Longtime photogs -- what have you done w/your old 35mm SLR equipment ?

[eppur_se_muova]

My dad was a longtime amateur photographer, but sold most of his equipment sometime after retiring. I used to use an old Miranda that he picked out for me, and I believe a Miranda was his main camera (although he had as many as six camera bodies, not counting vintage items). I have been involved in photography for a long time and haven't adapted to digital completely. I do still have a few of his old SLR items, and am wondering if they are worth anything.

Did you just junk all your old cameras? Find adapters for all those old lenses to digital bodies? I know there are some pro cameras out there which look like they can take the old 35mm mounts, but I've never looked into it.

If you had an old 35mm, what would you do with it? Junk it? Get a replacement back with a camera chip (do they still make these?)? What's the resale market for old 35mm lenses -- telephoto, Y-dangle, zoom, etc? What about the old cameras themselves? Flash adapters, etc.?

[Drum]

1. Bookmarking...

I have a few old SLR cameras and pieces, and am curious as well.

[cachukis]

2. Donated mine to the photography class at my old school.

It is a magnet school with visual arts programs.
Students get to work with film.

[Journeyman]

3. I donated mine to the local community college . . .

Classes are still offered on film photography. They were especially pleased to receive the old, unused rolls of film. Students would use them, I was told, to test means by which they could resurrect incorrectly exposed photos.

At best, I think I'd have received a few dollars if I traded them in for new equipment. Instead, I received effusive thanks and a lot of satisfaction knowing I had contributed to a new generation of photographers.

[usonian]

4. Going to get the Nikon F2 checked out and refurbished. In the meantime:

All my old Nikon F lenses work manually with the FTZ adapter for the Z series. Even the ones without the "AI" notch that DSLR's demanded. (The adapter works fully automatically with the DSLR lenses)

There are adapters for other lenses and digital cameras. Not expensive. You only need one for the entire collection of same-mount lenses you own. Reminder: old lenses will usually work in manual focus mode and "stop down" metering.

I had the Hasselblad 500 C/M repaired (imagine, a governor broke after only 50 years service) and it's still the king of my cameras.

35 mm. lenses are cheap (if you want to sell one) and also expensive (if you want to buy one).
You can look up prices on the big online camera stores ... Adorama, B&H, others ...

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Doorstops............

Spent 25 years doing wedding photography - used Mamiya 645 SLR cameras (120/220 rolls).
Also have one Mamiya 220 Twin-Lens - same deal, uses the same rolls.

[MichMan]

6. There are a couple on line used camera places that will buy them.

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[eppur_se_muova]

11. Thanks, will check them out! nt

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Sold 3 to a graduate student.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. As a professional photographer since 1990,

What I wasn't able to give away is sitting on display shelves as antics.

[3Hotdogs]

9. I am trying to sell stuff for my step daughter.

I will check out the two sites tomorrow.

[Vogon_Glory]

10. I kept one of my old Nikkormats as

a memento, along with an old 120 film Rolleiflex twin lens reflex.

[alfredo]

12. I have a Sears KSX 1000 35mm, a Rebranded Ricoh.

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I bought it for the lens, but I still use the camera. The camera and lens went for $25. On eBay the lens alone usually goes for more. The lens is the Sears 50mm 2.2 PK mount

I loved my old Pentax Spotmatic. What a rugged camera.
Ricoh now owns Pentax.

[Talitha]

13. Sent mine to a friend in the UK.

I had two Olympus OM-1n cameras for astronomy use, mostly the Aurora and widefield night sky pictures. A friend of mine south of London refurbishes/sells cameras as a side hobby, so I sent them to her after I went digital.

One of the cameras was inoperable, the other was in good working order. She fixed the broken one and totally refurbished both of them and could easily sell them. But she's always had a soft spot for that model, so she's keepng them. Now and again she sends me travel photos taken with them.

It was a win-win.. they were collecting dust but now they're in good hands. BTW, it cost about $50 to send them to her, and as a thank-you she sent me all kinds of British Holiday goodies and a jar of home-made marmalade. Yum-yum!!

[HAB911]

14. On my shelf to be admired

F2 and Nikkormat

[Grumpy Old Guy]

15. On display in my living room.

Canons, Nikons, Yashicamats, a Polaroid, a Brownie, a Konica rangefinder, a box camera and an antique 16mm movie camera.