What does, "I always have a camera with me" mean?

[oftheherd]

Well, I usually have something in my car, be it Fujica, XA, Kiev, or whatever. Having time to use it? Well, that is something else.

 

[kbg32]

I always have a camera in a small bag I carry with me everywhere. This theme may vary....

 

[semrich]

Almost always when I'm out and about I have a backpack on and a camera in it. Usually one camera with lens mounted and extra rolls of film. When moving around with the intention of taking photographs it's always held in my hand with the wrist strap on.

 

[newtorf]

Now I always carry at least four cameras with me: iphone, 2 x m6 (with 28mm, 35mm and 50mm lens and different speed of films), 1d4. And no I am not a journalist.

 

[ChrisPlatt]

I used to do this with a Minox 35. Always in a zippered pocket of my jacket.

Same here, so I'm covered for three seasons each year.
For me it's a Minox 35ML, or one of the other excellent pocket 35's I own.

FWIW finding a great pocket camera is the easy part.
Finding a nice jacket with zippered inside chest pocket is harder...

Chris

 

[robklurfield]

"always" would be an exaggeration. however, I've bicycled about 2,300 miles since the middle of June and I think I've only got on my bike maybe four times without a camera. so, "obsessive" would fit.

 

[n5jrn]

Anyone here brought their camera into the shower??? I am sure someone here at RFF tried it!

No, but in college I once ran an Olympus RF (forget the model) through the washing machine.

 

[tedwhite]

I haven't really been one of those who carry a camera daily. Now and then an Oly XA. Actually it resides in a tail pack on my motorcycle, so it's only with me when I ride.

However, since I got a Canon S95 I have now joined the ranks of all of you daily carry folks. Amazing little thing and fits in a pants pocket so it's no inconvenience. Half the time you don't know you have it with you, and at first I missed some shots because I didn't think I had a camera with me!

 

[f16sunshine]

"always" would be an exaggeration. however, I've bicycled about 2,300 miles since the middle of June and I think I've only got on my bike maybe four times without a camera. so, "obsessive" would fit.

ooooh...... Envy! I love riding my bike right now and, here comes winter!
2300 is a lot of miles. I'm way OT sorry... 😱

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

it means exactly that, I do not leave the house without a camera (usually an M or the X100 - not a phone) over my shoulder / around my neck / in my bag. that includes going to work, grocery runs and walking the dog etc pp - everywhere.

 

[Roger Hicks]

it means exactly that, I do not leave the house without a camera (usually an M or the X100 - not a phone) over my shoulder / around my neck / in my bag. that includes going to work, grocery runs and walking the dog etc pp - everywhere.

I was the same at 23. I'm not now. I wonder if it declines with age.

Then again, I'm still kicking myself over a pic I saw when i had no camera with me. A flooded landscape, with the water lapping at a low wall around an empty swimming pool. Sublimely surreal.

We were on our way to Tours, to the hospital, to talk about Frances's first cataract operation, and she was badly freaked, so I was too, and just plain forgot to pick up a camera. That must be the furthest I've gone in decades without a camera: maybe 100 km. It was several years ago.

There's also the point that the post office (where I go to collect the mail from my PO box) is less than 40 metres from my house, so I don't feel a real need to carry a camera.

Cheers,

R.

 

[irq506]

I used to carry my M6 everywhere (yes really, everywhere), now I take it about 80% most days I dont shoot it because its my daily cycle to work all day and then home in the dark, but its on me either on my shoulder under a jacket or in my backpack on the bike (sometimes ill hook it to a carabiner on my bag and have it accessable). Now I also carry the iPhone, and I have to admit its pretty damn great tool, and has some very interesting camera tools for it that compliment the 35mm film images I usually take.

 

[kossi008]

Not to the grocery store no, but only because that's rioght across the street.

For me it means that either my ZI or my Nex plus one lens goes in the bag when I bike to work.

 

[Vince Lupo]

I was the same at 23. I'm not now. I wonder if it declines with age.

I was wondering that too, though I'm in my mid-40s. I also wonder if it's different for those of us who do photography for a living, as sometimes we just need a break from it. I recall visiting a commercial photographer in Toronto when I was in undergrad a little more than 20 years ago. I wanted to talk to someone who was 'in the biz', and see what I'd be eventually facing in terms of a career in commercial photography. I remember asking him "What kind of photography do you do for yourself in your free time?". He replied "After five o'clock, I don't even want to look at a camera". At the time, his response shocked me -- how could he say that -- betraying his craft?! More than 20 years later (and over 15 years 'in the biz'), I totally understand his reply.