All formats: You are going out the door, you grab a camera. Which ones are most likely left home?

mike c · Sep 25, 2017

If I don't have any specific purpose I will leave the heaviest and take the Rolliecord.

Svenedin · Sep 25, 2017

I don't particularly like weight, bulk and clutter so I might decide not to take a camera at all. I do not always use the car, and like many people in the UK I use trains and buses (especially in London) so 35mm is generally preferred. If hiking in the mountains I might take my MF 6x7 Fuji GF670 folder but not a 35mm camera as well. My Minox 35mm is handy but my Zeiss A 520 fits in my pocket for 6x4.5. So the answer is anything bulky, heavy and inconvenient gets left at home unless there is a good reason.

destroya · Sep 25, 2017

most likely all of my auto focus 35mm cameras.

E. von Hoegh · Sep 25, 2017

Since I have an assortment of formats, I tend not to grab the heavyweights - 8x10 v8 plus tripod weighs 29 pounds, without lens, filmholders, meter, filters, water, lunch, etc. etc..
Often it's been a Kiev 4 with a couple lenses, it carries well in an ots satchel and I like the results.

munz6869 · Sep 25, 2017

I try and take everything. I'll start with 5x4", and if circumstances prevent that, I'll go medium format. This last fortnight I've been dabbling with 35mm to test Ferrania P30, but the EOS 1V with battery grip isn't exactly light either...

Marc!

Huss · Sep 25, 2017

I leave my Olympus Stylus 35 cuz I can't stand using it. I have my pygmy man servant carry the rest. As long as he is cool with it.

papagene · Sep 25, 2017

For an unplanned out the door wander I would probably take the Rolleiflex or the Fuji GW670 II, all else left behind. 5x7 & 4x5 are definitely a planned outing; both Fuji cameras for higher altitude hiking or specific need; and the Bronica S2a I use for scouting location or when I just feel square. But the Fuji GSW 690 III & the Rolleiflex (or Bronica) make an interesting compositional adventure.

Alan Gales · Sep 26, 2017

I leave the Hasselblad at home of course. Just kidding Sirius!

I leave the 8x10 and Stereo Realist at home. I only take them when I have plans to use them.

I'll take the C220f or the X100s with me. It all depends upon if I want to shoot film or digital. I don't own a cell phone and the X100s is easy for family snap shots to email to relatives.

Ian Grant · Sep 26, 2017

Most likely to leave at home any of my 35mm cameras, followed by my 10x8 cameras and 7x5 cameras, then my 6x17 panoramic cameras.

Rarely go out shooting without a 5x4 camera, and always take a TLR - a Yashicamat or Rolleiflex.

Ian

jim10219 · Sep 26, 2017

Where am I going? What am I shooting? I wouldn't own multiple cameras if I only ever had a use for one of them. I could just as easily leave my heavy and bulky Sinar F1 or my pocket sized Hit camera. It depends on why I'm even reaching for a camera in the first place. Next week I'm doing some traveling for some landscape photography. I'm gonna take all of my 4x5's, medium formats, and DSLR. There will be some hiking. There will be some driving. What there won't be, is a situation where I'm okay with the lower resolution of 135 and 110 film so all of them will get left behind.

Vonder · Sep 26, 2017

As a gear-collector more than a photographer, what goes out with me is usually the latest and greatest eBay find or newest bit of digital kit. I've been dealing with a wounded knee since April 2016, so of late my biggest SLR (RB67) simply doesn't get the love and usage it ought to.

E. von Hoegh · Sep 26, 2017

Sirius Glass said:
All formats: You are going out the door, you grab a camera. Which are the ones most likely left home?

For me the Tessina single frame. With the prism it is annoying heavy on the wrist and its controls are not convenient.
WideLux F7, I just do not find the format all that useful.
4"x5" just do not go out unless I have a particular need for them.

That is my story and I am sticking to it. What is your story?

The ones most likely left home are the ones not grabbed.

skorpiius · Sep 26, 2017

My SLR to be honest. I'm more likely to grab my TLR or packfilm polaroid, or others. Of all my film cameras, my SLR (F100/Pz-1) are the least differentiated from my DLRs, so less interesting to shoot with.

RichardJack · Sep 27, 2017

It's easier to say which one is going out the door, but I'm in the wrong forum for that. I own so many film cameras, more than likely I'd be leaving one of my 35mm cameras at home and grabbing one of my MF SLR's (6x6 or 6x7).

Ai Print · Sep 27, 2017

If I am just going out the door as in day to day non-photo job duties like errands, meeting for coffee, lunch, etc. then I take either a Leica M6 with a 35/2 or 35/1.4 or a Rolleiflex 2.8D.

And if I am mission specific like going out to shoot medium format, I will also bring the Leica and 35 or in the case of 4x5, either the Leica or the Rollei.

etn · Sep 27, 2017

I try to use all my cameras. They are all different and all fun. I have them all on a table and pick a different one (almost) each time. My current favorites are the Xpan, Rolleiflex, or my girlfriend’s Leica M3+ Cron Rigid. When I deliberately go shooting, I exclusively use a Hasselblad 500. I don’t do large format, as my slide projector and enlarger cannot handle it.

The only camera which hasn’t seen any use in probably over 10 years is my old Nikon F90x which I bought 20 years ago. They go so cheap on the used market that selling it does not make sense. I prefer rangefinders with 35mm, though.

Patrick Robert James · Sep 27, 2017

My decision is always based on two factors.

If it is a project, I take the camera I have been using for the project. That is usually a 35mm.
If I need a tripod, I figure I might as well use the 4x5 if I have to go through the grief of using the tripod.

I usually take a point and shoot too if I am using the 4x5. Typically that is a Contax TVS. If I am out running errands, I usually have a point and shoot in the car. I just grab whatever in that case. I have a bunch of them.

I've gotten to the point in my life where I just want things to be as simple as possible. Usually that means no camera bags, and quite often, just one lens and an extra roll of film. I make do and it works fine. I figure there are a bajillion good pictures that could be taken, so you don't need every lens to try to get them all. You just need a few.

etn · Sep 27, 2017

Patrick Robert James said:
I've gotten to the point in my life where I just want things to be as simple as possible. Usually that means no camera bags, and quite often, just one lens and an extra roll of film. I make do and it works fine. I figure there are a bajillion good pictures that could be taken, so you don't need every lens to try to get them all. You just need a few.

So true!

dodphotography · Oct 16, 2017

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TheFlyingCamera said:
The single camera most likely to stay home is the 14x17, for I think rather obvious reasons. As a category, the large format is most likely to stay home - I haven't even shot anything with my Sinar Norma 5x7 yet, because it's just a bulky pig of a camera, and I don't have a studio anymore. The second-most likely to not go out is the 35mm. I've been hanging on to those systems out of nostalgia, but they're just gathering dust so it's probably time to move them along to someone who will use them. The most likely to leave the house is the Rolleiflex and/or the Lomo Belair X/6-12. Second-most likely to get used is the Fuji X-T1.

dodphotography · Oct 16, 2017

I really don't go out and just shoot anymore. It's always a pretty well planned out event so I guess I don't grab any camera going out the door.

I really love the view camera workflow but I miss the ease of roll film and am considering an RZ to scratch that itch.

Richard Searle · Oct 17, 2017

The one that doesn't have any film in it.

jerrybro · Oct 17, 2017

The Polaroids.

Max Pegler · Oct 17, 2017

“Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.” – Edward Weston

For me, more like 50 metres. Backpacking days are long over.
So the car gets loaded up with MF stuff these days, the 35mm gets left at home.

Peltigera · Oct 17, 2017

If I am just grabbing a camera as i go out, it will be the camera with film in it. I try to cycle through my cameras but I try not to have film in too many at once (I have film in four, currently, and I have lost track of what film in which camera and what I have done with each). The one I want to finish as soon as is my Balda Baldinette which I started at a steampunk festival as I thought the design appropriate - that is the one I shall take out tomorrow.

Sirius Glass · Oct 17, 2017

I keep all my cameras loaded with film so any camera could be taken but the probably distribution of being taken is definitely not uniform when a project or vacation is not taken.

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