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I Wish I Never Sold It!

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Hike Pics said:
Not camera gear but music gear...

1978 Fender Strat

1980s Fender Stage Lead amp

1970s Univox Super Fuzzz pedal

1970s Yamaha solid acoustic guitar (unknown model)

1970s The Sweeper pedal

1970s Fender Champ

I would gladly trade ALL my photo gear to have these back!! Or really, any ONE of these back!
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I got into photography properly 2 decades after I got into music making. Then photography took over and I didn't make music. Nowadays music making tends to be the thing I reach for before photography interms of interests past time.
 
The only camera I regret selling so far was the X-E3. Hope the X-E5 will follow in its footsteps ergonomic wise and a tiltable screen (not articulating) else I may try to find a second hand X-E3 again.

The lens I thought regretted to sell was the Nikon 40mm f/2. I got a good copy back then when it first came out and it was pretty good on the Nikon ZFC. Tried a Nikon Z6ii and again that 40mm and I was disappointed so it was either a bad copy or the 40mm f/2 was better in my memory. :( At least now dont regret selling it
 
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My fellow Fujifilm users seem the most like to rebuy a body, lens, or fixed-lens camera that they've sold. I've never understood why they regret their sales more.

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Paul S. in Maryland
There are no solutions; only trade-offs.
 
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paul613 said:
My fellow Fujifilm users seem the most like to rebuy a body, lens, or fixed-lens camera that they've sold. I've never understood why they regret their sales more.
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Déjà vu all over again, more to do with missing the dream rather than living it, I'm guessing. Good luck to 'em, but do it to me twice....
 
paul613 said:
My fellow Fujifilm users seem the most like to rebuy a body, lens, or fixed-lens camera that they've sold. I've never understood why they regret their sales more.
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I have never regretted selling a camera more than my original X100... so much so that I bought an X100S a year later !
 
I regretted selling my Nikon F4 in the early 2000s, but I bought a near-new one a couple of years ago.
 
BillyBobSenna said:
So I recently updated my gear list. Frequently, I sell gear to justify new gear. There are a couple lenses I wish I never sold and would use them today if I still owned them.

- Nikon 200-500mm (sold to help with a 300mm f2.8 purchase)

- Sigma 35mm f1.4 (sold because I was not using the lens much)

These are both great lenses and wish I had them today.

Do you have any gear you sold that you regret selling?
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Some Exakta fit lenses. 400mm Tele-Megor, 25mm Flektogon, 50mm Pancolor. They would all work now on a mirrorless camera -- but I sold them when mirrorless hadn't been invented.
 
Just a small thing, really. I had a Ricoh CX5 compact from 2012-14, but sold it when I “upgraded” to a Fuji XF1 which, like most XF1s, ceased to function after a couple of years. Looking back on the pictures from the CX5, the colour was good, the zoom range was excellent and the resolution was above par for the small sensor.
 
I wish I hadn't sold any of my compact cameras in the past as they would've earned me more money than they would've cost me (used)
 
Fujifilm X-T10
 
I am not missing any of my old gear. While I started with film, I prefer the digital process and never looked back. My first digital body was an Canon 30D, replaced by an 5DIII and now the R5. Each of these successing bodies was more capable than the last, so apart from nostalgia there is nothing to miss. For lenses I went from zooms to primes, and within that space from EF to better performing RFs, so also no regrets there.
 
I sold all my DSLR gear last year to move over to M43.

I sometimes see photos of a particular lens or face a situation where I used a certain lens in similar situation in the past. I have a quick thought if I should have kept that one lens.

Then I remember the big picture of the weight and inconvenience of the overall system, which was the reason for moving to m43. I realize I cannot pick and choose pieces, only to worry about adapting them to ML.

I quickly reach a conclusion that letting them go was the right decision. I should get a similar but smaller lens in ML when I can.
 
DMKAlex said:
Other than the sentimental reasons, I don't see your point.
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+1

The two film cameras I hold on to are for sentimental reasons... one my own first film SLR and the second a gift from a friend.
DMKAlex said:
Used market is vibrant and active. If you're patient and persistent, good deals for anything are out there.
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There's too much out there and very distracting. We could go to look for one thing and be tempted with few other things!
DMKAlex said:
Why hold on to gears that you seldom even look at, never mind using them.
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I now made it a rule that if something wasn't used in a year, I should sell it.
DMKAlex said:
I look at my photographic/video gears as tradable items. Thank goodness we have eBay, B&H or KEH.
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I felt liberated when I sold all my unused gear last year. I was slow in recognizing that my photography style was changing, and I would not go back to using the old gear shooting the old way. I now make better use of what I have.

My DSLR phase lasted 18 years before I moved over to m43 completely. I hope this continues another ten years, which is how long I can hope to be shooting.
 
I mostly regret selling the gear that I ended up buying again, but I have since resold it (again) so maybe not.

Of the rest, I most regret selling my GM5 with PL15/1.7 lens and my X100V. I sold them for what I paid, but could have gotten much more had I held on to them a bit longer.
 
Yes, I had this camera and gave it to my son. I think he sold it and should have told him to give it back to me when he was done.
 
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