I'd rather sell my organs than my lenses

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Lenses to photographers are like paint brushes to painters.

I just bought another kit, and need to sell some gear.

I can't bear selecting lenses to sell.

Oh, what to do, what to do.....

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Vick
 
Only sell them if you need to feed or house you and yours. It's easy to sell quality glass and I've stopped selling for now. If I need cash then yes but I'd have to be broke.
 
I have no problem buying or selling, I sometimes only need a lens or a camera for a project and once that is over I find it easy to sell. I can use the money raised to buy the tools for the next project. Though all that being said I am getting to the point where I have all the tools for any project I think of. A TLR has completed the tool kit so to speak.
 
Vickko: "I'd rather sell my organs than my lenses" said:
Lenses to photographers are like paint brushes to painters.

I just bought another kit, and need to sell some gear.

I can't bear selecting lenses to sell.

Oh, what to do, what to do.....

🙂

Vick
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If you'd rather sell your organs than your lenses, all this means is that between your two hobbies, collecting organs and collecting lenses, you have finally come to a decision and lenses are dearer to you.

I can see the point of that quite easily. Organ collection is an unusual hobby for a reason. You can't just enjoy your organs the way you can enjoy a lens, taking them with you, putting one after the other on a body and comparing them, running film through them. When you make the decision to buy an organ, you are usually stuck with that organ for quite a while. In economics terms, organs as collectors' objects are inelastic.

The question is what you'll do with your organ collection now. It depends on the kind of organ, too. If you collect pipe organs, the collector community is not very large, which is not surprising given how immobile most of them are - you can't just take one from the church it belongs to and expect it to perform as well as it did. If, on the other hand, you collect electronic organs (Hammond organs are a collectors' favourite), you stand good a chance that you can get good money for your collection and use the proceeds towards maybe a few more lenses, a Noctilux or two, maybe an extra body.
 
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I bet most of us know more about how lenses are built and function than our dear organs. Notice, I'm not putting a smiley.
 
When financial priorities top hobby priorities, I find myself that to keep peace at home, I sell equipment (not my organs) in order to buy equipment that I find to be somehow more attractive to get and use.

I sold lenses and cameras that may not have sold had I known at that time that I will miss them later on. So what! Life keeps on ticking, and I feel that I also need to move along with life to wherever it takes me. Photography equipment should not take over my life.

I sometimes miss the sold .... Hexar AF when I was in Cairo. It would have been a great camera for quick shots in the street .... the Nikon 5cm/2 LTM .. Canon 28mm/3.5, Canon 50mm/1.4, Fuji Natura Black with its sharp 24mm/1.9 lens .... Leica M5 .... Leica M4-MOT .... Rolleiflex 2.8F ... Rolleiflex 2.8E ....

On the other hand, I now have ... Summilux 75mm/1.4 ... Summilux 35mm/1.4 .... Hexar RF .... stuff like that. I still kept my old Rolleiflex 2.8D, so the 2.8E and 2.8F are not really needed.
 
Well, since I can ALWAYS get another lens, and these are probably the only organs I'll ever have..... Sell them suckers. It feels good to let go, it feels awful doing all of the things that we do in order to avoid making a decision.
 
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