How many "favorite" cameras do you have?

[Ronald_H]

I love all of them. But if you want a list:

1. My brassed yet dignified Nikon FM. Intuitive, smooth as silk, totally reliable.
2. My beautiful Yashica Mat 124. Iffy film advance and all. Nothing I have ever used makes sharper pictures.
3. My well used Olympus Mju-II. For all its cutesy. tiny, plasticky point & shootness, the tech built into it truly places it in a class of its own.

What, no rangefinders?!? No Leica?!? No. My M2 is a beautiful jewel, scratches, dings and all, and the matching Summicron DR is probably my favorite lens. But as a camera it is too heavy and has proven to be too fragile in use. Many people here are obviously completely devoted to rangefinders but I'd take my FM over any Leica, any time.

 

[BobYIL]

Favorites may also mean the ones we do not want to part with for any reason. My cameras have been purchased through the decades and lived with me through... Today the majority of them I use maybe once or twice a year; but when it comes to selling some of them somehow an excuse "arises" overweighing monetary returns as if selling some parts of my my past.

 

[Ljós]

One: Leica M2. The trick is to have two of them! ;-)
Greetings, Ljós

 

[emjo]

No vacation is complete without at least one film companion (to my 5d2). Usually it is a GA645Zi, but must have a go with the GW690II soon

 

[Aristophanes]

Favourite beer? Favourite Scotch?

These are really hard questions.

 

[kevin_v]

Call me a stickler, but there can only be one. For me (for now): M3 DS. I thought it might get close after I got the X100... but no – I clearly love one more.

 

[Texsport]

All of them because they each perform different functions.

Texsport

 

[someonenameddavid]

Favorite

Favorite

Leica M3DS, but it's in such good shape I'm afraid to take it out, so I bought a relatively inexpensive Contax IIIa, which is not as good as an M3, but a *lot better than a Barnack*... (oooh heresy)..

Then I got bitten by the Zeiss Bug and have a Super Ikonta and a Tenax II. not shot with the Tenax... looking to swap it for a Barnack:angel::angel::angel:

 

[johannielscom]

Only two:

Tele-Rolleiflex 135/4.0

Rolleiflex 80/2.8F​

Seems the Leica's are slowly losing ground to those

 

[steveniphoto]

i have a favorite slr, digital, rangefinder, p&s, instant, m/f, etc so yes more than 1 lol.

 

[jayavant]

I have a favourite in each format.

35mm SLR - F2
35mm RF - M3
6x6 - Rolleiflex
6x7 - Mamiya 7
6x9 - GW690III
4x5 - Shenhao
8x10 - Burke and James

I do have several other formats - including half-fram and 828, but they don;t quite measure up as favourites.

As for vacations - it depends on the mode of transport.

I just got back from Korea & Japan. I was carrying 7 cameras! It was a bit excessive but I bought 2 of them on the trip. I left home with a Bessa L, a Leica IIIf, a Horizon 202, a Rolleiflex, and a Mamiya 7. Also numerous lenses for the Leica & Bessa, and the mamiya. On my travels I bought a Contax T2 in Japan, and an M3 in Korea (which instantly was promoted to my favourites). Incidentally I used every camera except the Bessa L.. In fact once I had that M3 in my hands I lost interest in everything else... even food and sex.

When I travel in Australia however it is often by car - in which case I usually carry at least one large format camera as well as all the others.

 

[Steve M.]

My AE-1 Program is now my only camera, and of course it's my favorite. It takes Canon FD and FL lenses, M42 lenses w/ an adapter, and Nikon and Leica R lenses w/ adapters. The Swiss army knife of SLR's.

 

[sreed2006]

So far, I am getting the impression that there is really no need to pick just one as "the" favorite. For some, including me, it may not even be possible - and that's okay.

 

[Tina Manley]

Leica M9. Used to be Leica M3, then M4, then M6, then M7, then M8.

Next to be MM.

Tina

 

[Fawley]

I have many cameras that I use both frequently and would never sell, so I guess that makes them my favourites. In no particular order:
Minolta XK, Canon P, Kiev 4, Nikkormat FTn, Konica III, Spotmatic F, Canon QL17. I guess if I had to pick one it would be the Minolta XK.

 

[dct]

[...] In fact once I had that M3 in my hands I lost interest in everything else... even food and sex.
[...]

You should sell this idea to Leica for the M10 advertising campaign!

Jokes apart, I like your very concise summary of your gear walk through the world.

 

[migtex]

many fav's, one of the S's, one of S2's, one of the F's, one of the F2's... and on and on...