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
Voted 10+

Hmmm letsee.....

Canon digital and 35mm EOS system
Canon AE-1 and A-1 with couple of lenses
I have a collection of 35mm Pentax K-mounts and Screw mounts with lenses
A 645 pentax and 67 pentax medium format.
2 Canonets
A few odds and ends including a polaroid land camera and a couple yashica RF.
finally a couple Leicas.

The wife thinks I'm nuts....
 
Glad to say that I use every camera I own. Now some of them are more appropriate for some types of shooting then others.
 
unused cameras...1. Canon AE-1 that sits unused in the shadow of the Bronica.

I'd trade it for something useful, but it is a family heirloom and I can't give it up.
 
I rarely use my GSN anymore (kiev won in rf category as a picture taker), and oly stylus epic sits for already a few years in closet without excercising. So 2 cameras I guess. I do use 3 other cameras I have - oly om, kiev rf anf minolta 800si.
 
I have two GSN's and a 14e, an Oly 35SP, a Canon IIB, a B&J Press along with my wall of shame. These days I feel guilty about not using these cameras. Most of my current efforts involve my RD1 (since 4/06) and my Mamiya 6 and M6. Here are some of the antiques from the wall of shame.
 

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I have used all my cameras but when I buy a new one the previous cameras are stored. I haven't sold a camera in 30 years.

I use an Olympus E1, C50

Leica M6ttl, Minox 35ML both for B&W

I am thinking of using my G2 kit again with colour film.

Cameras I no longer use - Pentax MX, Rollei XF 35, Zenit E and a Mamiya C330f
 
I don't use my

- Olympus 35 RC
- Yashica 35 GTN
- Olympus OM10
- Nikon F80
- Canon G5
- Yashica J
- Olympus XA2
- Olympus Trip 35
- Zorki Mir
- Some Jessops/Centon SLRs.

at all.

If anyone wants any trades for medium format gear - drop me a PM.
 
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I have 2 out of 6, I don't use.

Nikon FTn: Too Bulky, but all works except ...The Meter !! (of course)
Contax IIIa (pre-war) Needs a Shutter Repair and CLA.

Most Used:

Canon D60,
Kiev 4a Film

Sometimes used:

Canon EOS 1 Film
Nikkormat FTn Film
 
More than ten I don't use some Iv'e used once didn't like and just collect some like the brownie dont have film havent modified yet. Some link my Lynx 14 I have to fix. My goal is to use all once and rotate the ones I like thru my bag.
 
Film...
Argus C3
Argus 21
Argus 75 (x2)
Voightlander
assorted old Kodaks
Minolta 7000 & 9000
couple of poloroids
Old Yashika
FED
minolta micro's (x2)
Ducati ,Stuck shutter. (really need to fix this one)
Contax G2 (use)

They all work except for the Ducati.


Digital.....
Cannon sd 300 & 400 (use)
Cannon G5 (use)
Rolleiflex micro digi (use)
Cannon xti (use)
 
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Two Zorki 4's, two folding cameras from the 30's, A Yashica Minister D, a canon P&S and three or four digitals from 0.3 mp onwards


Trying to sell most of them, but unsuccesfully ....

The ones I use are an oly 35RC, minolta 600si and XG, and for digital a canon G3. I can't afford all that DSLR business :)

edit : yeah and that Minolta 400si in my sig.. totally forgot about it
 
Duahhh Im a totol idiot, I had one camera left I dont use as I sold of about 5 GSNs last year. The one I dont use is a Ruski Fed 2 ( I Think ) and I just picked it up and opened it to find half a roll of FomaPan exposed in it, Now I remember I was using last year around the house one day, well i will have to Chem it up and see if anything is left to see what the heck I was using it on......... :bang:


Its more or less a cool paperweight and If I remember right I was exposing some film to check the shutter, either way I get a idiot award for opening it.
 
I've got one camera I don't use. It's a Zeiss Ikon Voigtländer Vitessa 500AE electronic.
It's a rather nice cam in good condition, but I don't bother to find the right batteries for it.


EDIT: Now, I have the batteries and it's a darn good cam!
 
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Generally use all my cameras, but there are three exceptions:

- my grandpa's 1920s folder -- obsolete film format, and the lens is full of haze
- Minox knockoff from Porst (I think it's actually a Minolta) -- 16mm cameras suck
- Zeiss Ikon TLR (not sure which model) -- got it for $30 to use as a paper weight after I sold my Rolleiflex TLR (couldn't justifiy the cash locked up in it, after I decided that I wasn't going to use it anymore -- just don't like the format)
 
Well. I try to use all my _working_ cameras (I have a very old Kodak Autographic 3a Special that's been in the familiy since 1908 but the bellows are a bit leaky, so I don't even try to use it...).

Anyway, some of them are more or less stopped (I have to consciously takethem from the drawer and take a few photos - a roll maybe - just to keep them working). Apart from the odd P&S (a Yashica T4 and a Ricoh GR-1), I have four cameras I love but don't use a lot:

1) A Rolleiflex 3.5f from 1965 (I just don't get to click to the square format. I'll give it another try!!! So my Moskva 5 - 6x9 - gets more action on MF than the Rollei, as much as I love it)

2) A Nikon F-801s (used it much more before getting the CV 12/5.6 for my Leica and Epson, whenever I needed to go really wide. Nowadays, it either the R-D1s or even the M3 with the 12mm...)

3) A Nikon FM2n (if I want film on a smaller format, I pick-up my M3)

4) A Nikon D100 (since I got the D80, it gets less and less attention. But I just cannot let myself sell it. I would get pennies for it and image quality - RAW+Capture - is so good it can hurt. Better than my "old" Nikon D70s - sold without remorse)

Except for the Rollei (also been in the family since long ago), I should probbaly sell the rest but they give me such good memories!
 
Only two.
An almost pristine black Nikon F with a nice F36 motor and battery pack, and a very nice black Nikon F2ASwith MD-2 and MB-1 battery pack. Both are squirrelled away either to replace my street beaters (in the unlikely event they don't outlast me) or be sold.
 
30+ unused cameras. All my bellows collection haven't been used (regardless of a couple being in a useable state), the Kodak Hawkeyes are unused, as is the Minolta Autocord... and the Polaroid/Land camera oddity.

I have three workers... the well-used 350D, "Eva" the Standard, and an Olympus Trip.

I'm currently eyeing up a Canon A1, a Minolta 9000, a Canon T90, a Zenit E, a UK Kodak Brownie 127 Mk3, and a Kiev 4.
Two problems for that lot though... funding and space.
 
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