What camera are you carrying RIGHT NOW?

I'm working on an Zeiss Ikoflex Favorit and have made some progress with a stuck shutter. I'm praying to the Germanic pagan gods for some good fortune here.
It's nearly pristine cosmetically and the meter seems accurate but I've been flummoxed accessing the syncro compur shutter.
It's working at all speeds now after flushing and exorcising a bizzilion times, but still hangs occasionally. I also haven't figured out how to get the B (bulb) setting. It has a complicated cross coupled shutter/aperture control mechanism and I have found absolutely NO actual manual on the NET for this particular TLR. Other Ikoflex's, but not the Favorit... and it's the only one with this dang cross coupled thingimabob.

Oh wait, never mind... I just figured out how to access Bulb. It's that mysterious switch on the bottom of the shutter. Yeah. I might just have a rather rare 1956-60 German Zeiss Tessar 75/3.5 Ikoflex Favorit TLR with a working meter before too long.

Anyway, I've got a Nikon F3HP loaded and beckoning me to try out. I just got it on Sunday and haven't used it, but I'll bet it shoots flawlessly with no maintenance or repair necessary. I'm sure of it, although it did mess me up this morning after loading film in it. The meter doesn't work unless the counter has been advanced to frame 1... tricky!
 
It's raining here today (hard) so the disposable SLR will be making an appearance. That would be...

Nikon EM & 50/1.8 E series lens. Tri-X will be the wet weather choice as well.
 
Test day - Fuji DL Super Mini Zoom w/ slowish lens, rainy and heavily overcast - so I dropped in expired 800Z.
 
I got an M4-2 about 2 months back, and a Canon LTM 35/2 a few weeks ago, so they're my mainstays at the moment - I took them on a work trip up to Sydney yesterday, with a Lomo LC-A and an Olympus XA2 for "backup". Less time for photography than I expected - I think I managed about 3 shots on a fresh roll of Ektar before heading to the office this morning and finding out I'd be heading back home this afternoon!
 
just back inside from some test shots with a Nikon One Touch 35/2.8 I bought at a thrift store yesterday for $2.98. Looks pristine, and acts that way with two AA batteries and a roll of Fuji 200. It is blocky, and seems primitive compared to my Stylus, but it sure seems to work precisely on focusing and flash. It probably will ride to town with me in a bit to pick up some disc brake pads and 5 quarts of oil for our Scion XB ...
 
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