Which Camera is your Sweetie using?

[Graybeard]

My Sweeetie is my wife but I'd thought I'd leave things open to all the others in forum member's lives.

Recently my Sweetie's P&S (a plastic Pentax autofocus something or other) gave up the ghost. Stinking little electric motors inside the thing just whined and whined and accomplished nothing that I could tell. She needed a replacement quickly and asked me for a camera she'd be comfortable using.

What I had to offer was a Nikkormat FT2/ 50mm f2 Nikkor. She had used a Spotmatic F in the days of our youth, and, after just a bit of time, was again comfortable with a match needle SLR. (The FT2 is a particularly nice choice as it has a split image rangefinder and was designed to take silver oxide batteries). Mark Hama does a complete CLA of the FT2 for $85 should anyone be interested.

She noticed an immediate, and significant, improvement in the quality of the color prints which she was taking and has actually been shooting available light. I offered a flash to use in the FT2 hotshoe but she hasn't needed it yet.

We'll be off on a special vacation trip soon and I offered to replace the Pentax P&S with a more modern one - I generally just shoot B&W and my wife likes color prints. She replied, thank you very much but she'd keep the Nikkormat; that is fine with me.

What does the other person in your life use to photograph you viewing the world through a Leica finder?

 

[former member]

My "Sweetie" wife uses a Leica Mini. Likes it better than the Nikon 500.

My "Sweetie" Daughter uses a Nikon Lite-Touch, original model with 28mm F3.5 lens. She also uses a Kodak DC120, or "The Camera with the Little TV".

 

[Roman]

Nicole uses a Canon Prima Super 115 P&S - image quality is not bad, but the thing had to be repaired (still under warranty) not only once but twice after she got it...

Roman

 

[djon]

My babe uses a Minolta slr of some sort...small cheap superb.

I gave her a 10-roll (of film 😉 ) training program (1 roll 200 CN 24exp every couple of days, processed/printed/critiqued within a day)..set her up with a birthday Sundog toploader case (shoebox size) that tightly held her kit: Minolta, 50, another birthday's 28 and her 135, waved her goodbye...

She spent two weeks in India, came back with 20 rolls of beautiful film. Dang. I how come I don't do other stuff that well?

I recently gave her a birthday Tokina 70-200...wonderful lens, WAY better than her Minolta primes and very compact (especially Vs Vivitars)...now her kit's smaller and more capable, just 28 and the zoom...

The only downsides are the Minolta primes and the stupid aperture priority (shutter priority doesn't seem available). :angel:

 

[Honu-Hugger]

My sweetheart is a lot smarter than I am -- she only uses digital!!! Early on I offered her a full array of various film cameras including UW gear; she quickly discovered that she really preferred video. A distant second to her video-cam is a small 5MP Sony digital. She is always quick to point out the shots that I miss because I'm fiddling with exposure, focus, or some other nuance of the ancient gear I prefer 🙂.

 

[JohnM]

My wife uses a Sony 828 digicam.

Nice camera for a sorta P&S - I actually like throwing an ND-400 filter on it and using it in Nightshot mode. Makes for a nifty infrared shooter.

 

[julianphotoart]

To her credit, she uses a film-based Pentax MZ-S that I formally used. She has, however, crazy-glued it on "P" mode.

 

[Scarpia]

To take pictures or hit me with when I get a GAS attack?
To take pictures with she uses an Olympus P&S with a zoom that goes to 80mm. I am hiding my Mamiya C-3 as a blow from it could prove fatal.
Kurt M.

 

[tetrisattack]

My sweetheart! 🙂 She uses a Nikomat FTn, which was her dad's, occasionally a Bronica ETRS, which is mine, and a digital rebel when she can't get darkroom access.

And she'll often bring home the better shots!

 

[Skinny McGee]

Nikon f601 with 50mm 1.4 nikon lens

 

[ChrisN]

My wife has recently appropriated my Pentax digital SLR. She loves it. I'm hoping to weed her off it, but I don't like my chances.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

My wife is a Pentax woman. She started with a K-1000 and a 50/2 lens, but when she reported the immortal K-1000 had died on her, I ran to get her a ZX. Turns out the K-1000 was only in bad need of a CLA, so now it's back among the living.

She now likes her ZX better... and her 35-70 zoom even more. Got some very good shots from Dresden last May (and got a photo book for me too!). She has a good eye... just uses it very little.

 

[keithslater]

My wife was using a HP 2.1 digital. I sold that and bought her a casio elixim 4.1 (or something). She is mad at me for getting rid on the HP. It took better shots and was much more simple. No zoom. It really did take great shots for a 2.1 mp.

 

[wlewisiii]

My wife currently uses an Olympus Stylus P&S but wants a digital. I'm thinking of one of the Sony's with a Zeiss lens for Christmas. My son is still just a bit too young, but I have a Yashica Lynx 5000 that is going to visit Mr. Hama so that it's ready when the time comes.

William

 

[Kin Lau]

My wife's shooters are a 300D Digital Rebel or a Minolta Maxxum XTsi for b&w and picks up one of my RF's once in a while. The Minolta glass is excellent, and we share the EOS glass. She has a much better eye for composition than me, so basically she's the photographer, and I'm the lab 🙂.

 

[CleverName]

My wife doesn't take pictures, she makes me take them.
But she really, really wants one of those phones with a camera in it.

 

[hoot]

Fun idea for a post.

A lower-end 2mp digi-p&s, one of the Coolpix models. It yields fine results for vacation snapshots, but is really slow and eats batteries like popcorn. I sometimes borrow it to take pics of my ebay auctions, with a paper handkerchief held over the internal flash.

 

[zpuskas]

Ain't got no sweetie (rignt now).

 

[keithslater]

"with a paper handkerchief held over the internal flash" Why did I not think of that? All this time I have been struggling with glare on everything I sell. Thanks!

 

[richard_l]

My wife is using a Nikon FM, usually with a Nikkor 55mm f/2.8.