do you own both fixed lens & interchangeable rf cameras?

do you own both fixed lens & interchangeable rf cameras?

  • i own both

    Votes: 107 79.3%

  • just interchangeable lens cam

    Votes: 18 13.3%

  • just fixed lens cam

    Votes: 10 7.4%
  • Total voters
    135
  • Poll closed .
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do you have a fixed lens camera in addition to your interchangeable rf camera?

just wondering as i seem to almost always have a fixed lens camera around but never seem to use them or not very much.
i usually grab the digital if i want a p&s camera.

joe
 
Both. I use them about equally mostly because my fixed lens (Canonet) can shoot shutter priority while my interchangeable (Nikon S3) requires a separate meter. Essentially, I can be lazier with the Canonet. 😉
 
I have both, although my only interchangable lens RF is a Super Press 23. I have only about 3 fixed lens 35mm RF's. The favorite is the Canonet QIII.


back alley - don't you salivate for MF RF again? 😉
 
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Right now I'm using the interchangeable bodies more because I am close to home. When I travel the Hexar AF and/or Yashica T4 travel with me, along with the <gasp> Panasonic LX2 in my briefcase.
- John
 
I always have the Contax T in my pocket, even if I'm primarily using the CLE or M5. I've also got a Voigtlander VF-101(Zeiss Ikon S312 clone) that is on of the nicest compact fixed lens RF's I've ever seen and rarely use it, probably because the T is so nice. This from the guy whose owned and used at least one copy of every Yashica leaf shutter camera made.
 
Still have the Contessa. More chrome than a late 50's Caddy... 😉

William
 
back alley said:
... i seem to almost always have a fixed lens camera around but never seem to use them or not very much.
i usually grab the digital if i want a p&s camera.

joe
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Exactly my experience. But I was inspired by this thread to get out the Konica S2 and take a walk. I'd forgotten how sharp that lens is!
 

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45 years ago I owned my first camera, Waltz Envoy RF with 50 Nikor fixed lens. All my college pics were done with that camera. I bought a set of aux lenses that were junk. Yes I hated the fixed lens. Even used a 2 1/4 Rollie for the yearbook. Craved different lenses.

After graduation a Pentax Spotmatic with 6 lenses was purchased and I used that until I got hooked on an M3 that made those Pentax/Takumar pics look sick. A 125 Hector was mixed onto a roll of slides with homemade adapter. The difference was like night and day.

Since then there have been more M`s, Leica R`s, a few 4x5 settling on a Zone IV with interchangeable lenses 90 to 300.

There is even a Rollie 35 Tessar mixed in 5 years ago with a fixed lens I don`t mind so much anymore.

Latest is a Canon A610 digicam with a fixed zoom.

Forgot the 111C and 111F that are like new but needed new curtains and cla.
These are a joy to use as they fit your hand like nothing else. If fitted with a bayonet to take modern Leica lenses they woud be perfect.

Got way to much stuff I know.
 
I've an RD1s and an R2a, and yet I just cannot stop using my Olympus 35SP. That camera is addictive. I've just bought a copy of Ansel Adams "The Negative" and am hoping that the metering method of the 35SP will be really useful for this.
 
Only a 35RC. I sold the Zorki's because I didn't use them on account of the weight. I can just as easily lug my SLR around as them.

I don't have the cash for a lighter, interchangable system right now.
 
I have a couple of Olympus 35s, an RC and an SP. I use the RC all the time, the SP not enough.

Ian
 
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