What Camera Do You Regret 'Getting Away' From You?

[Brian Atherton]

What camera do you regret ‘getting away’ from you?

In 1966 I was in my mid-teens, having just started my first job as an apprentice in a commercial advertising studio and darkroom.

One day a member of staff brought in for sale on behalf of a camera club friend an Alpa 6d with TTL metering and a 50mm Kern Macro Switar f1.8. The asking price? £36, I think (about £570 by today’s RPI).

Boy, I lusted after it, but no matter how I worked out the numbers, on my meagre wage, I just couldn’t afford it, and it got away.

I’m just about over the disappointment. 🙄

 

[jsrockit]

No regrets. 🙂

 

[kshapero]

Too painful to answer.

 

[68degrees]

My Minolta X-700 that I bought as a teenager. I gave it away about 5 years or so ago to a young woman who was interested in photography. (college student). I thought film was dead and never planned on using it again, she was so excited about it so I gave it to her. I had no use for in and no interest in photography of any kind really. Then I found all my old negatives and slides when I went up to see my folks and wished I had it back. Had a nice 70 210 zoom macro. Bag. tele converter, manual original caps and flash. Worked darn hard to get the money to buy that too, lots of paper route and yard work money, it was a fortune back then. Got the lens in germany on a trip with my parents. 4:1 back then. It was nice. Yes Id like to have it back. iF only for posterity sake. I doubt she did anything with it, I hope she did though. Maybe it will come back to me and Ill find it in a thrift shop or something. Wouldnt that be Cool!! That would make a believer out of me.

 

[nobbylon]

The Nikon F2AS I sold a few years ago. I can't think why I NEED another film camera but I keep checking the classifieds everywhere!

 

[thegman]

Maybe my Bessa R4A, I use very little 35mm film, mostly medium format and a little large format now, but sometimes I'd like to have an easy to use 35mm camera again, and that would likely be a Bessa.

Possibly Fotoman 69 too, I've had a few wide angle medium format cameras since then, but the Fotoman is probably still the best I've had.

 

[Sparrow]

While sitting at a low table in a café in Greece, one hot summer in the mid 90s ... just to reload and cool off with an iced-coffee, while sipping coffee and watching the world go by I'd put one camera back in the bag the other on the table, just in case

After awhile I relaxed put my hands behind my head slid down in the chair and crossed my legs ... hooking the strap of the camera on the toecap of my left shoe and flicking the camera off the table at speed in a low parabola to my right ... I dived right, propelling the cane-chair across the marble floor the other way ... the camera just got away from me and it and I landed heavily onto the stone floor

 

[valdas]

potential regrets is the reason I have too many cameras... I really have to sell some...

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

No regrets.

Me as well 🙂

 

[Black]

Pentax 645D. Sold it because I convinced myself that the beautiful files it produced were just "too easy" and that I should be working harder to produce said files.

I have not produced images as technically accomplished since.

:bang:

 

[Keith]

No regrets. 🙂

Remorseless. 😛

 

[Keith]

As for regrets ... all the beautiful gear I had to sell a few years ago when I was flat broke, unemployed and living from hand to mouth, day to day!

 

[Harry S.]

RZ67 Pro II
500 C/M

Gave them both away to friends on a generosity binge. 😕

 

[rbsinto]

The odd black Nikon SP rangefinder that was almost reasonably priced.

 

[ray*j*gun]

My Bessa R2s..... mine was the Historical kit with the goofy looking Heliar lens that shot beautifully. Plus I sold it tooo cheap.....arrrrrgh

 

[jsrockit]

Remorseless. 😛

Yep, it's just gear. It would be nice to have my M9 back, but if I truly wanted it... I would just go get one used. I haven't. 😉

 

[biomed]

I miss my Pentax Spotmatic. I had it less than a year and traded it in. Oh, the agonies of GAS.

 

[Bruno Gracia]

everytime I buy a MP or M6 or M2 and I have to sell it :'(

And Rolleiflex 2.8F.

 

[Roger Hicks]

(Original, 1950s, black) MP, maybe 25 years ago, on sale (in a shop in California!) for about 1/10 of its normal price. But I had NO money, and all my credit cards were maxed...

Actually there are two cars I regret missing more than any cameras: a Sunbeam Alpine (the Sunbeam Talbot version, cf http://www.sunbeamtalbotalpineregister.com/) and a Daimler DE36 straight eight.

Cheers,

R.

 

[jordan.dickinson]

Mamiya 7II with 50, 80, 150mm lenses. Selling it facilitated other photographic adventures, so I don't feel awful about it. It's just that I probably won't ever shell out the money again for that nice kit. Oh well. It's how these things go.