Your current camera count?

Your current camera count?

  • One ... (unlikely1)

    Votes: 18 2.0%

  • Less than five

    Votes: 147 16.4%

  • Five to ten

    Votes: 301 33.6%

  • Ten to twenty

    Votes: 214 23.9%

  • Twenty to thirty

    Votes: 84 9.4%

  • Thirty to fifty

    Votes: 48 5.4%

  • Fifty to one hundred

    Votes: 52 5.8%

  • You're kidding?

    Votes: 31 3.5%
  • Total voters
    895
Well at present I have one in my possesion a sad little fuji a500 digital 🙁 but I have two on order: a yashica electro and an argus A can't wait to get them. I won't be able to buy any more gear for awhile though as I'll need to buy film for these. I would like to get at least one more though soon-another leica So three total. Seven if you count the ones I've owned. And I've used probably close to twenty models
 
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28 in working order. Could be worse...they all get used, in turns (or will, some haven't yet). Mostly FSU RFs, along with 3 SLRs, one P&S and a fixed-zoom digital and a fixed-lens digital that I ought to throw away since it's so bad.
 
Keith said:
Am I the only person with more cameras than I care to admit to owning? I suspect not ... I hope not!
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Nope, you're not. Last time I counted I had about 80, but that was a couple of years ago. I honestly don't know how many I have now, but I would suspect somewhere around 100.
 
I have 3 M Leicas in regular use plus a CL and a Bessa L. I have an ancient Rollieflex T and a Minolta Autocord. For display only, a 5X7 E.&H.T. Anthony view camera from the 1890's, "Baby" Speed Graphic and a 4x5 Speed Graphic, a 3.25x4.25 Graflex SLR. Then there is my cell phone cam (never use it), and a Voigtlander VITO CL from the 1950's that l do use. I gave my son my Rollei 35 and a Leica CL, and I gave a Minolta X-700 SLR to a barista at Starbucks when she asked me what manual SLR camera she should get for a photo class at college. Maybe 4 or 5 years ago I sold my Century Graphic and 4x5 Graphic View II, both with full sets of lenses, and another Rolleiflex, as well as my Hasselblad kit. I also unloaded a couple of Leicaflex SL bodies and an assortment of lenses from a 12mm Spiratone fisheye to a 280 Telyt. I still have the Visoflex IIS with a 65mm Elmar and a 400mm Tele-Astranar. Does a Visoflex count as a "camera"? I'm trying to cut down!

I still have 2 enlargers, unknown amounts of tanks and reels, a dedicated darkroom, and still make real B&W prints the old fashioned way. Leica glass deserves it!
 
Leica M (and LTM) & Nikon F here

- M2, M5
- 2xLeica II
- D200, F100, FE

I try limit it here, especially not get any other system. digital FF rangefinder would be hard to resist.
 
A package came in the mail the other day and my wife exclaimed: How many cameras do you have now, anyway? I replied: Only four! That's all!

Later I realized that I was only thinking of medium format cameras. I forgot about the Bessa R, the DSLR, and Canon S100 (which doesn't really count anyway). Must I go back and correct myself? It was an honest mistake, really it was...
 
I try to limit it, well that is denial, well an outright lie-- ;-), I do not have an M5! I think my friends are secretly plotting an intervention.

I tend to hold on to stuff, to say the least, the 1915 pony saddle hanging above the anvil in the garage, the ox and mule shoes, --- so I admit to being at the last level of the poll.

I am trying to carry only four or so when I travel by air. By car, well, let's just say I am in the group who takes more time to pack cameras than clothes and I try to avoid airports that weigh carry ons.

A lot of stuff is collectible, but I like to make some images with them.

Am doing more with the M8, but I will have to carry a laptop this year, so no real progress in simplification, but I have lots of lenses from the previous excursions in to the Land of Leitz.

There should be an exemption for cameras older than the poster?

J
 
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Trying hard to optimize/minimize

Trying hard to optimize/minimize

I came back to photography about a year ago after a 10-yr. hiatus. During this past year I've been trying REALLY hard to find the equipment that is comfortable and affordable for me. This has been a difficult process!

At some point in this process I had a digital SLR, digital P&S, four rangefinders, two fixed-lens rangefinders, a film SLR, a 6x9 folder, and a couple of film P&S. Lets see.. that's twelve cameras! 😱 But having a lot of equipment is just distracting to me. And with a new family I just don't have time to be fussing with alternatives.

I've finally distilled all of my equipment down to three "systems" that are comfortable, purposeful, and affordable:
1) a Nikon auto-focus film SLR with three lenses: one auto-focus 50, a close-focus wide-angle, and a manual focus zoom;
2) a Zeiss ZM with four lenses ranging from 28mm to 75mm;
3) a digital P&S with plenty of controls and good image quality; and
4) the Holga for back-up. 🙂

I find that each of these systems suits particular situations with little if any overlap... so no confusion/second-guessing about what I'm going to use in a particular situation.

But.. wow, was it difficult getting here. Along the way, there were many cameras that I wanted to keep due to their beauty (a 6x9 folder, a couple of fixed-lens rangefinders, a lovely Leica IIIc, a Nikon D80, and several Bessas - T, L, R2, R3, R4). However, when I took a hard look at how comfortable/useful they were, I knew they had to go and the search had to go on. I think I'm there... at least until we finally have a full-frame M-mount DRF for around $1000. 😀
 
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I am in the over 50 camera club. I have to start selling! I have to say goodby to my Contessa, PerkeoIIIE soon in addition to my Zeiss 532/16 and others. I guess you can't take them with you.
 
I think I stopped counting at 110 or something like that. It might be double that. I've never really bothered to check.

I've sold a bunch and have given away a bunch too.
 
R-D1
D80
Spotmatic II x2
Chinon CM3 x2
Zenit 122
Zorki C (Leica III style)
Canon Dial
Fujica Mini
Agat 18K
Oly Trip 35 Black
+ A suitcase full of M42 lenses and compacts.
 
Wow.. more than photographers you're collectors !!!! My wife is already suspicious when, having a F6 and a D200, I wonder of an Ikon.. I couldn't really allowing myself so many cameras (even if I had enough money, by the way!) ...
 
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