Dump it !!! .... or maybe chicken out.
Dec 4, 2023 07:54:55 #
Dec 4, 2023 09:24:15 #
Uturn
Loc: Snellville, GA
Worst mistake I made selling my RB 67 and lenses
Thought about buying another but the cost from KEH was much more than I could stand
Thought about buying another but the cost from KEH was much more than I could stand
Dec 4, 2023 09:53:47 #
User ID wrote:
So its gifting season, and some of us will also ge... (show quote)
The day after you throw away an old relic is the day you find out that you absolutely need it now.
Dec 4, 2023 10:21:15 #
User ID wrote:
In many such cases the arrival of a new whizbang machine should spell adios for some seldom used relic that we havent yet kicked to the curb ... "out of kindness I suppose".
still functional but quite neglected old relic that has just hung around..
still functional but quite neglected old relic that has just hung around..
I think my wife would describe me as a "still functional but quite neglected old relic that has just hung around"
Dec 4, 2023 10:44:47 #
User ID wrote:
Okaaay Hawgz ! Step right up and Fess Up ! Itz good for the soul and good for the biome. Time to cleanse your soul and spill your gutz.
My flawed plan is: "Is it worth putting on eBay?"
If YES, do it. But I often can't find the time.
If NO, donate it.
Case in point: I have two 14MP Fuji bridge cameras with zooms from wide to either 250mm (equiv) or 500mm.
I see them for $25 -or best offer. By the time eBay/PayPal gets a cut, I box it up and haul to UPS, it is not worth my time.
However, my old 1970's lenses was a different story. But selling something for $25 is a waste of time.
Donate the stuff. The charity may only sell it for $3, but it gets used and is not ewasted.
Dec 4, 2023 11:27:01 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
I have stuff that I got because I was gonna use it and haven’t used it yet but still maybe gonna use it.
Dec 4, 2023 11:29:01 #
gvarner wrote:
I have stuff that I got because I was gonna use it and haven’t used it yet but still maybe gonna use it.
Oh! You have a Lytro too!!!
[Joke]
Dec 4, 2023 11:30:42 #
lamiaceae wrote:
I have a Argus fixed focus 6x6cm (620 Format) film... (show quote)
If you have or can find any 620 spools, you can respool 120 film onto the 620 spools since the film is identical between the two.
Dec 4, 2023 11:40:29 #
User ID wrote:
So its gifting season, and some of us will also ge... (show quote)
“Six SLRs”? I purchased my most recent DSLR five years ago!! Before that, I had two fail and get dumped. Before that was compact camera I gave my daughter because she had broken hers. I’d have to go back into my Film Era to find a sixth camera.
Dec 4, 2023 12:37:16 #
sgt hop
Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md
Warhorse wrote:
I have a lot of hobby "stuff" and not just camera's that I play with. My interests in these hobby's come and go, so therefore I tend to keep my stuff.
same here...gotta load of stuff.....
Dec 4, 2023 13:12:38 #
I am almost through with all my Christmas painting orders and next week I am cleaning out a ton of things to give to the mission. Maybe someone will search in there and find something they can use.
Dec 4, 2023 14:08:56 #
I've got a Panasonic TG 5 that I've had for a few years. It takes great pics but, I've only used it once underwater. And then I've got a Lumix LX7. Also a great little camera, but I never use it anymore. What else? Oh yeah my Nikon FA that I bought new. I like the looks of it , so I just keep it around along with an old Nikon EM. Then I have my bookends: a Brownie 6-16 and an Eastman-Kodak bellows camera. I've got a lot more stuff...maybe it's time to get rid of it. Thank you User ID. Ava still uses the Sony A6000 we purchased from you a while back.
Dec 4, 2023 15:29:38 #
User ID wrote:
So its gifting season, and some of us will also ge... (show quote)
MY Nikkormatt FTn with a 50mm f2,0 nikkor lens.was my high school graduation present from my parents in 1972. Will never part with that camera. still in good shape, but have to use it without the meter.
Dec 4, 2023 16:48:23 #
Lost Again
Loc: Middle of nowhere Oregon
User ID wrote:
So its gifting season, and some of us will also ge... (show quote)
Ironic you bring this up at this time as I have been purging stuff [ notice I didn't say junk], out of my machine shop for the last two months. I have been finding things I lost eighteen years ago. The problem with being a tool maker is you save everything. The other problem is that I lost my shop ethics [always clean up at the end of the workday] when I retired. I found fixtures I made to adapt nd filters to my 800,400 and 200-400 lens that worked well but I never used in the field. The wife and I are very happy, but our Pack Rat tenants are starting to organize. Most of my old equipment I sold as I upgraded. Now that I'm older and with a change of heart I wish I would have donated it to a youth organization seeing now how tough it is for folks these days. Some of this old equipment you all are talking about may not be useable today but might be a memory heirloom you may want to pass down to family members. I still have my mother's belly dancing outfits she wore when she performed and a ball from her softball team. It' nice to look at them once in awhile.
Dec 4, 2023 16:58:17 #
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
I still have a Petri FT, two Pentax K1000 (one is a SE). I also have a few extra lenses and other accessories for them. I should include I have a manual wind regular (double) 8mm movie camera, non functional and cannot find movie film for it. That I keep for sentimental reasons, it was my father's and I lost him 57 years ago.
Have you checked eBay for some of that 79's gear values? It's "been discovered," especially the lenses, by the bokeh crowd.
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