What is in your pocket?

[solane]

nokia cameraphone, lomo LC-A, lightmeter, film, tissues, dust brush, leathermen tool and a revolving camera from the collection. i carry a messenger bag everyday so i lug more euqipment than most. could've been a boy scout -- i travel prepared!

 

[Borghesia]

I always have at least two camera's with me. The small sneaky Yashica T5 is the first one.
Besides that it can be anything, from the tiny Olympus RC via a Fed 2 up to a 1Ds.
The Yashica T5 is an extraordinairy camera which hasn't been highlighted much. It's "superscope" angled viewfinder is excellent for hidden streetshots. Combined with its T* lens makes this camera almost an unbeatable streetshooter.

 

[summaron]

Indestructable Rollei 35SE--for 20 years now. With Portra 800 or Kodachrome 200 I shoot 1/15 to 1/4 regularly at night with great results. Veiwfinder is the best outside a Leica or Bessa, a knotch better than the QL17.

 

[StuartR]

Indestructable Rollei 35SE--for 20 years now. With Portra 800 or Kodachrome 200 I shoot 1/15 to 1/4 regularly at night with great results. Veiwfinder is the best outside a Leica or Bessa, a knotch better than the QL17.

After reading this thread, I took mine out and started using it. I was given a deal on one (a 35 from singapore) a few months ago, but I never really got around to using it. The first roll I shot with it got jammed (a chip of film got stuck in it (or was stuck in it prior to my buying it for 50 bucks)), so I never developed the first roll, which was only about 10 shots. Since I normally have a full sized camera with me almost everywhere I go, I never really picked up the rollei again. In any case, I am in the process of shooting a roll of Tri-x which I will develop in diafine. It really is a cool little camera...I hope it doesn't fail to impress. My experience so far is that people react very well to it -- it is very quirky...almost like a toy. I took a nicely posed picture of a little girl showing off her dog with it that I don't think I would have gotten with a big SLR...an M camera could probably have pulled it off as well, but I think the sheer tininess of rollei can be very useful.

 

[summaron]

StuartR, yes it does look like a toy, so people don't take it very seriously. It is rather idiosyncratic and takes time to fuss with. Internally it was the forerunner of the Leica CL--film upside down. The lens is lens contrasty than the first generation of Summicrons, but sharper wide open. Zeiss somewhere claimed it designed the lens for subtle color gradiations, and I believe that, especially so it seems with greens. The out-of-focusness is sort of like the Tessar's--clean and honest, slightly furry, not naked and stark like new aspherics, and not meltingly lush like the early and pre- Summicrons. Best of luck with it.

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

I had a Rollei 35, but in a moment of temporary GAS I traded it in on a Contax IIA last year. I don't really regret the trade at all as I love the Contax IIA.

Oh yeah, I bought another Rollei 35 last week in a lot of 4 cameras. The other 3 were junk but the Rollei is mint, it even has its lens cap. Seems they thought the shutter did not work on it, but all I had to do was extend the lens and away it clicked> 🙂

Wayne

 

[kmack]

nokia cameraphone, lomo LC-A, lightmeter, film, tissues, dust brush, leathermen tool and a revolving camera from the collection. i carry a messenger bag everyday so i lug more euqipment than most. could've been a boy scout -- i travel prepared!

Scratch the cameraphone and lomo and add a 12" Apple iBook, bottle of aspirin and a trashy SF novel and you got my daily kit.

 

[surlysimon]

Stephanie like you i am about to carry a Half frame, i wanted an olympus pen D3 but had to settle for a canon demi 17 (why are they hard to focus?) i love the idea of 72 shots, i used to have a pen D2 and pen FT but sold them (DOH). i came across some old 1/2 frame negs the other day and scanned them and was so impressed with how the scans turned out i knew i needed to get another 1/2 frame (GAS strikes)

 

[Doug]

I used to have a Pen D2 also, and liked it. But I sold it in '72 to buy a used 35RC, only a little larger, twice the neg size, and a coupled rangefinder. Then 10 years later another slight compromise on size when I figured the Minolta CLE was not much larger, and got one of those!

I still have and frequently use the CLE, and had the 35RC cla'd but don't often take it out. I inherited my Dad's Pen FT, so I've come back to half-frame... Gee there's a lot of cool stuff available for that little rig! 😀

 

[tenebrae]

The last two weeks I have been carrying a FED-1 around, almost everywhere I go. Fits easily in a (jacket) pocket. It has a wonderfully smooth release, and I can't get enough of the shutter sound.

Besides the FED, a lens hood, a pocket knife, a key chain, two handkerchiefs (a used one and a clean one), and an exposure table.

 

[unohuu]

Olympus XA goes where I go!

 

[wilt]

Minox 35 GT-E.

 

[vha]

Before i used to have a Gr1s in my pocket or more correctly in my bag, but lately i carry my M6 with a 28mm Elmarit M, a black leatherman (classic model) my moleskine agenda, a fisher bullet pen, post it notes, X0 filter, spare film, oxford english/spanish pocket dictionary and my wallet with coins for taking the buss. All this in a old US army bag with domke wraps for the camera, it was cheap and it works. Maybe i´ll buy a domke 803 one day when i get rich 😉

vha

 

[miguel_tuna]

I use to change my everyday camera, sometimes it's one, sometimes another, but my favorite right now is a Zeiss Contina I with a 45mm tessar, similar to ikonta 35 but with uncoupled rangefinder, it is very pocketable and makes very good results, with my eye as a lightmeter🙂

 

[thmk]

Petri Color 35 loaded with Ilford Pan-F, mobile phone, small MP3 player for audio books, Swiss army pocket knife

 

[nemjo]

Not exactly in pocket but Hexar AF.

 

[24x30]

uh, .... no rf 😱 ... one of my X700 with an 1,7/50 loaded with TriX400.

/rudi

 

[Duncan Ross]

One of these;

 

[p.ath.]

i always have something in a belt pouch. up untill a few days ago it was a trusty old om10, now its my new bessa r. methinks it will stay at my side for a while to come......