Do you know where your cameras are?

fuji645 said:
Thought I lost my M mount 50 2.8 Elmar last year. Was taking pictures of sailboats at a harbor in upstate NY, remembered switching to my 35 Summaron. Got back home, couldn't find the Elmar anyplace. Gave it up for lost. Fast forward to last May, fumbling around in a closet looking for an old jacket, felt something heavy in a pocket--surpise! Elmar has returned. Love that little lens. Lost but never found--my trusty Metrastar meter at a photo shoot at a church. Never saw it again. The moral to all of this-- hold on to what you have, it's hard to replace.
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After the Great War my Church of England grandfather and his young bride converted to Roman Catholicism. When they left the church after their first Mass the priest saw grandfather take his coat down from the pegs in the porch.

" I wouldn't leave it there, sir; you don't know the flock very well yet, I can see."

Things haven't got any worse.
Tom
 
Well, I always know where A camera is. I might not be able to find them all at a moment's notice, but I can quickly put my hand on the one I'm shooting with.

Good luck to Francis.

Wes
 
Roger Hicks said:
What's your worst story of mislaying something, then finding it again?
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My story doesn't qualify a hundred per cent as an answer.

In the early 70s I was given a handful of "classic" cameras, among them a IIIc with a Canon 50mm lens. About ten years later I had been out and about, and carrying the IIIc, when I remembered I had to make a phone call. I found a callbox (one of the old, red, Giles Gilbert Scott-designed ones that we common in the UK), made my call (which turned out to be stressful), and then left. Less than 30 seconds and a hundred yards later I realised the IIIc in its case, complete with lens and exposed roll of film, was still on the shelf inside the callbox. Wrong!
 
Living in a tiny, albeit ridiculously expensive Manhattan apartment, we don't have such problems. Everything you own is easily in view, all the time.... No pesky upstairs/downstairs issues to deal with. No clumsy walls, or spare rooms to worry about....
 
I always have one lens whose lens is an entire mystery to me. By the time that turns up, another is hiding. I just last night found my CV 28/3.5 that had been missing for weeks. Before that it was my Angenieux 12.5mm f1.3.

I'm a bit of a sucker for asapters (M-micro 4/3, Nikon-C mount, CY-M, Adaptall-II etc etc), and one consequence of that is there are many bodies that a lens could have been mounted on last. And I have multiple bags/boxes for gear at home. Plus at least three or four 'standard' flat surface locations gear often ends up in.
 
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