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
narsuitus said:
I have 6 unused cameras:

One that belonged to my mother
One duplicate film SLR that will only be activated when a working SLR is broken beyond repair.
One Polaroid that uses obsolete film
Three broken 35mm point & shoot cameras
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Updated 2018

I now have 9 unused cameras:
One that belonged to my mother
One that belonged to my father
One duplicate film SLR that will only be activated when a working film SLR is broken beyond repair.
One duplicate digital SLR that will only be activated when a working digital SLR is broken beyond repair.
One Polaroid that uses obsolete film
Three broken 35mm point & shoot cameras
One broken mirrorless body
 
I answered two as I have yet to use my Intrepid and my Pentax 67, but I plead that they only arrived within the last two days and I haven't yet had a chance. If I was being honest with myself, it's a lot more - my two Nikons are unused now, as is my OM2n, one Minolta XD7 and my Hasselblad. It's time for a clear out.
 
I would like to use them all but I can't, so only the 35mm ones get used these days.

Some can't be used but I know they work but I've no 127 or APS film.

Some might work but take glass plates and I can't be bothered to find a film back, and experience tells me that many sizes are nominal. There's versions of 6 x 9 cm f'instance. And if I had a film back I'd probably find the bellows had pin holes or the shutters were out, etc, etc.

Others I'd like to use but they need impossible repairs, like my 1930's Exakta needs the mirror replaced*, and so on.

Regard, David

* It fell out and broke one day.
 
raid said:
I have used every working camera I own except a 4x5 camera that I still need to try out one day when I have learned how to laod 4x5 film sheets.
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It's not too bad... just have to use the notches to make sure you know which side is the emulsion side.
 
These days I use Ixus or Nex and M6.

Gathering dust:
6 black ltm Leicas
SLMOT
Konica Pop
Retinette
...and around 100 8mm cine cameras...
 
A few years ago I purchased a Pentax SP-F because it was the first camera I used extensively... but never bonded with the finder... Still have it as well as a selection of SMCT lenses: 28 f/3.5, 35 f/3.5, 55 f/1.2, 105 f/2.8 & 135 f/3.5

Love the lenses...
 
I use all of my cameras intermittently, but I will say that I just performed a massive purge and got rid of 2/3rds of them this past month. Used that money to consolidate my digital Leica setup and it feels good. Too many were shelf queens that weren't getting enough attention. Need to move along my large batch of point and shoots so that's the next step. Problem is, those little fellas constantly pop up because people have no idea what they're getting rid of, lol.
 
I've not used my Nikon S3 2000, which is a little embarrassing but I haven't wanted to be the one to put the first scratch on it. I don't think the previous owner (a member here) used it much at all. Its immaculate. So my S2 remains my Nikon RF workhorse.

I recently bought an Agfa 6x9 120 folding camera, partly because it looked like an interesting camera (and I always wanted to try something larger than 6x6), and partly because it had a very old roll of exposed film in it I was dying to develop. Turns out, the film was completely blank, the camera's lens is seized at 15 feet, there are pinhole leaks in the bellows, and when you cock the shutter the blades open up a little pinhole leak right in the middle until I trip the shutter and then its light-tight again. A pity too since the shutter speeds all sound good and the camera is in great cosmetic shape. But I have not used it.
 
I don't really know, voted 10, probably about right. Some may have been used once or twice when I first obtained them but really, I don't think that counts. One old Kodak that uses a roll film no longer available has been used by loading cut to size photo paper in the darkroom, one shot at a time, but than has been two or three years ago.
 
I have 4 working cameras and use 2 of them regularly. I should sell the other 2 soon, I think.
There are 10 or 20 cameras on my "love to buy and try" list.
I should list those as ones I've never used.

Edit: I have sold some cameras! I have a new situation and will post again.
 
All of my cameras, asides from a couple new acquisition parts cameras, work. I don't use them all but I have. Well, all except my two 16mm motion picture cameras, and that is simply because I can't afford film. I don't think I've ever had a camera which I acquired and then didn't use. I don't believe in shelf queens or collector's items.
Phil Forrest
 
Anything I don't use, I sell. I don't collect and I don't buy for hypothetical situations. I get anxiety having expensive stuff that I don't use. :)
 
I started out with the objective to use all my cameras. I thought it was silly and wasteful not to.

Now, I realize a major portion of the cameras I own actually cost less than a roll of film and development. Not to mention the cost of paper, developer, fixer, and my time.

I still don't consider myself primarily a collector since I buy users only for the most part.
 
As a thrift shop / flea market enthusiast my original plan was to only buy cameras that I would actually use, but then I realized I could adapt lenses and that plan's now shot all to hell. Am slowly working my way though the collection, tomorrow I plan to shoot a 1936 Kodak Art Deco Six-16 folder for the first time.
 
A lot. I have almost a mini camera museum around here. Or maybe I'm just a hoarder.

Some items here were family member's cameras and I still have the Brownie Hawkeye my parents gave me for Christmas one year. I've kept the first new Nikon F2 I ever bought (1974) even though it looks like hell from over 15 years of daily newspaper use and abuse. Those and a few others are sentimental keepers, unlikely to ever be used again. But many of the others are old, heavily-used film cameras that are worth so little it's not worth the effort to try to sell and ship--I've checked.
 
I have three Japanese rangefinders from the ‘60s in the closet that I bought in a package deal at a flea market lest year. I haven’t gotten around to sussing out modern battery equivalents for them yet. The information is readily available but I haven’t taken the time to look for it.
 
Also depends on what you call a camera. I have perhaps 20 homemade pinhole cameras. Various experiments that also had various results, not all worked out like I hoped. So do I count them also? I didn't add them in to the count of unused cameras.
 
Kodak DX7630 - Busted
Nikon D90 - Replaced with a FF Nikon dSLR.
Fuji Finepix S1000fd - Camera has no image buffer. Could get used to it.
Nikon EM - Busted.
Canon S1200 - Replaced w/S1400

Steve W
 
Never used = none.
Actually not used (or no more used) = around 10.
Given the fact I stopped using film cameras in 2016, I have a bunch sitting around.
Next up: reactivate one or two of them and get rid of all the other film cameras.
 
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