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Old 9th August 2016, 08:05 PM
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I have just totted up the replacement value of all my photo gear for insurance pruposes and to be brutally truthfull I could have bought quite a decent 2nd hand car for the value in photo kit, inluding cameras lenses, darkroom and computer gagetry.

More surprisingly, the largest proportion of the value is in the Darkroom Section. I know I didn't pay the value that I have listed but it is replacement value, not what I paid for it.
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Old 9th August 2016, 08:49 PM
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It's all relative John, my enlarger would be £2,400 for a refurbished model, considerably more new, That;s with no lenses etc. I bought it complete for £600 12 years ago but they rarely appears secind hand on Ebay now.

But it's cameras as well my latest cost me £50 has cost me under £5 to fully restore and could be sold for anywhere between £500-£800, it;s ULF so very desirable for wet plate.

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Old 9th August 2016, 10:19 PM
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I re-valued my LF kit a couple of months ago for insurance purposes and the total was staggering.

The thing I found strange was how the costs were spread out - OK the camera body and the lenses are fairly obvious big ticket items but it was how the many many seemingly insignificant things accumulate to become major items of expense.

Rather sobering.

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Old 9th August 2016, 10:57 PM
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Some of the gear I have, one does not see on the second hand market. Or if it does appear, it is so infrequent that it would be difficult to gauge a fair price.

What value is a Durst L1200 with a condenser head with a full set of condensers..
Or a clean 360mm Dagor and a functioning Watson 10x12 (with holders)..
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Old 10th August 2016, 07:20 AM
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I collect and use older cameras, and some I bought at Car boots, but the value is almost frightning, plus all my darkroom gear, it's not so much what I paid for any of it butthe replacement cost, just one camera I paid ten pounds for at a car boot, an ambi sillete, complete with the 50 and 90 mm lens, and also a rare lens, the agfa 130 mm lens for the ambi, in the original case, with the finder tucked away in the top, also a werramatic, complete with the 2 lenses, for a fiver, what would those cost me to replace, the 130 lens especialy even if I could find one(in several years I have only ever seen one), or my rolleiflex and cord, microcord, most of us would have a large amount of money sitting on our shelves,
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Old 10th August 2016, 09:58 AM
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Some of the gear I have, one does not see on the second hand market. Or if it does appear, it is so infrequent that it would be difficult to gauge a fair price.

What value is a Durst L1200 with a condenser head with a full set of condensers..
Or a clean 360mm Dagor and a functioning Watson 10x12 (with holders)..
It's very difficult putting values on less common items.

I mentioned a camera I paid £50 for a few weeks ago an un-named 12x10, it needed far less work than the sellers description and photos indicated and I have 3 book-form DDS that. With a lens I've seen similar cameras sell between £500-£800.

As for Dagor lenses my 12" Goerz AM Opt Dagor in a Compoud #3 is coated despite being made around 1940, the previous owner had never used it and it was thrown in with a 10x8 Agfa Ansco camera (it had been the original lens). It's an excellent lens sharp with plenty of contrast. They are cult lenses in the US and even uncoated don't suffer from the usual contrast drop of uncoated Tessars etc. I have a 1913 120mm Dagor in a Compoud and was very surprised when I tested it along with a similar age Tessar and a Goerz-Ihagee Dialyte, the Dagor was very noticeably better than the Tessar.

How do you value these Dagors, the 12" is probably £400-£600 to replace, the 120mm £100-£200 despite the fact I paid £30 for it early this year, it had never been fitted on a camera.

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Old 10th August 2016, 10:09 AM
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I, too, had to tot up the value of my camera gear (the darkroom is insured with the house) and I was shocked. As John King writes, it is a kit that has been assembled over decades and it's a lot more valuable than I estimated.
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Old 10th August 2016, 09:34 PM
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Everyone should be careful to check what is actually covered if people are thinking that they are covered by their household insurance alone on their photographic equipment. I have read in the past of many people only discovering at the worst time, that there are tiny limits put on individual items etc whatever they might have cost / been worth or to replace with similar. You may find that you are either covered for very little or nothing at all when taking items OUTSIDE of the house. Ridiculous I know, but it's worth checking the wording of the policy very carefully.

I haven't totted my gear up recently but the last time that I insured my gear, I went through a dedicated photographic insurer and the price wasn't that much at considering how much was being covered.

It is also worth considering paying a bit extra for public liability if you take a tripod and / or any other bulky item that a member of the public might trip over. Like it or not we are in a sue for just about anything culture at the moment and then combine that with these no win no fee people, well, we have to be very careful when out trying to enjoy our hobby is all I can say!

Food for thought before I pop off to the land of nod... zzzzzzzzzz

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Old 11th August 2016, 08:27 PM
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. Like it or not we are in a sue for just about anything culture at the moment and then combine that with these no win no fee people, well, we have to be very careful when out trying to enjoy our hobby is all I can say!

Food for thought before I pop off to the land of nod... zzzzzzzzzz

Terry S
Very true. According to weekly phone calls I get, I have been involved in an accident for which I am due compensation and that is to say nothing of how much I am owed as a result of being wrongly sold PPI.

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Old 12th August 2016, 12:13 PM
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We are not allowed to set up a tripod in town over here unless the legs are plastered with reflevtive tape, I was nearly arrested a while ago when I set up my bright silver colored manfrotto tripod in King street(A pedistrian precint in town) a couple of years ago, by a member of the Honary police(The second unpaid police force here) fornot having reflective tape on the legs of the tripod, Health and safety law, apart from that, I have my photographic equipment insured by a specialist insurer, plus I have kept up the public liability insurance that I had when I was working as a pro photographer, can't be to careful although the sue for everything culture is not that bad over here, our laws are different to the UK and that type of case is a lot harder to bring over here, although I, like Mike, got a call recently telling me I was due some compesation for a motor accident that was settled, under Jersy law, two years ago,
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