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What is the most expensive photographic item that you've lost?
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Oh that's a really nice lens. I think I have one. I have too much stuff.My Nikon 20mm to 35mm AF zoom lens which is has an all metal body, not plastic, has gone missing. It is hiding some place around here [hopefully] just giggling. I have turned my place upside down several times now.
no, sorry, I looked again but it was not there ;-)
My best friend from kindergarden spent lots of time finding a nice Canon A1 for his clumsy brother to take for a great trip in the USA... The camera is now at the bottom of the Grand Canyon...
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Good riddance
Well, except for the money, of course.
A few days ago I saw a like new Zeiss 18mm optical VF on ebay for $250 and bought it.
I swear on this flat earth that I will not lose this one!
Of course now the old one will show up. That's how it works. Ask me how many lens hoods I've lost, replace and then found. And how stupidly expensive they can be for what they are.
I lost a nice Manfrotto tripod with a quick release head, and I know exactly where I lost it! I laid it on a broad windowsill of a Schoney's Big Boy restaurant in West Virginia on the way to visit my parents in Montgomery, WV. Now, since I paid with a credit card the Schoney's personnel could have made the effort to contact me, but they didn't.. GRRRRR...... By the time I realized that I'd lost it, several months later, it was too late to do anything about it. As far as I know that is the only photographic item I've lost......maybe.....I hope.
My Nikon f/2.8 20mm to 35mm AF zoom lens has disappeared and I ended up replacing it with a Nikon f/2.8 20mm to 35mm AF-D zoom lens that cost less than the original all metal one I bought in 2005.
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I once threw a finder in the garbage while unpacking a lens at the post office.
Realised, back home, that the finder was missing... bad feeling.
My loupe, an inexpensive one that came from Long's drug store in Hawaii some 20+ years ago. It works great, and has survived being dropped on every type of hard floor known to human or beast. I still have it.
So why is it listed here? Because it's never where it was seen last, and I generally spend 1 to 2 hours trying to find it. That's what it took tonight (2), and it's now back on top of the print file binder next to the white gloves, even though I highly suspect it won't be there when it's needed.
Time wasted is time lost, so over 2 decades it has cost me a LOT of hours. I've toyed w/ the idea of tying a piece of string to it and hanging it up in plain sight, and may try that just as soon as I find the string, the hammer and a nail.......
So why is it listed here? Because it's never where it was seen last, and I generally spend 1 to 2 hours trying to find it. That's what it took tonight (2), and it's now back on top of the print file binder next to the white gloves, even though I highly suspect it won't be there when it's needed.
Time wasted is time lost, so over 2 decades it has cost me a LOT of hours. I've toyed w/ the idea of tying a piece of string to it and hanging it up in plain sight, and may try that just as soon as I find the string, the hammer and a nail.......
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I think that in every place I've ever lived there are hidden caches of: nail sets, screw drivers (one cache for Phillips, another for straight blade), difficult-to-replace set screws.... It seems that The Borrowers lurk all about me all the time. And somewhere there is a hoard of socks which would complete a bereft pair in my drawer.
They sneak off as soon as you put them down!
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The opportunity to buy a Hasselblad kit under 1000$.
It was possible in the early 2000, but I was already stretching my budget at 500$, so I got a Mamiya C330.
Given the price Hassies go by these days, it's a pretty expensive lost opportunity...
It was possible in the early 2000, but I was already stretching my budget at 500$, so I got a Mamiya C330.
Given the price Hassies go by these days, it's a pretty expensive lost opportunity...
Where is your time machine?
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When my then girlfriend and I split up in the 1980's, she took a 105mm f/4 Micro-Nikkor with her. I still miss that lens, but I can't really count that as lost.
I did lose a Nikon 50mm f/1.8d in Juneau Alaska. But this week I discovered I can't find my monopod, and when you add in the head it's probably about the same value. How the h*ll do I lose a monopod when I haven't used it since September of 2019? My house isn't terribly cluttered, so I assume it's in the basement somewhere.
I did lose a Nikon 50mm f/1.8d in Juneau Alaska. But this week I discovered I can't find my monopod, and when you add in the head it's probably about the same value. How the h*ll do I lose a monopod when I haven't used it since September of 2019? My house isn't terribly cluttered, so I assume it's in the basement somewhere.
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It's behind the shed with the gardening tools and the rain barrel. If only I had the time to repair it...
You just made me look for my monopod. Found it.
Multi year archive, many great images from my now gone concert photography days with some special backstage/side stage images/portraits of Nashville Greats. Does this count for lost photographic item?
I didn't want to remember that tragedy.
But it's the Mamiya RZ Professional Mark 2 with a 180mm lens
lost in the events of the Egyptian revolution,,
Rather, it was confiscated by the Egyptian police.
But it's the Mamiya RZ Professional Mark 2 with a 180mm lens
lost in the events of the Egyptian revolution,,
Rather, it was confiscated by the Egyptian police.
Canon nFD 400mm f/4.5. Stolen a few years ago. Not terribly expensive, but the most expensive photographic item I've lost.
Left a tripod on the side of the road at the very first stop I made on my last trip to Big Sur.
Growing up my Dad had a Leica M3 w Summilux 50, the meter and the case. He never used it. It went missing years ago, and no-one in the family has any idea where.
I think that's what decades later got me to get my own, just to have a camera like that.
I think that's what decades later got me to get my own, just to have a camera like that.
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