No value to 35mm film cameras?
May 19, 2015 08:36:19 #
camerapapi wrote:
Digital is the media right now. I like film but it... (show quote)
Get a Freestyle Catalog, it has a lot of film for sale including all the brands you referred to. Ilford is still Ilford. The old Agfa is gone but the brand name is still being used, etc.
May 19, 2015 08:39:10 #
pterosonus wrote:
Just an example of how hard it is to get any money... (show quote)
I still own and occasionally use three Pentax film cameras. I use the lenses on my digital cameras as well. I shoot 4x5" Sheet film still at times. 95% digital.
May 19, 2015 08:43:06 #
I still have my Canon T-70, which I bought when I was on a remote tour in Greece back in the 80's. I have several FD lenses with it. I doubt I could get $50 for the whole thing, but I still want to get it out one of these days and shoot some film. It was one of Canon's first attempts as a "Computerized" camera and in it's day was a pretty capable little camera.
May 19, 2015 08:44:26 #
jerryc41 wrote:
He'd never been to a playground? :D
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May 19, 2015 08:51:35 #
chazz4623
Loc: Prairieville, La
I'd like to get on one of those lists for people who are throwing away perfectly good older film cameras and eqpt. I might even go for a darkroom set up, like I always wanted to have and never could afford. If a few folks keep it alive, and dont think storage space is worth more than a camera that works well in a medium not so popular anymore, maybe it will survive in a niche of some kind. These are beautiful items if only for display, so....
May 19, 2015 08:51:42 #
NJphotodoc wrote:
If think it is hard to sell film cameras, try to get rid of a darkroom! Have a Beseler Dichro 67 with easels, color analyzer, tanks, timers, etc. Could not even donate it to the local college. Everything is sitting in my former darkroom (now just storage space) if only for sentimental reasons
I still use mine on occasion. Not as much as I used to but everything is still in like new condition. Beseler 23CII( series 2) -XL Dichro (Color) Enlarger. I will never get back what I paid for it but it is surely a beauty. I think I would trade it all for something else photographic. Also have some vintage cameras all work and in very good condition. It is too bad I dont get to shoot & develop as much anymore
May 19, 2015 09:25:18 #
We, unfortunately, live in a disposable world. Technology is moving so rapidly that most things are well on their way to obsolescence before we get them home. I also have a small collection of film cameras with little or no value. I moved to digital many years ago and Photoshop in the early 1990's. I would never go back to film. However, I do admit that Velvia and Kodachrome 25 were amazing.
May 19, 2015 09:36:13 #
I am thinking of creating a Nikon museum and charging a fee to see it!
May 19, 2015 09:53:45 #
NJphotodoc
Loc: Now in the First State
If think it is hard to sell film cameras, try to get rid of a darkroom! Have a Beseler Dichro 67 with easels, color analyzer, tanks, timers, etc. Could not even donate it to the local college. Everything is sitting in my former darkroom (now just storage space) if only for sentimental reasons
May 19, 2015 10:09:16 #
35 mm bodies are not worth much. But a lot of the old lenses have value because they will work with digital bodies with adapters. I researched selling my SRT-101 lenses, and they were selling for $50 to $100 each on eBay. In the end, I couldn't see giving them away for that. Instead, I bought a Sony A6000 and I'm happily shooting manual when I'm feeling nostalgic. The A6000 has focus peaking and focus magnifier which makes manual focusing very easy.
May 19, 2015 10:35:07 #
balticvid
Loc: Queens now NJ
WereWolf1967 wrote:
Don't feel bad. I'm getting rid of my entire Leica "R" collection & am taking a major hit.
I suggest you do some homework. Leica cameras and lenses are worth some $$$$.
The lenses for the M series fit the digital Leicas.
I don't know about the R lenses.
From what I understand adapters are made to fit
different camera bodies.
May 19, 2015 10:47:56 #
maverickk41
Loc: Farmington New Mexico
I still have my canon AE-1 and a canon rebel t2 both have film in them and I do shoot them once in a while. I do have access to a full darkroom at my local college so it cuts down on the cost of developing the film and I do enjoy developing film only drawback you don't know what you have until you hit the darkroom. By the way I love the hog some mighty good information to be found here.
May 19, 2015 10:55:01 #
well still trying to get rid of my Omega B & D... they come with free coffee....and anything else you feel like carrying up the stairs...sigh and I think I have a weeks pay into the 4x5 SS tank (holds 12 cut film),daylite...
May 19, 2015 11:23:19 #
Ranjan
Loc: Currently Cyber-Nation!
Mike N wrote:
Try getting something for a 5 - 10 year old digital.
OUCH...!
CP 8400, once a flagship (8MB) :-(
The camera trading guy almost laughed in my face.
MAAAN...! Did it ever hurt... <sigh>
May 19, 2015 11:24:02 #
actually if you look at the prices keh charges, you will find that the old mechanical bodies and mf lenses get preety god amounts. it is only the automatic film cameras that are not worth anything. for example 8 years ago I bought a Nikon n-90 35mm slr from adorama for $90. at one time it was #2 in n ikons lineup. Now I can find them selling for under $10. Because of the wide nspread of using video in a dslr, manual focus lemses value is increasing. any Nikon equipment let me know
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