Letting Go....

[BillBingham2]

I've had to let go of a LOT of stuff over the past 15 years as finances went from fine to worse and bounced between worse, up to bad, back to worse. Now they are ok, but yeah it was hard. I spent a lot of time building systems that worked the way I wanted to. I've built several as my style has changed, now I look at my film cameras and wonder if/when/where should they go?

I thought I would love shooting with my new X-E3, but my son has used it more than I have. My iPhone 12 Pro has taken over all duties. While it's not perfect, it's ok for now. Still coming to grips with the distortion of the ultra-wide lens.

I still have way too much stuff (not just photography) that I need to thin out. That stuff will come first, before the few cameras I still have. Selling my stuff allowed me to pay the mortgage several times during the dark days. Frankly, I wouldn't have time to use almost any of the stuff I had if I still had it, so I'm happy it found new home. About the only thing I miss is a lens, the Vivitar Series 1 200/3 because it would rock on my Fuji. I could replace it with a Nikkor 180 IF, but it just felt great in my hand and it was part of my kit that got me through High School.

Yeah, it 5UCK5, but it really helped when I needed it.

B2 (;->

 

[agentlossing]

I'd be in trouble (both figuratively and literally) if I didn't sell stuff. It allows me to keep my expenditures more or less flat, but to experience different gear and have a bit broader perspective on it. Sometimes I re-buy stuff (M4/3 lenses being a big part of that). But there are some pieces I wouldn't sell, or, at least, would need a really good reason to do so. Not really for sentimental value; I don't really have gear that qualifies for that, except for a couple small considerations (someone gave me their old K1000 earlier this year and I appreciate that, haven't thought about getting rid of it, and my little Ricoh 500G which a fellow on another forum sold me for peanuts which was my first foray back into film after a few years of hiatus, I still like it a lot though I don't actively use it much).