What Camera Do You Carry With You Everyday?

In my 20’s, I went everywhere with my Pentax SP500 and 55/2 Super Takumar, took thousands of photos.

In the late 1990’s I used to carry a Ricoh GR-1; it fits perfectly in a shirt pocket. Fun to use. In 2005 I switched to a Konica-Minolta DiMAGE X1, which fits even better in a shirt pocket. It was my first digital camera, very capable, and I still use it, but my 5th and 6th battery are both now nearly exhausted. Need to buy two more - only aftermarket ones are available.

These days I carry no camera daily, though I have carried a Pentax Auto 110 and one of my Minox 8x11’s. I should probably carry my Fuji Instax Neo 90.
 
My Grab-n-Go cameras are either the Sony a6000 with one if many manual focus lenses or a Nikkormat FT3 with its 50mm 2.0 lens loaded with APX100.
My newest acquisition is a Mamiya C220 that might tag along too but not an everyday camera.
I don't use my phone camera for anything serious...
 
Years ago, the Canon S45 was my everyday camera. As years went by, I moved through a series of digital compacts until getting a Canon 30D DSLR, which became my everyday camera. Then it was the Canon 5D Mark II with 24-105L and 35L. This yielded great images but was increasingly cumbersome.

When the Leica M9 was released, it became the main camera I took everywhere, along with a Summicron 50 and Nokton 35/1.4. But I always enjoyed smaller cameras, so the Ricoh GRD III was the camera I always had with me, regardless of anything else. Whether I had a Fuji X100, Ricoh GXR or Olympus E-M5, I always had the GRD III.

When the GRD III broke, I replaced it with the Ricoh GR. I also had a Panasonic LX7, which I loved, but that broke too, along with the GR. Later, I got a Panasonic LX10 to replace the LX7, but cameras with extending lens barrels have started to give me the willies, as that is their main point of failure.

Nowadays, the camera I take everywhere is the Sony RX0. Waterproof, crushproof and silent, it's the perfect pocket camera for me. Every compact camera that has failed had an extended lens barrel, so the RX0 is great in the lack of that feature. While I still take out the M9, and also the Panasonic G9 or S5, the RX0 is the one that is always there, all the time.
 
Nowadays it's a black paint Leicaflex SL with the Vivitar TX 35mm 2.5 lens (the TX system was Vivitars reply to the Tamron Adaptall system).

It used to be my Chinon Memotron CE-II's for many years. I have a slew of Barnack Leicas and an M3 but they don't see much use. I'm not a rangefinder shooter, took me quite some time to figure that out. But I keep them around because I've always regretted selling cameras in the past.
 
Fuji X-Pro3 and 23mm ƒ/2 or 35mm ƒ/1.4. Lately I've been taking some film cameras out on my walks and leaving the digital at home. My Canonet and GA645 are each loaded with Delta 400, rated at ASA 250. My Pentax K1000 is unloaded but I may load it with some Kodak Gold or Max if the weather gets bad again, so I can capture the hazy daybreak blues in color.
 
My everyday camera bag has in it an M9 and M10, each with one lens. Today, it is a Planar 45/2 in M mount and a pre-asph 35/1.4.
 
I have two everyday kits. Most of the time, especially if just out walking by myself, it's a Fuji X-E3 with a 14, 23 and 50mm (21mm, 35mm and 75mm equivalents) in a shoulder bag. If I'm out hiking it's a Fuji X-T20 with the XC 16-50mm OIS II and XC 50-230mm OIS II. I find those lenses lighter than the XF equivilents, which I also own but don't seem to use much anymore.

Rick
 
Since 2017 (I think?) it's been a GR, first the GRII and then the GRIII, and now the GRIIIx. For me at least, 40mm>28mm for grab shots, because you can get a reasonable photo out a car window with 40mm that you can't (unless you want a landscape of course) with a 28mm.

The GR makes it almost too easy. If it weren't a GR it would be something small, like my Petri Color 35 or Ricoh 500G, or a small M4/3 body with a pancake prime. There's a case to be made for the excellent little LX100II as well.
 
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