bmattock
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Q: I just inherited my [insert relation name here]'s old camera.
A: Condolences on the loss and congratulations on the acquisition.
Q: It's big, black, and has a lens. What kind of camera is this?
A: A photo of it would be nice. Descriptions of cameras by non-camera users are generally too vague to be useful. You could start by looking the camera over from every angle and taking note of any text on it, which might signify make, model, origin, and so on. Several photos from different angles would be even better. Good photos, not eBay photos. Even then it may be difficult to say, because many early folding cameras were made very much alike, with some of the same shutters and lenses, and their markings have worn away, come off, or otherwise been lost.
Q: What's it worth?
A: Why, are you planning to sell it?
Q: Well, I don't have any interest in this type of thing and I just wanted to know what it would be worth on eBay.
A: Put it on eBay and find out.
Q: Don't you know what it's worth?
A: Worth is a relative thing. What's a used tire worth? Nothing to you, but perhaps quite a lot to a fellow with a flat tire and no spare in a bad area of town.
Q: So you don't know what it's worth, then?
A: Did you see something about 'free appraisal service' on the door when you came in?
Q: Why are you so hostile? I'm just asking an innocent question!
A: Some of us have thoughts of leaving our relations our camera collections when we shuffle off this mortal coil and go to join the Choir Invisible, but posts like yours (and you're not the Lone Ranger, there, sunshine) remind us that ten minutes after we're cold, our snot-nosed relatives will be badgering complete strangers to find out what our prized possessions might be worth in terms of beer money. 'Tis an unsettling thought.
Q: So, you're not going to tell me, then?
A: No. Go away. Sell your inheritance on eBay and we'll buy it if it has any value at all, probably for far less than it's worth. Haha. And when it is our turn to go, we'll leave instructions to our executors to sell our cameras on eBay, properly described and photographed, getting top dollar, and then donate the money to a photographic charity or school, so our relatives don't get squat - because they're most likely just like you.
A: Condolences on the loss and congratulations on the acquisition.
Q: It's big, black, and has a lens. What kind of camera is this?
A: A photo of it would be nice. Descriptions of cameras by non-camera users are generally too vague to be useful. You could start by looking the camera over from every angle and taking note of any text on it, which might signify make, model, origin, and so on. Several photos from different angles would be even better. Good photos, not eBay photos. Even then it may be difficult to say, because many early folding cameras were made very much alike, with some of the same shutters and lenses, and their markings have worn away, come off, or otherwise been lost.
Q: What's it worth?
A: Why, are you planning to sell it?
Q: Well, I don't have any interest in this type of thing and I just wanted to know what it would be worth on eBay.
A: Put it on eBay and find out.
Q: Don't you know what it's worth?
A: Worth is a relative thing. What's a used tire worth? Nothing to you, but perhaps quite a lot to a fellow with a flat tire and no spare in a bad area of town.
Q: So you don't know what it's worth, then?
A: Did you see something about 'free appraisal service' on the door when you came in?
Q: Why are you so hostile? I'm just asking an innocent question!
A: Some of us have thoughts of leaving our relations our camera collections when we shuffle off this mortal coil and go to join the Choir Invisible, but posts like yours (and you're not the Lone Ranger, there, sunshine) remind us that ten minutes after we're cold, our snot-nosed relatives will be badgering complete strangers to find out what our prized possessions might be worth in terms of beer money. 'Tis an unsettling thought.
Q: So, you're not going to tell me, then?
A: No. Go away. Sell your inheritance on eBay and we'll buy it if it has any value at all, probably for far less than it's worth. Haha. And when it is our turn to go, we'll leave instructions to our executors to sell our cameras on eBay, properly described and photographed, getting top dollar, and then donate the money to a photographic charity or school, so our relatives don't get squat - because they're most likely just like you.
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