What's your "camera roadmap"

I have too many cameras too list and cannot recall exactly when I bought them, but in terms of the road map ahead, I really would like to purchase another BP M4.
 
- Dad's Yashica Minister? (teenage years)
- Canon Elph APS (my wife's in the 90's)
- Canon EOS 50E w/28-135mm lens (2000?)
- Canon EOS 50 body
- Kodak digital P&S
- - NOTHING - -
- iPhone 4
- Dad's black 1978 Nikon FE with 50/1.4 (2012 nostalgia kick)
- Another Nikon FE and FM from eBay (2012)
- added a Nikkor 105/2.5 (2012)
- - ENJOYING FILM... would love to try a Leica, and a Rolleiflex TLR, and a Hasselblad.
 
-Dad's Nikkormat FTN (run over by a security guard in his little hatchback whilst been kicked out of a skate spot)
-Some kind of early sony digital camera (traded)
-Sony DSC V1
-Nikon D70 (stolen in Barcelona from a hire car rental office. Went to sign papers and turned around and my camera bag was gone, can still remember running thru the streets with rage wanting to murder someone. Think it may have been an inside job, who knows)
-Nikon D70S (stolen in Melbourne, went to suss out a skate spot in broad daylight and returned 5 minutes later to car window smashed and bag gone)
-Nikon D200 (traded)
-Nikon FM2 (still use, but very rarely)
-Leica M4P (traded)
-Epson RD1 (given to my dad)
-Olympus MJUii (gift from brother in law, really need to use it more!)
-Panasonic LX5(traded)
-Hasselblad 503CX (traded)
-Fuji XE1(current, and don't see it going anywhere soon!)

There has been others along the way I cant recall and others hardly worth mentioning, very much content with the Fuji body for now though. Glass on the other hand, now that's a different story!
 
Minolta SR-T 100 2.0/50, increadible 35 years ago (destroyed)
Nikon FM migrated to girl-friend
Nikon FT-N (still here)
some other I don't manage to sort out (FT2, FT3) exchanged?
F, F2A (rarely used, still there)
FE (to replace FT-N when 1.35 batteries died out, but still here)
D700 (nice for shots of the kids, but failed to retrigger my old ambitions)
M6 cron50 (recently, inherited, did trigger restart of b&w)

Ah, and I still have a Linhof Technika 4x5, greatest camera ever made. Unfortunately this one requires time that my family absorbs.....
 
~1962 Kodak 120 film (don't remember the model)
1968 FED 3
1981 XA2
1986 EOS 620
2003 EOS1
2011 Fuji X100

I still have them all though only the FED and the Fuji are in perfect working order.
 
In categories:

compact
1965 Ferrania ibis 6/6 (120 film 85mm f/9)
2011 Ricoh 500GX (135 film 40mm f/2.8)
2012 Fujifilm FinePix X100 (APS-C sensor 23mm f/2)

pocket
1975 Rollei B35 (135 film 40mm f/3.5)
1999 Minolta Vectis 300 (APS film 3xZoom)
2007 Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX30 (1/2.5" sensor 3xZoom)
2012 Canon PowerShot S100 (1/1.7" sensor 5xZoom)

camera system
1998 Minolta Vectis S-1 (APS film based, V mount)
2005 Minolta RD3000 (APS-C sensor based, V mount)
2010 Konica Hexar RF (135 film based, M mount)
?? next Fujifilm FinePix X-Pro1 (APS-C sensor based, FX mount) ??
?? or Leica M-240 (135 sensor based, M mount) ??
Who knows...

Most of them still used.
 
Russian scale focusing
Russian SLR
Japanese P&S "focus free"
Japanese P&S auto-focus
Japanese SLR AF
then lenses... lenses
then Japanese Manual focus SLR
and more lenses...
then Medium format
more Medium format
more lenses for medium format
then came RF, more RF, more lenses, more SLR, more P&S, more everything... but I am on the road to recovery now.
 
Kodak Cameo (won from a Boy Scout photo competition)
Yashica TL
Kodak Easyshare DX3700 (I think I still have this, don’t know why)
Minolta Hi-Matic
Nikon FE
Nikon F3 HP
Holga
Nikon D70 (bought the week it came out)
Leica M2
Panasonic LX2
Bessa R2a
Leica M6
Leica M4P
Leica IIIc
 
Highlights (noting some strong similarities with gregg!):

Leica M3 (dad's, not mine)
Polaroid SX-70 (ditto)
Pentax ME Super (ditto)
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Kodak Instamatic
Ricoh KR-5 Super (still have & use; that 50/2 is a scorcher)
Yashica 124
Nikon FE-2 (I've had 4 or 5 of them; currently have one that works and one for parts)
Nikon FM-2 (twice; both sold)
Nikkormat FT-2 (from mom; blech)
Nikon F3HP (sold; sorely missed)
Nikon FA (horrible; sold)
Nikon N 8008
Leica M6
Minolta CLE
Canonet
Various nondescript DSLRs
Various point-and-shoots including Ricoh GR-1
Fuji X-Pro1 (stolen)
Fuji X-E1 (One of the five best cameras I've ever used;
the other favorites are FE2, F3, GR-1, M6)
 
Agfa Clack ('70s)
Practika MTL-3 ('80s)
Canon Eos RT ('90s)
Canon 300D (2002)
Kiev 60 (2004)
Mamiya 645 (2006)
Mamiya C330 (2007)
Bronica RF (2008)
Fuji G690BL & GM670 (2012)

Still got them all and all except the 300D have film in them.
 
Olympus OM10 and 50mm lens - 1998 - borrowed from my college photography society and used for about a year until I got my...

Minolta X700 with 28mm and 50mm lenses - 1999 to 2007 - relied on this simple combo for 8 solid years during which I think I made some of the best stuff I'll ever shoot. Sat is closet from 2007 when I began to play with larger formats. Now given to my brother.

Mamiya 6MF + 50mm - 2007 to 2012 - dream MF camera and much nicer VF than any Leica. Used it mostly for colour work but let it go after getting a DSLR which gets the job done more easily for colour (though admitedly with nothing like the IQ that the Mamiya 50mm packs)

Shen Hao and Ebony 4x5, Canham 5x7 - 2008 to 2012 - dabbled in LF for a few years before realising it's not the format for me. Selling the kit.

Leica M6 with 28mm Elmarit ASPH and Voigt and Zeiss 35mm lenses - 2010 to 2012 - Fantastic lenses. Didn't get on with the Leica though and sold after 18 months.

Nikon system, comprising FM3a (2009), F6 (2010) and D700 (2012) - after selling my MF and LF kit, I've come to realise that this trio provides a really flexible combination that does everything I require of a camera. Sure, I don't enjoy the IQ or enlargement that I enjoyed with the Mamiya but for me, this disadvantage is outweighed by the increased flexibility of a Nikon system. Funnily though, I miss the character of the Minolta lenses I started out with and so, just for kicks and since MD glass is such good value these days, I keep a

Minolta system comprising XD7, SR102, 24mm, 35mm f1.8, 50mm f1.4, and 58mm f.12

So after 14 years of shooting and trying most stuff in between, my dabbles and daliances with various exotic camera have led me back more or less to where I started - with SLRs, albeit that Nikon is now my main system rather than Minolta.
 
M2 & M4 being serviced right now at DAG's...

Moving Towards selling my Summarit 1.5 possibly today in the Classifieds and my Black Chrome M4 upon its return from DAG/Don

Just Having Two Film cameras with each a Lens
IIIb + 21SA
M2 + 35 Nokton Classic
 
Retina ia 1967 Still have it
Miranda "G" 1968
Minolta SRT 101 !974 Still have it
Yashica "A" 1975
Retina 2a 2002 Still have it
Yashca Mat 2003 Still have it
Canon QL17 2005 Still have it
Zorki "C" 2005 Still have it
M3 2006 Still have it.
 
M2 & M4 being serviced right now at DAG's...

Moving Towards selling my Summarit 1.5 possibly today in the Classifieds and my Black Chrome M4 upon its return from DAG/Don

Just Having Two Film cameras with each a Lens
IIIb + 21SA
M2 + 35 Nokton Classic

hard to imagine you w/o the m4...
 
• Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash (the plastic cube)- 1968 or 69.
• Kodak Pony 2
• Pentax K1000
• Polaroid SX-70 Model 2 (shooting this again thanks to IMpossible)
• Pentax LX (2 bodies)
• Hasselblad 500CM
• Crown Graphic
• Pentax 67
• Burke & James 810
• Nikon F4S (3 bodies at one point)
• Wisner 810 Technical Field
• Nikon F100
• Kodak 2D/hybrid? 11x14. (I can't seem to figure out just what this really is- part Kodak 2D anyway, but I've not found any records of them making an 11x14)
• Contax G1
• Canham Traditional 810 (the knobs on the Wisner became impossible for my hands, or vice-versa)
• Contax G2
• Leica M7
• Leica M5
• Leica MP
various incarnations of these last 4 since
• Leica M8, then 8.2
• Rolleiflex FW
• Rolleiflex FX
• Leica M9

I also shoot lots of P&S cameras- Contax T2, Nikon 28Ti, Ricoh GRD2, GR1S, X1, D-Lux3...

Since then:

Canham 57 Wood field
Pentax 67 again.
and LOTS more work with the view cameras.
 
Panasonic DMC-TZ7
Nikon FG
Canon 20D (sold)
Canon 40D (sold)
Canon 5D
Beautyflex D
Minolta XG-2 (sold)
Minolta XD-7 (sold)
Mamiya 645 1000s
Minolta SRT-101 (sold)
Olympus Om-1 (sold)
Olympus Om-2n (on the way)

Going to buy a RF next; a Canon 7! :D
 
My parents are photographers so I'm going to omit all the cameras I used as a kid and start with the first ones I bought:

Nikon F3 - 2008
Nikkormat FT2 - 2008
Yashica Electro 35GS - 2008
Nikon EM - 2009
Nikon F4 - 2009
Zorki 2c - 2009
Zorki 4k - 2009
Yashicamat 124G - 2009 (Gave to an ex-girlfriend)
Mamiya RB67 - 2009 (Sold)
Bronica ETRS - 2009 (Sold)
Rolleiflex Automat X - 2009 (given to me by a friend)
Pentax 6x7 - 2010
Hasselblad 500EL/M - 2010
Hasselblad 500C - 2010
Hasselblad 500EL - 2010
Yashica Electro 35GSN - 2010 (a gift from the ex that has the 124G)
Olympus 35SP - 2010
Nikon F3/T - 2011 (a gift to me from a professor at school)
Leica M2 - 2012
 
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