Is anyone too attached to their camera?

[biggpopa]

I know this might sound odd...but i'm hesitant to sell my camera...

Here's the situation......I have some debts, that I wanted to get rid of, so I thought, i'd sell my 5D. I put a package together and even had a buyer....then at the last moment couldn't do the sale.

I have a 30D that I was going to keep, but it wasn't enough. I wanted my 5D.

Am I just being dumb?...i mean it's just a camera. Although I do use it a lot to take pics of my 20month old daughter, and now i have another baby on the way.

I guess I was just looking for someone to say that i'm not being crazy.....it is after all......just a camera..... :-(

[shayneyasinski]

get a second job or use that camera to make some cash taking pics!!

selling it will only have you ending up buying another one

[-MJ-]

Keep one or the other? Make some money doing some freelance?

[biggpopa]

Keep one or the other? Make some money doing some freelance?


Actually I do use my camera's to make money....it's just that business has been slow lately. I think that's another reason why I hesitate.....just incase a job comes up. I have a few bookings but they are all for next year.

[Stealthy Ninja]

Actually I do use my camera's to make money....it's just that business has been slow lately. I think that's another reason why I hesitate.....just incase a job comes up. I have a few bookings but they are all for next year.

easy then, don't sell it. ;)

It depends on your debts. If they're things you can handle somehow without selling it. Then don't sell it.

If big men are waiting to break your legs. Then sell it. ;)

[biggpopa]

easy then, don't sell it. ;)

It depends on your debts. If they're things you can handle somehow without selling it. Then don't sell it.

If big men are waiting to break your legs. Then sell it. ;)


LOL...no...no big men. I can handle the debt...i guess I just don't like the debt. When I was making the part time money from photography, it wasn't too bad....now that business is slow, i guess i'm just worrying....

[reddyroc007]

get a second job or use that camera to make some cash taking pics!!

selling it will only have you ending up buying another one

^^^^he's right.

[Stealthy Ninja]

Maybe sell your hockey cards for cash to pay the debt?! :)

[woos]

Don't do it! Go sell yourself on the street corner instead! :) jk jk

[biggpopa]

Maybe sell your hockey cards for cash to pay the debt?! :)


Yeah...I just pulled them all out. I'm getting ready to take some photo's and start listing on ebay......I should easily be able to make a few thousand there.

[Stealthy Ninja]

There ya go. Ebay is the way with collectables like that. :D

[MichaelBernard]

mean it's just a camera.

My camera's name is Winona..... How many people do you know that name their rig? :lol:

[oaktree]

I'm still attached to my 2 cameras, but I got detached from my 70-300/4.5-5.6 DO pretty quickly.

[timbop]

My camera's name is Winona..... How many people do you know that name their rig? :lol:

I shoot with leonardo, bertha, and jesse.

[zincozinco]

If big men are waiting to break your legs. Then sell it. ;)

hehehehehe!!!

[zincozinco]

There ya go. Ebay is the way with collectables like that. :D

Yeah but now he wants more gear not sell it for the debts.... :)

[matonanjin]

I use my 5D for portraits and that type of thing.
I use my 1DmkII for action type stuff.
My 40D has 1000 clicks on it MAX!

It makes absolutely no sense to hang on to the 40D yet I can not bring myself to sell it.

[number six]

My camera's name is Winona..... How many people do you know that name their rig? :lol:

I do. Mine is "the 30D".

[biggpopa]

I haven't named my camera's ....yet...but i'm sure I will. I already refer to them as females.....lol

Anyways, you guys have been great....i don't feel as bad. I'll just start selling other stuff and come up with the money.

[Nanboh]

I wouldn't sell unless I was giving up photography all together. Replacement cost later on needs to be factored in. I know the 'I hate debt' feeling and sometimes you just want to clear it all up and start clean, but it's usually easier to recognize the love of the camera and then stick with a strict game plan for the debt. Good luck and stay out of the camera and lens forum and you should be fine ;)

[Jaymz]

My camera's name is Winona..... How many people do you know that name their rig? :lol:


I do, all mine have been Lucy.

[blackshadow]

My camera's name is Winona..... How many people do you know that name their rig? :lol:

Winona's got a big brown beaver...

[timbop]

Winona's got a big brown beaver...
... and that was the sound of going too far

[Karl Johnston]

Use the 5D and make some killer photos.
sell those.

[shayneyasinski]

you can find people that need a shooter in the weirdest places, I shot food for a bar menu and made $500 for the days work!!

[Stealthy Ninja]

Yeah but now he wants more gear not sell it for the debts.... :)

Yeah, but I'd rather sell the cards to pay the debt than sell the gear to pay the debt. Who knows, after selling the cards there might be enough left over for some gear. :D

you can find people that need a shooter in the weirdest places, I shot food for a bar menu and made $500 for the days work!!

You can make that in 2 hours if you do portrait work. ;)

[cdifoto]

You can make that in 2 hours if you do portrait work. ;)
But the food doesn't bitch and moan about how her ass looks too big and her boobs look too small.

[Stealthy Ninja]

But the food doesn't bitch and moan about how her ass looks too big and her boobs look too small.

That's what the liquify tool is for. ;)

[cdifoto]

That's what the liquify tool is for. ;)
Girls have complained about the size of their ass even after the liquify tool. If they saw the before ie the reality....they'd have slapped me.

[matonanjin]

Girls have complained about the size of their ass even after the liquify tool. If they saw the before ie the reality....they'd have slapped me.

Classic:lol:

[neilwood32]

Girls have complained about the size of their ass even after the liquify tool. If they saw the before ie the reality....they'd have slapped me.

"does my ass look big in this?" - Nope it would look just as huge out of it!:lol::p:lol: