Poll: How often do you USE your camera(s)...?

[Kris]

Laika, being familiar with the place actually gives you the opportunities of exploring the best time and the best spot for taking the photo. Also, you can take a photo, request for critique, decide whether or not a suggestion is doable and take another shot of the same subject. That's a really good way to improve. Just don't take seriously bad comments from people who cannot show they are capable of taking good photos.

When I'm travelling, even though I take lots of shots, most of them are mediocre. Simply because I didn't take time to search for the best spot or camera angle, bad cloudy sky when I was there, etc etc. My best shots (according to my standard) are those taken in my home town.

 

[narsuitus]

I usually carry a camera everyday regardless whether I use it or not.

I am not a collector but I do have one unused mint camera that I keep in a box. I keep is as a backup to a working camera. Therefore, it will not be pressed into service until the working camera is lost, stolen, damaged, or broken beyond repair.

 

[sf]

I also carry my cameras every day. I carry the Bronica RF645 and a little Canon digicam for taking vids. I got rid of my laptop satchel in favor of a camera friendly backpack just so I could carry all that stuff around without worrying.

I use my camera at least 5 days a week.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Well, if ::cough:: it isn't an old thread resurrected.

Ah, many of them old ones...oh the melancholy...oh ::cough cough:: the memories...

I carry a camera virtually every day. Rather, I think I hardly ever go out without one. Now, if I only lived in a place that wasn't so paranoid...

 

[terrafirmanada]

I carry both m2 and m3 every day. I think this might be why I have a sore neck, but I can't get myself to carry just one. Sometimes I leave the Luna pro behind, and that seems to lighten the load.

 

[egpj]

Good lord! This is an old thread isn't it. Well, thats OK. I carry everyday and use everyday. Right now I have some Delta 3200 in one body and some SFX200 in the other body. So it has to be either really dark or really light out... nothing in between. I can't wait to finish off that roll of SFX200 then get home to develop it. Mmmmmm NIR film.... yummii!

 

[pixman]

Hi, I carry a camera every day, usually my Canon QL 25. I also go out early every weekend to try for some wildlife shots.

Rod.

 

[tkluck]

I'm not a collector. I'll buy a camera with a dent that works or a book with a little mildew and all of the pages.
I've taken pictures with every camera I own (except for a couple that I still need to repair) because I want to use them.
Re-discovering RF's led to a buying binge. Fixed lens and FSU cameras are so relativly cheap I could afford to try them out by buying 'em.
Fully intend to ditch the ones I don't like, but they were so cheap there isn't enough incentive to get me off my duff. There are a couple I keep for sentimental reasons, and one (a Bolex H8 with ALL the goodies you could screw onto it) that is too cool (and being 8mm, too worthless).

Then my wife's uncle sold me a cureo cabinet for $10. I stuck it in the basment and stuck cameras in it. Presto! I now have a "collection". It must be a collection 'cause it's in a cureo cabinet! Used to be a pile of crap in my office, but now....

 

[raid]

I may be a collector of users camera and I use them all.

Raid

 

[ErnestoJL]

At some time I thougt of myself as a collector, but that means some kind of organization about what I´m collecting... and there is no one.

In fact I just buy what drives my interest, but allways thinking about cameras I will use, not cameras to be placed in a library shelf and collect dust.

The only camera I didn´t yet shoot with is the Kodak Signet 35. It´s as old as I am, but curiously looks younger than the owner, and being a present received from a customer surely it deserves some test shots.
I´m carrying an Electro 35 all the time because of it´s ease of use, then I´m allways ready to take pictures. That´s perhaps the reason why the other cameras I have aren´t used so often.

Ernesto

 

[bobkonos]

I marked "3-4 times per week" but I try very hard to go by the old Mastercard ad: "Don't leave home without it."

 

[ndnbrunei]

I find myself taking my Yashica Electro 35 to places I never took my other cameras! Don't tell anyone. (It is just so cheap and so much fum to play with - it is hard to leave it alone)

 

[steve garza]

Reminds me of

Reminds me of

I find myself taking my Yashica Electro 35 to places I never took my other cameras! Don't tell anyone. (It is just so cheap and so much fum to play with - it is hard to leave it alone)

the teenage years.....

 

[MoTR]

Definitly every day, at least 2-3 frames a day.

 

[TheHub]

I always have a camera with me.

 

[arbib]

I picked 3-4x a week

I take a few of my son during the week..But I may not do anything with them.
I take my Film Camera and a 28 or 35:... my take with me camera...
The 28mm is a great walk about lens for sneeky candids like this one

 

[mfunnell]

I always have a camera with me if only my pocket digicam. I try, these days, to always have a small film camera handy as well. However, figuring out which one is still a work in progress as all I've tried have their strengths and weaknesses. That's in addition to any "real" camera I might take for specific photographic opportunities.

I said 3-4 times/week since "carrying" doesn't always mean "using".

...Mike

 

[Bertram2]

Ahh, one or those wonderful threads, where the fondlers can lie at themselves !

 

[FrankS]

Why so cynical Bertram?

Who do you believe is lying? Let's expose them right now!

 

[landsknechte]

I usually get out about once a week (on the weekends) for serious photography. It used to be a lot more when I worked in San Francisco, and had such a ready backdrop of the urban environment as well as a number of really scenic locations on the painfully long commute home.

There's always an XA2 in the glovebox of my car, and a digital point & shoot in my laptop bag for the opportunistic moments.