How many cameras do you take on a long trip?

How many cameras do you take on a long trip?

  • 1 camera

    Votes: 93 14.4%

  • 2 cameras

    Votes: 313 48.4%

  • 3 cameras

    Votes: 173 26.7%

  • 4 cameras

    Votes: 39 6.0%

  • 5 cameras

    Votes: 13 2.0%

  • more

    Votes: 16 2.5%
  • Total voters
    647
I just got back from 10 days in Germany, I took a Leica M3, 50mm ZM Planar and lots of film. My bag was very light and my shoulders didn't ache after 8+ hours of sightseeing. It rained most of the time but I didn't stop shooting and the M3 didn't miss a beat. Using a single lens and non-metered camera was quite liberating.
Nick
 
One of the best (camera) decisions I ever made was taking just my Yashicamat and my Olympus mju:II to Berlin. In fact, I *should* have just taken the mju.
 
Aloha~

The two favorite vacation cameras I've been using in 2007:

One is a Minolta 110 Zoom Mark II camera! It's darn light, very durable, features painless film loading, and a 12-element 24-67mm zoom lens that produces prints equal to 35mm up to 8x10" (really, I've made enlargements). I'm very glad to see that 110 is alive and flourishing in Asia (Philippines, Korea, Taiwan, China) where 110 costs just as much to process as 35mm, so I can get them developed locally and inexpensively if I wanted to (usually I just mail the film back to the USA to avoid airport security and x-rays).

So the Mark II hangs off my shoulder while a Canon 110ED 20 resides in my pocket.

Yes - I'm currently hooked on 110. Please don't banish me from this website. I love 35mm! I really really do!!! Look here at my OM-1n! My Minolta CLE! My Yashica Lynx 14e! Are not thou 110 a kindred humble spirit to 35mm? Or at least to that pitiful stepchild thou nameth APS? (God my Shakespeare sucks...)

//Larry =)
 
Just reading through this in preparation for my first trip via plane in 15 years. Now I have to really think about what to bring rather than what to just pack and throw in the car. My last big trip was by car and before the RF days. I brought a single F4S with a 50/1.8 Ai, a 28/2.0 Ai'd and a 105/2.5 Ais for B&W. Coupled this with a Contax TVS with color film, a mix of E100VS and Agfa Ultra100. Don't think I mounted the 105 but once- but that was to take one of my favorite images of the last 20 years.

Thinking I'll bring the M7's with 50, 25 or 28 and 35 lenses (my currently most used) and a TVS or T2 for snaps. Perhaps a G2/28/flash set-up also?

More pages to read and then more to mull.
 
This old thread lives on🙂
Larry don't tell me you don't have the original!

I have 3!! well technically 2 since my 6 year old bou took possession of 1
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Look, there are 2 Larrys out there with....


Kiu
 

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I recently got back from a road trip up the northern California coast, and then over to Ashland, Or. I took a Canon P w/ 28 skopar, 50/1.8 canon, and 75 heliar; an XA; and a Minolta X700 w/ 28, 45, and 135 lenses. This ended up being too much. I really enjoyed using the 28 on the P, and the XA got a lot of use too. I used the X700 kit in Redwood NP. At the end of the day, however, I don't think my photos were that great. So, I still need to learn the lesson, often preached in these parts, that less is more, and keep it simple.

My wife and I will be hiking in the Sierras in the vicinity of Mammoth Mt. later this summer, and I'm thinking of taking only a single Canon RF (either a P or 7), and one fixed lens rf (either XA or Konica S2). The former would be for b&w, the latter color. Bring along the 28 and 35 skopar lenses (b/c they're so small), and a 50, but concentrate on using the 50 for landscapes.
 
I hadn't responded to this before now as I hadn't taken any long trips in a very long time. But I am gearing up to temporarily move(job for 3 months or so) and am debating with myself about the cameras I want to have with me. I won't have to lug them around once I get there so I think I've finalized the kit as: Zorki 3m, all my LTM lenses(21, 50, 85, 90, and 135), Pentax UC-1(p&s camera for when I don't want to tote much), EOS Rebel II body and two P-6 mount lenses(500 tele and the Arsat/Arax 80 for macro). And likely my Retina 1a just because it's small and I like it. And I really like the results with Kodachrome from that camera. Even with all the bits and pieces for this lot, it will be a reasonably small pile.
If I were staying in lots of different places, I'd be making a much simpler kit to take with me.
Rob
 
As its been for more than a few years now, its one camera and one lens, in the form of a Rolleiflex TLR. My favorite camera; Carl Ziess Planar 3.5/75, 12/24 - the 24 frame film comes in handy in travel, maxed out with a Maxell screen and Harry 'Oceanside' CLA. It humms and purrs and everyone loves to come and have a look, but it never gets in the way. An image and fun like no other... 🙂
 
Well, I am bit eccentric at times bringing 5 or more cameras: 2RF bodies, three lenses--24mm, 35mm, 50mm; 1 medium format, two lenses, 50mm and 80 mm; 2 4x5 cameras, one lens, one 4x5 is a pinhole, and a holga.

I use them all, using them during different parts of the trip. It all works. I know it is a lot of cameras, and how can one use so many and make it work, but I do!

It is fun, and the results are exciting.
 
I usually take two 35mm cameras, Olympus OM-2 with the 50mm and 35mm lenses and my XA wich is my pocket camera for longer walking and strolling around. For medium format I take my Yashica-mat 124G wich serves me well, tough it's quite heavy and the leather strap is one of the most uncomfortable ones I have ever used. (Need to buy a new one, any recommendations? -Offtopic)

The other film bodys that I have (couple of slr-cameras) come along when I feel like it. OM-2 is my main workhorse and it's a very fine piece of equipment for a beginner like me.
 
My first long trip of the year (to Thailand, and maybe Vietnam) is just coming up, and I think I've pretty much decided to take the following...

Leica M6
Voigtlander Bessa-R4A
CV 21/4, 28/3.5, 50/2.5

I'm also undecided about maybe the 15/4.5 or 75/2.5 - my only problem is that I have to take a laptop computer too and I'm restricted on carry-on baggage size.
 
On last 14 day bike trip in France Hexar af, tout court.
Last ski trip Hexar rf with vc 50mm and elmar-c 90mm and Hexar af.
Short 4 day bike trip in France Ikonta Nettar 75mm 6.3 and Hexar af.
Just back from NY for 4 days Bronica rf 65+45mm and Hexar af.

Seems the Hexar af is the favorite.
 
I like owning lots of gear and have quite a few cameras at home, but when travelling it's usually one high quality manual focus camera plus an autofocus compact or two for grab shots or when I just want a pocketable camera. The manual focus camera is generally either my Fuji GS645S rangefinder or a Pentax P5/P50 35mm SLR. The compacts are usually a Muji II (Stylus Epic) and one other -- Ricoh R10 or Konica Riva Zoom. I usually load one compact with 400 ASA colour print film and the other with chromogenic B & W or Delta 3200.

Generally all 3 cameras would fit in one tiny 'holster' type bag designed for an SLR + kit zoom. I usually only bring a couple of prime lenses for the SLR. Sometimes just the fast 50mm.


I recently acquired a Kodak Retina IIc which fits (along with one autofocus compact) in a tiny bag designed for digital compact cameras. That will probably be my small travel kit of choice in future when I don't want to shoot medium format as I've been incredibly impressed by the quality of photos I've had from the Retina.
 
I like to travel light. On a sort of recent trip to Egypt I took a XA, QL17 with 800 film for inside without flash, and a Pentax 928. We forgot the 928 in Cairo so that makes two I guess.
Bill
 
Well, I'm on a family road trip at the moment, driving from Toronto to north western Ontario. I've taken a MF Bronica RF645,with 100 B+W film, Leica M6 with 400 B+W film, and a Hexar RF with 100 colour slide film. Okay, there's a Yashica T4 with colour neg film and my wife with a digi P+S as well. That makes 5! 🙂
 
After confidently posting on 2/5/2007 I've modified my thinking, I've reduced the number of lenses and added a camera. 😱 Still everything fits in my Domke F-2 but now I'm taking two M7s and just 35, 50 & 90 lenses. In addition I'm taking a Polaroid SLR680 and a stack of Polaroid 600 film. I plan to take Polaroid portraits of my subjects and give them as gifts.
 
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