Your most used, robust and advanced digital camera

Most used and robust; iPhone-6 (Two out of three ain’t bad.)
Most advanced; Olympus EM10 (mk1, the original from 2014, practically stone age in digital years.)

Edit, these two are my entire collection of digital cameras.
The EM10 also serves as an excellent spot meter and used didn’t cost any more than a spot meter…..and it takes pictures.
 
Old Nikon DSLRs go on working forever. I bought a D90 new when they came out and my partner still uses it, with the kit lens. An excellent walkabout shooter. I had four Series E film lenses (28, 35, 50, 100, all sold in 2020) for it and made good use of these on the D90 in my travels for several years until I moved into FX.

Several of my old temple and volcano shots from Indonesia in 2011 were published as full-page images in books in Europe, so nobody can say DX isn't good enough for pro work.

I now have two D700s. My oldest (2012) has >150,000 on its mileage counter and still goes just fine. The second D700 I bought in 2018 as it has <1000 on its clock, it came with a battery grip (a massive, monstrous thing but I like it) and the price was right.

This got double-posted, which happens often with me and is so annoying... I then go in and try to fix up things, but find I can't save or log off, and have to crash the site. Then I try to return and get an 'Error 520' message. It only happens with RFF. So it's not something I do.

Anyway, I've split up this post into two. Continued in #44.
 
Double post. Edited and a few paras from my first post.

I got a D800 in 2020. Which may well be my last ever Nikon DSLR. Also a Lumix GF1 with two lenses I picked up for peanuts at an estate sale, now the latest yuppy toy and going like hotcakes on Ebay. So we may sell it. A great little portable kit.

With ten D lenses to play with (20-180, one zoom), I'm set up for life - or what remains of it.

It isn't a coincidence that our house is full of old cameras. Nikons and Nikkormats, Rollei TLRs, old German 6x6 folders, a Leica ii.

Who needs new gear with so many older toys??
 
I'll second the D4 as one of the most reliable and most used cameras that I currently have (it has over 300,000 actuations). The shutter gave up the ghost at about 300,000 a couple of years ago, but after having sent it to Nikon for an overhaul, it worked as good as new.

I actually have two other digitals that seem to be really reliable, though it's still relatively early days. The Nikon Z7 has been working very well and hasn't let me down (knock on wood), but it definitely has an appetite for batteries. That would be its only downside that I can see, but for all the commercial work I do with it, it's been great. Can't say enough good things about the Z lenses either, though some may not like their physical size (doesn't bother me). The other camera is the Hasselblad 907x - it's been very reliable and, though I don't put it through its paces quite as much as the Z7, it's extremely versatile and produces top-notch files.

Actually if I could add one more to the mix (though I no longer have it), it would be the Leica M-D 262 (the one without the screen). Never had any issues with it at all, and using that camera made me realize how unnecessary the screen can be (as well as how distracting it has the potential to be). Super-duper camera, and I've often thought of buying another. Definitely the best digital M I've ever owned.
 
How long you could wear it?
I have 5d Mkii with me today, tiny lens on. I feel the pain after half hour of this rig on the neck strap.

With two bodies and lenses, for me there are no problems.
I have always used professional cameras, which are usually
large and heavy. After almost 50 years of using cameras,
it seems that I'v got used to them.😎
 
For me, it’s the a7iii. I feel like I’m ‘cheating’ with eye-auto focus haha, especially when taking photos of my 1 year old niece. Having said this, the grii is the only other digital camera I currently use
 
Most used - Phone just because I carry and use it when on my run
Most Robust - Canon 7D - still going strong since new
Most Advanced - Fuji XS10 - full of tech for an old guy
 
Sony A7 (ILCE-7), that I bought last year. Works well with almost all of my Leica, Nikon and original Sony lenses. I have the 28/2, 35/2.8 (ZEISS), and 50/1.8. Bought two additional batteries because battery life is a little limited. I like the size of the camera, almost as small as my Leica III or II and the low weight.
 
Do you have advanced digital camera which withstand frequent use for sometime?
Something you have with you every day and it doesn’t have issues. Like wobbly GR III wheel.

My most robust, every day, everywhere camera was Canon 500D. Well over 100K shots; year around use. I had great images with it by heavy L zooms and tiny 24 2.8 attached: it still works, but bit bulky even with pancake. And it’s sensor isn’t much advanced anymore.

I’m looking for replacement, but wonder if here is something something similar to its reliability.

Most used, advanced and robust. This would be my Panasonic GH4, which was my workhorse for video production for about five years. Before, I used the GH3 for a year and a half with the Panasonic 12-35 and 35-100 f2.8 zooms, three Voigtlander Noktons, and occasionally some small Olympus primes. Since the GH4, I upgraded to the G9 about a year ago and bought three Olympus f1.2 Pro primes, a Speedbooster and a couple of Sigma zooms.

The GH4 wasn't getting faulty or unreliable, the G9 was just a better camera with good IBIS, better autofocus, better high ISO performance and overall handling. I now have a Panasonic S5 which looks like it will handle stills duties and some video work. I don't know how robust the S5 is, but I'm guessing it will be reliable for at least five years, given how well the GH4 has held up.

My Canon 5D Mark II is pretty robust and has had a good slog over the past 12 years. My M9 is still chugging after 11 years, but had to have the shutter replaced once, and the sensor replaced as well.

If you have Canon glass, how about a Canon EOS R? I haven't heard of any reliability issues with it, and Canon tend to make their cameras quite hardy and reliable.
 
My Nikon DSLRs have been good to me. My D40, purchased in (I think) 2007 still looks and works like new (the autofocus motor in the 18–55mm kit lens that came with it, not so much…). I also have a D7000 that I bought used about 6–7 years ago and have never had any trouble with it either.
 
X-100 robust - ha. I ran over mine with my SUV and it stopped working. What a wimpy camera. Insurance paid the used value of it and so I got an X-100s. So far I have managed to keep this one away from my SUV tires and so it is still working.
 
X-100 robust - ha. I ran over mine with my SUV and it stopped working. What a wimpy camera. Insurance paid the used value of it and so I got an X-100s. So far I have managed to keep this one away from my SUV tires and so it is still working.


Ha! If it was a Nikon, the camera would have kept working and you would have needed to get the SUV repaired.
 
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