The Right Camera For Street Photography

[Mcary]

I agree completely... but others swear that it doesn't matter to them. I'm not sure how you make an intelligent purchase if everything just works exactly the same for you. You would think it would be based on price, but yet the same people who say the camera doesn't matter use expensive cameras. Comfort is everything to me when it comes to a camera. If I'm comfortable with what I am using, then I have no excuses when it comes to making photos.

Photography is something I do because I enjoy it. So if using a certain style, and or brand of camera is going to add something to that experience well then that's the camera I'm going to use.

 

[Calzone]

In NYC cameras are everywhere so there is a great amount of lattitude in camera selection. I tend to go more with the wides rather long lenses where I can scale focus and meter off the back of my hand just for pure speed.

I happen to shoot rather conspicuously with cameras that are either loud like a a Nikon F3's with motordrives, or bigger MF cameras, and most of all I very often carry two cameras.

Overall I perfer to shoot wides for street, but this requires getting close with a 28, 24 or even a 21.

My new Plaubel 69W produces 6x9 negatives and is a 21mm equivelent, but I consider this rig to be my "Subway Camera."

Cal

 

[mfogiel]

The photos of this guy are, I would say "sufficient". Technically looking bad in B&W and in colour they look like "accidental" colour photos, i.e. colour is not playing any important role in them, so they could be defined as "missed B&W conversions"...
As to the choice of camera, it obviously depends on what you want to get. There are days, when I shoot with an M7 and 50mm, 35mm or 28mm, there are days when I take the Zeiss Ikon SW and a Biogon 25, or 21 or Voigtlander 15 0r 12mm, there are days, when I take a Nikon FM3A and a 100/2 Makro Planar, or a Hasselblad SWC/M with a 16 back.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Speed Graphic. There is no substitute.

Phil Forrest