Some days I feel like selling everything…

[erniethemilk]

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Apart from my M10-P & the couple of lenses I have for it. 
 

I seem to have been collecting cameras like confetti over the past 12 months (Nikon, Fuji etc) and I’m actually starting to feel like I’m losing the enthusiasm I have for photography. 
 

I love my M10-P albeit I have to work hard with it & sometimes miss photos because of not being quick enough/accurate enough - but it’s the one camera I always regret not having with me when I’m shooting something else. 
 

I guess my collecting is due to FOMO - anyone else have that problem and how did you deal/solve it?! 

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[MaticB]

Give yourself some time! I came through same feeling few times in the last 30 years. That teach me to be patient - enthusiasm always return, even stronger! Eight months ago I consider selling my M 240 with pairs of 50 and 28 summiluxes - to replace them with Q2 - as a lighter and easier to use camera. Somehow I knew, that this would have been mistake, so I really bought Q2, but after few months I added to collection also M10R - BP, 35 APO Summicron and 75/2.4 Summarit. I only sell Q2, because I didn't see any reasons to duplicate optical variety and because large prints from Q2 files didn't satisfied me. Most important though, enthusiasm return previous to new gear, new gear only enforced it!  

[tappan]

Over the years I have sold an M6 in 2005-ish?, a 50mm Summicron (11826) in 2015-ish to help finance a 50mm 'Lux, and a 35 'Cron "King of Bokeh-(huh) to help finance a new 35mm FLE 'Lux. Though some of these things were necessary, I regret all of the above!
Good luck. My M10-P is my favorite camera ever. What a JOY!

[a.noctilux]

Sellings & buyings are part of fun.

Another "fun" (if we can live with that) is wanting to rebuy back "again" something loved but sold so long ago.

I failed 😵 in this last cases, so return to first cases most of time.

[hepcat]

Oh yes... in the past fifty years,  I've had four or five nice, complete sets of Leica M cameras; both film and digital,  three complete sets of Hasselblad, several collections of Nikon F gear, and now two complete sets of Kiev88CM cameras.  I've had a couple of sets of Mamiya C330 kits...  the list is lengthy.  😁

The FIRST "real" camera I bought in 1973 with my high-school graduation money was a Canon IIF outfit with 35, 50, 85, and 135 lenses and accessories.  It was stolen while I was in the Navy.  I had some of the accessories left, and I've carted them around with me now for fifty years.  Just YESTERDAY a really good friend gifted me a freshly overhauled Canon IVSB with a 35, 50, and Easy-up along with a slew of accessories.  This one is a keeper.   I'd always planned on buying another "some day" but just never got around to it.  I'm so fortunate to have really good friends.

[Marc B-C]

I sold everything Nikon a few years ago, two x D2 / D2x (I think?) bodies, approx 12 lenses up to 300mm f2.8 and replaced all with a Fuji X100. That developed into a Fuji fetish until I got rid of all of that X100F / X-T3 and nine (?) lenses too apex two years ago. I now have a single Leica Q2 and could not be happier. Simple, I enjoy taking it with me and have adapted the way I photograph to not needing anything else (except for the two DJI drones I recently picked up!).

[TomB_tx]

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I started with Leica in 1968 - never have sold one. However, there were periods when life got busy with other priorities and my cameras seldom saw light, except for vacations and such - and sometimes for projects for work. Once I retired I dragged them out, got items needing service taken care of, set up a darkroom again, and have been very glad I never sold them.

[shanefking]

4 hours ago, erniethemilk said:

I’m losing the enthusiasm I have for photography. 

I guess my collecting is due to FOMO - anyone else have that problem and how did you deal/solve it?! 

For me, the best part of having a Leica M and a set of lenses is that I no longer have FOMO— Fuji Sony Canon and Nikon will continue to make great cameras but I found my Holy Grail.  The search is Over.  
 

Whenever I find myself obsessing over gear or on tech forums, its always because I am disconnected from the “taking photos” side of photography.  
 

When was the last time you had fun shooting?  What did you shoot?  What is the bottleneck that holds you back?

 It could be that you only like travel, or that you don’t like editing photos.  So try to see your hometown like how a visitor would see it with fresh eyes, or find a lightroom preset  you like to automate the process— or even just go with the JPGs out of camera.

 Get out there and take some pictures for yourself, for fun.

[jakontil]

8 hours ago, erniethemilk said:

Apart from my M10-P & the couple of lenses I have for it. 
 

I seem to have been collecting cameras like confetti over the past 12 months (Nikon, Fuji etc) and I’m actually starting to feel like I’m losing the enthusiasm I have for photography. 
 

I love my M10-P albeit I have to work hard with it & sometimes miss photos because of not being quick enough/accurate enough - but it’s the one camera I always regret not having with me when I’m shooting something else. 
 

I guess my collecting is due to FOMO - anyone else have that problem and how did you deal/solve it?! 

The last bit of camera before i focus only on  M system was fuji xpro3, where i thought i could replace my ongoing Q2 at that time

i thought it was good on both world, M experience and an autofocus of an Q with interchangeable lens

how so wrong i was…

[pgh]

8 hours ago, erniethemilk said:

Apart from my M10-P & the couple of lenses I have for it. 
 

I seem to have been collecting cameras like confetti over the past 12 months (Nikon, Fuji etc) and I’m actually starting to feel like I’m losing the enthusiasm I have for photography. 
 

I love my M10-P albeit I have to work hard with it & sometimes miss photos because of not being quick enough/accurate enough - but it’s the one camera I always regret not having with me when I’m shooting something else. 
 

I guess my collecting is due to FOMO - anyone else have that problem and how did you deal/solve it?! 

If I don't use it in within 6 months it goes on the maybe list. If I don't use it in a year I'll probably sell it. Only exception is if it's got very low resale value and is very practical in some weird job situations. Some of that stuff I have sitting around. I've sold most of what I owned and never regretted it in any practical sense. If someone brings it up or I'm searching in the archive I might get nostalgic for a camera for like 5 minutes, but it doesn't mean I'd go shoot with it now. We're all just borrowing stuff here anyways. 

FOMO is terrible and totally unrelated to making good pictures. I'm pretty confident that if I only ever had one camera and lens to work with and had no other options my total body of work when I was dead wouldn't be any worse. Most of us just have way too much stuff and it very quickly can impede making pictures rather than facilitates it. 

[LeicaR10]

Erniethemilk,   Throughout my 40+ years with Leica and other cameras that I used for my business and personal use, I occasionally would get in a creative slump or simply lose interest in photography.  It happens.  I found the best thing to do is take a break from photography.  Put all the gear away and don't look at it until you get a strong urge to get back into it.  I found too, that my work load often was a factor for my photography burnout.  After a week or two, sometimes longer, I would get inspired again.  For me, this worked to combat photography burnout.  Last, I would suggest you might think long and hard before selling any Leica gear.  Many here on the forum regret selling their Leica gear, only to buy it again.  I hope this helps.  r/ Mark

[Pyrogallol]

What is”FOMO” ?

[dredol]

vor 32 Minuten schrieb Pyrogallol:

What is”FOMO” ?

Fear of missing out  missing out the next „lens to have“, the next „new and best ever made camera“, … (you name it )

[Mikep996]

I've "sold everything/getting out of photography"  and  also "bought my last camera" several times!  It's just a process that some of us seem to go through.  Years ago I sold my film Leicas and all my lenses, including a Noct.  That was the end of Leica for me for about 15 years.  Two years ago I bought a used M10 and a 90, 50, and 28mm lens.  That was my last camera.  Then I bought an M10 R BP and that was my last camera.  Two months ago I bought a Q2 and it's my current 'last camera.' 

 

Frankly I wouldn't even worry about it.  If you feel like selling it all, sell it all.  If, at some point in the future you decide to re-buy, then do that!  If you buy used (the only way I have purchased and Leica camera/lenses) you will have made enough selling your current used gear to pay for your new used gear!

[a.noctilux]

32 minutes ago, Mikep996 said:

That was my last camera.  Then I bought an M10 R BP and that was my last camera.  Two months ago I bought a Q2 and it's my current 'last camera.' 

remind me of this ...

A guy said to his wife after buying expensive gear:

- Honey, this one IS my last one

- Untill the next last ! ...she replies.

[elmars]

 A wife said to her husband after buying expensive clothes:

- Honey, this one IS my last one

- Untill the next last ! ...he replied.

[Punkrockemo]

I feel I have too many cameras too and still find myself looking at others when i see a good second hand price. I keep thinking about getiing rid of some but they all have their diffrent advantages and weakness.

I find it disrupts my photgraphy as i am often torn about which to use    

[a.noctilux]

1 hour ago, Punkrockemo said:

I find it disrupts my photgraphy as i am often torn about which to use

See my post number four

Someone adviced me years ago something like "having the lens is not meaning to use it all-the-time" then he added "try to use only one lens at a time"

since then, I "live my photography" with better feeling of "zennitud" (with no torn-about-which-to-use).

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[LocalHero1953]

My cameras and lenses have to earn their keep (i.e. they have to be used), otherwise they get sold. M2, M240, Pentax MX, Rolleiflex T, Ricoh GRD4, Olympus OMD-5iii all went with their lenses, because they were not being used, to help finance something I would use. The only one I regret selling is the M2, which was sold to help pay for the M9 - I have bought back a M4.

[pgk]

Less is more. I'm clearing unused equipment now. I had acquired too much and decided to be realistic about how much I am ever likely to use. The result is a pared down set of gear which seems to get use without ancillaries getting in the way by muddling decision making. I have no regrets about getting rid of stuff. Very occasional good images from seldom used gear are not a good enough reason for keeping it as far as I am concerned.