Your favorite camera that you use the most?

It changes from time to time, at the moment l am shooting an awful lot with my Leica IIIc stepper.one of my all time favorites is my Pentax Mx:)
 
David Hughes said:
How about this for more excitement?


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The second time my XA's RF failed, just after the first repair, I took it back to Olympus and picked up this little brochure from the counter. There was a full box of them and a half empty box of these brochures on the service counter and I often think that could have retired a year earlier if I'd scrounged the half empty box and sold each one on ebay...


Regards, David
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Indeed. Could this be the first use of the term full-frame....??
 
I have become fond of the Leica M-D 262 for its direct easy handling and interface simplicity, plus the fine results. Oddly, I also like the Pentax K-1 despite the relative complexity... a few pluses here are the IBIS, dust removal, and high resolution.
 
Sony a7 with Zeiss and Voigtlander lenses.

I also like using Fuji and Olympus digital cameras, but I use a7 the most.
 
Richard G said:
Indeed. Could this be the first use of the term full-frame....??
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I have often wondered st the history of the use of "full frame', given that it meant at one point "full cine frame" or what we now call "half-frame". Olympus's advertising and manuals for their Pen F SLRs referred to them as full frame, and this is way after the advent of the Leica 36x24 frame using cine film.
 
pyeh said:
I have often wondered st the history of the use of "full frame', given that it meant at one point "full cine frame" or what we now call "half-frame". Olympus's advertising and manuals for their Pen F SLRs referred to them as full frame, and this is way after the advent of the Leica 36x24 frame using cine film.
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Hi,

The cine 35mm frame was called academy standard or something like that from the late 20's but they were always changing things; examples are the Nikon 24 x 32mm frame and the Super 16 cine that could be enlarged to 35m film at the print stage but which took cheap 16mm cine film and so on. There was an excellent article about it in one of Halliwell's film guide explaining the problems of transferring film to TV and so on.

Years ago printers used huge sheets of film; I can remember one telling me they'd done a 1:1 shot of a rifle for a catalogue... And others used 48" x 35" sheet film in some colossus. But why not 48" by 36" or 4 by 3 ft? Weird...

Back to the XA2 brochure; front cover was the XA2 with the cover closed; back cover was the back of the XA2 and one double page spread had the camera with the back open. Really cool but I wish I'd scrounged that half empty box of them.

Regards, David
 
I can't work to the rule of 'one camera does all'. So ~ Street - X-pro2 / 23 1.4, Urban landscape / night-time - Df / 17 -35 2.8, For enjoyment - OM1 / 50 1.4
 
My favorite camera was the Canon F1N. I had 2 bodies and a multitude of lenses. I'd load up my big Domke camera bag with both camera bodies loaded with different film (usually Fujifilm color reversal 50 and 100 ASA) grab about 4 lenses, throw a heavey as hell tripod over my sholder and go walk some god forsaken nature trail or mountain in search of the perfect picture. It didn't matter what lense was attached to the camera, when I looked through the view finder and tweeked the match needle TTL lightmeter I was in heaven.

About ten years ago I sold it all. I could no longer hump all that gear up a mountain, hell I couldn't haul the big Manfrotto aluminum tripod by itself up a mountain. So, I turned my back on my old friends and went... digital! Gasp!

Today I mainly shoot digital with the occasional outing with one of my Bessa film cameras, however, the Canon F1N will always be my favorite; maybe now it's more of a dear old friend that was once my partner in adventure.

These days my favorite that I use the most is a toss up between the Sigma Sd Quattro H and the Sony A7II paired with VM and ZM lenses. Both rigs make me happy.
 
Deardorff38 said:
From a printing standpoint, I prefer larger negatives. My most used camera would be my Rolleiflex T, but lately I've taken up with 35mm again. I love Leica Ms....but my current most favourite camera is the 1934 iiiD. It's been going everywhere with me & the results have suprised me.
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nice III but what is the lens attached, l cannot quite place it
 
X-E2 with the kit lens. Always used to be a prime shooter, gave that up after seeing the quality of the 18-55.

As for film: Konica TC with the 40/1.8 and Canon P (mainly sporting Russian lenses).
 
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