Camera you most regret selling?

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Might have been asked for before, but I've found myself pining for my old Rocoh GR1 lately - sold around 2009 as I wasn't using it. Had it from new, travelled all over with it and can't even remember what I did with the money I got for it!

Anyone else have that they wish they hadn't sold?
 
I regret selling my Contax 167MT, always on the lookout for a decent replacement one too.
 
Not sure really... Probably my F5. Trying desperately not to sell my RB67 to fund a new purchase. I think selling that would be my biggest regret.

Also my FM2n to Joxby... He's a camera smasher he is! ;)
 
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They'll have to pry my RB67 from my cold dead hands...
 
This is the thing... The value in money is not worth the regret. It's the camera that got me fully hooked on film photography.
 
Canon EOS 3 for me. I really liked the eye-control focus point selection.
 
Rolleiflex 3.5F, a long time ago, didn't get that much for it given the price they command today! The folly of youth!
 
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Voigtlander R3a and Nokton 40mm...really miss it. It was and still is from what I've seen from Richard's shots a lovely little camera to use and they lens is super sharp.

Andy
 
Nikon F2. I wasn't using it, and it helped to fund my Rolleiflex - but I had to buy another one very quickly! Amazing how some cameras just have that charm on you.
 
Tele-Rolleiflex and SL66 cos they are worth some money now.
 
Fuji GA645. Sold a few months ago to fund another camera (although I can't remember which one!). I still look at the negatives from it and realise it's blown away any other MF camera I've shot with :0(
 
I have absolutely NO regrets (about cameras). The ones I gave away or sold just didn't do what I wanted (needed) them to do. And it all happened slowly over a long time-scale - I'm hardly promiscuous by this register.
 
yeah, that FM2 is the camera I most regret smashing, that was a dark day that was..:'(


I regretted selling my Mam 6 so much, I bought the thing back..lol
 
Only ever sold one camera, a Lubitel 166B, 20 years ago at a car boot sale for about the same as I paid for it about 10 years earlier. No regrets at all, It was pants. Keep thinking I should sell the FM2n, since I don't use it, but just couldn't.

Could do with selling some camera bags though.
 
My OM2sp and a few lenses as I gave up photography as i had to decide that and mountain bike racing due to cost when i had a young family.


I am still sulking.
 
I don't regret selling any of my cameras, probably because I've kept many of them.

The only one I have a definite attachment to is the T90 because I spent ages looking for one in the days before ebay, trawling camera shops until I found one complete with 50mm f/1.4 a couple of days before I was due to fly to Sydney for 6 months. That camera came everywhere with me and over the years I've built up quite a collection of FD lenses, some of which are still among the sharpest I've used.

I really need to start using it properly again, which will probably only happen once I downsize my collection of other cameras like I keep saying I will. Doesn't help that t'missus picked up a parcel for me this morning which I think is the M42 camera I mentioned I was looking for elsewhere. :whistling:
 
My biggest regret was selling my loved F5 :'(
We spent many hours together, for me this was a perfect camera

Martin
 
The T90 is a very good camera and plenty of non working ones going cheap, because they weren't used and the shutter stuck.....I often thought of a hobby of buying them cheap and playing with them to get them working.
Other small fun:- I also have four.. BT 2wire modems (better than other consumer modems) cos I like getting them for £1 with power supply and getting them working to plusnet.........no one wants them as not many people how to re-program them :)
 
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But how many BT 2wire modems can one man need or use?
 
haven't sold it yet but all my large format gear will be going in a few weeks. I love it to bits but its just too heavy to tramp around hill walking with, when you're too knackered to take it out and set it all up then its pointless having it in the bag.

I need it to do an assignment for my OCA course but once that's done, its going.
 
Hi, My "Mamiya C330 Outfit" and my "Nikon F2 Body".
 
I love my C330, superb quality camera and lenses. Won't be selling that one in a hurry.
 
It's between my Mamiya 7 and lenses or my first Oly OM4Ti which I bought here.
It goes to the OM4Ti which was mint and I was in my "working through different makes and models" phase. I didn't really know how to use half of its functionality but I'll never get one as good for anywhere near the same money.
Why not the Mamiya 7 kit? It's a rangefinder and eventually, quite quickly I bore of rangies. It's just me, I know.
 
Contax G1 with CZ 28mm biogon. What a beauty but I never used it at the time. I really pine for one now but on the upside I have the excuse that I could now just go for a G2 instead :P

Only ever sold other cameras that haven't had much use from me, I've kept most of the ones I've used!
 
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But how many BT 2wire modems can one man need or use?
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It's the fun of making something useable and GAS, anyway my previous Linksys stopped working and Netgear kept dropping my connection.
 
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The T90 is a very good camera and plenty of non working ones going cheap, because they weren't used and the shutter stuck.....I often thought of a hobby of buying them cheap and playing with them to get them working.
Other small fun:- I also have four.. BT 2wire modems (better than other consumer modems) cos I like getting them for £1 with power supply and getting them working to plusnet.........no one wants them as not many people how to re-program them :)
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Well my T90 went the way of all the others out there and just screams 'EEE', so if you ever work out how to fix 'em let me know please. I've tried the battery in/out and bash on the carpet.

I too was very pleased to get a 99p BT Home Hub and switch it over to my ISP by means of its USB port. Shame I had to move to a house so far away from the exchange that the only option was cable. :(
 
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Well my T90 went the way of all the others out there and just screams 'EEE', so if you ever work out how to fix 'em let me know please. I've tried the battery in/out and bash on the carpet.

I too was very pleased to get a 99p BT Home Hub and switch it over to my ISP by means of its USB port. Shame I had to move to a house so far away from the exchange that the only option was cable. :(
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The last 2wire modem I bought for £1 (about a month ago) had a port for fibre optics...but had a sticker over it saying "do not remove" ?

You might be unlucky with your T90 as what I have read:- some rubber (or whatever) in near\part of the shutter mechanism, can go gooey (sticky)...with this problem there is no hope.
Interesting to know the difference between the later EF models, as would have thought it used the same basic shutter.
 
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Probably a Pentax MX but for sentimental reasons.
 
I've never sold a film camera - haven't really owned that many - but I sort of regret throwing out my Olympus 35C and the matching flash unit when we were having a clear out a few years ago. I bought the camera new in Hong Kong in the 70s, but hadn't used it for years and didn't think I ever would again, so it went in the bin. A mistake, and a bit impulsive.
 
Yes, I very much regret giving my Werra 1 to a charity shop. My first ever 35mm camera, compact, quirky and a nice sharp lens too.
 
excalibur2 said:
The T90 is a very good camera and plenty of non working ones going cheap, because they weren't used and the shutter stuck.....I often thought of a hobby of buying them cheap and playing with them to get them working.
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It's quite easy to release a stuck shutter on a T90. Put in a set of decent batteries, hold down the shutter release and give the camera a sharp bang on a carpeted floor, that releases the stuck shutter, this has always worked for me.

I let off a couple of dozen shutter actuations about once a month (without film loaded) when not in use and find this keeps everything running smoothly.
 
The guy who repaired my T90 told me there are two potential causes for the stuck shutter; dirt on the magnets or the microswitch dying. The former is more common and a thump will often free it off but it really needs cleaning. The latter requires a replacement and these days they only come from other dead cameras.

That's what he said when mine took 3 months to come back, anyway.
 
My Contax 167MT that I had to sell to go digital. I think I got about £90.00 or less for it with the stunning crisp and clear Zeiss 50mm on the front of it. Very sad times indeed :(
 
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