How Much!

Portlawslim · 22-02-2019 2:14pm #1

I was dealing with the house insurance today and I was adding on my camera gear to the cover, when asked the approx value I said about €4500/€5000.
I was then asked to do an itemized list with a total to replace my gear and send it to the insurer.

Did I get a shock, to replace body, lenses, tripod(with ballhead) and a set of filters(Lee) it came to over €8000!
That's not including camera bag and other bits and pieces.
I sure any semi-pro/ pros will have done this before and are not surprised but everyone should make that list, I bet they'd get quite a shock when they realize the value of the gear they carry around with them.

CabanSail · 22-02-2019 11:16pm

Arrrh when I was a lad we just used to get and old shoe box and make a pinhole camera. None of this fancy stuff and bothering with insurance.

It was hard but we were happy.

Tell the young photographers that today and they will not believe you.

uck51js9zml2yt · 23-02-2019 4:09pm

CabanSail wrote: »

Arrrh when I was a lad we just used to get and old shoe box and make a pinhole camera. None of this fancy stuff and bothering with insurance.

It was hard but we were happy.

Tell the young photographers that today and they will not believe you.

I suppose you'll tell us you had shoes as well.?...wimp

DaireQuinlan · 23-02-2019 8:44pm

Marianna Faint Backhoe wrote: »

I suppose you'll tell us you had shoes as well.?...wimp

wait ... shoe boxes had SHOES IN THEM ? I thought you were meant to wear the boxes on your feet :eek: That was the choice though, camera or something to put on your feet. Of course, there's no evidence. It's not as though we could afford film.

CabanSail · 23-02-2019 11:29pm

Film? Film?

It was down the mines for us 23 hours a day digging for the Silver Oxide to make the emulsion. Then we had to make the plates under a red candle while drinking hot tar.

uck51js9zml2yt · 24-02-2019 12:02am

Good job no one on here goes in for drama;)

dylbert · 24-02-2019 9:15am

We couldn't even afford shoe boxes, we had to use pinhole cameras to store our shoes.

CabanSail · 27-02-2019 1:22am

When I say "Shoe Boxes" it was old Newspaper which had wrapped shoes at one time so were Shoe Boxes to us. We had to use it like Paper Mache to make a box.

uck51js9zml2yt · 27-02-2019 9:11am

CabanSail wrote: »

When I say "Shoe Boxes" it was old Newspaper which had wrapped shoes at one time so were Shoe Boxes to us. We had to use it like Paper Mache to make a box.

Took you 5 days from the last post to think that one up...well done;)

I've a lot of camera equipment, probably too much and it's in a camera bag. I usually leave my shoe boxes in the shoe shop.ðŸ˜

magicbastarder · 27-02-2019 9:53am

how much is too much?
the answer is when you own lenses - and cameras, actually - you've never even used.

DaireQuinlan · 27-02-2019 9:37pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

how much is too much?
the answer is when you own lenses - and cameras, actually - you've never even used.

Someday I'll have to do the same thing with all the crap I've accumulated over the last few years. It's ... extensive ...

Effects · 05-03-2019 3:45pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

how much is too much?
the answer is when you own lenses - and cameras, actually - you've never even used.

What's that pinhole camera at the front?

I've shot about 3 rolls in my Mamiya 7II and only got around to developing one of them. That's over the space of three years.

I sold my Fuji GA645 to make space and also fund another camera purchase.

Trying to run film through most of my cameras lately.
I've got them developed but haven't got around to scanning.
I've lost my copy of Silverfast that came with my scanner.

Brought my Yashica T4 with a roll of Ektar away on holidays recently.
I'd forgotten how liberating it is to not have a screen to review photos!

magicbastarder · 05-03-2019 3:49pm

it's called a noon pinhole camera, i think made by a guy in poland, was a present from my wife.
it can be changed between 6x6, 6x9 and 6x12. the bastard thing about it is remembering what format you've selected say a week after you've loaded it.

https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Noon_Panoramic_Pinhole_Camera

Effects · 05-03-2019 4:00pm

I have a zero image pinhole camera, takes 120 but can't remember if it's 6x9 or something else.
Really nice camera that I must start using again. Just wish I had spent the extra on the version that takes a cable release for the shutter.