If someone says you have too many cameras...

[Disappointed_Horse]

Visitors to my home are usually not interested, so most of my cameras are kept out of sight in clothes closets.
An additional benefit is that this facilitates plausible deniability... 😉

Chris

And if you have multiple cameras that look similar, that helps too. "No, that's not another camera I've bought, that's the same one I've had for years."

 

[Alpsman]

And if you have multiple cameras that look similar, that helps too. "No, that's not another camera I've bought, that's the same one I've had for years."

"Ah - the other five don't work, they are just for spare parts"
😎

 

[santino]

And if you have multiple cameras that look similar, that helps too. "No, that's not another camera I've bought, that's the same one I've had for years."

It works a treat, the M3 to MA are indistingushable for „normal“ people… heck even an MD could fly under the radar 😉

 

[farlymac]

My current collection is my second one as I had to sell off the first one when I went on sick leave from work. It was only around a hundred cameras plus some darkroom and studio equipment. Sold it all at an auction by a seller who didn't know what he was doing when it came to cameras, so he asked me to be there to give descriptions about what was offered. It was sad to see all the fixed lens rangefinders go for ten dollars for a flat of six because he did a lousy job of advertising the sale and there weren't many folks there interested in photography gear. I got more money for my two crates of vinyl LP's than any camera sold.

PF

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

In answer to the thread title, I just ask them how many pairs of socks (or underwear depending on who they are) they have and that usually ends the conversation.

Most of my digital cameras look sufficiently the same such that I could sneak in a new one without much trouble if I could find a way to get the funding squared away without my wife knowing about it. This is near impossible since she handles all the bill paying and such.

 

[helen.HH]

A no brainer
Tell them Better than a Harem....
Different type of fondling .... 🥳😍‼️

 

[KoNickon]

A no brainer
Tell them Better than a Harem....
Different type of fondling .... 🥳😍‼️

I wonder how long till I get in trouble for this ...🙏

And less upkeep! 🙂

 

[Shadams]

A no brainer
Tell them Better than a Harem....
Different type of fondling .... 🥳😍‼️

Whew... that might be a toss-up. Although...
I have a friend who claims that she can only get work done when she lets her husband think she's with her boy-toy and her boy-toy think she's with her husband. I'm not sure that it's apocryphal, but I can only imagine the time spent in managing that.

 

[Alpsman]

A long-time, good girlfriend of mine, who has since passed away, had a closet full of 96 (ninety-six) pairs of shoes. She was very proud of it, could find a specific pair of shoes nearly blindfolded.
She was one of the very few people who could understand my closet full of lenses.