Camera you most regret selling...

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(not sure if there's a thread like this - I did search - nor if this is the right place!)

Mine, still, is the Fuji x100... I sold it a year ago this month! Every few days, I find myself looking through the flickr set of photos I took with the camera, looking at them for sale on ebay and actually want to cry!

Come April, when my last event where the "big camera" is needed, I'm selling it - I'd rather have the x100 back than the 5D. In the mean time, I've a few film cameras to photograph and get listed! Of course, I'd prefer the x100s now that it's out but I have to be realistic ;)

What about you?
 
I did regret (at the time) selling my D200 around 4 years ago...that was a great camera but I can't say I regret it now as i'm in the fuji camp using an X-E1 and I love it. Yes, the image quality is fantastic but it's the whole way the camera works, very intuitive.
 
My Olympus OM10 way back when I just graduated, but mainly because it marked a log hiatus in my photography where food and family took priority over the luxuries!
I'd saved up for and bought the OM10 as a kid after years of using 110 format cameras, and it was with me for a good few years.
 
I'm really sad I parted with my Nikon F4s the Zenith of 35mm cameras. Auto focusing just starting to creep in but it was noisy. That was way back in the late 80's. I saved really hard for that camera and photographed some amazing people with it.

Incidentally, I have missed the physical knobs and dials so much that I recently considered getting the new Nikon DF but I have opted for a Fuji FT1 instead due to its size.
 
Mine is actually a lens, Nikon 80-200mm 2.8 AF-S, bought it from a little shop that massively undervalued it, eventually sold it (for a profit) to buy a Sigma 120-300mm 2.8, which I always regretted. Even though the motorsport/zoo pictures I took with it are now 6 years old I've never bettered them.
 
For me. Rolleiflex 3.5e. I part x'd for a GX680. Used it twice, still got it.
Ought to get round to selling it.
 
Yashica Mat (G if memory serves me correctly) TLR 120 film camera. It wasnt paricularly "fast" to use, or that easy, but its lens produced some lovely images. P/ex to buy Canon 50E EOS film camera with kit lens, camera was ok but the lens was rubbish, put me off photography for years, thought I couldnt focus properly (even though it had eye control focusing, you might need to Google that - still have the camera), all the time it was down to the rubbish kit lens. If I hadnt sold the Yashica I would have continued photographing stuff. Finally got back to photography with a digital SLR a few years ago.
Matt
 
Furtim said:
My Olympus OM10 way back when I just graduated, but mainly because it marked a log hiatus in my photography where food and family took priority over the luxuries!
I'd saved up for and bought the OM10 as a kid after years of using 110 format cameras, and it was with me for a good few years.
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OM10 for me too. After that I went to a Nikon with AF and I lost my appetite / ability a bit. For some reason I felt I was a better photographer with the Olympus. May also have been the cost of developing film made me think harder about my shots!
 
5DMkI. Although I really like the 100D that I replaced it with (as my second camera) because it's more feature heavy in the direction that I need, it just *isn't* full frame. And I really miss that big, beautiful viewfinder.
 
I have always regretted selling cameras....,
So I have stopped doing it.
 
<--------- That one...The one that first got me into sports photography.. In my avatar.. the Olympus c2100 uz (the oozy) Should have kept so I can say.. this is where the journey began.. But at the time needed to sell to get a canon 10d .. oh hum..
 
Fuji ST605N, 35mm SLR, although I did move onto something 'better' when I sold it I always liked and missed the Fuji, it just felt 'right'. I think I probably took some of my better photos with it, certainly enjoyed the experience more, it was pretty much fully manual so very involving. Still use a Pentax MX for film which I love but got some fond memories of the ST605N.
 
Panasonic LC1 , fantastic camera . Amazing lens on that camera . I replaced it with something far worse that I was told was better.
 
Mine wasn't a sale as such, I swapped a 60D for a 7D as I wanted a better AF system, which in fairness I did get, but that was the only better thing I got. I really wish I'd never bothered, the photos I got from the 60D seemed much better to me in every way and my 60D was far better in low light than the 7D I got (nothing wrong with the 7D though, it was in great condition) and I was just being greedy as I already had a 5D3 with a brilliant AF system anyway. I part ex'd the 7D for a 70D last year and I'm thrilled with the 70D, there's no way I'm selling that or my 5D3 for the foreseeable future.
 
fudge said:
Panasonic LC1 , fantastic camera . Amazing lens on that camera . I replaced it with something far worse that I was told was better.
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i used one of these on 3 trips abroad in 2008 & it was great. i didn't regret selling one but i miss not jumping on it in 2009 when my buddy offered it to me for £300!
he sold it a week later for £550.
i did buy the Leica branded version in 2011 but i don't nearly use it enough.
Yes the Vario Summicron lens is amazing :plus1:

and to the guy who sold his D200, they are cheap as chips now if you wanted another ;)

i tend to not sell anything nowadays & seem to be building a bit of a collection :rolleyes:
 
Hi, Without a doubt my "Mamiya C330 Outfit". Still my favorite camera for weddings & studio portraits.
 
Jackwow said:
Never regretted selling any of my cameras. Always got something better.
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This with the exception of the time I sold my Canon 1D MkII and MkIIN and bought 2 Canon 1D MkIIIs.

:arghh::arghh::arghh::arghh::arghh::arghh:
 
My Nikon FM traded in for a bag of electrickery and wizardry called the EOS 650 (the original one)
 
I guess it must be my very first 35mm camera which my mother bought me as a present,it was the the Russian built copy of the Contax rangefinder the Kiev 4 with a razor sharp 50mm f2.0 lens.
I shot my very first roll of transparency film with it in the early 60s Kodak Kodachrome II 25 asa 20exp.
Still have the pictures stored some where with thousands of others I have taken over the years before going digital.
I have since picked up another one but it doesn't hold the same sentimental value as the the original one I owned.
 
I've never sold a camera. I can't remember what happened to a few of them - they probably got lost during various moves - but I still have several in storage. I do, sometimes, regret throwing out a perfectly serviceable Olympus 35RC and the matching flash unit though. I just thought I'd never use it again, and that there wasn't any point in hanging on to it. Doesn't really matter though. They're not rare or expensive, and I could get another one if I really wanted to.
 
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Nikon F3
 
A Hasselblad 501C which I won in a Photo Answers comp many years ago, I was on hard times and needed a car and the 501C was valuable at the time so had to go.
 
To be honest I've not sold on any of my camera's I tend to keep them a while and rack up quite a high shutter count so don't bother to sell them
I thoght about selling my 40D when I got the 7D but the shutter count was 67K so thought that it would put people off even though it was in perfect condition
 
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I had an analog Contax DSLR almost 30 yeas ago, I forget the model name, which my first wife took with her (unrightfully) when she moved out. I asked her to give it back but she started whining about not having the money to buy one, so I left it to her, and bought another specimen of that same Contax model - but the IQ never reached the level of the first one. I even sent it to Contax for checking, and they said everything is ok, but the IQ just lacked as compared to the first specimen. That pretty much made me lose the fun with photography (I'd been quite an enthusiast at the time), because I also didn't have enough money to buy yet another camera. I kept using the camera for vacation trips, and if I look at the images now, the IQ is not bad at all. But it took almost 30 before I bought another camera and started going down the 'enthusiast' route a bit again...
 
Toxic said:
A Hasselblad 501C which I won in a Photo Answers comp many years ago, I was on hard times and needed a car and the 501C was valuable at the time so had to go.
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You did what you had to do. Don't regret it. Cameras are really just "stuff", and selling it let you buy something that was more important at the time. I've been in the same position.
 
People do get very attached to their cameras. One RAF photographer I know was so attached to his Hasselblad that he purchased it from the MoD when he left.


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Blank_Canvas said:
People do get very attached to their cameras. One RAF photographer I know was so attached to his Hasselblad that he purchased it from the MoD when he left.
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Yes, I know, but there are times when we just have to do whatever is necessary.

We had a Siamese cat many years ago. He had an accident when he was a kitten, and the vet warned us it could be very serious. He suggested euthanasia, and said he'd require a large deposit if we wanted to try and save him. We were broke and had no credit facilities, so my wife took off her engagement ring - an expensive solitaire diamond - and put it on the table. She told him to take it, and sell it if we couldn't pay, but to do what he could for the cat. She was crying when we left the surgery, for the kitten not the damn ring. Luckily he made it, lived for a long time after that, and it didn't cost as much as we feared it was going to.
 
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I traded in my Contax G2 kit against a D300. I had the full complement of Zeiss lenses, except for the 16mm/f8 Hologon and the 35-70mm Vario-Sonnar zoom. It's not that I miss shooting film. Those lenses were verging on optical perfection and nowadays can used as MF lenses with adapters on other bodies.

And I too sold a Fuji X100 to a mate. Immediate seller's remorse after that one.
 
chromatin64 said:
And I too sold a Fuji X100 to a mate. Immediate seller's remorse after that one.
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I still think about that stupid camera every day haha. I sold it because my mum got cancer and I needed to move to a 2 bedroom place so I could look after her - the camera selling paid for the deposit! Wish I'd sold another camera though! (n)
 
toadstool said:
I still think about that stupid camera every day haha. I sold it because my mum got cancer and I needed to move to a 2 bedroom place so I could look after her - the camera selling paid for the deposit! Wish I'd sold another camera though! (n)
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You know what, that puts everything into perspective. Looking after your Mum was so much more important. What a really nice thing to do. Posts like this restore your faith in human kindness. I hope you get another one soon :-)
 
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