how many cameras do you use regularly?

how many cameras do you use regularly?

  • 1-5

    Votes: 443 78.5%

  • 6-10

    Votes: 95 16.8%

  • 11-15

    Votes: 13 2.3%

  • 15+

    Votes: 13 2.3%
  • Total voters
    564
Let's see...I have an M3,M2, and an M6, A Contaflex, Crown Graphic, Fed 5, Olympus E-510, Minolta SRT, and Rolleiflex Automat X.

The Fed is a paperweight. It works fine but just feels cheap. The Minolta only has one lens, a 135mm. The Crown Graphic I haven't used since college, The Rollei probably gets about a roll or two a year when i'm in the mood the shoot square.

The M3 was my go to camera in college, used mostly with a Canon 50/1.8 and eventually a VC 28/1.9. After feeling that 28mm was to wide for my uses I sold it, bought an M2 and a 35/2 Biogon. I loved it and still use it on a regular basis. Last fall when I had what you could call a disposable income and after wanting a Summilux for ages I bit the bullet on a pre-asph and love it, Then I got the idea I needed a body for the lens and along came the M6.

So as it stands the M2 and the M6 get the most use. I use the M2 with Tri-X rated at 200, and the M6 with Tri-X rated at 800-1600. Seems to be working out quite well so far.
 
Most used:

Konica C35
Panasonic TZ-3
Yashica GL
Yashica ME
Contax IIa

Not as much:

Nikon F2S
Nikon N90s
Voigtlander Vito B
Kodak Retina IIIC
Super Ricohflex

Waiting for repair:

Rollieflex Automat Model 1
Nikon FG
Ricoh 500G
Ricoh Five-One-Nine
3 Yashica G Series
Yashica MC
4 Agfa Sillette/Super Sillette-Ansco Memar/Super Memar's
3 Zeiss Contina's
3 Yashica 35MF's
Fugica GER
Minolta HI-Matic G
Minolta Hi-Matic AF2
2 Argus C-3's
Argus CC
Zorki 1

That's enough to keep me busy.

PF
 
t.s.k. said:
Whew !
The numbers I have in my head don't seem so excessive now.
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Three,,, but the three seem to change ;-) Last month it was a Graphic 22 tlr, my Nikon F and a minolta 16

Now the graphic is sitting, cause a Rolliecord came to live here, so it's number one and nothing else being used.

The linholf technika has been calling, a guy from work left a Pentax 645 with 5 lenses for me to play with.

I guess my ideal kit would be my old Nikons, the Linholf followed by the "photo du jour".

I'd really like another C33 to join the show here, I really liked that camera.
 
Konica Hexar AF for 90% of my photos. I love this camera but I can honestly say that I only use it because I cannot afford a real rangefinder with a lens of equal quality.

Rolleiflex 3.5F when I am in the mood for sqaures.

Nikon F5 with 28mm and 50mm AI-S lenses when the weather is not cooperative: rainstorms, snowstorms, dust/sandstorms, earthquakes, typhoons, and Armageddon in general...

Olympus Stylus Epic when I go out at night to socialize, and when I go hiking or boating.
 
I use 11 cameras constantly, including MF (1) and digital (1). The only one seeing little use some years ago is the LF one. But I really enjoyed then... This RF/street/film thing is a vice... A decent one, even though it's taken my mind, my soul and my pockets...

Cheers,

Juan
 
Over the past ten days or so, I've used my Rolleiflex 6006, Mamiya C220, Leica M3, Leica MP, Canon F-1 (original) and a Canonet G-III. Just like the look and feel of the old stuff (excluding the MP).

Jim B.
 
I shoot with everything I have...3 Nikons, a Contaflex, and a couple of Sony P&S rigs...someday I would like to shrink down to a Nikon RF, Nikon SLR, Nikon DSLR, and Nikon pro P&S or 4/3s if they would ever make one! I will always keep the Contaflex with it's lowly Tessars because it is bad to the frigging bone!

Put a Leica in my hands and I'd probably bankrupt the family..even if it were digital...LOL
 
Three. My two M6 bodies and my Hasselblad. I have alot of other stuff. Some i use for more specialized stuff, some rarely gets touched. I've sold off most of the 'rarely/never used stuff' to buy things I will use.
 
Wow - so I am not the only crazy one!

In order of most recent usage (and excluding those I have just sold) and including only cameras I have used in the past month or 2:

Leica M9
Fuji X100
Leica M3
Zeiss Ikon ZM
Voigtlander R3M
Toyo 45AII large format field camera
Leica M4-P
Leica M7
Mamiya 6
Rolleiflex 2.8F
Minolta CLE
Konica Hexar AF
 
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