Which kind of camera you use for street photography?

[Doug]

I use either a dRF or a dSLR... with center single-point AF, the dSLR operates very similarly to the dRF in that I visually choose the point of focus, lock focus and recompose for the shot. And that AF dSLR is sometimes medium format...

S2, 70mm Summarit-S

 

[Daryl J.]

Film Leica and the smallest 35 or 50 I have.

But sometimes I put the 90/2.8 on as I like its rendering of faces.

 

[rbsinto]

I guess I should have been more precise .

There is a reason the Leica has the reputation it does for street photography -- it is ideally designed for that task.

Is it possible to do it with other cameras? Of course, but for the most part, not nearly as easily.

Rolfe

Nonsense more precisely stated is still nonsense.
As I asked before, who makes up this stuff?
I shoot with Nikon rangefinders as well as Nikon Film SLRs, and don't find the rangefinders to be any more ideally suited to street work than the SLR's, even taking into account that they're all merely Nikons and not fantastically fabulous Leica cameras.
Robert

 

[barnwulf]

I rarely do street photography in its most common form here; however, I photograph in the street but often there are no people in my frame. I usually use my Sony A7r for digital and I use a Leica II or M4 for my film work. - jim

 

[Moogie77]

I am still a newby for street photography but I started loving it a while ago.
So as of now almost all my pics are done with EOS M3 and the 22mm (35mm equivalent) lens made for this camera. Using only MF as the AF is way too slow, although I just read above it's maybe just missing practise...
Like the results so far so so.

Recently bought a Leica M6 with CV 35mm color-skopar and have a lot of fun with it and love the zone focusing. But so far i am still waiting for the developer kit and see the results. Hope they are not too bad.

Nice Sunday everybody, Miguel
(My Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/144562239@N03/

 

[Addy101]

Like other people around here - mirrorless. My Sony A6000 (and before that Sony NEX F3) are great at this. Using the back screen is ideal as it allows for quick framing when there is a situation you want to photograph and these APS-C Sony cameras are small and light.

Mirrorless is missing from the list, so I have to vote "other"

 

[flavio81]

- Olympus pen S for maximum stealth effect
- Retina IIIc for night and stealth
- many 35mm SLRs in general, Canon and Nikon
- Mamiya RB67 (seriously) for max image quality

 

[flavio81]

Nonsense more precisely stated is still nonsense.
As I asked before, who makes up this stuff?
I shoot with Nikon rangefinders as well as Nikon Film SLRs, and don't find the rangefinders to be any more ideally suited to street work than the SLR's, even taking into account that they're all merely Nikons and not fantastically fabulous Leica cameras.
Robert

Agree with you.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Stealth effect is the nonsense.

 

[Godfrey]

I use whatever camera fits my mood and falls to hand. Sometimes I'm experimenting, sometimes I have gone out to work a particular idea with a particular camera. Digital or film makes no difference; I've worked people and street subjects with everything from large format film to iPhone.

Of course, a Leica M and a 35mm lens can do a lovely job. So can a Hasselblad SWC or a Leica SL with a 90mm lens. So can a Minox C or a Polaroid SX-70. Each camera records differently and lets you see in a different way.

G

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[Hogarth Ferguson]

With my GF670, which is actually quite a pleasure to use on the street.

 

[JChrome]

Which kind of camera you use for street photography?

I use a Mamiya Universal Press with FP3000 positives (still a rangefinder lol). I don't think making photography easier should be an aim (much of the discussion centering around that). I want my street work to be more deliberate. I suppose that's why I've gone in this direction, it makes me slow down.

I've posted elsewhere on the forum so I won't post too many here...

www.stillthrill.com

 

[Hogarth Ferguson]

I really like that first one. Everything about it.

 

[kshapero]

Slumming it with the Fuji X100t. Light sturdy, it's with me everyday.

 

[kshapero]

 

[kshapero]

 

[unixrevolution]

Slumming it with the Fuji X100t. Light sturdy, it's with me everyday.

Not sure how a $1299 camera is "slumming it."

 

[jsrockit]

I have practiced AF on BiF and sports, back button focus, AI Servo for AF tracking on AF points matrix. But for the street it is not sufficient.

You need to add... " not sufficient for you." Not everyone photographs the same way. It is easy for me to use AF on the street.

 

[Scapevision]

I have used just about every type (except for large format or medium format digital or smaller than aps-c), and all worked. TLR, SLR, DSLR, mirrorless, p/s, rangefinder. You choose, it takes a picture. From all these I preferred using a waist level finder and rangefinder. I still shoot with a Bronica SQ-A and a Voigtlander Bessa R2m out in the street. Mainly just waiting for a useful digital small format, big sensor camera that treats exposure like negative film and doesn't cost more than 1k. So, basically sticking with film.

 

[pepeguitarra]

All of them, especially the Olympus Pen & Olympus Pen EED

All of them, especially the Olympus Pen & Olympus Pen EED


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