Which Camera is your Sweetie using?

[jtzordon]

Canon digital A510 I got her. But I ruin all her good photos by changing all the settings to how I like and forgetting to change it back!

 

[ERV]

My sweetie is the real pro in the family and she uses a canon 5D and canon lenses. When she switched from film to digital her m6 and 50 and 35 crons sat in a domke bag in the closet. I took it upon myself to liberate them from the darkness and the lenses have been on long term loan. She said I had to get my own M body, however.

 

[dostacos]

my wife prefers water colors but she uses a Canon Rebel T2 when she is using film

 

[GeneW]

My wife has always had trouble focusing any of my manual focus cameras. With an AF camera, she has a good eye and gets nice results.

Gene

 

[Rob]

Shes got a bag full of EOS gear, 2 film bodies, 4 lenses, big flash, big tripod. Its a lot to carry. I used to have all that stuff too now maybe I carry a small rangefinder and a good digital point & shoot and small tripod.

 

[scotty smith]

She has tried everything I've used in the past 25 years, film and digital, but keeps defaulting to tha Olympus Stylus Epic. Cant say I blame her---great little P&S.

 

[feenej]

Minolta auto SLR. I tried to get her to switch to digital 'cause we are awash in cheap prints that she just has to get each and every time, but no. I even offered to buy her a dSLR.

(not to mention all the envelopes of negatives of hers that I have not archived)

 

[Paul C. Perkins MD]

No current sweetie. Previous sweetie used a Nikon FG very competently. Ex wife used some AF Pentax 35mm and had no friggin' vision.

 

[bean_counter]

My 12yo daughter uses a nice Canonet QL17 GIII. Meter is accurate w/ one of those air batteries; she happily snaps well exposed chromes. She has a pretty good eye, too.

My wife doesn't shoot; if she takes a shot, it's because she wants a picture of me and our daughter together. I set it up and focus with whatever camera I'm using, she steps in and takes the shot.

 

[ruby.monkey]

Sweetie, Darling, She Who Must Be Obeyed... she uses my Pentax K100D with the kit 18-55mm zoom. It's the best P&S she's ever had.

 

[pesphoto]

Nikon D3 camera

 

[marke]

My "Sweetie" wife has been using the Panasonic FX01 compact digicam that I gave her last year before we were married. But last week I intoduced her to my Leica Minilux II. I think she liked it. 🙂 But not to worry, a RF will always be more trouble than she cares to deal with while taking pictures. Still, it's nice to know that she will now be bragging to her friends about her Leica. 😀

 

[imush]

My wife uses Pentax A3000. The thing only has a full 'A' or aperture priority, no manual exposure setting, but that is fine with her.

I tried to give her the old Spotmatic, but the meter is no longer reliable, and she doesn't want to fiddle with it anyway.

We have a nice array of Pentax lenses, both screw and A mount.

 

[eli griggs]

I gave my wife a Minolta x-370 like she used in high school but she used our digital Canon (Power-Shot 85?) until it died recently. She was able to do some very nice close-up stuff with it and I enjoyed taking walks with her on which we each brought our cameras, film for me, pixels for her.

Personally I think she is better suited to digital and if I can, I'll find her another small camera as soon as I'm able.

Cheers

 

[sojournerphoto]

My wife used to use an Olympus mju zoom, but that broke and I was shooting digital so she started using a Panasonic FZ20. Recently she has purloined my Ricoh GX100, which is now her small camera. Positively, she actually bothers to caryy it around and so I get to see pics of the children etc. Also, if I've got my 5D with me she has started a tendency of 'borrowing' that as well. She hasn't tried the Zorki, Ikon or 1Ds3 yet...

My 6 year old daughter uses a second hand Canon G7 and the 3 year old has a #sporticus' toy camera that she clisks away with. She has observed though that it only takes pictures of sporticus.

I've finally just about convinced the children that they can't look at the back of the AE-1 or RFs to see the picture just taken!

 

[Avotius]

She has good taste, but she stole it from me.

 

[vieri]

Despite my efforts, after I introduced her to photography with a FM2 + 45 pancake she loved the thing but wanted the instant gratification of digital; luckily for the wallet (!), when I got my M8 and asked her to try it she found RF focusing and all the manual stuff to be too hard for her (I just sold my M8s anyway); I asked to try my DSLR but they are too heavy (D3, formerly D2x), plus despite wanting to have huge focal length coverage she doesn't want to carry more than 1 (as light as possible) camera + 1 lens; so... I got her a Nikon D50 + 18-200 VR she loved, and then updated to a D80. However, she just recently asked me to get her a F100 and pleaded with me for developing her film - which I will, her F100 (and 28-200, I guess) is due any day now 🙂 Maybe there is hope after all! 😉

 

[tmfabian]

the little wifey shoots canon dslrs and hasselblads.

 

[julianphotoart]

My wife purposely tries to know zero about cameras and photography. Nevertheless I convinced her to return to film after her digital P&S failed.

She uses a Nikon F75 with a normal 50mm f/1.8 AF-D lens (she didn't want to be troubled with a zoom). It's always in the point-and-shoot mode (the green square). It's always loaded with Kodak 200 Gold film. She gets everything processed at Costco.

 

[monochromejrnl]

my wife's favouriet is the Yashica T4 Super... on occassion she'll grab my D200 with 50/1.2 Nikkor or the FA