Which type of gear do you use the most?

[FA Limited]

don't be afraid to say digital 😀

 

[biomed]

I must be honest. I use my u4/3 gear the most, but as often as not with one of my LTM or M lenses. Now that I am retired the goal is to use up my stock of film with both my RFs and SLR cameras.

 

[Godfrey]

Five categories of film cameras. Digital all one category. Seems like a very biased poll. There are just as many categories of digital cameras in the world as there are film cameras, they're not all the same thing.

 

[John Bragg]

Five categories of film cameras. Digital all one category. Seems like a very biased poll. There are just as many categories of digital cameras in the world as there are film cameras, they're not all the same thing.

This is a re-take of an earlier poll (same parameters). Start your own for digital ?

 

[pvdhaar]

I can understand why Raid wants to have the same poll as in 2005. For me that means voting digital now, the one caveat being that the digital camera that I use now (nex-6) has a rangefinder 'gestalt'; small, agile, unobtrusive, viewfinder where you'd find them on traditional RF's.. Nonetheless, it's interesting to see how this vote pans out.

 

[Axel]

When I´m successful in slowing down my life one day there will be room enough
to enjoy film and rangefinder again.
So long digital is better than not taking photos.
It ends soon, can feel it 😉

 

[mretina]

I still use film for weekend photography. 35mm RF more than other type.

In a RF forum, it would be interesting to track how many 35mm RF shooters have moved to digital as their main gear over the last 12 months. I think RF is a smaller universe that has a different dynamic than SLRs. But it may also come down of availability of quality product / alternative to film, which is probably a more recent development. And of course high cost of M9/MM if that should be the alternative.

 

[Rodchenko]

I admit that I use digital most often. But I most enjoy using my 35mm rangefinders, and they come in second. I've got a nice SLR, but it's not my style, really. Third comes my scale focus 35 (Minox), then. the SLR, then medium format.

If I still had my Fuji GS645S, I am sure that would be top of the heap.

 

[Godfrey]

This is a re-take of an earlier poll (same parameters). Start your own for digital ?

My response is that the earlier poll was similarly biased. What's the point of repeating a biased poll?

I am not interested in running a poll on this topic.

G

 

[Keith]

Interesting result ... according to the poll so far RF usage has increased.

Though ... asking film or RF users to identify themselves around here is a little like yelling out "Who likes free beer?" at a football match then trying to work out the percentage of actual drinkers in the crowd!

😀

 

[thegman]

Almost 100% medium format, I think I only own a Leica because it's beautiful, otherwise, I doubt I'd own a 35mm camera. But then, there are so many other beautiful ones to try.

 

[sevo]

It depends. By last year's volume, doubtlessly medium format (with low-end digital waterproof compact a close second). This year so far, it has been mostly 35mm manual focus SLR. But that is mostly a matter of continuous bad weather from January until last Saturday, and me doing low-light indoor black-and-white portraits (where 35mm SLR is the natural choice among my cameras).

 

[oftheherd]

I guess I am still mainly an SLR guy, and that's what I voted. But I do use RF in 35mm, MF and LF on occassion. I use a digital P&S as before, mainly for family snapshots.

 

[meanstreetshooter]

I'm using the Leica M more and more, the Canon F-1s a lot less, and the Mamiya C330 for special projects.

 

[raid]

I asked the same question about eight years ago. Digital cameras were relatively new as an alternative to film cameras then. My goal here is to see the trends at RFF in terms of type of camera favored for use. The breakdown by film camera type may show us which types are less frequently used. It is just a poll. They are a dime a dozen, as you know.

 

[porktaco]

m9 and xe-1 the most. not necessarily in that order

 

[jsrockit]

Small format digital... 1.33 x crop and smaller.

 

[matt_mcg2]

In order of number of shots taken, it probably goes:

Phone
Digital compact
35mm rangefinder / compact / SLR [about even between each]
TLR
120 folder

But in terms of the one I reach for when I want 'proper' photos, or when taking for pleasure, it'd be more:

TLR
35mm rangefinder / compact / SLR [about even again]
everything else

 

[giellaleafapmu]

I still use a bit of everything LF, MF, 35mm and digital but I notice that I now use all film cameras in the same way as collectors use vintage cars. They are not their everyday drive, they don't use them if they really have to get from point A to point B but just for the pleasure of the process, to show the old beauties to other collectors and maybe a bit also just to preserve them instead of letting them rot in a museum or a garage. In the same way when I need a picture, for payed works, for everything which is important to me I use 100% digital but I like to go out with all the rest just for fun and to avoid to have them become paperweights instead of cameras.

GLF

 

[Rangefinderfreak]

Fifth Gear, I have an Alpine V6 turbo. In Germany that means 6500 rpm and above 240 km/h