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

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