What is your 'camera for life'?

[FotohuisR]

Cheap and after some maintenance good working: Zorki-6 with some LTM lenses J-8, J-12, J-9. I have two Zorki-6 bodies. They are about the same age which I am.

 

[Archiver]

As a side note, my cousin in Canada recently emailed her response to a query I made two years ago. It seems the family's 616 Kodak Box Brownie my stepdad bought in 1943, is now in the hands of my sister-in-law, my stepbrother's widow. She has no use for it but refuses to part with it. This gal made it her life's goal to get our family's entire estate, but my stepmom lived to 102 and when she passed in 2021 there was nothing left.

I did get almost all of the family's original 616 negatives when I was in Canada in 1982, so in that way I'm the one best off.

People like that can be so infuriating! Make sure your will specifies she is to get nothing because she is a vituperative harpy, just to be on the safe side.

 

[Shadams]

Fujifilm X100F. 9 years now, if I don't count all the previous X100 models. So, 15 years. But nine for the "F" model and going strong. The Asahi Pentax Spotmatic F that started this is still in the gear cabinet. - that dates back to '68. It works but I haven't shot that since the '80s. No, the X100f should outlast me.

 

[underlord]

vituperative
What a great word! I had to look it up 😁

 

[Shadams]

....

The story I've heard (second-handedly) from one of the attendees was, as the casket was lowered into the ground, his partner put a Leica M3 on top of the box ,which then descended into the ground, and was most likely buried.

If the tale is true, it meant the loss of a fine Leica.

How about this post from more than a decade ago? Leicas, heartbreak, funerals and buried M4s: How did you get into Leicas?