What's your "camera roadmap"

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me ...

Leica M4 (1970, still have it)

Olympus OM-1 (Lost)

Nikon FM (Stolen)

Nikon F4 (sold)

Hasselblad 500 (still have it)

Nikon F5 (Sold)

Rolleiflex 2.8 (still have it)

Contax G1 and G2 (Sold)

Leica M6 (Ran over)

Leica M6TTL (sold)

Leica MP (still have it)

Leica M3 (still have it)

Fuji F30, Ricoh GRD, Sony R-1 (still have them all)


And by the way my signature link is operational !!!
 
Smena8m (eighties)
Short fondling of a Fed-something with a collapsible industar (late eighties)
Smena8m (nineties) (Still works, it's somewhere at my parents' place)
Polaroid Zoom900 (2000-2002(3?), then it got stolen at a festival. I've shot some pretty wicked stuff with it!)
Minolta Dynax 5 + some growing lens collection (2003 - Still have it and use it once in a while with wide lenses - 17 & 24mm)

And then the Classic Hell broke loose.

Right now: Minolta Dynax 5 & Hi-matic 9, Yashica GSN, Canonet QL17 GIII, Kiev 4, Contax IIa, Rolleiflex Automat 2, Kowa Six, Super Ikonta III, and a Super Dumb Olympus Digital P&S. (I have the feeling that i'm forgetting a "family member", though.)

Latest acquisition: Leica M2+Coll. Summicron 50/2 ...
 
My map began with my fathers Kodak Rettinette camera found in a closet.
Then: Pentax ME, MX, Rollei TE, switch to Nikon: FE2, FM2

The middle part is complicated and memory fails me. Many cameras under the bridge.

Here I am at RFF.
 
As far as rangefinders go

Mamiya 6 Folder RF
Canon ql 17
Certo Dolly Folder RF
Leica M2
Canon vt Deluxe (sold)
Leica III (sold)
Leica II (sold)
Tower III (traded)
Leica m3
Canon IIf
Nicca III
 
Right now, Leica IIIf, Pentax MEF and MX, Mamiya C330 and a Nikon Coolpix 2.2mp.

After the holidays, I'll do one of the following:

Give away Nikon and upgrade to Canon A530 or 540

Sell Leica and get M3

Sell Leica and get Canon G7

Sell one Pentax and get K100D

Do nothing and wait for improved scanners.
 
I'll play - if only to see the horrible development commited to electronic paper..

Minolta Vectis APS Riva Zoom something. I shot something like 3 rolls with this one, prefering disposable cameras for their durability. Then, at 18 I sold it to my mother helping me buy an Olympus C4040Z digicam.
Replaced it with a Minolta Dimage 7Hi for the wideangle and manual zoomring.
Added a Minolta Maxxum 7 SLR.
And quite a few lenses.
Replaced the Dimage 7Hi with a Dimage A2 when it broke.

Bought a Zorki 4 with a bad shutter, light leaks etc, but oh so much fun! Got bitten by the FSU bug.
Added a Kiev 4 for a more precise RF, and added a 35-50-85 set of Jupiters. Replaced the Kiev 4 due to a broken shutter.

Bought the long-time-dream Maxxum 7D dSLR and added a split-prism matte screen for MF. It went in for a shutter/AS-mechanism error after a few weeks, and I've never quite managed to commit to it since, as it is more or less orphaned by Sony. If they bring another 7D-class body to the table next year, I'll probably lean towards more SLR use.
Bought a Moskva 5 (which regretably has a soft lens). :bang:

Started developing film at home and bought a Leica M3 after the Kiev had served me well for a year as the shutter started dragging and the camera is winding improperly.

I'm (temporarily, surely) in RF heaven, my Sunny16 is working great and the M3 does its job well. My money will go towards film, chemicals and books in 2007.. :)

Regards
Kjetil
 
Agfa ??? (60th)
Minolta XD7
Seagull (Rolleicord copy)
Kiev
Rolleicord V
Pentacon Six
Leica R3
Leica R5
Leica SL
Minilux
Canon Powershot A70
LC5
Digilux 1
LC1
Digilux 2
and after selling all analogical cameras
M6
 
Kjetil, I have always despised the use of digital cameras and invested all my money in film chemicals, enlarger lenses etc. I now have 3 basic digital cameras which I use a lot. I can see myself abandoning film processing myself all together, between the F30 and the GRD theres not much one could want within B&W photography, at an amateur level that is. But I still shoot my weekly 2 rolls and develop them, for me this is more a "Zen" thing than actual result .... I love spending time in my darkroom, but have grown very accustomed to my home office and my Mac, CS2 and epson printer.
 
Hmmm. I've used a lot over the years, so I'm sure I'll miss a few. (I'm excluding digital here.)

Kodak Instamatic 104 (early '60s)
Bell & Howell using 126 film (1970's)
Canon AE-1 (1980 or so)
Canon A-1 2000
Canonet QL17 2003
Leica CL 2003
Other cameras in my profile 2005, after I came here.

The A-1 and CL get the most use. Tonight I'll be using one of the QL17's.
 
Dad's Canon AE-1
Some Pentax AF SLR junk
Leica IIIF
Mamiya 645AF
Nikon F-100
Nikon D100
Bessa-R
FED-2
Leica M6TTL

Thats where I'm at. The M6 is the only one I really use anymore.

-Mitch
 
I went through a folding 120 camera stage. Then there was the fixed lens RF stage that led me to the Bessa R, and the whole interchangable lens RF camera thing I'm in now.
 
I really get what you are saying, Magus, but my problem has been finding a good compact digital I feel good shooting..
The last year-and-a-half with Zorki->Kiev->M have made me more and more focused on the actual shooting, have ensured I always have a camera with me capable of matching my skills (and far beyond that), and the files I get from my Scan Dual IV are just so much more pleasing than what the 7D and the A2 produce..

Even though this is just a pesky snap from a night on town, I'm at a loss to see how any of the digicams I've tried could have matched the attached image.

When we do a "how much are you spending on film/dev"-thread in a year or two I might feel totally different, sell all the film gear and go for a compact along my 7D (or Alpha-10 or whatever) and leave all costs behind, but right now I have found my comfort-zone so to speak.

Sorry for any unintentional de-railing :)

Kjetil
 

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It started off simply enough in 1962 with a Kodak Super 27... then,
Regula 35
Petriflex IV
Petri Half-7
Pentax H3
Pentax Spotmatic
Pentax H3v
Leica M2 (still have)
Olympus Pen D2
Pentax Spotmatic Motor (still have)
Pentax ES (still have)
Olympus 35RC (still have)
Pentax 6x7 (still have)
Minolta CLE (still have)
Pentax Auto 110 (still have)
This lands us in the mid-1980's after which there was a period of inactivity, but it's become much more complex in recent years.

I at first took the thread heading to mean "what gear is in your future?" As to that I have no major acquisitions in mind, maybe a few focusing screens, filters and a lens or two...
 
1978 (aged 5) Plastic James Bond 126 camera for Christmas (Lost in Exeter Canal)
1979 Hanimex 110 (Gave to my Mum)
1983 Practica MTL3
1985 Practica VLC
1992 Olympus Trip P&S
1994 Canon IXUS 70
1998 Canon EOS30
1999 Voigtlander Vitessa T / Prominent
2003 Nikon Coolpix 5700
2005 Canon EOS20d
2006 Leica M3 / Voigtlander Bessa R3M

(From 2005 a whole range of rangefinders and odd cameras from eB*y!)

I still have all of my cameras except my first ever camera the James Bond 126 camera. My father bought me the 110 and the the Praktica as all I wanted to do as a 8 -10 year old was take pictures - not much has changed! :)
 
It's a long list, parts of which are no longer in the memory bank.
Some of the cameras are still with me, others were sold or died along the way.
It all started with a Yashica J that died after being doused in salt water.
Various Pentax Spotmatics
Various Mirandas
Nikkormat (several models)
Nikon F (several versions)
Nikon F2 (several versions)
Various Polaroids
Zorki 4
Nikon F401x
A TLR of some kind
Various digicams
Fuji S1 Pro
Nikon F60
Nikon F80
Nikon FE
Nikon F90x
Zorki 4k (which got me back into rangefinders)
Various other Zorkis, FEDs, Kievs
Bessa R
Canon 7
Nikon F4s

Peter
 
Ilford Sporti-4 (dunno where it went)
Pentax Spotmatic (sold)
Minolta XD-7 (sold)
Minolta XG-M (sold)
Kodak DC210+ (sold)
Fuji (can't remember model - digital, Finepix with 6x zoom) (sold)
Minolta Z1
Kiev 4 (my late father's)
Minolta X-700
Zorki 1e/f
FED 3a
Zorki 4K
FED (NKVD)
FED 2b

I still have & use the ones not marked sold :)
 
Old School camera ??
Pentax zm? (sold to get)
Canon Rebel 2000 (sold to get)
Canon Elan 7NE (sold to finance Below)
Contax G1
Canon Rebel XT (sold to finance 30d)
Contax G1 (another, Sold both)
Canon 30d (own now)
Leica M4-p (own now)
 
Aged 18 in 1981, bought first camera (vaguely remember a black/green plastic thing and a box brownie from when I was child: early 1970s?):

1981-1989, Olympus XA2
1981-1982, Olympus OM10*
1989-2003, Pentax compact something
2003-2005, Canon 10D**
2005- , Epson RD-1
2006-, Rollei 35S***

* Lost interest in photography. Spent next 20 years taking snapshots (occasionally, and all very bad).

** The advent of usable digital cameras refired my interest in photography . Love digital, and this time am seriously interested in photography (but not in film).

*** For when I go travelling and am forced to use film in an emergency (I've not used it yet)!
 
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Wow, let's see ... not to show my real age here ...

Brownie Starflash (ca. 1961) don't know what happened to it.
Mamiya SD #1 (ca. 1970) Sold (BAD MISTAKE!!!!!) :(
Pentax Spotmatic (ca. 1972) Sold
Pentax K-1000 (80s) still use regularly
Olympus Stylus Zoom P&S (ca. 1997) use regularly
Canon QL17 GIII (2005) use regularly
Mamiya SD #2 (2005) shutter bent, used for parts
Mamiya SD #3 (2005) with parts from above, use regularly
Yashica D TLR (2005) never really used it yet.
 
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