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I just handed over my beloved D90 to a friend who bought it (together with elements 10, light stand, umbrella, Nissin flash, tamron 17-50, ir controller).

Yes I'm a few hundred pounds better off and yes, I hadn't really used the d90 in ages, but....

It was my first slr, it got me excited about photography and started this hobby for me. Maybe I'm just feeling a bit sentimental about my first proper camera!!

Anybody else get a little sentimental when selling on gear? Sold a few bits before but not been overly bothered before today!

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Just converting to Micro 4/3 (Olly E-PL5) as I'm fed up of carting the DSLR and associated gear up and down hills (OK, its my age too!)
Dreading selling my 40d and 70-200 L! I had to save up a long time to buy that lens and love it.
It will fit on the Olly, but it looks daft and defeats the point of getting lighter gear!
 
Las year I sold my 300d to a mate, and whilst I was boxing it up I got a bit like that. The daft thing is that the 300d had been an unused spare for the massive majority of it's life. And it's years since it was used at all.
 
When I sold my 300mm f/4 and 1.7TC a few months back to fund a D800 and 2x for my 70-200mm was heart breaking I must say, Miss the lens alot, but it was a change that had to be made as I'am looking at getting a larger lens in a few months!
 
Yeah, the D90 was getting naff all use and in truth I prefer my D800.......but it was my first proper camera and it gave me the bug!!
 
I think a lot of the nostalgia is coming from the fact that I can't re-invest my gains straight away into some of the new lenses I want!
 
I wish I had got to use a D700 - so many people speak SO highly of it.
 
Sir SR said:
I think a lot of the nostalgia is coming from the fact that I can't re-invest my gains straight away into some of the new lenses I want!
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So, so true! :plus1:
 
Nope but then I've never actually sold any camera gear...yeah I'm a bit of a hoarder

Now if we are talking about my much beloved 1977 Series 3 SWB CSW that went to the great scrap yard in the sky about 3 years ago after sitting un-used for about 4 years on my drive after a particularly bad MOT fail then yeah I feel your pain I had to actually leave the house for a hour and get somewhere else before it was towed away as I was more the a little sad :(
 
The death of my 40D choked me. It was my first proper DSLR and I lugged that big, solid beast everywhere.

If someone hadn't bought it as a repair job when it died I have no doubt it would have been buried in a shoebox at the bottom of the garden and marked with a wooden cross made of ice lolly sticks.

Seriously though, it's funny how we form such attachments to inanimate objects.
 
danny_bhoy said:
The death of my 40D choked me. It was my first proper DSLR and I lugged that big, solid beast everywhere.

If someone hadn't bought it as a repair job when it died I have no doubt it would have been buried in a shoebox at the bottom of the garden and marked with a wooden cross made of ice lolly sticks.

Seriously though, it's funny how we form such attachments to inanimate objects.
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I feel that way about my Son.
 
Gary Coyle said:
My D700 is sadly missed.
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Sir SR said:
I wish I had got to use a D700 - so many people speak SO highly of it.
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I still have two of them, love em to bits, but will happily part with them when the time is right, they are tools of the job. However, I have kept my first DSLR kit, a D70s complete with the 'mega' 18-70 kit lens. It/they gets used occasionally, mainly by the daughter, but its worth precious little and I really don't want to part company ;)
 
I sold a D700 and a D300 to fund a D3s and a D800, I think I cocked up to be honest.
 
Yv said:
I still have two of them, love em to bits, but will happily part with them when the time is right, they are tools of the job. However, I have kept my first DSLR kit, a D70s complete with the 'mega' 18-70 kit lens. It/they gets used occasionally, mainly by the daughter, but its worth precious little and I really don't want to part company ;)
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I did have the romantic notion that my now 7 year old would learn on the d90. But I figured money was best off in the bank as her interest waxes and wanes!
 
Sir SR said:
I like the sound of your current set up!!
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I`m just not getting the right results to be honest mate, could be me, could be getting used to the new kit, I dunno.

The dynamic range on the 800 is simply staggering, as is the ability to crop. The AF on the D3s is simply amazing. So It is me that is fault I fear, but i`ll sort it soon.
 
Know what you mean
I've never actually been able to bring myself to sell any of my kit partly because I don't upgrade that often so when I do get a new camera the old one isn't worth that much anyway
I've still got my first DSLR a 350D
 
I just pass on my gear (d300) to my wife and borrow it back when I need a crop sensor :-)
 
I've never got sentimental about camera kit but I've only sold on unloved or unused stuff, generally trading it in against something I'll use more. Been through a fair few cars but only really miss 2 of them (and would buy one of them back if I ever found it!), a Vauxhall Firenza (not droop snoot) and a '59 Frogeye (the one I'd buy back).
 
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I've never got sentimental about camera kit but I've only sold on unloved or unused stuff, generally trading it in against something I'll use more. Been through a fair few cars but only really miss 2 of them (and would buy one of them back if I ever found it!), a Vauxhall Firenza (not droop snoot) and a '59 Frogeye (the one I'd buy back).
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Had to look up the frog eye. Cracking little car! Looks like that would have been fun!
 
Yes, I know what you all mean; some years ago, I bought a Yashica mat 124G with matching wide and telephoto lenses all in their own leather cases and all contained in a custom Yashica leather carry case. It was superb.
I had it for quite some time, then in a fit of madness I sold it to a chap I new, who consequently was burgled, the Yashica was never seen again.
I have regretted selling it ever since. I feel as though I sold a child, I dream about it.
Does that indicate an underlying mental problem?

I feel oh so much better now I’ve talked about it.

Rhodese.
 
I still feel sad that I sold my lovely Pentax ME Super and lenses that I had owned from new since about 1981 when I mistakenly thought I'd never want to use it again.
 
Looks like I've just sold my film camera, which has been with me on many an adventure. Not an instant decision though, so I've had time to process any emotional as well as practical considerations.
 
Yep - I've parted with a couple bits of photographic kit, but not quite the D90. For whatever reason, it just didn't seem like the right thing to do - sell it on for maybe £200 or so, versus just letting it take an indefinite holiday with a friend who'd otherwise be stuck with just compacts.

(Dafter still, I can't easily part with a couple old PowerBooks - not worth anything at this point, but they're souvenirs nonetheless, markers of where I was at the time, and the people I was working with. If a machine can gain a soul, perhaps this is how)
 
On the plus side, I sold it to a friend who is a newbie to cameras (like I was when I got the D90). I ended up chucking in more than we'd agreed for because I want him to have as much fun with it as I did!

Just looking at the sigma 35 f1.4 art and nikon 16-35. Will be getting one of those two next month. Gosh that 35 looks good. I'm sure that will help me feel MUCH better ;-)
 
Porsupah said:
If a machine can gain a soul ...
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A machine is always just a machine, but I can tell that you know that! It's we who project significance and personality onto them, challenged creatures that we are.
 
droj said:
A machine is always just a machine, but I can tell that you know that! It's we who project significance and personality onto them, challenged creatures that we are.
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I disagree actually. Not that machines have souls... literally... of course they are just machines, but some machines are designed with passion and the soul of the designer is evident. Some machines move you emotionally... some don't. I don't think it's the viewer/owner themselves that project personality in all cases, I think its often the designer. Culturally, we share certain myths than mean we are receptive to various anthropomorphic traits, yes... you're right, but some machines project their own "personality" that has little to do with that. The sounds of a big American V8 always makes the hair on the back my my beck stand up. Always has. The first time I heard one I was a very small child, and apparently, according to my Dad I was enraptured by the noise and used to laugh like a loon when I heard one. I was around 18 months old, so no cultural conditioning there. They just sounds awesome.. it taps into something primeval.. something very base, languishing in my Amygdala. The same with the harmonic rich drone of a Merlin when a Spitfire or a P51 flies past... some machines are sensory experience that touches something visceral and base in us all. Some aren't. The hairs on the back of my neck do not stand up when I switch on my vacuum cleaner, or my Nissan Micra.


I wouldn't put a camera in that category though. Older ones maybe, but it's just us remembering happier times.... , but a digital camera is just a tool. I couldn't give a **** if I sold mine. They're all soulless electronic devices.
 
Older ones maybe, but it's just us remembering happier times....

You are so right….. I remember the film advance on the Voigtlander Vito B, it was so smooth so satisfying it it it, it was like ones first time with a maiden. Wunderbar pure heaven.

Rhodese.
 
Me! Someone is coming to pick up my first ever DSLR at some point today, hopefully(!?)... It hasn't been used in well over a year but I'm very sad!

I do still have my first ever camera though.. a great old Olympus OM1. That won't be going anywhere :)
 
I suspect David is right. Do I miss the d90 compared to the d800? Not a chance. It's the memories attached to it , learning about photography, taking pics of the kids when younger, weddings etc.

A lot of good memories with that camera!
 
I still very slightly wish I had my first boyhood camera, but only for the memories. When I trade up the present job (my first DSLR) I shall be very glad of the upgrade, since there have been a lot of other tools in between. Though I do slightly wonder why I'm hanging on to the Minolta 7000 that doesn't work any more...... ;)
 
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I too wish I'd hung on to my first camera (Agfa Sillette II) that I had as a boy in the 60's. It turned up when we were clearing my Dad's house after he passed away in 2010, but somehow it must have found its way into a box that went into the local landfill.
 
My first camera was a Zenit-E with a great big greasy thumb print on the pentaprism, presumably left there by some careless worker more concerned with fulfilling their quota than maintaining quality. It was a pile of poo and I don't miss it at all
 
I have for too much gear for this very reason, we (wife and I) both had D700's that were traded for a D800 (hated it and only made sense of it a couple of weeks later when it went back to the shop to be traded up for a D800E), there's no doubt the D800E is a better camera but I remember enjoying the D700 more

I had a 24/2.8 that I sold as it was never used, missed it so much I bought another, it never gets used

I have 2 Fuji S5's and a Fuji S3 that I often rave on about, they never get used

Got a nice collection of manual focus Nikon lenses, even chipped some of them so that they play nice with new cameras (so you don't need to program non-cpu lens data) and work perfectly in all modes on cameras like the D3xxx and D5xxx series, they never get used

Lots of studio gear, fair bit of stuff for making movies, and plenty of other gear, all never get used

I'm a sentimental and a hoarder - I think I need help
 
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