Question of the week: What's a camera you used to own that you regret letting go?"

My Leica Digilux 2. It was one of my first digital cameras, and I'm still impressed with the images I got out of that thing.

I have gone through many Nikons since 1975. But I really miss my Nikon F2, I had two. I sold both in very good condition and it is a big regret for me.

Unquestionably, my Mamiya 7, A beautiful camera that took even better images.

Olympus PEN-F. Sold it because of it's slow readoutt (in comparison to the EM-1 Mark III I had at the time). I eventually bought an E-P7 as my "everyday carry" but as my eyes get worse, it gets more and more frustrating to use an LCD for composition and greatly prefer a viewfinder.

I've still got my old film cameras. But the one I regret? I had a Maxxum 7D DSLR (and one that had the shutter defect fixed). In terms of usability/handling, as well as picture/color (and yes, at only 6MP), it was just great to use. I never had a surprise, the camera always worked the way I expected it to in terms of AF and exposure. And these days, with Lightroom Classic or DxO PureRAW, the image quality I've been able to get out of some of those old photos is surprisingly good.

I don't regret selling my complete Bronica GS1 set with 4 lenses for half the money I bought it for two years earlier. Yes it was a marvelous thing but I found out it didn't produce miracles in the digital era.

In fact I don't regret selling anything because time goes on and old things mostly don't get better. Even good wine you'd better drink before it's best than after.

None. I've still got them all from my Canon G1!

I have an awful tendency of keeping them all...

I do not regret any of my sales or I would rebuy it. My only regret was not trying a 8x10" when the film was more reasonable.

All of them...?
As much as I don't regret that I keep my equipment cutting edge, all those bodies had stories to tell by themselves, travel, memorable shoots, places, subjects. But I did listened to a fellow pro photographer when the film era came to an end to sell equipment that I haven't used for a year (I extend that to 2) to free up cash. And my storage shelves thank me every day, this keeps it easy and somewhat I don't loose oversight. Digital capture also allowed me to reduce my overall capture/light/grip kit, that I usually don't carry more than 6/8 cases on assignments...
minimalism=happyness

Rolleiflex with Planar 2.8 was time I need money, sell for 250$ big mistake! But also the Nikon D200 that I left like a gift to someone, the camera was perfect and colours incredible

Fuji GSW690II. Loved that camera.

Easily the Olympus Evolt E300. Great color from the Kodak sourced CCD. I was comfortable shooting up to ISO 400, 800 in a pinch. It was widely panned by the non-olympus crowd, but beloved by many Olympus users.

The only camera I truly regret no longer owning is my first “pro level” camera and lens, a Nikon F with my first Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5. I had bought the F in 1979, my senior year in college, from a guy who was in the photojournalism program at the University of Texas who was graduating and going to work as a staff photographer for a newspaper. It had a 1969 serial number so it was 10 years old when I bought it and Harley Soltes, the acquaintance I bought it from, was at least the second owner.

I’m pretty sure he thought the camera was worn out, but I used tit from ‘79-91. I didn’t sell it, it was stolen by the crackhead son of a fellow photographer. I know who stole it because 9 years later he confessed to the crime.

I wish I had not sold my Arca-Swiss F, Sinar C, and V-Pan 6x17cm film cameras and lenses after I converted to digital, but such is life.

Samsung NX500 easily.

Fuji TXII (Xpan II) with 45mm lens mint boxes set with filters
Sold it in 2017 for £800

Now costs almost £7000!

Just for posterity reasons, the Zorki 4K. Because it was my first camera. Bought used in 1979 when I was 12 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorki_4

original Fuji x100 - AF slow as a snail but that first x100 had something about the tonality and colour that I never quite thought follow-on models quite matched

Nikon D4S.

A Mamiya 6 with its 3 assorted lenses.
I sold it in 2021 for more than I paid for it in 2014 (400€ for the Mamiya 6+75mm, 150€ for the 150mm, around 300€ for the 50mm...), but now that I suffer from seller's remorse, the prices have gone through the roof...

This question is tricky for me, mostly as I do not let go of my cameras (still have my Nikon FE which works fine). There was one camera that has dissappeard and it was an old polaroid from the 80s, that was fun to shoot with and get instant results; back in the day, it was pretty much the only way to go for instant results.

I had a Minolta CLE w/28mm, 40mm, and 90mm lenses, and various accessories, from 1981-1988. I sold that system to buy a Nikon N90S (F90X) w/28-70 and 70-210 lenses. To this day, I still regret selling the Minolta system :-(

I still have the Nikon F2S that I bought new w/4 lenses, in 1974 :-)

I only regretted selling some lenses, no cameras. The lens I most regretted selling was the Sigma 120-300/2.8 II. I recently got the RF100-300/2.8 so I am pretty much even now :-)

None. I kept my original film camera and so did my wife.

Digital stuff I don’t really care about and moved on. I see them kind of like disposable cameras.

I have regretted selling lenses and rebought them though, a few times…

Right now a GRIIIx.

It was the right move to sell it (I have 3 other cameras), but it was fun to have a TRULY pocketable APSC cam on me at all times.

Luckily with newer "AI" noise reduction aglos, I'm getting great results out of my RX100VII even in low light.

Hasselblad Superwide C, Nikon F2T, Leica M6.

D850

dp2m and Exacta

any Ricoh GR, or Fuji X30. Cameras I would always have my hands on at home but did not bring with me enough on trips, and always sold so easily when in need of cash for other toys.