Seller's Remorse - Ever Have It?

[Kragmeister]

Hey Laurence,

Greg, I sense your pain...the Century Graphic 23 is TRULY a sweet piece of work. My grandfather had one, though I don't know what happened to it. I remember him setting it up on the gravel bars in the rivers on the Olympic peninsula, to photograph the resident elk herds. It paints a neat picture in my mind. The prints that he developed from the camera were truly nice, even in my young mind at the time.

Greg, was this a camera with the Graflok back? Sweet for backpacking!

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, this had a built in Graflok back. The body was actually cast plastic with leatherette covering, pretty durable. Most of the ones I find have a 105 mm lens and are usually all black. The thing that REALLY kills me is that I bought it NEW in the late 1980s, a shop in Easton PA was cleaning out the attic and it was a special order item that was never picked up. I hope whoever has it now treats it with reverence and makes nice photographs with it <sniff, snivel>....

Later,
Greg

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

I have never really had sellers remorse; mainly because I almost never sell anything.

How about trader's remorse? I traded my first Rollei 35S in on a Contax IIA BD with 50mm f1.5 sonnar. No real regrets, mainly because I bought another Rollei 35S about a year later.

Wayne

 

[tkluck]

No seller's remorse with camera gear, but that's only because I'd already suffered excruciatingly with firearms and boats...

Fair amount of buyer's remorse though. Mostly over the total not the individual goodies.

 

[jdos2]

Seller's remorse, of course.

I've bought and sold Contax G stuff twice, as well as Leica stuff twice. The last time, the Leica was supposed to be the "end-all-be-all" camera setup. I again miss the Contax G.

Now? I'd like another Noctilux, please. It's funny, though, that I don't miss the Leica MP at all, save for it as the butt of the Noc. Someday, if I'm lucky, I'll find that Canon 50mm F/1.

It ain't gonna happen soon, though. I've had to put a STOP to camera purchases/sales.

 

[harry01562]

The one I continually kick myself over was my Century Graphic 23. It was sweet looking, grey leatherette on the body and a red bellows. The lens was even sweeter, an 80mm f2.8 Xenotar. I used to use it with a 6x7 back, often handheld with the rangefinder, other times on a tripod and focus on the ground glass. I sold that one while raising a house down payment. My wife at the time is now an ex and I sold the house at a loss too. I've been trying to find another of these Century Graphic specials for a couple of years....<sigh>....

Later,
Greg

Sad tale, indeed. That is a sweet lens, mounted on a fairly tough camera to buy. I own several Graphics, and have never owned on of the red bellows models, or (sadly) a Xenotar.
Hope with the huge mass of people dumping our treasures for (sigh) digital, you may get lucky. Probably take 2 sales, 1 lens 1 camera, but that may be cheaper.

Luck,
Harry

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Yep- Bessa R with a well adjust Jupiter 9.

Stoopid Stoopid Stoopid

 

[sf]

yes. Sold my Multi Pro. Remorse, but it needed to be done. Remorse + sense of having done the right thing = numbness + cash. Numbness + cash = x. x-numbness = another toy for MAKING pictures instead of just scanning them = y. Oh, and y-another toy = a decent flatbed scanner.

 

[Chuck A]

Years ago I sold an M2 and coll 50 that I had since college. It was a time when the AF bug bit me and I sold it to finance a Nikon 8008 and some lenses. I would have certainly burnt in hell for that but I have since repented.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Some years ago I sold my first "bought-for-myself" camera: a Minolta X370s system (had a lot of glass). Regretted almost automatically (felt like selling a good friend down the river) but then, I needed to finance my Leica immersion and it wasn't getting any use. From what I heard, the guy who bought it gave it to his daughter--who was very interested in becoming a photographer-- so that's my consolation.

After that, I never regretted selling anything. I haven't sold a lot, but the few things I placed are in good homes now! 🙂

 

[Laurence]

Well, I brought on yet more remorse, having just sold my Ambi Silette. Sure, sure...my own fault. It's good to be saving towards my goal of getting a new MF lens, but it's also a little hard to wave goodbye. The Ambi Silette was a "sleeper" of a camera. Small and robust, and the Solinar glass truly produces fine images, with corner to corner sharpness. The German engineering was very evident on this one, and it was still precise and friendly.

Well, I know it went to a good home, and will get good use, so that's a plus.

I wouldn't be surprised to see another Ambi Silette in my hands some day.

Remorse continues...😎

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Eric Hendrickson is fixing up a Pentax MX I picked up on the big auction site.

It's my third or fourth. Each time I decided it was too small, and sold it.

Maybe this one will be the right size. 😉

"Excelsior, you fathead!"
-Chris-