How many film cameras do you own?

[benjiboy]

That is exactly the impression I got so go out there and take photographs . . .

I shoot almost every day Les that's what I looked forward to all my working life and now I'm retired I can indulge my passion.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

I made my decision Les many years ago that I'm more interested in photography that accumulating photographic equipment, I have never owned an original F1 or a F1n although they are fine cameras, but I do have three New type F1's which are everything I require in a 35mm camera, end of story.

Well, don't forget your EF. As I've said before, I could be happy with an EF as my one and only camera. Fact is, until you mentioned it once about five months ago, I wasn't even aware that camera existed. The EF gets very little exposure (heh) on the web. For example, it's not mentioned at all on the excellent MIR site. A shame that such a good and capable camera isn't more well known.


I try to use and enjoy every one of my little photographic mechanisms. Maybe it is because I'm an engineer that I just want to experience all their differences and what it's like to use them.

 

[Les Sarile]

I shoot almost every day Les that's what I looked forward to all my working life and now I'm retired I can indulge my passion.

I can only be so lucky - retire and indulge in my passion. Good for you!

 

[benjiboy]

Well, don't forget your EF. As I've said before, I could be happy with an EF as my one and only camera. Fact is, until you mentioned it once about five months ago, I wasn't even aware that camera existed. The EF gets very little exposure (heh) on the web. For example, it's not mentioned at all on the excellent MIR site. A shame that such a good and capable camera isn't more well known.


I try to use and enjoy every one of my little photographic mechanisms. Maybe it is because I'm an engineer that I just want to experience all their differences and what it's like to use them.

Yes I do have an EF too Theo and a T90, but my primary cameras are three New F1's.

 

[Les Sarile]

Well, don't forget your EF. As I've said before, I could be happy with an EF as my one and only camera. Fact is, until you mentioned it once about five months ago, I wasn't even aware that camera existed. The EF gets very little exposure (heh) on the web. For example, it's not mentioned at all on the excellent MIR site. A shame that such a good and capable camera isn't more well known.


I try to use and enjoy every one of my little photographic mechanisms. Maybe it is because I'm an engineer that I just want to experience all their differences and what it's like to use them.

The Canon EF is also hard to do a relevant search on since it mostly brings back current Canon EF lenses!

I too have been an immersion exploration and have developed a real appreciation for these magnificent machines!

 

[cuthbert]

But I know and it is more than a few and nothing to be ashamed of unless you think so . . .

Of course the amount of gear I have is not comparable with your own but perhaps I've one or two you don't own...yet.

 

[Monticristo]

eight:

nikon f100, fe,
Minolta srt101
rollei 35,35s
olympus u
voightlander pekoe l, Bessarabia ll

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I didnt know which discussion to put it under so i put it under the 35mm forum but it can apply to any film camera. I only own 1, a Rolleiflex SL35. I dont need another.

(maybe ill get a range finder one day, i dunno)

too many(ten)

 

[Ray Morgenweck]

Probably 50-70 or so.

 

[Chan Tran]

At one time I had 42 but now I got rid of some of them but I think I still have more than 30.

 

[logan2z]

Probably 50-70 or so.

At one time I had 42 but now I got rid of some of them but I think I still have more than 30.

You guys are making me feel less guilty about my little collection of 8

 

[benjiboy]

You guys are making me feel less guilty about my little collection of 8

You are also making me feel even less guilty I own in total only 6 cameras, five 35 mm S.L.Rs, and one compact camera.
I have owned them all for over thirty years.

 

[Arthurwg]

12, Mayne a few more.

 

[Dwight Anderson]

I really don't know, but somewhere around 500. I do know I've sold 70 of them on Etsy in the last 3 years, so maybe only 400?

The oldest is an 1896 Pocket Kodak, the newest is a Dora Goodman Zone. The smallest is a Minute 16, the largest a Herlango 5x7 field camera.

Cameras I've run film through this year:

1896 Ray box camera for 3.5"x3.5" plates
Balda Rival 35
Dora Goodman Zone with 100/f3.5 Tessar
Kodak 00 Cartridge Premo
Kodak Brownie Starmatic
Kodak Vest Pocket Special
Ernemann Film K box Camera
Eumig Eumigetta
Fuji GS645S
Great Wall DF-3
Herlango 5x7 with film taped to glass plates
Hummel 3.25x4.25 folding plate camera with roll back
Kalimar Six Sixty
Kiev 4AM
Olympus 35 Wide
Pentax SV
Pentax ZX5n
Petri Automate
Petri Color 35 (Black)
Polaroid SX-70
Ricohflex VII
Sears Tower 34 box camera
Spartus 35F
Yashica 44LM
Yashica Electro 35 GSN
Zeiss Baby Ikonta 520/18
Zeiss Box Tengor 56/2
Zeiss Contessa 35
Zeiss Ikonta 35
Zeiss Super Ikonta A 530

 

[Pieter12]

But how many lenses?

 

[Sirius Glass]

I really don't know, but somewhere around 500. I do know I've sold 70 of them on Etsy in the last 3 years, so maybe only 400?

The oldest is an 1896 Pocket Kodak, the newest is a Dora Goodman Zone. The smallest is a Minute 16, the largest a Herlango 5x7 field camera.

Cameras I've run film through this year:

1896 Ray box camera for 3.5"x3.5" plates
Balda Rival 35
Dora Goodman Zone with 100/f3.5 Tessar
Kodak 00 Cartridge Premo
Kodak Brownie Starmatic
Kodak Vest Pocket Special
Ernemann Film K box Camera
Eumig Eumigetta
Fuji GS645S
Great Wall DF-3
Herlango 5x7 with film taped to glass plates
Hummel 3.25x4.25 folding plate camera with roll back
Kalimar Six Sixty
Kiev 4AM
Olympus 35 Wide
Pentax SV
Pentax ZX5n
Petri Automate
Petri Color 35 (Black)
Polaroid SX-70
Ricohflex VII
Sears Tower 34 box camera
Spartus 35F
Yashica 44LM
Yashica Electro 35 GSN
Zeiss Baby Ikonta 520/18
Zeiss Box Tengor 56/2
Zeiss Contessa 35
Zeiss Ikonta 35
Zeiss Super Ikonta A 530

Even alphabetized. Do you have CDO? That is such strong OCD that one has to order the list of the disorder.

 

[Dwight Anderson]

But how many lenses?

All of them have lenses! Well, except my Zero 2000.

Actually, most of them are fixed lens cameras, but I do have wide, normal and tele lenses for my Retina IIIc, Zeiss Contina, Zeiss Contaflex, Kalimar Six Sixty, Kiev 4AM, Contax IIa, Argus C3, Pentax SV, and Pentax ZX5n. So maybe 20-30

 

[Dwight Anderson]

Even alphabetized. Do you have CDO? That is such strong OCD that one has to order the list of the disorder.

Far from it, I am rather disorganized. But they are alphabetical in my scanning software.

 

[thecameratherapy]

1. Nikon FM2n
2. Zenit 12XP
3. Olympus EES-2
4. Yashica Electro 35 GSN
5. Nikkormat El
6. Vivitar PS35
7. Pentax Mini sport 35AF

My favorite: The FM2n, great camera, also a gift from my Dad.

 

[benjiboy]

I'm glad I don't have a lot of cameras, or a lot of anything for that matter, because I have always felt that the more stuff you own the more " hostages to fate" you have, and I have always preferred to travel light.

 

[Mogens]

135

Nikon FE
Nikkormat EL
- Nikkor H 50mm 2.0
- Nikkor S 50mm 1.4 (AI'd)
- Micro Nikkor 55mm 3.5
- Nikkor 24mm 2.8
- Nikkor Q 200mm 4.0 (AI'd)
- Tamron Adaptall 28mm 2.5 (AI)
- Kiron 70-150 (AI)
- Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Curtagon 28mm (with Nikon F adapter)
Kodak Retina 1b (my big love affair for the year)

120

Rolleiflex 3.5e2 w/ Schneider-Kreuznach Xenotar
Yashica A
Agfa Isolette L

(I was worried it would be more than this, but nope, that's it. It's a fairly reasonable herd of cameras.)

 

[henryyjjames]

35mm
Canon AE-1
Vivitar v3800N
Olympus OM-1n
Minolta X-700
Pentax MX
Canon ELAN 7n
Canon EOS 3

Plus a few various point-and-shoots that are meh.


120
Mamiya 645 Pro TL

Large Format
Intrepid 4x5


These are all the ones that work/I've used.
I have a box in my darkroom that is full of cameras/lenses that I picked up for $100, but I have yet to actually test everything and see what needs cleaning/repairing.

 

[benveniste]

Currently?

• Pentax 110 SLR
• Nikon Pronea S
• Nikon FA
• Nikon F100
• Pentax 645n
• Rolleicord II
• Wista 45
• Holographic Camera
• (Somewhere) Estes Camroc

 

[Mogens]

Currently?

• Pentax 110 SLR
• Nikon Pronea S
• Nikon FA
• Nikon F100
• Pentax 645n
• Rolleicord II
• Wista 45
• Holographic Camera
• (Somewhere) Estes Camroc

The Pronea is APS, no? That‘s an unusual format in 2023. How do you use it?

 

[cerber0s]

I have a Canon F1, a Nikon F2, an old Rolleiflex TLR, 2 Konica C35’s (one is broken), and a Voigtlander Vito CL.