where do you keep your cameras?

[berci]

I keep two in the photobag, one of them is my main camera and the other is one from the small collection, the rest is on the nightbox.

Ok, there are a couple more in shoeboxes here and there.

 

[eIII]

joe, it takes a real man to keep their cameras shrouded in pink! 🙂

it seems most keep their babies hidden from the elements. i've thought about it and i'm gonna leave mine out on full display to be oggled, loaded with film to be on the ready, dust be damned.

-billy

 

[hth]

I had most of mine on two shelves in a closet. But recently, I have put the most used ones in a bookshelf located in the hallway. That way I can easily pick a body and a lens or two on my way out. Then I use a suitable carrying means, like my neck, hands, pocket, camera bag or backpack, depending on where I am heading and which camera it is.

/Håkan

 

[peter_n]

I keep one in a bag that I take everywhere and the rest in a drawer. No dessicant or anything but they seem to be fine. I'f I'm not using them too much I exercise the mechanical shutter speeds about once a month.

 

[kzim56]

Some in a box in the closet. Some in a Lowepro backpack. Some on a table in my wife's home office. My current favorites I tend to keep on the tops shelf of my computer desk where I can admire them easily. Right now there's a Konica Auto S2, a Nikon F2 on loan from a friend, and a Brownie Hawkeye that's a family heirloom. I need to get them organized.

Karl

 

[Socke]

I have three in a camera bag, one in my cars glove box and the rest in a display case and all around my living room.

Edit, make that two camera bags, one with a dSLR and one with two Contax Gs.

 

[David Goldfarb]

Mostly in bags or cases ready to go. I have a particular fetish for old Perrin leather bags, but I also have a couple of f64 bags and one Crumpler and a few other things.

I keep the 8x10" Sinar P on a stand ready to use. It doesn't leave the house. I have a few large old portrait lenses that also stay pretty much at home, so they live in a cabinet.

 

[back alley]

joe, it takes a real man to keep their cameras shrouded in pink! 🙂

it seems most keep their babies hidden from the elements. i've thought about it and i'm gonna leave mine out on full display to be oggled, loaded with film to be on the ready, dust be damned.

-billy

that's coral not pink!

😉

 

[Kim Coxon]

Out of sight so the other half doesn't realise just how many there are!!

Kim

 

[Frank Granovski]

My bags are full, closet's full and my desk is full. It's time to buy another large camera bag. 😎

 

[dostacos]

My Bessas live in a F6 Domke bag ready to go. I also have the smaller domke 5XB when it is a one camera and a couple of lenses day

the SLRs are in a F2 Domke and a pair of F4AFs one more to wide angle short zoom and the other various telephotos, long zooms etc

medium format Kiev 60 & Kiev 88 are in a Pelican rolling hard case

I want/need a nice case to show them off [like the mentioned Lawyer's case] of course then my wife will see the EXTENT of my addiction 😱 😱 😱 😱

 

[StuartR]

Much to my shame, I just noticed that I have seven cameras on the floor of my apartment...


I have been going through things recently for spring cleaning, and so I took everything out but I have not gotten around to putting them back yet, so they are just on the floor. The things we bachelors can get away with....

Normally I keep them in a pelican case, a tenba air case, and various bags and backpacks depending on when and where I am going to use them and if I need to get them out of sight...

 

[Kin Lau]

One cabinet with doors and a few drawers to keep the dust out, and the clutter out of sight. 2 chests with assort camera, darkroom stuff & film loaders, 4 or 5 bags of cameras and lenses and more scattered here and there depending on when my wife's cleaning up. Thankfully we live in a 1 bedroom apt :bang: 😀

 

[dgray]

The cameras that I actually use are all in various camera bags. My favorite bag, however, that is the one I use most of the time, I keep empty. That way I can grab whichever camera and lenses I fancy for that day's shooting and put it in the empty bag and go. When I get home it goes back in the other bag. Usually.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

At home. Definetly, definetly at home. Yeah, at home. Definetly.

 

[aizan]

in a wooden cabinet with books.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Mine is kept on a strap over my left shoulder. Unless I'm in a bar when it's generally kept on the table.

 

[nomade]

I guess they were on a book shelf...

 

[XAos]

So, obviously, there's no "display factor" here, but in some ways, I prefer it that way!

I know computer security folks like to say 'security through obscurity is no security', however this is both true and untrue to various degrees. Since most isp's detect outgoing portscans now, simply moving ssh to an unknown port makes it rather expensive to look for it. Who knows what else may answer and if you have to parse output it really slows down random searchs. Likewise - my dad once attended a sales conferences where the speaker asked the crowd where they had their spare key hidden, then turns around and writes a bunch of stuff on the board. He then asks anyone who's key was hidden in a place not on the list to raise their hand. Very very very few hands went up. Anything that either delays a thief or limits his window of opportunity is on your side. So merely not seeing them on a smash and grab may be enough. Lumpy blankets over something in a car may do no more than tell them that whatever it, you're worried about it getting stolen ergo it must be worth stealing however.

There is another reason to keep it put up though. If you have a lady friend over it's much easier to pretend that it's just a lone antique camera and not an out of control hobby. By the time she learns the truth it may be too late.

 

[Iskra 2]

On the floor of the truck, naked (not in their eveready cases), when they get out of the house. The old FSU's (Iskra and Zorki), Canon Ftb's, Rb67 and Speed Graphic don't seem to mind. The cold bothers me more than the hardware. 🙂

I wonder how the new digi stuff holds up? 😀

Regards