Re: Hoarding old gear - just me?
 

That's excellent, Bruce -- definitely an inspiring thing to do and probably the best answer yet to this question. Thanks.

Re: Hoarding old gear - just me?
 

Interesting ...

I haven't thrown any gear out since my first Hitachi camera and portable recorder in 1982.
I just get too attached to them and the disused ones are still up in the loft.

So I've just done an inventory ...

2 tube cameras (not working)
3xVHS portables (one working)
3 VHS VCRs (2 working)
One S-VHS camcorder still working and one dead S-VHS-C palmcorder.
One DV camcorder. (working)
2 HDV camcorders (working)
Four AVCHD camcorders (three still working).
2x4K camcorders and a 4k DSLR. (Current working kit).

The original Hitachi tube camera was used as a prop in a production of the musical 'Chess',
and the JVC S-VHS camcorder doubled as an on-stage ENG camera running live projections in a production of 'Tommy', so the old stuff is useful sometimes.

Perhaps I should start up a museum.

Re: Hoarding old gear - just me?
 

I've started doing something similar to Bruce for the African Digital Media Academy in Kigali, Rwanda. I'm supposed to be a Video Production teacher there but In talking to the schools founder and another instructor there I realized that while the school has a ton of gear for the students, none of it can be loaned out or used by students for practice, personal projects, additional learning, etc.. because the equipment itself is owned by the Rwandan government. My goal is to create a lending library of sorts.

I also have a small non-profit I created a year ago and one of the things I'm trying to do is gather gear here and there and donate it to local schools and things like that for basic video production classes locally in the Bay Area and such.