sell or keep?

[back alley]

If you can't bear the thought of the financial loss, but can afford to part with it, donate it. I gave my X-Pro2 to this photographer when I read she had to borrow cameras for her shoots:

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...last-synagogue-jewish-worshippers-nudrat-afza

it's not the financial loss...i don't think of my gear as an investment but more like my only source of fun/pleasure...
i don't like the feeling of having 5 good cameras and 3 of them sitting silently...2 bodies and a few lenses has always been my aim.

 

[back alley]

I think I am going to buy one Joe @that price it’s a steal
And Icdill just get an adapter
For my 35 2.8 Summaron ..... Till I decide what other focal length to buy...

I have thought about the Xpro 3 but do I really need to spend $1800.00 to 2000.00
On digital... nah
The XE3 will be just fine , love the Acros simulation


o the Xpro 3 got you bored with your XE3 ... are we jaded or is it so much better ?

the xe3 and the xpro3 are great cameras...i see the xpro3 fitting in my hands like an old leica m6 and the xe3 reminds me of the minolta cle..
in your hands with your talent either will flourish...

 

[aizan]

i am not all that interested in new bodies...i want the Xpro3 to become a part of me and keep it for a long time.

In that case, just sell all three X-E3 bodies! If it turns out you really need a third camera, the X-E4 will be out sometime around then, and you’ll have the money waiting.

 

[jsrockit]

My problem is the plummeting price of used Fuji gear. I'll be keeping my XP1, I don't use it but once in a while to keep the cobwebs out but it's only worth a couple hundred at best and for that amount I'll keep it.

Fuji is no different than any other brand when it comes to plummeting prices. The X-Pro1 is 9 years old... you can`t expect it to be worth a lot.

 

[jsrockit]

In that case, just sell all three X-E3 bodies!

Do not do this... keep one Joe. Sell the other two... and just forget them. You can buy them again later for cheaper if you need to.

 

[Dogman]

Either sell them now or use them. If you don't you'll end up like me with a pile of old digital cameras you don't use that are worthless to anyone else. Or you could do like Majid suggested and donate them to a photographer poorer than you.

 

[splitimageview]

I had an X-E3 for over a year and then got an X-H1 which is fantastic, with IBIS and a big viewfinder, but often the small/light X-E3 is preferable. I've had many Fuji models over the years and if I could only choose one, it would be the X-E3.

 

[zenza]

Had the same dilemma with my first DSLR. Had fully stopped using it but held onto it because I wasn't happy I would only get ~50% of what I had paid. Well...it sat unused for a few years (I didn't even own a lens for the system anymore) and I finally sold it for ~20% of what I had paid.

The longer you wait, the less you'll be able to sell it for.

 

[jsrockit]

The thing here is that it is a hell of a camera... one of the best current deals on the market. It is not outdated, for its level of camera, in anyway. It is a steal. BUT he has 3 of them... so yeah sell two immediately and keep one.

 

[Bolo Kukus]

it's not the financial loss...i don't think of my gear as an investment but more like my only source of fun/pleasure...
i don't like the feeling of having 5 good cameras and 3 of them sitting silently...2 bodies and a few lenses has always been my aim.

Selling cameras at this time isn't a particularly good idea - too many people seem to be dumping them, post-Covid, maybe wanting to upgrade and buy new or just get out of their photo-image making rut. Whatever their reasons, Ebay and all the retail shops with secondhand gear sections are chokkers full of old gear, and prices are way, way down.

So why not do what many of us do - rotate your cameras, use them in sequence, for different purposes.

I use my XT2 almost exclusively for black-and-white - it seems to be permanently set on the Acros film simulation, and the results I get from it suit me, tho' I must admit I need more practice to regain my old skill of judging the highlights against the shadows, which I happily did for several decades with my film cameras.

My Nikons now get used mostly for my more static bush landscapes and architectural work. When I go off to Southeast Asia in (I fervently hope) about two months, for another 2-4 months of happy wandering across several tropical countries, I'll take my XT2 kit with me this time, as it makes me concentrate more on 'action' images than the usually static old buildings and pretty landscapes I seem to specialise in.

The XT2 kit also has the plus of portability - it and four lenses fit in a cosmetics bag (admittedly larger than the usual fit-into-a-backpack small bags one can buy in department store beauty product sales) and it will do everything my D800 with one or two lenses have in the past, with less weight for an over-70 traveller to cart around. So it's win-win for me.

Now if only I could apply this 'rotation' plan to my film cameras, which increasingly sit idle in my cabinet...

 

[jsrockit]

ozmoose is going Fuji crazy... I wonder how Joe is doing? This thread is relatively old.