Should I get rid of M mount lenses and move on?

"Lenses are not children." This is a fact indeed.
Lenses don't need diapers when they are very young (or new)!
Lenses don't change in quality each year.

Selling a lens should not hurt.
 
Moving from rangefinder to a pro DSLR, especially with some business concerns behind, is like migrating from one country to another.. Sell the house and move if you are sure to not come back one day.
 
mfunnell said:
Me, I'd buy an M-mount film camera (maybe an R4A), a scanner, shoot B&W and develop myself. But if you don't want to do that (which seems like the only way you'll get value from the lenses, given your other comments) then selling seems your only other sensible option.

...Mike
Click to expand...


This old thread is only one of many like it.

After six years of thinking I could seamlessly transition from film to digital within the M-mount realm, I'm giving film a try again, and might do the same with a Sony A7s.

Perhaps I'll just end up selling those M lenses after all.
 
i d get an a7 used and cheap, and sell the m43stuff, the m lenses are future proof and will always be nice adaptable. i d not sell the 2 zeiss lenses you have
 
Note it is an old thread..
I have seldom sold off anything!
A good lens is always a good lens.
Good for me is not unreasonable pixel peeping but actual prints.
A new digital body is only the new one for a few weeks..
The fear of marking, scratching, denting equipment is a sign of a collector!
All my equipment looks like the walking wounded, from a great battle!
I use my cameras and lenses.
If one cannot afford the stuff, get an indoor game.
 
I rarely use my M8. I have M-mount lens of several focal lengths and I enjoy using them on mirrorless bodies such as m4/3rds, Fuji X, or Sony E-mount. I recently purchased a Sony A7r at a low price partly because I knew that I only needed to buy an adapter to have several lenses for the A7r.
 
leicapixie said:
Note it is an old thread..
I have seldom sold off anything!
A good lens is always a good lens.
Good for me is not unreasonable pixel peeping but actual prints.
A new digital body is only the new one for a few weeks..
The fear of marking, scratching, denting equipment is a sign of a collector!
All my equipment looks like the walking wounded, from a great battle!
I use my cameras and lenses.
If one cannot afford the stuff, get an indoor game.
Click to expand...
I used to until I decided it was a pointless treadmill. I've sold/given away very little in the last decade, and then, only where I had something else very similar (e.g. 3 very fast 50mm lenses) and used only one of them.

Now I buy new (or evsen second-hand) stuff only when I think I'm really likely to use it (and I'm usually right) and very rarely at that: no cameras or lenses in 2014. I use new and old stuff interchangeably; or, simply when I feel like it. To me, the idea of selling something merely because I haven't used something for a year (or any other arbitrary period) would indicate that my life was stale, dull, boring and predictable.

Cheers,

R.
 
This is good to know, Roger. I keep my lenses and cameras because life is like a chocolate box. You don't know what is in it until you start unwrapping it ....
 
Roger Hicks said:
To me, the idea of selling something merely because I haven't used something for a year (or any other arbitrary period) would indicate that my life was stale, dull, boring and predictable.
Click to expand...

Or one could just most likely need to use the money elsewhere...
 
jsrockit said:
Or one could just most likely need to use the money elsewhere...
Click to expand...
Indeed. It's just that my definition of "need" has narrowed. In particular, it very rarely includes "want to buy another camera just to see what it's like". Also, the scope for buying and selling at a profit, never mind enjoying the process, has been greatly reduced by the bay and the all-but-disappearance of old-fashioned, enjoyable camera shops.

Buying and selling at a loss has never appealed to me, and on the rare occasions I have sold something and then attempted to replace it -- a strategy apparently favoured by many on this forum -- I have generally found the replacement inferior to the original, though this may be objective (my second 100/2.8 Planar wasn't as sharp as my first) or subjective (overly and unrealistically fond memories).

Cheers,

R.
 
Hi Colin, it has indeed been a long time since I read you post here.

I would sell all three lenses.

Which is a pity, as I personally would be curious as to what you'll produce with an M9 and these lenses. (I don't get curious about other people's photography often :) )
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom