Where do you keep your cameras?

[Rich Silfver]

I keep my cameras in a number of places right now.
My 'most common shooters' are given a special place on a shelf next to a fireplace in the living room.

It may look as they are there for decoration only - but every time I leave my place and want to bring a camera I just go by and drop one of them into the bag and off I go.

It's no fun asking you to name the cameras - as this group is bound to get it right 🙂

(...oh...and they are conveniently close to my couch...so when I am in the mood for some fondling...I light up the fireplace...pick one of them from the shelf..and....eh......... TMI)....

 

[Crasis]

I used to keep mine strewn on the floor wherever I may put them down when I enter my home. Unfortunately, my parents visited me recently and my mother insisted on buying a cheap cabinet and storing them in that.

*sigh* I guess mother knows best.

 

[wlewisiii]

The CL is always in the go bag on the dining room table alongside the T90 and it's hippy strap (I justify it by remembering it was my mothers 🙂 ) and then I just grab whichever on my way out the door.

William

 

[sf]

Two places:

in my backpack and in my camera bag - in the bag only on days when I leave the house with sole intent to shoot pictures.

 

[flashover]

shelf beside my computer desk and pass seat in my van

 

[Jester_rm]

Film cameras (1 RF, 1 APS, 1 paperweight) are usually in a glass front display cabinet in the dining room, digital p&s (2) are wherever they last were, most likely next to the computer in the office.

 

[rogue_designer]

Either the P or a Lynx 5000 is around my neck (or on the dresser with film in it, ready to go). The ready bag has other lenses for the P and the Rolleiflex + filters film and a meter. This generally goes just about everywhere with me.

F1 and a few lenses is in the car trunk as a back up for whatever I'm walking around with.

D100 is in its ready bag with charged batteries (and a post-it to grab spares off the trickle charger).

VHR is in its bag with 1 preloaded film holder and a post-it to remember to grab a box of polaroid out of the fridge. Same with the Wisner.

The others have a bookshelf devoted to them...Last one used is on the far right - so I can cycle through them and run a roll through every once in a while and make sure they stay usable.

 

[Rich Silfver]

The others have a bookshelf devoted to them...Last one used is on the far right - so I can cycle through them and run a roll through every once in a while and make sure they stay usable.

Not a bad idea.

 

[rogue_designer]

Not a bad idea.

Seems to work - only problem is if I don't finish a roll, remember what film I'd loaded in one of them. It's forced me to standardize a bit for non-essential cams - so now it's more a matter of remembering if I threw in color or BW 😀

 

[ehparis]

Handy Not

Handy Not

I store all my cameras anywhere it's difficult to find them. Or so it often seems.

It requires a certain amount of purpose to be disorganized. 😎

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

Those on active duty, in my messenger bag.

Those on shore leave, on my desk.

 

[Rich Silfver]

Seems to work - only problem is if I don't finish a roll, remember what film I'd loaded in one of them. It's forced me to standardize a bit for non-essential cams - so now it's more a matter of remembering if I threw in color or BW 😀

You could always put post-it notes on the back of them 🙂

 

[thelovecollect]

nice pad rich, you don't happen to be the rich silverstein of goodby, silverstein and partners?

my cameras are in domke wraps...
littered around the house..

 

[FrankS]

I have a dedicated darkroom. Cameras are on shelves and in camera bags on the floor. I'd love to have cameras sitting around the common areas of the house, but I am married with children, one of them a boy. My wife is fairly easy-going: I hung my cedar-strip + fiberglass canoe from the living room ceiling (10 ft) for many years, (but it is in the garage now.) Hope Earl reads this! 🙂

 

[Rich Silfver]

nice pad rich, you don't happen to be the rich silverstein of goodby, silverstein and partners?

my cameras are in domke wraps...
littered around the house..

No, I'm of Silfver's of generally poor Silfver's all over the world. Unfortunately.

 

[amateriat]

The pair of Hexar RFs, 28, 50 and 90 M-Hex's, along with other necessary knicknacks, spend their time where I've stored them since I bought 'em: in my Domke 803, always at-the-ready. Just add film.

Almost Everything Else (at this moment: Olympus OM-2n, T-32 flash & accessories, extension tubes; Konica Auto S3; Ricoh GR1) is stored in an oldie-but-goodie medium-sized Tenba bag, right next to the Domke.

The Glimmer Twins (Konica Lexio 70 35mm, and Olympus D-510Z a/k/a Obligatory Digital Camera) hang from the chandelier in my workspace (which I'm getting rid of as soon as I can find another fixture appropriate to the space). They both have the same exterior finish, hence the shared nickname. Just don't ask me which one is Mick.


- Barrett

 

[mikeb380]

I keep about 40 cameras on 5 shelves in my living room and one is either in my walker basket or on the desk next to the walker. I never go anywhere without at least one camera and two lenses, often more. Well, I lied, I go to the super market without a camera as I need the space in the basket for goodies.
Michael

 

[mikeb380]

thingies for film box lids on camera

thingies for film box lids on camera

Seems to work - only problem is if I don't finish a roll, remember what film I'd loaded in one of them. It's forced me to standardize a bit for non-essential cams - so now it's more a matter of remembering if I threw in color or BW 😀

I don't know if they are still available but there used to be holders to stick on the back of a camera. You could put film box lids in to id your film. My Canon F1 has one on it. If nothing else you could tape a box top on the back.😀

 

[RdEoSg]

I used to use one of those.. but then my mind would play tricks and wonder if I remember to change the box lid or not 😛

As for my cameras, well, one is on a table somewhere generaly, and the rest are sorta strewn about my room. Technicaly I have a part of my chest for clothes that is set aside for cameras, but I am often to lazy to actually put them in there!

 

[FrankS]

I often use the hot shoe to hold film info, usually a bit of the film package.