How many unused cameras do you have?

How many unused cameras do you have?

  • None! I've used all my cameras!

    Votes: 212 30.7%

  • 1

    Votes: 64 9.3%

  • 2

    Votes: 51 7.4%

  • 3

    Votes: 41 5.9%

  • 4

    Votes: 27 3.9%

  • 5

    Votes: 42 6.1%

  • 6

    Votes: 26 3.8%

  • 7

    Votes: 15 2.2%

  • 8

    Votes: 12 1.7%

  • 9

    Votes: 9 1.3%

  • 10

    Votes: 12 1.7%

  • More than 10

    Votes: 179 25.9%
  • Total voters
    690
My Asahi pentax 6x7 camera is the one that I love but never use,
despite the fact that I have 5 lenses with this cam.
I made fantastic photos with the 6x7, but find it too much work nowadays.
 
Well, there's four, but with a qualification:

- Polaroid 95, late 1950s. My dad's, which hasn't had a roll run through it since before he died (1977), and never will, since Polaroid stopped making film for it some time ago

- Kodak folder (1920s vintage), given by a friend a while back. No film made anymore for it either (well not officially, but I'm not going out of my way to find any re-cut/re-spooled product).

- Kodak Brownie Starmite. In sorry shape, but I like having it around. It's happy-snap days are long-gone too.

- Polaroid Spectra outfit (camera, remote control, filter kit). My mom's, which also saw little use (of course, she was a painter so she had an excuse). I might buy a pack of film for fun soon, but I'm in no real hurry. If it was a "Holgaroid", on the other hand, I'd likely go on a tear with it.


- Barrett (reluctant collector)


- Barrett
 
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I don't use the historical prewar (WW1 and 2) stuff as most of them have sticky shutters and many use obsolete film. I keep them for the occassional talks I do on the subject. Post war stuff does get an occasional outing with Yashica GTN and Olly XA heading the most used list.
 
If they are working, I use them. I have only one that does not work, Mockva 2, and it sits on the shelf.
 
I have put at least a couple of rolls in each of my working cameras...

... save for one, a mint, full-plastic Minolta Dynax 505si which I couldn't help to rescue from a second-hand store for the princely sum of 32 euros - with a view of handing it to one of the kids when they might want a lightweight film SLR to use with one of the dozen Minolta lenses I have. Not sure it will ever happen.

And I still have to list the Bessa L with a stuck shutter on ebay. But it doesn't count.

The Kiev and my older son's Petri (thanks again, Brett) do see quite some use, though.
 
What a scary poll :bang: :bang:

Why remind us of the toooo many cameras we have that we just don't ever get around to using.

I try to use some odd items once in a while, but still have 3 or 4 dozen that just haven't been on a shoot in years. Not because they aren't working, or aren't good shooters, just because I don't have the urge to use them. And this isn't a very good time to think of unloading, with the market rather full (no smile that looks like it's bursting...)

Harry
 
If I sunk $6000 into my dream Leica outfit : A la carte, M3 styled MP with Noctilux. . . I'd have one unused camera. The Leica.
 
I'm not counting the defective Leica iiic that is now in bits and pieces in the hands of somebody I'm getting more and more impressed with as his operations continue. I've never used that one, but it will get lots and lots of use as soon as it's back ! That's why I buy cameras. I fondle them a bit and then I get the urge to start using it. So I buy it and I go out and use it 🙂 Life is simple 🙂


Peter.
 
New arrivals (last week: http://www.taunusreiter.de/Cameras/Praktiflex.html#Exakta_1954)
makes me feel like christmas. The best thing than is, after unpacking, checking the controls, looking for the shutter and so on, is inserting a film and feel how it works photographing with it.
A photographic machine is a tool. The best for a tool is to work with. A tool which was never used to work will evolve depressions and cease function soon. This is expecially true with old shutters and stuff...
A lens stored in the dark will go blind like a human eye (fungus and stuff)
With exception of one, all of my cameras (~40) do work. Some of them don't work 100% but good enough to put films through.

cheers Frank
 
Voted 4, but it might be three...

Voted 4, but it might be three...

Three of the inexpensive rangefinders haven't been used because I haven't fixed the light seals yet, and my AE-1 hasn't been used since I bought an A-1 to replace it. I did use it for close to 20 years though.
 
XAos said:
All your unloved Folders & TLR's are belong to us!
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ROFL; that was hilarious.

I easily have over 10 unused cameras, which only now I'm seeing as a problem of sorts. I just boxed up some of my unused cameras to clear out space in the baby's room...after all, he has to wait until he's at least a year old to start chewing on camera bellows. Into the box went the Kodak Tourist(s), Polaroid Reporter, the F-1N with a need for a new shutter, the Brownie Hawkeye...in short, most of the non-RFs and those cameras I inherited nearly for free.

A travesty that I can't seem to get around to shooting w/all of them. There's a keen distinction, though, between cameras I'm not using and cameras I've never used. I actually have very few of the latter type, so I guess my vote corresponds to "currently unused" cameras.

It's of no small significance that my broken/in-work FSU RFs are still sitting on a shelf within easy reach. Only an FSU owner would put perfectly functional MF folders into a box and keep the busted FEDs easily available.


j.
 
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2 is too many

2 is too many

It all depends... but I have two cameras that are totally unused by me - one basket case Rollei 35 (anyone need a parts camera or have too much time on their hands?) and a Balda Baldix 6x4.5 folder that's got a sticky shutter. And then I have 8 or 9 less used ones, which means they got one or two rolls thru them in the last year. Most used RF is the Leica IIIf. Otherwise the Pentax Spotmatic gets the "most used" vote, overall.
 
I have an unused... really unused, new in the box Leica MP with 50mm Summilux which was bought on the day my son was born. I will pass this on to him when he has become of an age that he will be able to use it.

I still have the M2, also brand new in the box, never had a film run through it which my father bought for me on the day of my birth. I do go through all the motions every now and again to keep it "in sync"
 
The only camera I own that I have not used is a 1902/3 Kodak vestpocket B . The other 28 have all been or are being used regularly. People do look at you funny when you are shooting with a couple of old box brownies and an XA.
 
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