Leica LTM Street togs, do you use one or two bodies? (Screwmount)

Leica M39 screw mount bodies/lenses

Street togs, do you use one or two bodies? (Screwmount)

  • 1

    Votes: 18 69.2%

  • 2

    Votes: 5 19.2%

  • More than 2

    Votes: 3 11.5%
  • Total voters
    26
When using my IIIcs, I use them as a pair, generally without carrying extra lenses. I've used a 25/35 combination, or 28/35, or 28/50. I keep one camera out and one in my vest pocket.
 
I don't technically get to vote as I don't own a screwmount camera anymore, but after having dropped an Ultron 35/1.7 LTM on the pavement once, I would vote for two bodies. :D
 
Not screw mount, but I use two bodies - with one lens.
Usuallly I just take one body with a lens, but if the action is hot then it's faster to change a lens than rewind and load another roll. Also for two ISO films.
 
Is the poll limited to screwmount bodies because it's harder to change lenses? Someting else?

Just curious, I don't have any LTM bodies and I'm not a street tog either...
 
Two IIIa cameras. One with a Summar, the other with either the Elmar 35 or the Elmar 90. Whichever of these lenses is not mounted is in the bag, along with a couple of extra rolls of HP5+ and a small Sekonic incident meter. I've used this setup to shoot benefit auctions, street stuff, and even working fires and vehicle accidents.
 
I don't own a screwmount camera so I didn't take the poll. And I'm not sure I qualify as a "street tog". But I'll play anyway.

The number of cameras I carry around varies. Just on walks around town, I usually carry one body and lens--either a 50 or 35 equivalent. When I'm on a trip in unfamiliar territory, I'll carry up to three bodies with mounted lenses, two in a shoulder bag and one out and ready to go.
 
lynnb said:
In this part of the world, togs are what you wear to go swimming :)

I think the street is a good place to KISS :)
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To follow up from Lynn,
While togs are of course for swimming, they can also be worn on the street within close proximity of the beach. My limit is across the road and even then only for fish and chips, ice cream, or to get to the car, and if I can't see the beach anymore, then togs are no longer allowed. Togs are defiantly not allowed for participating in street photography, as it doesn't fall within my three allowed activities listed above (fish and chips, ice cream, car).

Of course Budgie Smugglers is the preferred term for the item of "clothing". On a side note I wonder where "togs" comes from? Slang for "costume"?
 
michaelwj said:
On a side note I wonder where "togs" comes from? Slang for "costume"?
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From Old French togue, from Latin toga ‎(“cloak, mantle”). It started being used by thieves and vagabonds with the noun togman, which was an old slang word for "cloak". By the 1700s the noun "tog" was used as a short form for "togman", and it was being used for "coat", and before 1800 the word started to mean "clothing". The verb "tog" came out after a short period of time and became a popular word which meant to dress up.
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tog#English

:)
 
However cumbersome I find the carrying of multiple bodies to be, changing lenses on the go is even worse. I would carry two bodies : one with a wide, the other with a small tele.
It isn't screw mount, but I do carry two cameras all the time : a ricoh GR for a 28 equivalent, and a fuji XE2 with a summitar for a 75 mm angle of view. Ideally, I'd have a standard too, but that would mean 3 cameras, and I find I want the wider or narrower view more often than the middle.
Two bodies, definitely. One in the hand, the other on the shoulder.
 
street tog...it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it?

it's a bit better if you say it in a japanese accent:

"stu-reet-toh toh-gu"

might get you slapped upside the head, though. :D
 
What difference does 'screw mount' have to do with the amount of camera bodies one carries with them?

Don't quite get that.

Anyway, less is more. Strip it down, keep it simple and focus on the work.
 
Also -- "tog" reminds me of the obnoxious frat-boy wannabees who make themselves a PITA to innocent pedestrians for yucks on YouTube videos.

Count me in as one of those not real fond of the term.
 
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