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Summicron-M 50 mm 11817 acquired the GOAT of lenses (and a small melancholy)

chuckroast

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M. Axel Wikstrom said:
People obsess too much about equipment.
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100%

But in fairness, I think that all of us have three approaches to equipment: User, Collector/Investor, Admirer. How much any of those motivates you at any moment probably varies.

I shoot the heck out of my cameras but I also admire the Leicas for their precision, the Wisner for the beauty of it's quartersawn Honduran mahogany, the durability of the Nikon F family, the wonderful utility of Graflex, and so forth. At some point I became an accidental collector but, over the last couple of years, sold off everything I wasn't using regularly.

Speaking of which ... the darkroom beckons.
 
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Buy a lot, sell a lot, and eventually settle on a few things you really like.

...and there always seems to be a few things you keep though you can't always say why?
 

M. Axel Wikstrom

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Very true. Similar for me. I see my equipment first and foremost as tools, but secondary to that I do like good tools, but don’t see myself as a collector.
 
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M. Axel Wikstrom said:
Very true. Similar for me. I see my equipment first and foremost as tools, but secondary to that I do like good tools, but don’t see myself as a collector.
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Me neither. I could not be bothered to care about black paint, serial numbers, mint condition.
 
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