How many cameras in the field.

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BadKarma said:
That would be a sweet journey!!! I have that on my bucket list but my trusty steed is human powered!! I'm a cyclist............bicyclist. Because of the weight, I just carry a evil canon Posershot!!!
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It was awesome.

Even on a bicycle, surely there is room for a compact film camera.
 

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BadKarma said:
I cut the handle off my toothbrush and spent $50 on titanium rings for my hammock to save 6 oz.
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I've got my eye on a $200 titanium thermos - they came back out this season - but it just doesn't feel like a good use of money.

Better use of the same money - I could get an M42 fisheye for that - and re-create some Bill Brandt scenes.

Also I can drink the coffee faster, not bring any thermos, and save 15 ounces just the same.
 

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If space and weight are a concern.

Olympus OM bodies are small, and something like an OM20 is both capable and light.

Or if you like medium format, Mamiya 645 backs (for the Super, Pro or Pro Tl) aren't unreasonable.

I used my 645 Pro and shot this on slide film on the same day I shot a back of black and white.
 

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I can see that!!!

A lot of folks don't understand until they realize that the only way to get to the top of that 2.5 mile long uphill curvy road is by those legs!!!! More than once I've caught myself chanting my climbing mantra, "Shut up legs. Shut up legs. Shut up legs."
 

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I generally shoot digital 35mm equivalent ( a Leica V-Lux4 which weighs very little and can sit on a Joby Gorillapod, saving weight on a tripod. As it can switch easily from BW to Colour, it solves all choice problems.
As to 35mm film cameras, I either use a Leica IIIf or a Leica C1 or both together to take BW & colour out with me. While the C1 is a bit primitive by techy standards, it is more than made up by the stunningly good glass. In the case of the rangefinder, I stick a removable self-adhesive label on the bottom plate, saying which film is in it, and the C1 has a window in the rear panel, anyway.


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BadKarma said:
That would be a sweet journey!!! I have that on my bucket list but my trusty steed is human powered!! I'm a cyclist............bicyclist. Because of the weight, I just carry a evil canon Posershot!!!
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That is awesome that you are a bicyclist. I got into it a couple years ago at the ripe old age of 42, after not having ridden much since my college days.

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You could drop your body weight to 110 pounds if you're really serious.
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Working on it. I went from 340lbs to 225lbs. May take me awhile. :w00t:
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"Roses are red, violets are blue. If you want something bad enough, it will come true." Go BadKarma!!
 

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Sirius Glass said:
When shooting 35mm I have two cameras, one for black & white and the other for color. When shooting 120 I have multiple film backs. When shooting 4x5 see the previous case.
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Yes, me too. I'll usually have a 35mm compact stashed away in my pack too.
 

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Yes, one for color, one for B/W.
 

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I usually carry 2 bodies, in the day when I was a working PJ a SLR and a rangefinder with a wide, later a black and a chrome SLR body, color in the chrome and black and white in the black body. Today I still carry 2 bodies, if I want color I shoot digital for color and a 35mm for black and white. When I am shooting MF or 4X56 I carry a 35mm or MF of some sort, even if it is a just a Point and Shoot.
 
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Well, the evil disease has set in. I thought that a 2nd camera would be a good idea so i looked around on the very bad site and found a Nikon N4004s at a rock bottom start and put a minimum bid on it and sat back to wait. Yeah, like everyone else I just could not resist "looking around".
Yep, I found a N90S and extras at a super sweet deal. Grabbed it and could not believe I won the 4004 too!!!

So now the stable has grown. You folks could have warned me that Nikons spontaneously reproduce.

And thanks to everyone who replied, it is a huge help.
 

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Yes black & white and color take a different mind set, but I take film for both because even at places I know well I get surprised by the conditions when I am out and about [or as they say in Canada "out and a boot'].
 

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Actually, Mr Sirius, it's "oot and a boot." This peculiar pronunciation, if you will, is, strictly speaking, almost exclusively indigenous to the great province of Ontario (or, as we Left Coasters say, "Canada").
 

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Unfortunately it isn't just Nikon. It can be any system that takes your fancy.

Just to help you to start with your new cameras, you know the names of them outside the US: F90X is your N90S and F401S is your N4004S.
The manuals are available online. Read them carefully.
the Nkon AF system isn't difficult to understand, but a few things like lenses compatibility and flash ca[abilities will help you in getting the most out of them.
Enjoy them!
 

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Sirius Glass said:
Yes black & white and color take a different mind set, but I take film for both because even at places I know well I get surprised by the conditions when I am out and about [or as they say in Canada "out and a boot'].
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I can't "see" in monochrome and colour at the same time Steve I've only shot about six B&W films in the last 20 years I find what make a good picture in the two mediums is completely different.
 

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And today when I should have been carrying color, I had only black and white (HP5+) with me. Overcast with snow on the ground and resting on the vegetation, intermittent rain and snow and not an iota of color. Suddenly, up ahead is a young woman with the brightest multicolored umbrella I have ever seen. One sharp blast of color in an otherwise monochrome environment. Arrgh!! Of course I shot the picture, but I don't know that it will be as effective in black and white as I know it would have been in color...
 
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