I am working through cleaning and de-cluttering my office/studio/rat hole. I shoot 4x5. Over the past decade I have upgraded my equipment for better performance in my target work, architecture, including things that I have to hike to. (Depending on my finances and what I could get a good deal on.) Some has been to lighten the load when hiking, or to allow more extreme/precise movements when I am working from the car. In the process I sold gear I was replacing when I could get what I saw as a fair price, but I kept stuff that I thought was below value or that I was attached to.:-) I also accumulated a bunch of case alternatives.
I am putting off the hard decision - can I do what I like to do with digital and stitching, making my prime kit surplus? What I am looking at are a few lenses. a couple of Sinar F2 cameras, case stuff, extra old style holders, and misc. bits and pieces. Dump it for what I can get and hope someone uses it? Keep the lenses as potential shutter transplant donors? (Prime lenses, so this would be a shame.) Just put it in a box think about it later? (The most likely outcome of this will be annoying my kids sometime in the future when they have to clean out my camera crap when I have passed on.)
I am guessing that I am not the only person with this problem.
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