Your biggest regret.

If I have to regret something it would be the selling of the gear I owned over the years.
I really wish that I had it all here today.
Especially my Minolta lenses (from the 1970's and 1980's).
I just loved the look of those images (on film back then).
 
Mine would have to be the black Nikon SP with a 35mm f1.8 lens I sold for $1200 in the 80's.

Cheers,
Dez
 
Letting that Leica M2R get away from me... and selling a gorgeous 180mm f2.8 Sonnar rigged to be used on a Nikon F. And not fixing my Nikon F (yet!) that hit the floor in 1974. And getting rid of my Rollieflex that came apart in 1972. Selling my Omega B-22 enlarger (I just had to buy another one 25 years later.) Need I say more?
 
About 8 years ago I let a full set of vintage Bausch&Lomb Super Baltar pime lenses for cinema cameras (S35) slip through my hands.

It was a full set of six lenses in immaculate condition. They had sat in storage for at least 20 years and the whole set was being sold for $2000.

I probably could have talked them down on that, because they just wanted to get rid of them.

Nowadays Super Baltars are some of the most sought after cinema lenses, because they help remove some of the digital curse from the new cameras.

Today a set of Super Baltars in good condition can cost you as much as a nice car.
 
I REALLY regret selling original 50mm f/1.5 Nokton in Contax mount, since it is highly unlikely I will ever come across one of these again.
 
charjohncarter said:
Not the ones that got away, but not using them MORE when I had them.
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Same here.

I came to regret selling off my Hasselblad V system kit, and my M mount Voigtlander 35mm f/1.2 Nokton ASPH v.1 (at least now I can replace it with the version 2).

Both of these mistakes came about "because I wasn't using them much" and "I could use the money I have tied up in them for other things."

If you EVER hear a voice in your head telling you either of these statements about one of your cameras or lenses, tell it "shut your lying cake-hole and mind your own business." :(
 
Not having certain pieces of kit CLA'd before the people I planned to use retired. I should sell a few items soon to get other bits needed attention.

I have an M2 with M4 style spool... picked it up hear and realized there was a light leak about 2 months later when we finally had a day bright enough for it to show up. :\ Need to get it sent out soon.
 
I've never sold a camera or a lens, but I do regret leaving my Leica M4P at home the day burglars visited.
 
I regret parting from my Hassy XPan (and actually the 500cm too). Not that I'd use them often now that am so addicted to M6 and GR1, but still it feels like wrong.
 
Selling my Sigma SD15 kit, had a nice super wide zoom, fast M42 glass, it was great, I should have learnt to live with it's few flaws.
 
Selling my Nikon F4S, in fact sold all Nikon AF gear but the F4 was a total mistake. When ever a nice one comes up I never have the funds.

David
 
Selling all of my Leica M gear in 2008 to get a Nikon D300 sits at the top of my list. I'm not sorry I got the D300 (which wasn't a "want" but a "need"), but just recently I've been replacing all the Leica stuff I sold, a piece at a time, and there are a couple of things I won't be able to get back easily this time, it appears (biggest regrets: Canon 85/1.5 and Voigtlander 28/1.9).
 
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