how many cameras do you use regularly?

how many cameras do you use regularly?

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    Votes: 95 16.8%

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    Votes: 13 2.3%
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I pretty much never leave the house without my Nex 5n and my X100 in my bag and my iPhone 4s in my pocket. The last 2 times I went out I only took a single camera/lens setup with me and found it totally liberating, so that will likely become my new strategy. Adding a M4-2 to the mix shortly, and that will get added to the rotation. Going to start some projects next year to make sure all of my gear gets the attention deserved. 😱
 
I have large collection of cheap bodies and to keep them in working order use all of them few times in a year, but my basic camera bunch consist of minoltas: X700, X570, X370, XG-M, sr-T SC-II, then two M42 cosinas, then pentax program plus and SF-1n.
 
I find that if I'm jumping around between too many cameras and lenses, too often, I 'get lost in the gear' and find myself distracted. So although I've got a fair brace of cameras and lenses to work with, I'll tend to concentrate on one or two cameras and a couple of lenses for long periods of time.

I've acquired too much gear this past year so I'll be spending 2012 making photographs, selling off gear I no longer use, and trying to stay away from places that incite my magpie syndrome to nag me to buy more cameras. For film, I'm concentrating on the Leica M4-2. For digital, I'm concentrating on the Ricoh GXR-M. Two cameras, two formats, shared lenses.
 
All of my "normal" cameras get regular use, although the notion of regularity depends on the camera...

The LF gear does 50 clicks a year at most.
The Rolleiflex shot close to 150 films last year.
The Hasselblad about two rolls a month
The 35mm is about 20 rolls a year
 
If "regularly" implies weekly use: I use regularly Leica M6, M3, Bessa T, Minox GT,
If we look at usage each month, I would add to the above mix the Standard Leica and the Hexar RF.

These are my workhorses.

I also use here and there the MF cameras, such as the Roleliflex TLR and the Graflex.
Least usage is for my SLR cameras.
I have never used my Linhof 4x5 camera .... something that bugs me.
 
It was the "regularly" that did me in. I have at least 11, but have been trying to use fewer of them rather than more. Right now I'm down to two: one digital, one film.
 
I often use:

Sony NEX-7
Sony NEX-3
Canon EOS 5D

Not that often but still regularly I additionally use:

Canon EOS 40D
Sigma DP1s
Leica Digilux 2
Panasonic Lumix LC5
Sony DSC-V1
Panasonic Lumix FX37
Zorki-4 (which has become my most used film cam)
Leica C2
Yashica Electro 35GS
 
I have the M3/M6 almost always ready for use, but I also switch to other cameras each weekend. Last weekend I had the Mamiya 645E for a change.
 
Only two well actually only one right now.

Olympus OM-2 in my man bag/camera bag (Crumpler Messenger Boy-8000) that I have with me every day.

Yashica 124G away being serviced at the moment will get used a lot I hope when I have time to relax and enjoy the photo taking process.

Other stuff in the wardrobe and on the shelf that needs to find a new home.
 
In alphabetical order: Canon D60 (yes, I know it's ancient as DSLRs go), Nikon S2, Olympus FTL; Olympus OM-1N, OM-2N and OM-4, and Olympus Pen F and FV.
 
Holga: Lives in my car but doesn't get used much. Took a few shots like 2-3 weeks ago.

Yashica MG-1: My most used 35mm camera. It almost always has an active roll in it.

Mamiya 645e: My most used camera period. It also has an active roll in it pretty much all the time.

Mamiya 645 1000s: Gets a decent amount of use, but i haven't tun anything through it in a few weeks.
 
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