual water pumps .
push button starter on the dash .
no matter how cold it was , or how long it sat ---- always started .
well i paid $350 . then in 1984 .
the prices are a bit more now /.
 
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