What's your 2014 1 camera, 1 lens setup?

[Pioneer]

Impressive how many here are willing to dedicate their shooting to one camera / one lens. And leave any other gear untouched in the cabinet? Will you shoot as much, or might your volume drop off?

With this exercise in discipline, could it fit well with the discipline of a PAW (picture a week) project as well?

Wishing all a productive high-quality 2014! 🙂

I think that is actually a good idea Doug. One Camera One Lens PAW.

 

[Archiver]

I think that is actually a good idea Doug. One Camera One Lens PAW.

+1. That's a great idea! A 365 project is too challenging for me, but a One Camera One Lens PAW could work!

 

[ampguy]

Doug

Doug

For me, I've already used another lens (a Vivitar Komine 28/2.8 AR), but am going to try to mostly use the setup previously mentioned. Volume will be the same.

PAW project, or any project is good to stay motivated to take photos and review them regularly, for me.

Impressive how many here are willing to dedicate their shooting to one camera / one lens. And leave any other gear untouched in the cabinet? Will you shoot as much, or might your volume drop off?

With this exercise in discipline, could it fit well with the discipline of a PAW (picture a week) project as well?

Wishing all a productive high-quality 2014! 🙂

 

[swoop]

I don't intentionally limit myself but so far my 50 'cron seems to be glued to my Leica.

 

[kyonthinh]

Leica M3 and Canon 50 1.4, now my neck can have a rest.

 

[Brian Atherton]

Same as forever: M6 TTL black paint, 35 Summicron Asph black paint.

Though I've had a nice offer of a 50 Elmar f2.8... I'm tempted. Very. 😀

 

[LonelyRadio]

My LTM Summicron 50 is glued to my M6, even though I swore I like 35mm better. So I'll be taking it and my trusty backup XA2 to Thailand next month (when I went away last year, I dropped the M6 in the hotel and busted it, after finishing just 1 roll on the first day - I was stuck with the XA2 for the rest of the trip!).

 

[iaeaix]

probably X-Pro1 with 35/2 canon LTM.

 

[uhoh7]

if I had only 1/1 it would be rx1r

 

[Alberti]

can't choose much: X100 35(23)/2 🙂

I can choose, but my wife is afraid I will choose her X100 more and more and leave my M8 doing less and less.. .
Well I do not think she will be right, but that X100 really competes for attention, has a high likeability, and just like the M8 in low light, can be very slow. But I am specially going to like the absence of any shutter sound.

 

[Kent]

Perhaps a Leica M8 and the Voigtländer Ultron 2/28 (my fav combo).
But probably the Fuji X-E1 with the Fuji XF 1.4/35.

 

[John E Earley]

This year I'm hoping to stick with one camera/lens combo through an entire roll of film 😱

 

[Dez]

I know this is heresy, but if I were limited to one camera and one lens, it would be my Nikon D200 with the 18-200mm VR lens.

Cheers,
Dez

 

[imhere]

I'm using a D700 with a 50 1.8 at the moment which I bought for a reasonable price, my 'poor man's' Nikon DF 🙂

 

[Pioneer]

Anyone Still Doing This?

Anyone Still Doing This?

Just thought I would throw out a quick feeler.

Has anyone been able to work only with one camera and lens this year? I know some of you were changing your minds before this thread went dormant so I seriously doubt anyone is doing it.

For myself, I have kept shooting the Leica Null and have shot more rolls of film with it than any other in my collection, and I am enjoying it. But I certainly have not been a one camera, one lens guy this year.

Anyone care to comment on their year?

 

[VertovSvilova]

Just thought I would throw out a quick feeler.

Has anyone been able to work only with one camera and lens this year? I know some of you were changing your minds before this thread went dormant so I seriously doubt anyone is doing it.

For myself, I have kept shooting the Leica Null and have shot more rolls of film with it than any other in my collection, and I am enjoying it. But I certainly have not been a one camera, one lens guy this year.

Anyone care to comment on their year?

fwiw, I spent three years in grad school with only one lens and one camera. Several exhibitions (some with international reviews), one museum acquisition, and a gallery representation. The only reason I have more crap now is because I have a secure income and can squander some of it. But I don't actually need all the stuff that I've since obtained.

There's absolutely no reason why one cannot be productive with minimal tools (i.e., one camera/one lens.) In the end it's about the work and not the gear unless one likes the gear side of it, and that's perfectly fine. And if one is doing commercial work, then specific tools will certainly be needed for specific jobs. But your eyes and brain can do a hell of a lot with very little and often you're forced to be more creative that way.

 

[uhoh7]

kick me outta da house 1+1:

M9 + 28cron 🙂

 

[tedwhite]

Been trying with X100S. Keep succumbing to the siren call of my Pentax K20D with its 16-50. Hopeless wide-angle junkie.

 

[fireblade]

Come December, should we post what we think was the best image with what we chose to use in January?

 

[Pioneer]

Come December, should we post what we think was the best image with what we chose to use in January?

I think that is a great idea fireblade.

Now if I can only remember when December comes around. 😀