How many cameras do you own?

[copake_ham]

Two less tomorrow than today as I just sold a couple of Nikkormats (FTN and EL) on eBay.

Terribly low prices - but it's time to "cull the herd".

 

[fschifano]

Too many! Not enough time to use them all, but the thought of selling them off doesn't appeal to me either.

 

[benjiboy]

2 35mm SLR bodies
1 35mm compact
1 range finder camera
2 6x6 TLR bodies

 

[dslater]

cameras++ ?

Sometimes c training comes through.

actually, to return the correct number of cameras, don't you want to use ++camera?

 

[januaryman]

1 Canon EF
2 Canon AE-1s
1 Bessa R
1 Canonet QL17 GIII
1 Yashica GT
1 Yashica GTN
1 Yashica GSN
1 Canon S3 IS
1 Canon A620
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10 Cameras

 

[PatTrent]

In 35:

Nikon FM2n and Olympus Stylus Epic

In MF:

Hasselblad 500C/M

Until a few months ago, I also had a TLR, a pinhold camera, and a 4x5.

 

[hansutrecht]

see home.uni-one.nl/nlun3461/

(Far too many, considered by my kids...)

Hans de Groot.

 

[Lee Shively]

Eighteen. Eighteen that work, that is.

 

[Jorge Orte Tudela]

Argus C3
FED-2
Hasselblad 503CW
Nikon D70 (ouch!)
Nikon EF400SV
Nikon F
Nikon F2 (black)
Nikon F2 (chrome)
Nikon TW ZOOM
Nikon TW ZOOM 85 QD
Polaroid Vision Autofocus SLR
Voigtländer Bessa I
Voigtländer Vito B
Voigtländer Vitomatic Ia
Werlisa Club Color

 

[Shawn Rahman]

How many cameras? Not enough ...

In order of most to least used:

Nikon F3HP
Nikon F100
Nikon N90s
Nikon *70 (that other format)
Olympus Stylus Epic
Mamiya 645 Pro TL

I wish I used the Mamiya more, but I really like shooting 35mm.

I really want to add an older rangefinder to this - perhaps a Voigtlander Vito or even a Canonet. Maybe soon.

Regards,

Shawn

 

[Taurus 8]

35mm Point & Shoot

Pentax (Can't remember model) - one of the 1st autofocus...sharp F2 lens
Olympus Infinity Twin (35/70) date back

Medium Format

Rolleicord III

35mm

Pentax Program Plus
Pentax P3n
Pentax K-1000

Fujica ST701
Yashica FX-D
Minolta XD11 (giving to my better half)

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Short answer - too many AND not enough.

Contax RX
Contax G1
Fuji TX-1 (aka Hasselblad Xpan)
Yashica T4
Sea & Sea MX-10
Voigtlander Prominent

Hasselblad 500cm
Hasselblad Superwide
Kodak Autograph # ??? (I don't remember)
Seagull 6x6 RF model

Shen Hao HZX 45a 11
Canham woodfield 5x7
Zone VI Ultralight 8x10
E&HT Anthony Imperial (under restoration, to be used as full-plate upon completion).

Oh, and the Olympus E-1 digi-thing.

 

[jleavesl]

I thought I had it bad.

1 Canon Ftb that belonged to my father
1 Canon A1 (eats batteries, so it doesn't come into service often)
2 Canon F1N's (one with Standard Finder, one with AE)
1 Canon Elan (haven't used it in 8 years)

1 Canon N80
1 Nikon F5
1 Rolleiflex from the 50's (f3.5)
2 Graphlex Crown Graphics that are being merged into one

Total:
10

It's like my guitars, one day I just looked up and decided that I had enough and stopped buying them.

John

 

[Vonder]

I have 33

Keystone 110 camera
Polaroid 35mm toy camera
Minolta SRT-201
Minolta X-700
Minolta X-700
Minolta X-570
Minolta XG-1
Minolta Freedom Zoom
Nikon EM
Nikon N2020
Canon AE-1 Program
Canon A-1
Canon EOS-3
Canon EOS 1N
Canon EOS Elan 7N
Pentax K1000
Pentax ME Super
Pentax ZX-50
Ricoh KR5
Ricoh KR5 Super
Olympus Stylus Epic
Olympus OM-10
Voigtlander Bessa R
Yashica MG-1

Rolleicord III

Pentax K100D
Olympus E-500
Canon 30D
Canon 20D
Canon SD20
Fuij S9000
Fuji F20
Panasonic FZ-7

Although 2 film cams are technically my wife's but she only uses her digicam any more.

 

[elekm]

An embarrassingly large number of cameras ...

 

[Magnus W]

Four Pentax SLR that work, one who doesn't. One rangefinder, one point and shoot, one aps. Two MF; one 6x6, one 645.

-- MW

 

[Andy K]

Too many.

 

[Steve Smith]

Too many.

I have come to that conclusion too. I have been thinking about reducing my collection to the four I actually use a lot.

It won't happen though!


Steve.

 

[ricksplace]

LF(3) - 2 Speed Graphics and a century camera company woody (all 4X5)
MF(8) -Rolleiflex T. Yashica A and D, Pentacon SixTL, Graflex Century Graphic, two folders and a Holga.
35(16) -2 ME Supers, K1000, 2 Mamiya Sekor 1000 DTL, sp1000, sears MX500, Retina 1b, 2a(2) and 3c, Fed 5b, Ricoh zf500, Oly trip35, Pentax espio 738 and iqzoom115m
I admit I had a digithingy, but I gave it to my daughter. She's happy and I don't miss it.

 

[George Hart]

Just five…

Nikkormat FT2
Leica MP
Rolleiflex 2.8 GX
Ebony 45S
Ebony SV57E

But I'm waiting for the Fotoman 6x9 to be released…

 

[paullgj]

Four that are in use.

I have four in use Nikons: FE2, FM3a, F100, and D70s.

 

[Andrew Moxom]

Two sets in use right now. A Canham DLC 4x5 and 5 lenses ranging from 75mm through 360mm.

A Mamiya 6 MF and all 3 available lenses. Absolutely my favorite right now for portability.

However, I just bought back into a Blad system again. I had one before, and then traded it for a WISTA and my first 2 4x5 lenses. I regretted it, but had no way of getting into the larger format at that point.

Long story short, I offloaded my Wista, acquired a Canham DLC, added a few lenses and the Mamiya 6 kit. Then I got a major hankering for a 'Blad again, and won a good deal on a500CM, WLF, and back on Fleabay.....So GAS has started again to get lenses for this now.

 

[naaldvoerder]

I thought I was bad;

3 Contax SLRs
2 Minolta SLRs
Rolleiflex SL66

I think I have to buy more, to play in this league......

Jaap Jan

 

[Bandicoot]

I'm not a collector, all my cameras are for using. Sometimes I'll buy one because it seems to be interesting to use & I want to find out if I'll like shooting with it. There are some cameras that I used a lot years ago but now get little use so I'll sell a couple of them soon.

That's exactly my approach too, but having never got rid of an old camera, and keeping a few extras to lend out when teaching, I do seem to have ended up with rather a lot...

Smaller than 35mm
- Minox C
- Somewhere I must have my first ever camera, a 126 instamatic

35mm
- Ricoh GR1v (backed up by a GR10) that I use all the time
- Ricoh GR21, also used all the time: this and the GR1v are usually in a little waist pack that goes with me most times that I am going anywhere without specifically taking more 'serious' gear. Kodak 400UC in the GR1v and a C41 B&W film in the GR21, usually
- Ricoh R10
- About half a dozen 'compact' rangefinders - favourites being the Olympus SP, Konica S3, and Yashica Electro 35CC for quality, and the humble Ricoh 500RF for its controllability, all used for 'street' and low light stuff. There's a Voigtlaender VF 135 in the car 'just in case' too
- Kiev 4 no longer seeing much use
- Hasselblad X-Pan, wonderful camera
- Three old Pentax Spotmatics, replaced by...
- Five Pentax LX (including my trademark pink snakeskin one) plus a parts body, these are my workhorse cameras in 35mm, three usually holding Velvia, Kodak E100VS, and B&W of some type. TMax 3200 is quite often in Pinky, and that leaves a spare body ready to load up with something else if needed
- Two Pentax MX, for when I need an LX plus a lighter backup, or for times when the LX's titanium shutter is too loud, for example
- A Pentax MZ-S and an MZ-3
I think that's it...

Medium Format
- Fujica GS645 and 645S rangefinders, very portable and fabulous lenses
- Two Fujica G690BL 'Texas Leicas' plus one in need of repair and a G670, wonderful cameras for MF when travelling light, or for anytime I want the rangefinder way of working, but vastly more enlargeability than 35mm
- Three 6x9 folders
- Two Exacta 66 (postwar) and two Pentacon Six TLs, clunky cameras but with some wonderful Zeiss and even more wonderful Schneider lenses, my MF SLR system for work, you need backups if you're working with these bodies
- A Rolleiflex 3.5E Planar, as close as any of my cameras comes to being a plaything rather than a tool, but this one still gets used for real work too, and is a joy to use
- Modified Graflex Century Graphic and a miniature Speed Graphic, the former as my 'lightweight' 6x9 option for travelling, the latter to use barrel lenses (and for a plan to see what happens when I put the Pentax 28mm shift lens on it one day). These use the same rollfilm holders as...
- Four old type Arca-Swiss 6x9 monorails, here I admit I do have more than I need, since a couple I bought because of the lenses/case/backs/shade/etc. they came with and haven't sold on the cameras yet. These are wonderful cameras for still-life work and for architecture and landscape any time when 4x5 is too much to transport.

Large Format
- Some old type Arca-Swiss 4x5 monorails, I say 'some' as it depends how you count things with such a modular system, but I know I have enough components to assemble at least four 'distinct' cameras if I wanted to. In practice they are usually assembled as one bells-and-whistles axis-tilt model, one lightweight 'field' model (6x9 front standard, tapered bellows and 4x5 rear standard), and maybe one set up for wideangle work - which usually means an axis tilt front standard but base only on the rear because you can focus slightly shorter lenses that way, down to my 38mm on a recessed panel
- A hybrid Arca-Swiss 4x5 using new F line standards and bellows on old type rails and carriers: this is lighter than any except the field one, but has a bit more movement (especially on the front) than the field so is a sort of compromise weight version
- An Arca-Swiss M-Line 4x5, weighs a ton but is the finest studio machine I've ever known, a real joy to work with
- An old type Arca-Swiss 5x7, used with 13x18 and with half-plate sized film
- Two wooden half plate field cameras, one is purely for decoration in my study (my only decorative, non-use, camera) and the other I plan to make both 5x7 and 4x5 backs for and use as a 13x18 field camera for landscape
- An old type Arca-Swiss axis tilt 10x8

Phew. I think that's it. Everything is there, or at least was originally acquired, for a reason, though there are some items that I plan to sell off when I get round to it. Someone else can count up what that comes to, I'm going to bed...


Peter

 

[mitica100]

I confess, I have an addiction... And there are no "12 Steps" for it!...

I have between 50 and 60 cameras, from subminiature (Minox B) to 4x5 (Linhoff, Graphic and Toyo).