Poll: How often do you USE your camera(s)...?

Poll: How often do you USE your camera(s)...?

  • Gosh, EVERY day ofcourse !!

    Votes: 98 30.4%

  • About 3-4 times a week.

    Votes: 139 43.2%

  • About once a week.

    Votes: 61 18.9%

  • Much less than that...once a month if I'm lucky...

    Votes: 22 6.8%

  • Use?! Are you crazy?! It's Mint In Box and staying that way !!

    Votes: 2 0.6%
  • Total voters
    322
My collection is growing and I don't even worry about it. I'm admittedly both a user and collector. I take that back. I collect cameras for the purpose of using them. None are closet queens except for my digital. The cameras I purchase are relatively inexpensive, it's a guilty pleasure, who the hell cares. I embrace my love of these cameras. I've abandoned guilt over it. I was talking with a friend today who bought a new boat. 27 footer. I dunno what it cost - 60 grand? Guessing. He said, "... in 17 years it's mine". I'm glad my toys are so much cheaper, and I don't have to finance them.

Current collection of users, in order of most recent addition first:

- Zorki K4 w/ Leica Summar (like'n this combo a lot I might add)
- last time shot, last weekend. Will post some shots as soon as I can scan them. The Summar is a fascinating lens.

- Iskra Folder (LOVE this bad boy but trying to troubleshoot intermittent light leak) Last time shot, this afternoon, a roll of T-Max 100 ready to be souped in rodinal standing development.

- Konica Auto S3 (last shot, two weeks ago)

- Lynx 14 - last shot sometime in July.

- Yashica Electro CC, last shot, today

- Yashica GSN - last shot, Friday (Use this one a lot)

- Kiev 60 (purchased circa 2003) last shot in May (big klunker but love the low cost MF Zeiss Jena glass...)

- Cosina Vivitar 3000S SLR (purchased circa 1990) last used in July sometime.
 
I have more cameras than I can use at once, but they all get used. I nearly always carry a "good" camera and always a digital p&s wherever I go. When I have time I go out just to see what there is to see and maybe to photograph.

- John
 
I always have a camera with me and take pictures nearly every day. I don't keep any camera I don't use, I'm not a collector at all.

Ian
 
I chose "Much less than that...once a month if I'm lucky..."

I need to shoot more. I would keep a camera with me all the time, but I have no place to keep it.
 
I've made it a practice to almost always have a camera with me. Something I've been doing for so long, that those times that I'm without one, I feel incomplete. This doesn't mean that I shoot every day, but when something interesting presents itself, I'm able to take pictures..
 
When i leave the house I have 2 or 3 cameras with me. My Canon Poweshot G2 for quick and dirty to great, my canonet and a Contax T2. I can livewith out having a camera on me but IF I miss an opportunity because I was lazy my wife would never let me forget that I missed a potenially great photo. By teh same token she can't complain about processing!
 
every day on the train to uni and back, and basically everywhere I go, the olympus XA comes with me. it's so small and good theres no reason NOT to take it!
 
I'd like to shoot more often, but the thing is... I don't have a job where I have to commute by subway, bicycle or something like that every day. In addition, my environment isn't very "urban" right now, so within the week it's hard to see interesting things to photograph. That's really not cool and I'm really looking forward to move away from here.

Anyway... When I go out on the weekends a camera is always with me.
 
Allways have a camera with me, sometimes more than one (other on the trunk)..now, if I take a picture every day... that's completely different.
 
As many who carry camera every day, I chose 3-4 times a week. Actually, I don't count, maybe I shoot 5-6 times a week 🙂

Touching user/collector theme, right this days I felt "enough for now". My latest period covered "P&S of 80ies". I have got some really nice pieces, and were watching AF35ML w/ fast lens and AF-C with complex lens. Some day ago I used Electro35 and I yet have to master RF myself, and maybe that smooth and silent shutter release just let me stop. Well, how I would use very nice Canon P&S with fast lens (coming without lens cap, btw) ? I have smaller cameras with nice lenses. If I want be silent, Electro is answer. So I decided to miss AF35ML which I waited for some time. Minolta AF-C ? it should be very good, it has manual wind and incredible 6/6 f2.8 lens, but hey - it's AF and I've got 5/5 Ricoh FF-70 which makes me smiling when I look at it. To be true, I don't believe there's practical difference in daily use between this both good lenses. So I missed AF-C too ! And how about Pentax PC35AF ? Well, it were -M type, so with motorwind. Hell, I'd like silent version of this Pentax, and FF-70 anyway is on par and has longer exposures too - so I let it go. I know - cameras are more than certain features, and shouldn't blindly compared by them.

Maybe I'm cured ? Maybe I'll shoot more real than "test" rolls ? I just know that I'll continue to shoot using no matters what camera. Limiting range just let me use cameras more often and feel better. But some cameras I have are just because they are nice. So I am somewhere between.
 
My defense against the collecting instinct is only buying cameras that are in working condition, and can be used. Granted, you can buy a lot of working cameras (and I have!) but I haven't bought that Bantam Special (yet!)
 
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