Is there a camera you like so much that you have more than one of the same model?

Hmm, probably shouldnt admit to it, but I have more than one of the following cameras because I really enjoy using them:

3x OM1's
2x OM2's
2x SP's (black & silver)
2x Stylus Epic's
3x Olympus Trip's

I usually have different rolls of film in each camera, thats how i justify it, haha.
 
I never thought that I would have 2 of any one camera; how silly was that. And the multiples are....

2 Canonet G-III QL17s
2 Canon AF35ML / Super Sure Shots
2 Minolta SR-T 101s, 1 Black dial and 1 Silver
2 Nikon L35AFs.
and lastly
3 Black Hi-Maitc FPs and a Silver Hi-Matic F.
 
I got two Minolta TC-1s, but lost one on the Taxi during my Beijing trip last October....

The other camera I want two is the Epson R-D1s. Not the incoming new model with unflippable LCD though.
 
It depends on what you mean by "same model," but by any measure I have many duplicate cameras, e.g., Contax IIa, Agfa Super Isolette, & Nikon SP. That fact, however, is usually not so much driven so much by how I like a particular model, but rather by the camera's rarity & condition (for really rare stuff, it's nice to have an extra for a "user" & for spare parts) & my practical preference to have an extra body for different films/lenses.
 
I don't remember why exactly, but at one point I owned 3 Voigtlander Vito Bs of various viewfinder and shutter configurations, a Voigtlander Vito II, a Voigtlander BL, and a Vitomatic 1. Also owned two Leica IIIfs at once. Currently the SLR accumulation features an F2A, FM, FM2n, and a N2000. Given a lottery hit I could easily start consuming multiple Rollei TLRs of various lens combinations, oh and the possibilities with Leica M models...
 
Two of each:

Canon P [chrome and black]
Canon F1N
Canon T90

That's it folks. The above cameras are my workhorses.

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I don't know if having two different M models counts or not. Leica M3 and Leica M6.

Rolleiflex 2.8D, 3.5F, Tele, Automat.

Nikon F2, FE2, FG, Nikkormat FT

Argus C3, C3, C4, C44

Konica I,II,III,IIIM

I have others like this.
 
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For me - it's always been a habbit to have 2 same/similar bodies of a camera that I really really like. Problem is - I like too many. 😉
So as of now:
35mm RF : 2 Hexars RF
35mm SLR: Canon EOS 630 and EOS RT (Almost the same models).
MF RF : Welta Weltur 6x6 and Weltur 6x9 - same in all ways but frame/camera size.
MF SLR: 2 Kowa SIX.

Plus I have a few other cameras, but no more twins....
 
I thinned my "collection" out recently, but before that I had:
3 Yashica Electro 35's (now just 1)
2 Canonet IIIG QL17's (1 black, 1 chrome, sold the chrome)
2 Canon P's (sold the later model, kept the earlier, CLA'd one)

I still have:
2 Canon EF's (one has an electrical short and eats batteries)
2 Canon AE-1's
2 Leica M's (a 2 and a 4, but not sure that counts)
2 Fed 2's

If I really like a camera, I always buy a backup, just in case. Not sure why. Insecurity, perhaps.
 
3 x Leica IIIgs
2 x Pentax MXs (black and chrome)
3 Nikon FEs (one black, two chrome)
2 x Vivitar ESs
 
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