he market for second-hand cameras continues to grow steadily and it’s not hard to understand why. The past few years have seen a cost of living crisis and as photographers, our spending power is being squeezed as never before. Another factor is the quality of cameras and lenses released over the past decade: few genuinely ‘bad’ cameras have been released in the past few years. Let’s start at the beginning. Many specialist retailers will give you an initial free quote before you send in the gear for inspection. While it can be tempting to describe the condition as better than it actually is, in the hope that they’ll be too busy to check and will just cough up, the reality is that you’ll be fooling nobody. All equipment submitted for potential purchase or part exchange will be rigorously gone over by a specialist team, so check over what
