Q: Why do I need to sell my FILM camera?
A: Because you don't want to pay for film, processing, and scans/prints.
Your I-phone or digicam
takes GOOD ENOUGH pictures.
It's time to leave FILM PHOTOGRAPHY for art galleries and amateurs just like me.
I'm looking for vintage and modern film cameras, lenses, movie & lighting equipment.
We will rent old antique cars, luxury premises for photo sessions
in New York or Miami.
I will work with models: any age, female or male.
Artistic approach required. Payments according experience and project.
My goal is to expand my model portfolio with an objective to have my images published commercially.
Please contact me:
www.valery.videomax@yahoo.com
From Leica forum:
I sold my Nikon D2x (and 24-70 + 70-200 VR) after I bought my first film Leica. It is about 9 month ago and I didn`t miss a DSLR at all since then.
...I purchased a Canon 1DsMk2 which made my 5D expendable. So I sold the 5D and got the Epson R-D1s. Haven't looked back since. In fact I will be selling some of my Canon lenses to reduce that kit and purchase a one more lens for the rangefinder.
...Why aren't you shooting with your 30D? Are you still using film as well? When I had the cash, I bought an M7, not the M8 and kept my D200
my first ever camera was a nikon d50. Used it for 6 months and bought my first ever rangefinder camera (yashica lynx) and subsequently a CV Bessa R. 1 year later I sold off all my digital system and settled with a m3 + 50mm cron dr and never looked back.
...I bought a Nikon D70s to replace my old Nikon FE2. I tried really hard to like digital and autofocus but after struggling with it for two years I bought a minty F3 on a whim.
The F3 immediately brought back the joy of being in control of the act of photographing, with the consequent improvement in results, and I soon thereafter sold the D70s. I'd like to sell the two autofocus lenses I have as they are wasted on a non-AF body but no takers yet.
Within a week I was chasing a Hasselblad 5xx (50mm f4, 45° viewfinder, handgrip, etc) system and researching my long-awaited Leica purchase. After a couple of attempts via KEH, I now have a mint M4 w/ 90mm f2.8 Elmarit and I couldn't be happier. Looking to get a 50mm 'lux in the near future.
Everything about film is just right and it's going to take an exceptional system to get me to try digital again.
BTW, I spent the day at a Mexican Charreada (sort of traditional mexican rodeo) in San Antonio today and while most everyone there had all sorts of digital / AF stuff there were also two other guys with film cameras. I wanted to chat with them but there was too much stuff going on and didn't get a chance to say hi. One of them had a TLR (probably a Rolleiflex) and the other an RF (couldn't tell which brand/model) of some kind.
...I sold 3 Nikon D200s and a D1H with a 17-55 AF-S 28, a 70-200 AF-S VR 2.8 a 200 f2 VR AF-S and a 300 2.8 AF-S VR for my Leica M2, VC II Meter, a 35 2.5 VC, and a 50mm 1.5 Summarit and I couldnt be happier
...I bought a DSLR and then I bought a rangefinder, then I bought a Leica IIIf, then I bought a Voigtlander ... then :)
I find the DSLR great for its autofocus (but sometimes frustrating for that aswell - if you know what I mean). The DSLR is great for telephotos, great for grab shots of my teaching / students and great for quickly sharing / repurposing of good quality photos into movies and so on. But the Leica and my other rangefinders get at least 50 - 60 % of my use most of the time (and a 100% sometimes).
Having said all of this I did find myself thinking 'why did I buy that DSLR?' when I was in the first throes of rangefinderdom, but I've moved on in my thinking and I'm glad that I kept my Pentax *ist DL. DSLR's are worth nothing 2nd hand anyway and ... well I think you might regret selling it off at some future point - tool for the job....
How much would you pay to get your hands on one of the rarest cameras in the world? Probably not as much as a private Asian collector who forked out $1.9 million (1.3 million EUR) for the Leica 0-Serie Nr.107 (1923). The camera has an estimated price of $501,200-$644,400 (350,000-450,000 EUR) and it started with an opening bid of $286,400 (200,000 EUR). The auction only took twenty minutes to find its buyer. And we thought the
Hasselblad H4D-200MS was expensive.
A chrome Leica MP2 + motor sold for $ 630,080 (440,000 EUR)
Leica M2 grey sold for $143,200 (100,000 EUR)
