Which camera types have you been using most the past six months?

[coelacanth]

Divided between Fuji (X-Pro2) and film Leica (M4-P, M5). Micro 4/3 (E-M5II) for underwater and BEOON scanning.

 

[pvdhaar]

I shot a bunch with a DSLR and a mirroless, but what I'm truly having fun with are an Olympus-OM20 and Lomo'Instant. Especially when I have the OM-20 with me, I keep dreaming about it being nineteen-seventy-something forever..

 

[ckuwajima]

Only digital I'd been shooting with is my cellphone😀

 

[unixrevolution]

My most recent shooting trips have been to the Renaissance Festival, and I shoot a lot of medium format there. TLR and SLR. I've also gotten some new toys recently, and one of them is an RF and one is a Bronica, so those are prominent.

 

[Evan Bedford]

Fuji W3 (3D) is turning out to be my favorite (making stereo 4x6 prints, mounting them, and viewing through a mirrored stereo-viewer). I also use a Sony A7s, but it seems that I don't have enough time to fiddle around with photoshop. So, after recently swearing off film, I find I miss the simplicity, and a Fuji GF670 arrived in the mail the other day. With it, I'll likely concentrate on 6x6 in Gepe slide holders with anti-Newtonian glass.

I almost forgot my engineering work: I use a Panasonic LX3 on a fairly regular basis for routine documentation of surface drainage and bridges. The LX3 weighs practically nothing, so if I'm hiking a fair distance, I'll leave the A7s at home, and take it.

 

[lxmike]

mainly been using my M2 recently🙂

 

[Tim Murphy]

Digital for me, super zooms and DSLR's to be specific

Digital for me, super zooms and DSLR's to be specific

Dear Raid,

90% of my photography involves nature and the outdoors. I shoot almost exclusively with digital super zoom cameras or DSLR's.

I want to use more film but the fact that I need to send it away for processing because there are no local labs makes using film unappealing to me.

I have decided to shoot several rolls of film this Fall though, as I'd like to compare scenes shot with both film and digital at the same exposure and focal length to see which medium I actually prefer?

I have a feeling that I'll prefer the look of film but the delay in seeing the results may be too much to overcome?

Regardless of the preference I will continue to shoot a few rolls of film each year because I am a dinosaur and I generally prefer the old way to the new way in most of my hobbies.

Regards,

Tim Murphy
Harrisburg, PA 🙂

 

[ruby.monkey]

Mostly a Fuji X-T1 and X100T. I'm also breaking in my Nikon F100.

 

[FStrikwerda]

Canon 6d and Ricoh GR

 

[raid]

I am saving film photography for sunny days. The rest is used with digital cameras.

 

[Tim Murphy]

I am saving film photography for sunny days. The rest is used with digital cameras.

Dear Raid,

I'm just curious but do you process your own film, or do you send it out?

I am by no means a skilled photographer but I do know what I like and what I hope to record when shooting a scene. I find the immediate feedback from digital to be of great value to me, as it gives me an immediate opportunity to correct a failure in most cases.

Regards,

Tim Murphy
Harrisburg, PA🙂

 

[raid]

I use 220 and 120 film in the SWC, and I send both film types out for processing.

 

[gb hill]

Been shooting landscapes with film SLR & PanF on a tripod. Fun.

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Film RF's... Not even film SLR's or my Hasselblad recently...
Cheers,
Juan

 

[rhl-oregon]

Film cameras in midroll:

Pen FT / 25/2.8, TM100
Bessa T / CV 21/4, Tx@250
Fuji GF 670, Ektar

Digital cameras with current projects (i.e., unedited files/plans to shoot more):
Kolari A7 / Contax G 28/2.8
Leica T / ZM Sonnar 50/1.5
RX100
XPro / 24/1.7

 

[Pioneer]

I voted for the film rangefinder category, and this is reflective of my typical camera usage. But my actual use of film has been out of the ordinary during the past six months, at least for me.

I have actually carried and used large format and medium format more days in the last six months than I have used the rangefinder. As an example, the total square inches of large format film exceeds the total square inches of 35mm film put through my rangefinders.

Since this is the result of a single month project that has really skewed the results for the past six months, I have chosen to consider it an outlier. 🙄

 

[OddE]

I have to admit I've mostly used a DSLR - my trusty old Nikon D3.

I really need to get myself something rangefinder-y digital - the main reason for dragging the D3 around is that instantly available photos are highly sought after among the rest of the family.

Now, when I go shooting just for my own pleasure (a rare occasion nowadays, with three small kids in the house) - I mostly take my M4, on occasion also the ZI. While I find the ZI more convenient than the M4, there's something about the feel of the M4 which simply (IMHO) cannot be replicated by anything else except maybe another vintage M body - everything just feels 'right'.

 

[Steve M.]

None. I went back to drawing and painting, and let me tell you, it feels pretty strange not having a camera slung over my shoulder like I had for decades. Sometimes I feel it would be OK to have a small digital something or other in case something of interest pops up, but normally I can either sketch it quickly or call it back up from memory and do the same thing.

It is certainly different having a finished image in 2-10 minutes though! No processing, no developing, no printing, there it is, and it's not a virtual image on a screen, it's in the "real" world.

I bought a beautiful Rolleiflex thinking it might be good to have around. Just in case. But I sold it quickly here because it was just going to start the whole thing up again. I can either focus on photography or I can focus on the drawing and painting, I can't do both, for whatever reason.

 

[raid]

I have never done painting or drawing, so my best choice for a hobby is photography for me.

 

[Mackinaw]

Back in May when I first answered this question, my 4X5 was probably my most-used camera. Now that it’s November, and looking back over the past several months, I’d say my M240 has been my most-used camera.

Jim B.