Cmeras I still have: >That's out of about 9 cameras I still have. My desk in my home ffice has a BIG drawer. It's full of cameras, Canon and Nikon, dunno how many. And maybe an old...

Harry13

>That's out of about 9 cameras I still have.

My desk in my home ffice has a BIG drawer. It's full of cameras, Canon and Nikon, dunno how many. And maybe an old Voightlander (I bought one through the PX in Korea many years ago.) I've given away a few cameras, never sold one. Just consign them to that drawer. :-) I have one Canon that I use once in a while. Harry

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

I know the feeling"I should get rid of what I have but don't use. Then again. . . maybe. "One never knows, do one." Fats Waller

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

Sometimes it’s just fun to have things. You don’t need to use them or have a reasonable cause to own them. I like kerosene (or coal oil as we called it when I was a kid) lamps. A storm hasn’t caused the lights to go out in a long time, meaning I haven’t needed to use them for years but I just like the glass, the reflections and the shapes and sizes of the chimneys. Not everything you do has to be sensible or have a legitimate purpose.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Harry13 wrote:

>That's out of about 9 cameras I still have.

My desk in my home ffice has a BIG drawer. It's full of cameras, Canon and Nikon, dunno how many. And maybe an old Voightlander (I bought one through the PX in Korea many years ago.) I've given away a few cameras, never sold one. Just consign them to that drawer. :-) I have one Canon that I use once in a while. Harry

I never keep a camera over 5 years. Keeps my inventory and cost of special insurance lower.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I have an Agfa Optima, Miranda Sensorex, a Minox C, and Nikon F Photomic. I don't use them, but they were my first good cameras, so I'm holding onto them. Otherwise, when I buy a new camera, I sell my current one. I'm at that point now where I have to decide if I want to sell a couple of Nikons.

leftj Loc: Texas

Harry13 wrote:

>That's out of about 9 cameras I still have.

My desk in my home ffice has a BIG drawer. It's full of cameras, Canon and Nikon, dunno how many. And maybe an old Voightlander (I bought one through the PX in Korea many years ago.) I've given away a few cameras, never sold one. Just consign them to that drawer. :-) I have one Canon that I use once in a while. Harry

Put em up for sale.

Warhorse Loc: SE Michigan

It's all good, keep 'em for nostalgia, collection purposes, or sell what you don't use anymore, and use the funds for whatever new interests that you want to get into. After all has been said and done, it's a free country (somewhat), enjoy yourself.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Warhorse wrote:

It's all good, keep 'em for nostalgia, collection purposes, or sell what you don't use anymore, and use the funds for whatever new interests that you want to get into. After all has been said and done, it's a free country (somewhat), enjoy yourself.

I have a Pentax “Super Program” I purchased in 1983 that I still use B&W film with - lots of fun {that was the reason for purchasing it in the first place}.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

Warhorse wrote:

It's all good, keep 'em for nostalgia, collection purposes, or sell what you don't use anymore, and use the funds for whatever new interests that you want to get into. After all has been said and done, it's a free country (somewhat), enjoy yourself.

When I traded and donated my film equipment, I very reluctantly let both my OM-1n and OM-2n go. But I kept my OM-2s. The cameras I let go were actually nicer cameras, but they require S76 batteries, no longer available. The newer OM-2s uses A76 (alkaline) batteries through an internal voltage regulator. Those batteries are available everywhere. But the shutter, which I recall as being capable of higher speeds, sounds like a D850 shutter instead of like a fine watch (like the shutters in the cameras I let go).

The other camera I can't let go of is my D200...my first really good digital camera. There's no reason to keep it, except that I really like its CCD sensor sometimes.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Harry13 wrote:

>That's out of about 9 cameras I still have.

My desk in my home ffice has a BIG drawer. It's full of cameras, Canon and Nikon, dunno how many. And maybe an old Voightlander (I bought one through the PX in Korea many years ago.) I've given away a few cameras, never sold one. Just consign them to that drawer. :-) I have one Canon that I use once in a while. Harry

Collecting various cameras, brands, types etc. can be fun. We most all like to collect various things. I have found that collecting old slr cameras can be a very cheap hobby, I look for a model that interests me, hopefully working but as long as the body is in good shape and the price is right for me, eg cheap, I will likely get it as I will be very unlikely to ever use it. If I want a film experience my F-1 does it all in a superior body built like a tank.
Otherwise they are fun to look at.

pj81156 Loc: St. Petersburg, FL

For me as a hobbiest photographer, I love the feel of a fine camera in my hands. To me the OM4, the OM1n, the Minolta XE-7 are among the fine machines. My original, the Lordomat C35 is also among them. Especially when looking through the finders. I have never held a digital camera that gave me the same feeling, and I have had many digital cameras. That’s part of the reason I shoot more film than digital.

charles brown Loc: Tennesse

Harry13 wrote:

>That's out of about 9 cameras I still have.

My desk in my home ffice has a BIG drawer. It's full of cameras, Canon and Nikon, dunno how many. And maybe an old Voightlander (I bought one through the PX in Korea many years ago.) I've given away a few cameras, never sold one. Just consign them to that drawer. :-) I have one Canon that I use once in a while. Harry

Thinks that's bad, just talk to an old fisherman. Ask him how many rods and reels he has bought over the years that he still has.

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

bikinkawboy wrote:

Not everything you do has to be sensible or have a legitimate purpose.

Thank you, I've needed to have an answer to my wife about why I keep certain things.

flycaster Loc: Lake Bluff, IL

I have an Argus C-3 (non-functioning), and a very old Kodak 2A box camera. My dad worked assembling the Kodak in Rochester when he was a teenager.

Chuck

49lucian

Ask my wife and she'll say I have a gazillion cameras. 35MM - Yashica 109, Ricoh KR10 my fav, Olympus automatic of some sort, 2 Canon EOS, Petri Compu35 (it's a point and shoot with an almost silent shutter. Medium Format: Yashica124G, SeaGull, 2-Mamiya Press, RB-67, Fuji 6x7. My lady says were camera poor in the film years and the digital years have only made it a lot worse.