What did you sacrifice?

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Last thursday my dream camera. M4, refinished by Shintaro, arrived in the mail. It fits perfectly with a Canadian 35/2 V2 someone at photonet found me.

I have no guilt about acquiring this camera and lens at all, because all of it came from stuff I had knocking around and in the attic. THis included an Art Deco trolley, a Hornby train set, some old Levi's, a bakelite box, a Bruce Springsteen CD, a spare ticket for Beck that someone gave me, a Beatles box set and a VC 25/2 lens. All of that, plus a few other odds and sods, got me the ultimate camera.

So what did you sacrifie for your kit? Either stuff that had to go, or the weird jobs u had to work?
 
And, just for the heck of it, here's the train set that was in my parent's loft for 20 years. This bought exactly one fifth of an M4 with respray!
 
Four years of Ebay; buy cameras; fix-em-up; test them, usually with film; sell ~two items a week. I figure my Nikon SP cost about $400 "Pre-Ebay" dollars, ie turned a fairly hefty ROI. Sent it off to Shintaro, it looks beautiful.

I got the Nikon S4 with three lenses in an even trade for a Nikon N8008, 24mm F2.8, 28-85, and SB23. The owner told me it was an S2 and I had never seen an Nikon RF before.
 
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my sanity.. but that would have been lost by now, one way or another.. and my life is notably more understandable since
 
So what did you sacrifie for your kit?

Which time? When I traded a Kiev 88 for an M3? when I traded the M3 for an Nikon F100? When I sold a number of odds and ends on Ebay to finance a 1948 FED/ZORKI? When I sold the FED/ZORKI and several other FSU rigs to finance some additional Nikon gear? or when I sold.........
 
Hmm, for cameras, only long hours of work (OK, my Mamiya 645 Super kit was bought with a - small - lottery win); but a large part of my record collection of the early 1990s was bought with my blood... Every week I went straight from the plasma center to the record store, had to wear long sleeves even in summer, because people would have thought I was a junkie, with all the needle marks on my arms...

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I had a very well payed job... until today.
Now it´s time to sell some stuff I don´t need anymore...

(I promised myself not to buy any camera until I get some stable income ... but I don´t believe myself.... am I showing the effects of a serious GAS attack?)
 
Walker, the man who sold be my first Nikon in 1978 told me "Leica's are the only thing better than sex." I went 25 years before picking up an M3 after that statement.
 
hmm...well i live at home again. the eos 1vhs i bought when i was overseas made living at home again a necessity. hopefully, if i can stay sane and not buy any more for the time being, i will be out again in August...
 
I sold one of my mountain bikes and parts I had for a second one and some of my Minolta stuff. The rest is hard earned additional money from night shifts.
I do not know if this is really a sacrifice because I still have more than enough cameras and bikes left...
 
Well, I am to a point where I need to sell stuff to buy stuff, for the most part. Most of what I have sold is other camera equipment, but I do have a house of stuff to sell at a tag sale should I ever get around to organizing one.
 
Let see what I have sacrificed. My weekends, time for movies, money for holidays and my sanity! All these for 3 R2s, 4 CV 35mm lenses, dry cabinet and the usual accessories for photography. Is it worth it? Definitely! 😛
 
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