The 'How many have you got' competition :-)

Rangefinders:

Ensign Carbine, Super Baldax (x4), Canon QL17+QL19+QL28, Ricoh 500ME+500G, Retina IIIc (x2) & Retina IIa, Bessa L, Bessa T, Bessa R2, Leica III, IIIa, IIIf RD, M2 (x2), M4, M6, M6TTL. Most in regular use.

But then there's some stuff in the junk box that ain't ever going to work

Al
 
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hexar rf
fuji gw690iii
fuji gsw690iii

on the wishlist:
fuji ga645
leica m4 black chrome
leica mp a la carte (that looks just like the m4 black chrome!)
 
Leica IIc
Leica M5 2 lug chrome
Leica M5 3 lug chrome
Leica M5 3 lug black
Leica M6 Wetzlar
Leica M6 Solms

Contax IIa
Zeiss Contina
Epson RD-1

The multiple M5s and M6s are a little obsessive, however why change when you find something you like?
 
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Back to the topic at hand -- Just the regular batch of:
Voigtlander R4M
Voigtlander Bessa-T
Leica IId
Leica IIIc
Leica IIIf
Retina IIIc Kit
Zorki 1
Zorki 2s
Zorki 4
Fed 1
Fed 2
Agfa A
Argus C-44 Kit
EKC Brownie No. 1
EKC Brownie No. 2
EKC Brownie Hawkeye
Agfa Isolette II
Tower Folding Camera (that's it's real name)
Busch 6x9
Speed 6x9
Fujica GSW690 Original
and a couple more somewhere that I don't use

21 altogether, each 35mm with its own differing lens for its own differing purpose, and the others with their own purposes in life. I'm sure many rf users have found that some lenses just weren't made to be used on some bodies.

Hmmm... that may be good marital advice, too!

Oh, and I chopped and lowered an old FM slr, replaced the mount with a recessed M39 for my Skopar 25, trashed the prism and mirror, widened the film plane aperture to 64mm, cut, sized, and soldered a Fed cap to fit but lost the rf feature, added a speed grip, drilled-out the 1/4x20 to a 3/8x16 so I can use the extra adapter I have, and added two flash mounts just to balance the thing on a monopod.

Does this one count?
 
Where's the Kodak?

Where's the Kodak?

Reviewing all the posts on this thread, I am surprised that there are so few listings of the Kodak Medalist, or the Kodak 35, or the Regent. I have used the first two from my collection, and both have amazing lenses.

I started counting my cameras to make a list, but had to quit after about 50 or so. I tried to quit collecting last year. But then the Retina III C was discovered for $15, and I was hooked again.

Frank
 
Leica IIIa
Leica IIIc
Olympus XA (3), XA2, 35RC
Kodak Retina IIa
Kodak Bantam
Olympus pen F
Konica Auto S3
Canon QL17 III
Yashica GSN, 35CC
Petri 7S
Petri color 35
GAF Memo 35
Ricoh 500
Voigtlander Vitessa L
Argus C44
Braun Super B II
Rollei 35RF
Minolta HiMatic F
.....along with a few scale focus cameras, 6X6 and 6X9 folders SLR's and TLR's!!
 
This thread has been going on since 2003! Life of its own.

Rangefinders only:

M6 Silver
M6 Black
Olympus XA
(another) Olympus XA
Kiev 4a Silver
Kiev 4a Black
Kiev 4am Silver
Kiev 4m Silver
(does an Stylus Epic count?)
 
They come and they go. Using a Christmas theme and with apologies to Dickens:

The "Ghost of Christmas Past":
Olympus XA w/A16
Olympus XA
Canon QLGIII
Canon QL
Yashica Electro 35 GS
Rollie 35S
Welta Weltur
Ensign Autorange

The "Ghost of Christmas present":
Konica Auto S2
Wards am521
Olympus XA
Crown Graphic (mini)
Kodak Senior 16 (scale)
Kodak Senior 16 (broken)

And the "Ghost of Christmas Future":
Olympus 35 RC or LE
Minolta Hi-Matic 9 or E
Fuji or Mamiya of some sort

I counted the other day and I have owned 44 different cameras. Not all the same time though.
 
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