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Archive 2009 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

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p.3 #1 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

EOS A2. Put about three rolls through it in the last two years.

Jan 03, 2009 at 05:16 PM

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p.3 #2 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

EOS 650

Jan 03, 2009 at 06:00 PM

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p.3 #3 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

I kept my 300D, thinking my daughter would graduate to it. She is still using her S3 IS and will be for a while. So for now, I've loaned it to my neighbor until I sell him my 30D, when Canon comes out with something better than the 50D.

Jan 03, 2009 at 06:23 PM

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p.3 #4 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

Still have my 10D that will be 6 years old this year! Never going to sell it, was my first DSLR and happy to keep it. Shot some stuff in the garden with it the other day and it was great fun to use. Not a patch on my 1d though.

Chris

Jan 03, 2009 at 08:16 PM

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p.3 #5 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

I also kept my 300D, I also have an older eos film body which I don't even think works..... I considered selling the 300D, but I've been thru a lot with that camera, and while it's not my 40D, it still takes great portraits (or maybe I do?)... the main reason I had to upgrade is that I have taken well over 40K photos with the body (unreliable shutter at this point), and as I am beginning to do more stuff where consistency and readyness is important, the buffer is simply too slow on the 300D.

Jan 03, 2009 at 08:16 PM

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p.3 #6 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

Thanks for all the interesting replies, folks.
In the way of stuff that doesn't fit the poll, I've kept:
A Pentax 645n outfit with film inserts, lenses, dedicated flash.
A Mamiya 7 outfit that I really intend to continue using.
A Konica rangefinder.
A Voigtlander body specifically kept for use with the 12mm/5.6.
A Yashica Mat 124G 6x6 TLR.
A "Miniature Speed Graphic" [6x9 cm], ca. 1940.
The Miranda Sensorex outfit that was my first serious camera, 1966 or 67.
Plus a few oddball cameras of no monetary value and little usability.

Jan 03, 2009 at 09:56 PM

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p.3 #7 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

Just can't seem to let go of my D30. Something in the color rendition of the pictures I think.......
Slightly off the survey topic. I have managed to off load all my film stuff except a Spotmatic I bought in Japan in 68.

: Sort of like an old pal..........

jim

Jan 03, 2009 at 11:36 PM

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p.3 #8 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

1D (trying to willing to sell.. or not...)
Elan 7 / EOS 30 (gathering fungus, once I shoot film with the almighty OM-1)

Jan 04, 2009 at 05:08 AM

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p.3 #9 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

Mudflap wrote:
Just can't seem to let go of my D30. Something in the color rendition of the pictures I think.......
Slightly off the survey topic. I have managed to off load all my film stuff except a Spotmatic I bought in Japan in 68.

: Sort of like an old pal..........

jim
Don't let go of that Spotmatic! It will mean even more to you in another few years!

I need to pull out some of the old beasts and exercise their shutters.

Jan 04, 2009 at 05:16 AM

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p.3 #10 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

Canon K2 film camera. My wife bought me it as a Christmas gift. She probably wishes she hadn't looking back now...

Jan 04, 2009 at 05:30 AM

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p.3 #11 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

I have all my old cameras, back to my first, an old fold out bellows style inherited from my grandparents. My first SLR, dates back to 1962 (purchased new while in high school).

Jan 05, 2009 at 03:58 PM

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p.3 #12 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

I still have my AE-1 Program and T-90 but gave away my EOS-5 and EOS-3. I felt that the EOS-3 just needed to be used rather than gather dust so I donated it to my daughter's school a month or so ago. They have a darkroom and use film regularly.

Jan 05, 2009 at 04:53 PM

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p.3 #13 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

I have a spare 300D which I've been lending to friends to play with. It has a 17-85mm and a 75-300mm, I think of them as "touring lenses".

Jan 05, 2009 at 05:01 PM

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p.3 #14 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

40D
30D
Elan IIE

Mamiya AFD 645

5, 4x5 cameras - only need 2

Sold my 2 Mamiya 7II's after not using the,m for 2 years. Hardest cameras I have had to sell!

I took them out one last time to see if I should keep trhem. After 20+ years of using film, and 2- of using a D30, I weas really confused:

* I have to take the film to the *lab* to see a preview?

* I have to put different film in the camera just to change ISO?

Old skills die fast. I wasnt smart enough to keep working with film. Now with those 4x5's ... I am even dumber.

Michael

Jan 05, 2009 at 05:06 PM

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p.3 #15 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

From that list I have an A-1, D30 and even two 1v-HS bodies. I don't use them as much as I used to, but I still use them!

Jan 05, 2009 at 09:10 PM

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p.3 #16 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

Still have my 1VHS and AE-1, tempted to sell the 1V a few times... I guess it's more of a personal attachment than anything.

Jan 05, 2009 at 09:26 PM

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p.3 #17 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

I kept my first Canon my dad gave me the Canon FTB I usually upgrade all my other ones.

Jan 06, 2009 at 02:44 PM

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p.3 #18 · Are you keeping SLRs that you don't use?

I now own 1 film & 4 dslr bodies ... guess I'm a collector
there are times it is handy to have all the dslr's ... such as weddings, events & sports as I can equip other photogs with 2nd cameras

Jan 06, 2009 at 03:45 PM

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