Digital Dust collectors

probably wrote:

I have one shelf sitter and that is the Olympus Pen F as my recently bought used Leica Q takes over its role

The most used is my old Panasonic GX7

In recent times I decided I'd prefer my digital-dust-collectors to be in the hands of folk who might still find them useful.  I traded many of them in for various bits and pieces.

I do keep some old items for nostalgic reasons.  In other cases I've extensively photographed items and then disposed of them, the images trigger memories just as well as the actual items.

Books, read once and still sitting on the shelf, are also gradually being donated away.

I have extraordinary difficulty in parting with scrap bits of timber.

Right now, mine are:

GX8:  Great camera, but I am using the GX9 for just about all my M43 shooting instead, now

Panasonic TC-20: Sold the lens that this teleconverter works with, so it's just sitting in its little bag...

Panasonic 12-60mm f3.5-5.6: Came with the GX9, I have two other lenses that cover this territory that I like already, so this is redundant.

Plus the usual assorted camera flotsam that accumulates over the years that no longer really fits what you are doing at the moment....a cheap flash, a tripod that you never warmed to, a bunch of legacy mount adapters to assorted mirrorless bodies that you no longer have...

-J

Evidently by your response you don’t have a dust collector if you sold the cameras they are not dust collectors and this thread has nothing to do with a camera that you haven’t acquired. It’s about digital cameras that gather dust and are unused

mchnz wrote:

I have extraordinary difficulty in parting with scrap bits of timber.

Oh tell me about it. I have piles of timber from excess bits or from recycled projects, I'm always dipping into the timber scraps to make something or make jigs to do some task.

Some 50+ year old western red cedar from door and window frames is always being resawn, planed and shaped for other things. Have lots of western red cedar 12"x 3/4" boards from my early wall panelling efforts that is slowly being turned into other things. It's old growth fine grain knot free stuff, never be able to buy anything near as good now.

Some timber I reckon to be on its third life now.

Timber doesn't grow on trees you know, so we have to preserve it.

nothing to do with cameras once again I guess you are not the sharpest tool in the wood shed😊

probably wrote:

nothing to do with cameras once again I guess you are not the sharpest tool in the wood shed😊

Rudeness is not made better because you put a smile emoji after it.

A response even if it is remotely to do with the topic is helpful wood in a shed has nothing to do with digital dust collectors on a camera forum. Rudeness is also ignoring what the thread is about and going off on a personal tangent.

Not a problems

I would sell it but it has had a hard life

probably wrote:

A response even if it is remotely to do with the topic is helpful wood in a shed has nothing to do with digital dust collectors on a camera forum. Rudeness is also ignoring what the thread is about and going off on a personal tangent.

It's a conversation, it can go anywhere.

Not a personal tangent but more an expansion of a throwaway line in another post.

Often we learn new facts or get new ideas when things drift around a bit.

The original post was not terribly interesting to anyone, so generally we should welcome a wider discussion to try and keep some interest in a thread and keep it alive for a while.

Basically, just because you start a thread, you don't own it. You simply start something that can go any direction.

The original post was not terribly interesting to anyone, so generally we should welcome a wider discussion to try and keep some interest in a thread and keep it alive for a while.

You contributed no wider discussion about cameras and  about them no longer being used.

If it was so boring why post? Go to a woodworking forum

probably wrote:

The original post was not terribly interesting to anyone, so generally we should welcome a wider discussion to try and keep some interest in a thread and keep it alive for a while.

You contributed no wider discussion about cameras and about them no longer being used.

If it was so boring why post? Go to a woodworking forum

Your persistence is admirable.

Wigelii wrote:

probably wrote:

I would sell it but it has had a hard life

What did you with it?

It’s all just cosmetic works just as well as I bought it, that’s the silver coating/paint that pealed off plus a heap of dings, scratches etc