Engraving your camera?

[Horatio]

It greatly reduces resale value.

Unless it's a Leica.

 

[jscott]

Someone named "John M. Deardorff Jr." engraved his name on the front of my Deardorff Special...

I suppose the resale value is shot.

 

[radiant]

Great idea. Buy Leica, engrave "Elliot Erwitt" to it and put as auction to ebay and play dump if someone asks "IS THIS REALLY ERWITTS CAMERA?" "No, it is mine. That must be some previous owners name.."

 

[jscott]

 

[logan2z]

Unless it's a Leica.

They'll even do it for you at the factory

https://us.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/M-System-Service/Redesign

 

[Chan Tran]

However I would have my name on it if I made the camera. I don't put my name on thing that I didn't make.

 

[ChristopherCoy]

They'll even do it for you at the factory

https://us.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/M-System-Service/Redesign

For the amount of money, they better have the Pope bless it at the factory too. And send a picture in the box to prove it.

 

[Kino]

Classic Photrio. Tempest in a Teapot...

Think I'll start a thread on how I like the color green just to hear the howls of indignation...

 

[ChristopherCoy]

Classic Photrio. Tempest in a Teapot...

Think I'll start a thread on how I like the color green just to hear the howls of indignation...

but... isn't everything these days?

It always ends in one of three arguments. The prices of used gear, leica superiority, or digital discrimination.

 

[eddie]

Have you considered legally changing your last name to Nikon?

 

[Kino]

 

[benjiboy]

It's the same as persnalised number plates on your car, it's the height of bad taste.

 

[ChristopherCoy]

I've seen some pretty clever personalized plates.

 

[MattKing]

It's the same as persnalised number plates on your car, it's the height of bad taste.

One of the long term municipal councilors here in Delta got a personalized license plate that says "Delta". Not in bad taste at all!

 

[bluechromis]

Yeah, I can see how that lousy engraving would wreck the resale value.

https://collectiblend.com/Cameras/images/Nikon-Nikon-FE-'Sterling-Silver'.jpg

 

[ChristopherCoy]

https://collectiblend.com/Cameras/images/Nikon-Nikon-FE-'Sterling-Silver'.jpg

I would totally do that to my silver F2!

 

[Vaughn]

Classic Photrio. Tempest in a Teapot...

Think I'll start a thread on how I like the color green just to hear the howls of indignation...

Just how much blue do you like in your green, pilgrim...or are ya yellow...

 

[Kino]

Just how much blue do you like in your green, pilgrim...or are ya yellow...

Them's fightin words...

 

[removedacct1]

Kinda like a bumper sticker?

Not at all. You can remove a bumper sticker.

 

[MattKing]

Historically, people would engrave something like their Social Insurance/Security or telephone number on their cameras because they expected to keep and use that camera until they no longer could take photos with it.
They also seemed to believe that engraving would discourage theft, and make it more likely that a stolen camera would be returned to them.
For most people, the idea of selling a camera just didn't occur to them.

 

[awty]

Do as you please its your camera, they are just an inanimate object. If you think of it as a commodity then keep it original, it will be worth more that way.
It wouldnt bother me in the least to buy a camera with someone elses name on it, to me that elevates it a little to having some character. I like cameras that have been used and loved.
Ive see people people decorate their cameras to give a more personal touch.
My Lieca if has "Gretl" stuck to the bottom, I leave it there cause I like the name and I refer to the camera by name.

 

[Vaughn]

Thank you, awty...

 

[ChristopherCoy]

Just how much blue do you like in your green, pilgrim...or are ya yellow...

I prefer mauve.

 

[BrianShaw]

I prefer mauve.

Magenta.

 

[ChristopherCoy]

Magenta.

Magenta is just pink in a dress.