I wish I'd never sold my...

My entire Contax SLR kit..4 lenses, the RX and an immaculate RTS II. The RTS has the best camera leatherette ever! And both of them have awesome viewfinder.
I needed some extra cash when I sold all of them, but I inherited some Nikkor lenses so right now I'm shooting fm3a and F100
 
Honda 550F

Bronica RF645
Leica M3 with inscription fault
M6 Titanium
Summilux M 50mm
Summilux M 35mm
Eos 5d
Mint Canon 7sz with 50mm 0.95 ...

Usually in need of cash ..
I could remeber some more but then I'll start crying and I'm in a mall right now..
 
DanielDuarte said:
I regret the V600 now that I am shooting 45. Honestly though, it really sucks that Epson offers a model at 150 bucks then 600. Isn't there something in that middle range, that's a pretty large gap!
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I guess so, but then I suppose the main selling point for the V700 would be scanning 8x10, which is even more unusual than us lot using 4x5!

I don't begrudge Epson the price of the V700, it's a great scanner, and worth the money. I'd rather Epson made good money making scanners and was encouraged to make more, rather than scanners become unprofitable purely down to the sales price, not number sold.
 
I do kind of miss my Mamiya 7, and the amazing shots I got with it, but the 35 Summilux I got with the money from it does tend to make me forget :p
 
Umm
I still long to replace them..

A1)
Voigtlander Prominent (V1) with 5cm f/1.5 Nokton
Robot Royal 36 with a 45mm f/2.8 SK

I owned them at different times..

But sold or traded for SLR stuff... back then I preferred SLRs, after I owned a few rangefinders...
I had no idea those two would be a highly popular as old RF camera.....
I paid $50 for a E- Voigtlander with lens, and $125 for the RR 36 with lens !! also in E-....

A2)
I haven't replaced them because I don't have $1500 ever, as disposable income. Or I would!!!!
 
The only gear that I've ever regretted selling and have yet to replace is the Nikon 200/4 AFD Micro. I will likely replace it after the year-end holidays.
 
Some years ago I was between photographic stages or something and thought I had too many cameras. I sold a bunch of stuff I'd accumulated, much of it not memorable, but among the things I sold and regret:

A working French "Sept" with original film canisters.

A working black body Leica II with a nice Elmar lens.

A Leica IIIA with a bad rangefinder mirror, on which I accidentally mounted a nearly mint Summar lens, putting the bad one by mistake on the IIIb I kept.

I got pretty good money (this was in about 1990). The rest of the stuff, a Zeiss Movikon with assorted lenses, a couple of Speed Graphics with film pack backs, a Foth Derby, and whatnot, I don't miss so much, but what was I thinking when I threw that black Leica in?
 
I've learned not to sell any Leica equipment, bodies or lenses. Eventually you will buy it back at a higher price, and maybe not such a nice example as you had previously. Obviously, economics intrude, but I will always regret trading my M4 toward an M6 because I thought the M6 was just an M4 with a meter. I didn't appreciate the nuances at the time. I had travelled the world with that M4 and it had a lot of intrinsic value to me that I only appreciated in retrospect.
 
rolfe said:
I've learned not to sell any Leica equipment, bodies or lenses. Eventually you will buy it back at a higher price, and maybe not such a nice example as you had previously. . . . .
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No, I don't think so. I have no desire for another M3 (don't have any) or M2 (still have one) and if my M4-P went tomorrow I can't imagine ever wanting to replace it. Likewise 35 Summicron, 50 Summicron: gone with no regrets. The only modern Leica lens I've ever sold and then bought again is the 135/2.8, and the replacement was boxed, as new, from a friend: much better than the one I sold. I bought the replacement because I liked it so much on the M8, and now I quite like it on the M9 and M too.

Among old Leica gear, no, I don't miss my II, III, IIIb, IIIc, IIIf, IIIg or any of the lenses I had with them: basically, most of the 50s except the Hektor, along with lots of others. I wouldn't mind having my 1928 Leica A back but that's just 'cos it's a nice thing to have: I doubt I'd take many pictures with it.

That's since 1969...

Cheers,

R.
 
Roger Hicks said:
No, I don't think so.... and if my M4-P went tomorrow I can't imagine ever wanting to replace it.

Cheers,

R.
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I've sold a couple of M4s over the years and re-acquired them, so I probably would have been better off keeping the first one. That said, I really like the framelines in the M4-P I picked up fairly recently. I probably won't let this one go. Past that, there's not much in the way of gear I've had and sold that I'd ever consider buying again. I'm pretty content with the equipment that's in my bag right now. Technology marches on, and I really don't want to be stuck using 1930s technology.

I don't care about being on the bleeding edge either, but there are some things about the later stuff that just makes life easier. On the other hand, the overly and unnecessarily complex controls on most of the current crop of DSLRs and mirrorless cameras leave me cold too.

Shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and focus are really all I'm concerned about, not poring over some volume of forgotten lore in order to try to customize some techno-wonder to my tastes.
 
hepcat said:
. . . poring over some volume of forgotten lore in order to try to customize some techno-wonder to my tastes.
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But what else are midnights dreary FOR, especially if you're faint and weary?

Oh: and I now have an MP, which means that the M4-P gets less use!

Cheers,

R.
 
Roger Hicks said:
But what else are midnights dark and dreary FOR, especially if you're faint and weary?

Cheers,

R.
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Well, of course those midnights dark and dreary are solely for listening for faint rapping... rapping at my chamber door. Only this and nothing more.

I should be so fortunate as to have an MP. My M4-P will undoubtedly last me many years, hopefully to be passed on in my estate in another fifty years or so... ;)
 
Wish I would have been able to hold onto my Summarit 5cm F 1.5 and Canon 35mm F2 LTM when I had to sell my kit a couple of years back. Then again things didn't turn out so bad as M8 I bought this years cost $400 less then the one I sold and unlike the previous one no dead pixel lines :)
 
My Bessa R2s anniversary kit..... sold it stupid cheap on crap bay and they never come up at reasonable prices anymore.
 
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