what is the longest you have held onto a piece of photography equipment?

[maggieo]

I've had this since dad gave it to me in the mid-1970s:


Canonet QL-17 GIII, January, 2010 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr

 

[Spavinaw]

You kids don't stand a chance. I got my first camera, a Kodak Brownie Flash Six-20 with flash, sometime early in high school. Got my Kodak Tourist II with 800 shutter as a junior or senior. Graduated in 1954 and still have both cameras. So the Brownie would be 60 years old and the Tourist almost 60.

 

[jody36]

my grandmothers brownie 13 years or so

 

[rovnguy]

I've had a Kodak Brownie Starflash since 1958 and an Agfa Isoflash Rapid since 1966.

 

[muser53]

A Nikormat FTN w a Nikor H 50 F2 I bought in 1972.

 

[bwcolor]

Darkroom equipment.. 44 years.

 

[Pablito]

About 40 years on a Leitz Tiltall tripod. It is still my primary tripod.

I've only had my Tiltall 30+ years but I've had my Nikon F around 40 yrs...got it as a teenager...

 

[x-ray]

My dad gave me a new 4x5 crown graphic in 1964. I'll never part with it.

 

[rxmd]

Anyway I found a way to stop GAS. Trick out your rig with so many extras, cameraleather, customized wheels, etc. so it will too expensive to sell. Huh? Cool, right?😱

Does that stop GAS? I thought GAS was about being unable to control the urge to buy new stuff, not the urge to sell old stuff.

 

[TimeShot]

Pentax ME Super w/1.4 50mm either 1980 or 1981 to present. Overhauled few years ago, it takes great photos.

 

[nikon_sam]

My very first SLR...a Vivitar 400/SL with a 50mm 1.9 & 200mm 3.5
I've had it since 1976 and it still works...I picked up a non-working body to steal a few parts from it to repair my first camera...
I don't use that camera anymore but last year bought another working body to use with some Takumar lenses I've been finding...
Next would be a Vivitar VI enlarger with Color Head...bought it new around 1980 or so...I still use it...

 

[splitimageview]

Come to think of it, my mom presented me with my Konica Auto S2 over Christmas. I first got it when I was 14.

 

[back alley]

i still have my first camera...oly 35 rc bought in 1970/71...can't quite remember.

 

[kdemas]

I still have my first Instamatic my parents got me when I was about 3. That was only about 1000 years ago, in pretty good shape (the camera) 🙂

Also still have my first "real" camera, my Nikkormat FT2. Still in use every now and then for fun, what a tank!

 

[rxmd]

i still have my first camera...oly 35 rc bought in 1970/71...can't quite remember.

Maybe GAS is more a function of how long you've held on to your second or third, rather than your first.

 

[willie_901]

I still have a Mamiya-Sekor 500TL and lenses purchased in December 1970.

 

[kshapero]

Maybe GAS is more a function of how long you've held on to your second or third, rather than your first.

Quite right chap

 

[dexdog]

I still have the first camera I ever bought, a Canon FTb. I also have the first camera I ever used, an Argus C3 that belonged to my father.

 

[erpe]

42 years. I still sometimes use the Lubitel II that I received for my 11 birthday in January 1970 🙂

 

[ronnies]

Still got the Yashica FX-3 I bought new in 1979 and the Canon A-1 from 1982.

Ronnie