car camera

[FrankS]

Where I live I can safely keep a camera in my car except for Jan/Feb (cold) and July/Aug (heat). I've settled on a Nikkormat Ft3 with series E 50f1.8 lens. I won't cry if it gets stolen, yet it's a capable camera which offers toughness and total contol.

Have you got one? (if you have a car)

 

[back alley]

no...



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[Contarama]

My Nikon FE is my car camera but lately I have been toting around a fixed lens rangefinder at all times too...I keep the FE in the floorboard right behind my feet so if need be I can grab it quickly and plus the front edge of the seat sort of hides it from plain view...it gets sort of dusty from being in that location though but I don't care it is bulletproof.

 

[Keith]

I always tell myself I should carry a camera at all times but I never do. If I did I think it would be my electro for the glovebox ... I don't like the camera much but it is very capable.

 

[barnwulf]

If I carried my camera with me all the time my wife would complain because I would want to stop often to look around. When I was shooting a lot of landscapes 6 or 7 years ago, I left her in the car for 45min beside a busy highway. I got into shooting and wasn't paying attention to the time. When I got back I got a high pitched lecture by the road while cars and trucks were whizzing by at 70mph. Jim

 

[Pastor Chris]

I just won a Leica V-Lux 20 in a photo contest and have been using that as a car camera, but after reading the previous posts, I might take my Nikon F3 off of the shelf, load it, and keep it in there as well. I have pushed myself to carry a camera always. Sometimes I feel like a bit of a nerd. I caught the strap of my camera bag on a doorknob last week and my three year old son said, "mommy, daddy caught his purse on the door knob!". The price we pay for dedication I guess. I have gotten some good shots that would have been caught only with my iPhone.

 

[Keith]

If I carried my camera with me all the time my wife would complain because I would want to stop often to look around. When I was shooting a lot of landscapes 6 or 7 years ago, I left her in the car for 45min beside a busy highway. I got into shooting and wasn't paying attention to the time. When I got back I got a high pitched lecture by the road while cars and trucks were whizzing by at 70mph. Jim

Great mental image ... I had a good chuckle!

People driving past would have been thinking ... "I wonder what the hell's going on there?"

😛

 

[peterm1]

No I tend to have a "me" camera. I pretty much always have one about my person even if its just a small point and shoot that slips into my pocket. And these days its always a digital camera so is dependent on batteries. I fear that if I kept a camera in my car instead it would always have a flat battery and be useless.

 

[FrankS]

That's why I chose a mechanical camera for the car. (and for most of my cameras)

 

[Doug]

I don't keep a camera in the car... I just grab a camera to take along.

 

[FrankS]

I usually take a camera with me too, but if I don't, there's one in the car.

 

[presspass]

Nikonos III with 35mm lens, loaded with Arista 400/TriX. It can handle almost anything except available light - no low shutter speeds - and it's impervious to everything except heat and that only hurts the film. A wonderful car camera.

 

[robert blu]

Since I retired I do not drive so much and as consequence no camera in my car. When I was working, having to drive three different areas I always had a film camera in the car, in the beginning it was a Minolta x700. Later the Bessa R with the 35 CV/1,7 took the place.
robert

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

No, I carry a 35mm camera (usually an M6, but sometimes an Olympus SLR) in a small bag at all times. The gear I carry is worth about 30 times what my old piece of sh-t car is, so nothing of value is left in the car because I don't have theft insurance on the car (its only worth a couple hundred bucks; I pay more a year for legally required liability ins. than the damned car is worth!)

 

[kshapero]

I have a Nikkormat FT2 I would love to keep in the car but I am paranoid to do so, not because of robbery (but that would be a bummer) but because of heat. I live in Southern FL. We have discussed this on many threads and I have never quite got OK with this.

 

[haempe]

I end storing a camera in my car because it is definatly the worst climate for camera, battery and film... ever when you really need it, one of the three is down...

 

[shadowfox]

Good idea Frank.
I actually have a perfect candidate, the waterproof (resistant ??) version of the Nikon L35AF.
I shall load it with expired Kodak 200 and leave it in the car 🙂