Camera lens, camera lenses, cameras lenses...

[Ko.Fe.]

I was growing up in country and time where most have one camera, one lens.
More like one family, one camera, one lens. I never feel limited with it.
I was not into macro, astronomy and after birds. Just into what was happening...

I have tried macro, tele and wide lenses, later and in different country and keeping four-five general purpose lenses for three (D)SLRs. Plus, two old digital P&S which are still in use.
On film... , 🙄 roughly, I'm with one camera, one lens (two kits) and bunch of cameras with built in lenses.

Three shelves in the drawer to keep them all. I have enough cameras/lens kits to give for each family member and still have spare left on the shelve.
I think, I could give two cameras per family member and it is big family.

Is there anyone left with just one camera and lens? Per one person, at least 🙂

 

[jsrockit]

This is a rough forum to find someone with only one camera / one lens... most have something else laying around even if they only use one camera / one lens.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

People aren't always predictable.
Why can't we have one individual with one expensive digital Leica RF, one very expensive lens and one mobile phone? It is rough, but still RF forum at some degree.

 

[Spanik]

For years I had one camera and one lens and always felt limited. The lens was always too wide or too narrow.

Think I overcompensated... 😀

 

[coelacanth]

I don't kid myself anymore. No more "no more GAS!" or "one camera, one lens only for this year!" or anything like that. I know I won't keep the promise.

 

[maddoc]

I think that I have about 15 to 20 cameras and 30 lenses and I like and use all of them, some more often than the others. 🙂

 

[Robert Lai]

I grew up with one camera and one lens. It was highly limiting. If you like to be a minimalist who wants to live that way, then so be it. To me, it's akin to living in a monastary and subsisting only on bread and water.

I have overcompensated over the years!

 

[CMur12]

I don't think it is unusual in the US for a family to have only one camera and one lens - at least it wasn't in the past.

As a photography enthusiast, I have considerably more. In 35mm, I have a fixed-lens RF (Canonet) and I have multiple SLR bodies with a multitude of prime lenses. In medium format, I have fixed-lens TLRs and I have Mamiya TLRs with multiple lenses.

When traveling, an Olympus 35 RC or Canonet, with fixed lens, always suited me perfectly. I never longed for more. And some of my best images were taken with my first serious camera, a Yashica TL Super SLR with 50mm 1.7 lens, though I longed for other lenses, if only because the camera offered such interchangeability.

- Murray

 

[michaelwj]

For a long time I had one camera one lens (DSLR with a 50 equivalent). I eventually added a second (wide) lens.
Then I sold that and got an M6 with a single 35 mm lens. Used extensively for over 2 years and felt limited and liberated. (as an aside I recall R. Hicks saying in another thread along the lines of: you can either miss photos because you are changing lenses or because you don't have the right lens - make a choice).
I added a second (50 mm lens) but sold it quite quickly and replaced it with a 21 SA which I like.
Ideally I'd like a second body because changing lenses with the external vf is a pain in the a-ss. So two body, two lens, only one out with me at a time kit would be perfect for me.

 

[rhl-oregon]

Ages 20-34: Yashica 44.
Ages 34-44: add OM-G kit.
Ages 44-57: add OM2s, cheap 28/135.
Age 58: Add Lumix G1 kit...start lurking @rff, photo.net, GetDPI....add 20/1.7, 14/2.5.
2011: Join RFF. (You know the rest. But fast forward anyway🙂
2016: 20+ cameras, 30+ lenses, small/medium/large format. Not getting out of this alive, but going to enjoy documenting the rest of the imaginative journey.

 

[filmtwit]

While I own more then one camera and few lenses, on a daily basis it is one camera and one lens for me.

 

[Peter Jennings]

My dad took up photography as a hobby in the late 60s after picking up a Nikon F with a 50/1.4 on a business trip to Hong Kong. He went as far as developing his own negatives and doing 8x10 prints in a little home darkroom, but he still only had that one camera and one lens.

After a couple years he stopped taking pictures and the camera lay idle until I picked it up as a teenager in the early 80s. I eventually got my own Nikon F and one lens and that was all I had until my first P&S digital camera in the early 2000s.

Now I have a drawer full of film bodies and lenses - mostly rangefinder.

I blame eBay.

 

[vnukov_pk]

While I own more then one camera and few lenses, on a daily basis it is one camera and one lens for me.

Same with me. If i carry too much, I shoot less. Most of the time it's my leica m4 with 35 Summarit

 

[k__43]

as a kid i started with a Beirette SL for snaps: terrible quality. Then I used the Praktica MTL5b of father - he owned a 28/2.8 a 50/1.8 and the very good 135/3.5 CZJ Sonnar. We mostly just used the 28 tho.
I inhereted my first own real camera from my grandpa - a Praktica BCS semi-automatic B-mount camera with a 50/1.8 and that was my only combo for years.
When digital was mass-compatible I got an IXUS40 (beautiful looking camera) and when that dropped on the floor a IXUS70 (even nicer looking)
I later realized that the pictures from my analog days looked just better and I went back to the Praktica which died on me right then, I got a BC1 instead.
After that I became a GAS victim starting to buy more lenses etc and got infected with the RF virus by a little vivitar fixed lens automatic RF.

 

[ian_watts]

I don't have a large kit but am often tempted to reduce to two bodies and one lens (I think I would find a single body more limiting than a single lens even though I'm perfectly capable of changing films mid-roll).

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I put "Else" at the end of the poll just in case. And seven votes for it so far.
I wonder if I forgot "no camera, no lens". 🙂

 

[aoresteen]

I selected else as I have a bunch of enlargers and enlarging lenses 🙂

 

[seakayaker1]

Current cameras listed in signature line with an assortment of lenses, currently four digital, 2 full frame, 1 APS-C and 1 m4/3 and four film, 2 35mm & 2 med format. Younger days was a camera with one lens, then film SLR with a couple of lens, then .......

 

[Big Ursus]

And I just bought another lens - before the Looney sinks out of sight!

 

[Ko.Fe.]

And I just bought another lens - before the Looney sinks out of sight!

Hey, nice to see you again here! High activity on Canadian side. 😉
I have sold two on this week and purchased one.