What do you Collect?

What do you Collect?

  • I'm not interested in collecting, have users only

    Votes: 109 55.1%

  • I collect all types of camera

    Votes: 68 34.3%

  • I collect RFs only

    Votes: 10 5.1%

  • I collect only one type/make of RF

    Votes: 11 5.6%
  • Total voters
    198
I seem to mostly collect odd looks with a smattering of head shakes.🙄
Bubble wrap from foreign lands?
And I did have a pretty good pile of US silver dollars but I gave those to my nephew for his eventual college expenses.
Cameras, though, I never started out to collect any of them. But I seem to have built up a couple of sagging shelves full in the last few years. That I can't quite bring myself to part with.
Rob
 
All kinds, as long as it actually works (or can be made to work), I can get the film for it (so no 626, etc. Kodaks), it's (usually) mechanical, and it was either a quality camera when it came out or a unique idea camera. An example is the SL2000F by Rollei. What a unique camera.
 
I'd have to say 'bad experiences' is the one thing above all others that I am particular to collecting.
 
I have quite a collection of old roll film folders and some 35mm rangefinders, along with a few others, like the Kodak instant camera that Poloroid put out of business, 8mm movie cameras etc. They reside in a lighted glass front cabinet in the living room.
I also have a small collection of Zenith radios, especially of the Trans-Oceanic variety.
Otherwise, I guess I collect dust and dog hair - at least it seems to be on everything that doesn't move, and some things that do!
 
I can relate to the dog hair. When we got our present dog, I said it was to be an outside dog,lost that one. So now i`m collecting old yashicas and dog hairs.
 
I don't collect, because collecting brings a sense of incompleteness that I can't handle very well. There'll always be something more to get, it won't ever stop. I prefer not to go that route, and instead focus on my skills..
 
Hi... I collect statements from the credit card company :-(
I love Frank's, "I'm done," in his signature... and his explanation.

I'm NOT done; there's more gear that I want. Yet, I know intuitively,
that there's not much, that more GAS, will contribute towards making
me a better photographer.

What do I collect? It's the cameras I was hot on 6 or 10 months ago, and am
not using now... like my Kiev 4a and Oly 35 RC.
Do I want to sell 'em? Nope.
And, like more than a few friends here, I've got the 'soul of a collector.'
Ciao, mike
 
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I'm not a cameras collector; only a user.
But I have a (not so) secret collection: I collect all the translation of the book Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Saint-Exupéry. I got it in English of course, German, Italian, Spanish, Basque, Serbo-croat, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Romanian and Portuguese. That's my only collection 🙂
Best,
Marc-A.
 
Jeremy Z said:
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I'm lusting for an Olympus RC now.

Leicas are too rich for my blood. Same for Canons, Nikons, and Voigtlanders.
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Hey! watch it! Are you implying that Olympus are cheap??... oh wait, that's a good thing for Olympus collectors like me, no? 😀

I am a "collector and trader" of cameras... the "trader" part is just so I can convince myself that I am not paying more than what I ought to 😛
 
When it comes to cameras (or many other things), there's an old saying: one is to use; two is a spare; three, you're a collector.

I don't collect cameras. I just accumulate them.
 
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