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Camera bags and camera backpacks and camera messenger bags... the ideal bag which I just had to order on the internet ... and it just wasn't perfect ... but returning it was too much of a hassle ... or I waited too long... and who wants to buy a used bag for any reasonable percentage of what I paid for it? So I keep them thinking that someday I will use them.
 
in order from used "now and then" ,followed by hardly and then never.

45mm tilt shift

150mm macro

spare ff body

heavy duty arca swiss ball head, flex cable,wiggly manfrotto tripod w/horizontal boom

fuji xpro1 kit w 3 lenses

monopod, quartz hot lights, mini tripods, flash meter, exposure meter, most of my camera bags,canvas backdrop, coloured backdrops
 
Loads loads I blame it on impulse buying. From cheap crap like filters and light modifiers to expensive lenses. I have a sigma 17-50mm 2.8. Never used it still in box. Tripods gathering dust. Boxes of filters. I am now holding of on godox and magmod systems. Its most likely going to end in the garage gathering dust. GAS is real.
 
Monopods and a bean bag.
 
Least used would be a FF camera, because I don't even own one.
 
I bought an IR transmitting filter (blocks visible light, passes IR) and experimented with it. My cameras all have a strong IR cut filter on the sensor, which diminishes the usefulness of the filter I bought :(

I also have a set of closeup filters (1,2,4 diopters) and a nice APO 5 diopter. I've had some success with interesting macro shots of flowers and bugs, but I don't do much of that anymore so the filters are languishing. I might try again sometime (summer is coming), so who knows?

Since moving to a FF camera, my only APS lens (16-50/2.8) does not get much use. I have a few "special use" lenses that don't get much use (as my description implies), but I bought them knowing I would not be using them often. When I do (and I do, in fact, do), I am reminded of why they are special :)
 
Flowchart said:
We all buy things that "might come in handy" or possibly things we think would be used often...

I'm excluding vintage camera gear sitting on the shelf.
For me it has the 2x teleconverter I bought for my telezoom; sure it's neat but...
followed by my speedlight.
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Since I made a switch to mirrorless, I've used my DSLRs 1 time in the past 9 months. Mainly for time lapse to run down the batteries.

I'm hoping for a clear night sky to take out the DSLRs to shoot some Milky Way. But it's been cloudy and windy all year.
 
Those thick heavy neck straps with the camera company advertisement on them. They are thick and irritating around the neck and take up too much space in the case. I have not even unwrapped the last 5 that came with camera. I simply use a small wrist strap - handy, secure, light and takes up little space in the case.
 
Bobthearch said:
35mm f/1.8

I never travel with it and rarely use it. I don't even care for the focal length, which is already covered by my kit zoom anyway.
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Funnily enough I put mine up for sale just yesterday, having used it once in about four years.
 
Everything I DO NOT OWN because I don't need it ;P
 
No doubt ---my Panasonic Lumix FZ200, with flash, remote cord, etc. Got it because I wanted something lightweight with a fast lens But I've been a Nikon user for 40 years and am so used to the handling of the D90, D3300 and D7xxx series that I just can' t get used to this camera. The menu controls are a bit dodgy at least to me. The images were pretty good, but the camera is almost never used. I am thinking of selling it.
 
Vintage manual focus Nikkor 35-135mm. Actually I am a Canon user. I was told that this was a great lens for IR photo. But it is so difficult to guess whether it is in focus or not on Canon DSLR. You can only try to see the outcome on your camera screen or on your computer after going home. So after a few use I was tired of this. And I found that even with a meticulous manual focusing the optical quality wasn't that great for IR photo. It was actually much better in color photography.
From this I learned that "what is good for someone might not always be true for me".
 
Twist 60 petzval lens. It's a specialty lens there aren't a ton of occasions where it's unique rendering is useful, though it's a great lens to have for those where it is.
 
And I have two with nice ball heads on them. While I admit they can contribute greatly, they never seem to get much use.
 
My external flash is what i’ve been using the least
 
bathgate said:
I got a bit of gear to attach to a car window to mount a bullhead for long lens shooting from the car. Figured it would be good for wildlife. Haven't used it once. Planning a trip now to Yellowstone and Glacier NPs, so maybe it will get a workout.

Got a monopod that I think I've used once in 10 years.

A few lenses that turned out to be duds but still sit here.
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Flowchart said:
We all buy things that "might come in handy" or possibly things we think would be used often...

I'm excluding vintage camera gear sitting on the shelf.
For me it has the 2x teleconverter I bought for my telezoom; sure it's neat but...
followed by my speedlight.
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My phones :-D
 
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