What gear should I sell to get me out of my dilemma?

Also - for the shuttle launches - wouldn't you be better off sticking the Hassie on a tripod and clicking away the wides with it while getting the zooms with the small format digitalSLR?

I kinda do the same at parties with my 4x5 and small format digital SLR - the 4x5 gets set on a particular scene where I know something interesting will eventually happen - like a doorway or a popular chair - loaded up and focused so that when someone drops in or sits down, I can easily trip the shutter for a snapshot of the family.

The rest of the time I'm walking around banging away with the small format digital SLR.

in Re: below - yes, I know a hassie is an SLR, but I defer to your requirement for specificity....

totalamateur said:

Also - for the shuttle launches - wouldn't you be better off sticking the Hassie on a tripod and clicking away the wides with it while getting the zooms with the SLR?

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1. Everything is a "wide" at a shuttle launch.

2. A Hassy is an SLR.

the digitals are redundant. I would sell the d2x and the 150 hasselblad

Dump the digitals before they loose any more value. If you shoot something for the newspaper, scan the negative.

Steve

I disagree with the suggestions to sell the digital equipment. Personally, I can't see to point of owning both the Hassy and the Contax. Pick one or the other to sell off, IMO. To keep the stuff on which you would take the largest monetary loss is my suggestion.

No point in selling the digitals, as they are still just as good as they were when new (meaning that upgraded models do not make them "obsolete"), and they have lost too much value to make it worth selling them. You bought them for a lot of money, their monetary value tanked (as you knew it would, hopefully), so just shoot them until they fall apart (which may take longer than you would imagine), and call it money well spent on good tools.

Nothing loses its monetary value until you actually sell it...so don't sell them, and they won't lose any value. Shoot with them, hopefully make money with them, and get rid of one of the redundant medium format systems. The value of the film cameras is much more stable, so I would view them as more disposable.

The way I see it, when you buy something knowing its monetary value is going to tank, you are buying it as a long term investment in a useful tool, and you use it until you have got your money's worth out of it, with no consideration at all to resale value. Why anybody buys new stuff just to sell it in five (or fewer) years is beyond me. It is financial folly.