How many different cameras do you use?

How many different cameras do you use?

  • 1 t0 3

    Votes: 33 24.1%

  • 4 to 6

    Votes: 50 36.5%

  • more 6

    Votes: 55 40.1%
  • Total voters
    137
  • Poll closed .
For me, much of the pleasure of photography rests in using cameras. I love them. All kinds of them, but six at one time is my limit. After that, there are just too many and some inevitably sit idle. It also starts to get expensive and wasteful, so I tend to let a few go and scale back. Then I start adding just one more, all over again.
 
My gear/gadget days are over (famous last words I know, but at least for now). I use X-T3 for work, underwater, and many other things, and M4-P for all film/hobby b&w shoots. That's it.
 
It is not about using simultaneously two cameras with both hands.
Have you ever had two cameras with you in a camera bag?
 
With over a hundred cameras I've acquired over 50 years, from Minox 8x11mm to 4x5, but mostly 35mm and medium format, I have a rotation scheme I use - both for getting reasonable use from them and for ensuring the bodies and lenses are in working order.

Any issues found get sent for repair and CLA.

I usually select one camera as a daily camera to be used for several months. During that time, I will load and use other cameras for specific projects.

A few months ago I was using a Contax IIIa. I've just finished using a Nikon S2 for two months. Now I'm using an SRT-101.

Digital is always a possibility for use on the spur of the moment. I'm currently grabbing my new-to-me K10D all the time.

Of all the many thousands of photos I have, I'm sure less than a hundred have been scanned into my computer system. Only a thousand or so prints are in albums. Many have not been printed and most prints are in boxes. I do enjoy spending a few afternoon hours occasionally looking at my prints - old or new. About a dozen or so prints are framed in my house.

I blame Popular Photography and Modern Photography for infecting my young teenage mind with camera lust.
 
raid said:
It is not about using simultaneously two cameras with both hands. ...
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Yes, I know that. I was trying to be funny - haha.

There was a time I carried two Leica R (when I was an R user) or two M bodies with me on an outing (the second for a back-up), but that's when it was affordable to do so.

Nowadays I never carry more than one body with me (and only one prime lens is generally selected for the day).
 
I know I have too many ( around 30!) . Of which two haven't been used in the last 12 months and around 10 have seen more than a half a dozen rolls. I like cameras , what can I say.......
 
ACullen said:
I know I have too many ( around 30!) . Of which two haven't been used in the last 12 months and around 10 have seen more than a half a dozen rolls. I like cameras , what can I say.......
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It's ok, you're among friends. ;) I just bought another camera from a suggestion on another thread. I don't need it. But... :)
 
raid said:
It is not about using simultaneously two cameras with both hands.
Have you ever had two cameras with you in a camera bag?
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One way around this problem is to use a stereo camera. My Wirgin Edixa Stereo takes 2 photos at once, and has two separate dark chambers. Does that make it one camera or two? :)

Back to the thread, I have dozens of cameras and my buying criteria is "will I use it?". I derive a lot of fun from trying different film cameras and lenses, and the satisfaction of capturing a nice image using gear that is 50-60 years old or more. I probably used about 12 or more different cameras in the past year.
 
BillBlackwell said:
Yes, I know that. I was trying to be funny - haha.

There was a time I carried two Leica R (when I was an R user) or two M bodies with me on an outing (the second for a back-up), but that's when it was affordable to do so.

Nowadays I never carry more than one body with me (and only one prime lens is generally selected for the day).
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Since a week I carry just the M9 in a snug one camera bag to keep things light.
 
Thing about film cameras is that, even unbidden, they seem to accumulate. We all know the drill; a friend drops by with a box and...’I know you like old cameras, we found these cleaning out uncle Fester’s house.’
Then they drop the box and run.
The last three to arrive at my house were a Kodak Tourist with a 100mm f8.8 triplet, a Kodak Brownie #3 and a Polaroid Colorpack II.
 
I try to have no more than one of each type of cameras loaded with film at any time, because I want to fill and develop the films not too far in the future, and because I like to have some cameras empty to fiddle and play with. Usually loaded are:

A compact I carry everywhere, but rarely use (these days a Ricoh FF-1).

A medium format camera, usually a Minolta Autocord, mostly reserved for deliberate stuff from a tripod.

A 35mm RF, one of two Canon LTM bodies, P or 7.

A 35mm SLR, most of the time a Minolta XD-7, but right now a Pentax MX.

A few others get fed some film from time to time, maybe I should consolidate to those I use frequently.
 
I use three in a low-medium-high mix.

Low:
Minolta SR-1S with 28mm, 55mm, 100mm and 135mm Rokkors.

Medium:
Nikon F with ten Nikkors.

High:
Leicaflex SL MOT with 35mm, 50mm and 90mm lenses.

I use the Leicaflex the most and the Nikon F the least.
 
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