What is the most expensive photographic item that you've lost?

David888

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A Mamiya 645 with lens that was sold to me at a camera store on Nathan Rd. in HK named Palysound. Although they claimed it worked fine and I paid $420.00 for the kit I was thousands of miles away before I it realized it had a bad film advance and the shutter was defective. It is now sitting in a box somewhere out of sight.
 

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A loss, but not exactly lost.

I just lost a $200 B+W filter. That one hurt. And a rubber eyecup, but those seem to come off and disappear every once in a while.
 
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RalphLambrecht said:
I put a Hasselblad 501c once on a tripod; it tipped and fell into the creek.It felt like a hit into the stomach. On another occasion, I forgot and left a Gossen colormeter at the photo club... never to be seen again.
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At the photoclub? Sounds more like stolen to me if someone there would do that to a fellow member instead of turning it in.
 
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The most annoying thing I keep losing is the rubber eye cup on my Fuji GW690III. They keep unscrewing and running off. After the first time I replace them with the eye cup for Nikon FM/FE cameras. They fall off those cameras too..
 

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A bit abstract; 15 years of not photographing because of digital photography. I actually stopped shooting film in 2000 because everybody was questioning why I shoot film because there are digital cameras. I know this isn't item but it is for sure my expensive thing I've lost. It stings.
 

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Huss said:
The most annoying thing I keep losing is the rubber eye cup on my Fuji GW690III. They keep unscrewing and running off. After the first time I replace them with the eye cup for Nikon FM/FE cameras. They fall off those cameras too..
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Super Glue would keep the lens cap in place.
 

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not particularly expensive but difficult to replace on the vintage market: once the ocular (with corrected lens) on my Pentax 67 was suddenly just gone. It unwound itself without notice. No chance to find it on that pebbles beach. Had to buy a whole new finder (with not corrected lens) to replace it.
 

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a basic sekonic light meter. wasn't lost though or misplaced but "borrowed". it seemed to be "invisible" for about a year and wasn't in my camera bag, where it had lived for 20 years ( but it was ) ... it showed up again about a year later after I bought a replacement (L something ) and put it where I usually put the "other one" ... it appeared again, together with exposed film that I never bought, stored, exposed and have no idea where the photographs were from. I sold the replacement meter to someone and still use the original seKonic purchased years before. the film is probably in a print file in a pile of other negatives from that time period when they were processed. since then and before then I haven't lost a thing...
 

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Huss said:
At the photoclub? Sounds more like stolen to me if someone there would do that to a fellow member instead of turning it in.
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No; my fault. I put it on top of a cabinet and it fell behind it.took weeks before the cleaning crew eventually found it and turned it in.
 

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Sony RX-100m6. Fell out of my pocket while riding my motorcycle. I looked for it for weeks afterwards and never saw it again.
 

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Don't let others tell you what to do. Unless they're paying clients, of course.
 

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Went on a bus trip to Charleston with a bunch of Leica crazies. Got off bus, and soon after quickly returned to bus for my Linhof monopod. Never saw it again.
Sticky fingers can be anywhere.
 

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Thankfully the only piece of equipment I can remember losing was a Nikon metal lens hood for a 24mm lens. I have a friend who tells the story of a trip to the America back in the 80’s when he watched his tripod collapse and tumble into a ravine taking with it his Hasselblad.
 

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Know somebody who watch their 8x10 Deardorf fall off NJ Palisades. Camera survived. Talk about solid build quality!
 
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