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