Jochen_S Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Quite a few I wish I hadn’t spent money on; none I wished I had back. Almost the same. - After thinking very hard, I do regret buying 2 used light stands for my employer (instead of for myself) and splitting with my Jobo CPE 2 and a nice handy tank for 5 reels of 35mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Ferengi five stages of acquisition: 1 - Infatuation, 2 - Justification, 3 - Appropriation, 4 - Obsession, 5 - Resale Stage 5-alternate is to put it in a closet, never to be used again, and with it's value rapidly depreciating. My own approach on far too many items, not just photographic. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
q.g._de_bakker Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Quite a few I wish I hadn’t spent money on; none I wished I had back. Yes. We could perhaps do with a thread titled "If you could give it back...". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Helmke Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 There are a few. I wish I could track down my first F2 and I foolishly sold my 180/2.8 and 135/2 Nikkors but they have been replaced. For some reason I’d like to find my old Sigma 80-200.... Rick H. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otislynch Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 I can’t believe I sold the Leica IIIc (a bit ratty, but my first good camera) for the same $50 it cost me a few years before. I got the SLR bug, bought the newly released (1966) Canon TL-QL, and never looked back. I could have scraped up the $50 by playing one more party with my band. Oh well - I was young and dumb. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_gallimore1 Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Ferengi five stages of acquisition: 1 - Infatuation, 2 - Justification, 3 - Appropriation, 4 - Obsession, 5 - Resale Thank you, I now have an unshakable mental image of camera collectors having large bald heads, enormous ears and pointy little teeth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_gardner4 Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 A Speed Graphic which I only owned for a year or so then sold. With a focal plane and/or leaf shutter. It could be used hand held. Also a Minolta X700 and 35-70mm lens. One of my first cameras that travelled the world with me and gave fantastic results. I part ex'd the Minolta for a Nikon F4s and got less than £150 for it. I since bought another X700 (which soon broke) but I would still like the very one I sold if only for sentimental reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_bellayr Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Nikon 50mm f2.0 non-ais sold when I purchased 50mm f1.4. But I bought another after I purchased a Nikon F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrykelly Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 "photo gear" will be worthless in the next few years due to advances in smartphones... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cameragary Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 then just send it all to me.i will gladly accept all donations. :) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick D. Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 "photo gear" will be worthless in the next few years due to advances in smartphones... Doesn't look that way, money worth nothing according the stock market, but I just sold Pentax SP1000. Looks like demand still here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick D. Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 I don't regret anything I sold.:) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 2 - Justification I'm usually stuck here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vrankin Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 No regrets. I like and use my current gear more than anything I previously had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Justification I'm usually stuck here. “I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.” —Rudyard Kipling And one especially relevant for the occasional photographer engaged in a discussion about gear ... “The opposite of creation is not destruction but JUSTIFICATION. If you don’t have what you want, you have been justifying (trying to prove your wrong actions are right), not creating.” —Meir Ezra :) 2 "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotolopithecus Posted February 6, 2021 Author Share Posted February 6, 2021 "photo gear" will be worthless in the next few years due to advances in smartphones... I don't think phones are destined to take over the world, except for (excuse the terminology, no looking down the nose intended) Snap shooters. There are limits to what can be done with a tiny sensor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 There are limits to what can be done with a tiny sensor LOL. Don't be too sure of that. There's a more full quotation than the one most have only heard a portion of ... It's not the size of the ship or the motion of the ocean... It is whether the captain stays in port long enough for all passengers to get off. Seriously, though, limits are relative. There are actually unlimited things one can do with a cell phone sensor but there are also some technical limits that and any other piece of equipment will constrain one to. Just as there are unlimited approaches to photography but probably some personal and cultural limits consciously or unconsciously imposed on the unlimited photographic possibilities, regardless of equipment size, shape, brand, and price. Somewhere in the counterpoint of limits and unlimitedness, photos get made. "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_watson1 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 "photo gear" will be worthless in the next few years due to advances in smartphones... Sounds like one of those astounding predictions from Eisenhower-era Popular Mechanics magazine. Still waiting for a flying car... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Sounds like one of those astounding predictions from Eisenhower-era Popular Mechanics magazine. Still waiting for a flying car... If true...think of the wonderful opportunities for those of us who prefer cameras, better even than when digital first overtook film, to get fabulous pro equipment for pennies on the dollar! Got some GREAT stuff back then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjboffoli Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Great question. I'd love to have my very first 35mm camera back. It was a fixed focus point-and-shoot Canon Snappy with graphics from the 1984 Olympics. My (extremely parsimonious) father must have found it in a closeout bin in December of '84 so he decided on it for a birthday gift for me. I shot many hundreds of bad pictures with that camera until I upgraded to a Minolta a few years later. But those cheesy images were the foundation of a lifetime of images to come and (something I would never have imagined) a full time career as a fine art, commercial and editorial photographer. That Snappy is what started it all for me and I'd love to have it back. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotolopithecus Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 LOL. Don't be too sure of that. There's a more full quotation than the one most have only heard a portion of ... Seriously, though, limits are relative. There are actually unlimited things one can do with a cell phone sensor but there are also some technical limits that and any other piece of equipment will constrain one to. Just as there are unlimited approaches to photography but probably some personal and cultural limits consciously or unconsciously imposed on the unlimited photographic possibilities, regardless of equipment size, shape, brand, and price. Somewhere in the counterpoint of limits and unlimitedness, photos get made. That sounds a bit philosophical, but I'm speaking more of the limit in physics. In any event I don't see a future time when a tiny sensor beats or equals a larger one given the same technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 beats or equals Tom Brady beats 'em all. :) Seriously, though, I understand the point you're making. That sounds a bit philosophical It was meant to be. :eek: Philosophy, like Brady, rules... just ask Plato... 1 "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
q.g._de_bakker Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 [...] Philosophy, like Brady, rules... just ask Plato... [ATTACH=full]1375151[/ATTACH] Plato? That ultraconservative aristocratic reactionary who needed to invent an alternate reality to get people to agree with him? Nah... Don't ask Plato. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeBu Lamar Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 I gave away Nikon DE-1 viewfinder when my F2AS was stolen.. Today the viewfinder alone is worth as much as the F2. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels - NHSN Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 When I found out that my stowed away 25 years old destined for goodwill Yashica T4 was worth twice the price I paid in the 90's, I sold it and laughed at the stupid buyer (quietly). Now it is worth 3 times the original price and rising for reasons I don't comprehend. It is like Gamestop stocks. Someone on Reddit must trading it up from worthless just to defy an old fart like me. My regret is that I should have kept it a little longer and cashed in. Well, not really, I already felt bad selling it at twice the price - it is an OK lens with a terrible implementation of a plastic camera wrapped around it. 2 Niels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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