Will YOUR camera out live you?

[sykotec]

Longest owned - though sold to a friend and eventually bought back - is my Nikon FM2n from about 20 years ago. There's an F5 that gets more SLR play these days tho.

Oldest camera I own is a '51 vintage IIIf BD, though my eyesight/glasses don't make for a good mix with rangefinders in general. It usually sports a matching vintage Summitar, but occasionally my oldest piece of glass - a 73/1.9 Hektor from '31 or '32 that, near as I can tell, was drip-coated on at least the front element eons ago, but doesn't seem to have ever been CLA'd. There's dust or such in there older than me (and '30s air in those bubbles!), but it still makes great images.

 

[Thomas78]

My first real camera, a FED-2 I got in 1991 at the age of 12 just came back from Oleg this week.

 

[Out to Lunch]

20-30 years...a Fuji it was. Alas, after if was submerged in the Strait of Malacca in 1989, for not more than 5 seconds, it acquired a new lease on life and it now functions as a book stand.

 

[rogerzilla]

It's a Ricoh FF-9 35mm compact.

More pertinently, my Leica M2 is having its prisms split and recemented so it should last until the end of the world as we know it. There is 5-10 years' supply of b/w film in the freezer, too.

 

[johannielscom]

Bought all my camera gear in the last seven years. Most stuff I have is older than me and in that sense has already outlived me!

I own a 1943 Leica IIIc that Youxin serviced and it is so smooth and nice, I'm pretty sure it has another 68 years to go.

Then there's a 1955 M3, a 1962 M2, two late 1960s Nikkormats, a late 1960s Horseman 842 Convertible, and a 1980s Yashica Mat 124G.

The least likely candidate to outlive me is the 2011 Nikon D3100, actually...

 

[Foto-factotum]

Nikon F2 35yrs ( I think) The delicate shutter sound and feel is like therapy!

One CLA and once photomic head was repaired. (Maybe I did not use it enough?)

This body started my commitment to Nikon and my brand loyalty was contagioius. My son named his Dachshund : Nikon!

My life will be complete if I can get a Nikon Coolscan to digitise all those negs i took over these years.

Regards

Eugene

 

[Roberto V.]

My M4 definitely will. I bought it like new last year. The shutter is acting up (the ribbon might have come off) so I'll have to send it for a CLA, but it's a very solid camera, so I'm sure it will last a long time. My Kodak 3A is almost 100 years old and still works great, so that one might outlive me too.

 

[Chris101]

I'm sure my M4P would have out lived me, but it got stolen a couple weeks ago. Now I hope it breaks.

 

[Roger Hicks]

The oldest camera I own and have used this year is 100-120 years old (Gandolfi Universal 10x15). The camera I've had longest is my Leica IIIa, 1936, bought in 1969. In a sense, they've already outlived me. If they're still usable/reparable when I pop my clogs...

Cheers,

R.

 

[israel_alanis]

My Robot Royal III was bought 1960 by my grandpa. He, my father and I used it.
I still using it and I hope my son loves photography and use it too after me. 🙂

 

[NikonSP]

My Nikons will outlive me, the SP and the F's.