Will you be taking it with you? POLL

[Ming Rider]

I`ve noticed that quite a few posters on this (excellent) forum mention that their Leicas will outlast themselves, well into the next generation.

Which begs the obvious question (not), will you be leaving your Leica to someone else (lucky buggers) or concealing it in the `box` with you? :angel:


Think outside the box, before you can't think in it.

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

I have a cabinet full of other tools - in my workshop too........I shall not give a f*ck what happens to them either!
Dave.

 

[ruby.monkey]

My son will be able to put them to far better use than I will.

 

[dee]

My daughter too has a better use for my toys - and will be donating to the great e-bay in the skies ... anyway , they don't burn too well !

 

[robklurfield]

Bury it with me? What on earth for? If I can't use, someone else can. Either my kids can suddenly develop an interest or they can sell everything. Not my worry.

Too bad I don't share beliefs with the ancient Egyptians about carrying the stuff in my pyramid to the other side for the after life. So far as I know, it's cold dark and empty out there. No need for a camera. Recycling for me. (My wife says I can't be buried in the backyard and the law in this state says I have to be put in box regardless of its final destination). I'd rather be buried without a box so the earth can reclaim the chemicals for reuse in a tree or somthing. I used to favor cremation, but it seems like a silly use of energy.

And, Dee is right about cremation; why burn up a camera that has another 50 or 70 years of use in it?

 

[Ming Rider]

Yes, I very much like the `help to grow a tree` idea. Beautiful and hippy-like, maaaaan.

I plan to be stood against a wall at the `wake` in my coffin, with a pint of Guiness in one hand, M8 in the other and a recording saying `Party you b'stards, this is the only drink you'll ever get out of me`.😀

Now, if only I could figure out how to set the M8 to automatically take photographs. That would be a good photo series, `Pictures from his own funeral`.

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

The FSU's could be donated to the agricultural museums 😛

 

[Ming Rider]

No, I don't have a Poll fetish . . .

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Not taking them with me, that's for sure. My will leaves whatever gear I have when I die to the area ASPCA, who can sell it and use the money how ever they see fit. I guess you could say that after I die, all my gear with go to the dogs.

 

[Rob-F]

Oh I can't take it with me? Then I'm not going.

 

[arseniii]

That's a weird post!!! Shall also wear a Patek and sit in the Porshe that you paid for?

 

[Roger Hicks]

Before I go, I'd hope to meet and befriend a young photographer to whom I could leave any gear that he/she really wants. If not: well, I find it hard to get excited about what happens to my cameras after I'm gone.

Cheers,

R.

 

[bo_lorentzen]

Who cares about the camera, really. Im much more wondering what the heck to do with 100.000 meaningless negatives that probably only I see the majority as valuable.

What do one do with negatives, donate them to a local archive..?

What about collections from developing countries...? donate to the countrys national museum and let them toss what they don't want.?

The cameras..? well 60 years from now Im pretty sure the M9 will only have collectors value. But I would like to do something with the negatives, and the files I guess.

Bo

www.bophoto.typepad.com

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

I suppose there is always the 'great RFF Christmas giveaway'

 

[Al Kaplan]

If you have a lot of stuff of local interest see if there's an historical society who'd take the negatives. Possibly a library or university.

 

[Ming Rider]

Quote - Im much more wondering what the heck to do with 100.000 meaningless negatives that probably only I see the majority as valuable.

That's the big advantage of Digital. Just hit the delete key.😉

 

[Pickett Wilson]

I've tried to give away a huge archive of negatives. Libraries, etc would love to have them...but only if they are scanned and given to them as tagged digital files. No space to store many thousands of negatives with local interest, much less the money to catalog them.

 

[bo_lorentzen]

LOL.. yup the delete button is a very viable option.

As for the images shot for work, I don't particularly care, they paid my rent for so many years, what happens to them don't really bother me any more than what a carpenter wonders what happens to a roof he build for somebody.

But over the years, I guess we all have captured images we would like to see mean something to others.? and if we have travled extensively, we might also have captured stuff which is no more, and therefore might mean something to that area, one way or another.

Edit: Pickett, maybe todays Lightroom archives might be more interesting to them.? I am slowly scanning some of my older 35mm, 120 and 4x5 and keywording the files.

Bo

www.bophoto.typepad.com

 

[robklurfield]

My wife likes to complain about my chronic tardiness by saying, "You'll be late to your own funeral." I've never figured out why that would be a problem.

 

[oftheherd]

I would like to think my daughters would want some of my cameras (and other things) as keepsakes if not to use. I think my oldest daughter would even consider using some ot the gear. Maybe they could give it to their kids. But whatever they do will not be my concern. Keep it to remember, to use, or sell for money will be their call. What would I care after I am gone?