How many film cameras do you own?

benjiboy · Jul 22, 2023

benjiboy said:
Eight, (1 35mm range finder, 1 compact 35mm,1 medium format TLR, and 5 35mm S.L.R.'s.) I am not an compulsive camera buyer, I have only bought one of my cameras in the last twenty five years and don't expect to buy any more in this lifetime.

Since this post, I have reduced my camera holdings to four,( 2 Canon F1n, and 2 Canon New F1 AE ) all of which I use regularly.
Correction
I had forgotten about a Canon E F body l also have, but I have no intention of either buying or selling any cameras ever again , I'm very happy with what I have.

Tony-S · Jul 22, 2023

Ugh, I'm awful. Here are the working cameras I have.

Korona 4x5 (c. 1900)
Bronica GS-1
Rollei SLX
Yashica MAT-124G
Canon A-1
Canon F-1n
Canon F-1N with AE finder
Canon QL17 GIII
Yashica Electro 35 GSN
Fujica 35 SE
Canon EOS 3
Canon EOS A2E
Nikon FG
Pentax Spotmatic F

FriedLouisStudio · Jul 22, 2023

Working 35mm cameras I use fairly regularly:

Olympus Pen F
Olympus OM-2n
Olympus Stylus Epic
Nikkormat FTn
Nikon F2 with both DE-1 and DP-1 heads

Working but rarely used:

Petri 7s
Contaflex S
Olympus OM-G/OM20

Only on the display shelf:

Balda Baldessa
prewar Kodak Retina (model 119?)
Stereo Realist, f/3.5 version

I have lots of other cameras, from Minox subminiatures up to 4x5 Graphics, but this is the 35mm forum.

Arthurwg · Jul 22, 2023

Only 14 at the moment, not including the Holgas and Pinholes.

joe bosak · Jul 22, 2023

Here's mine (6):

Canon 7
Nikonos II
Yashica Mat
Kiev 88CM
Instax Wide 300
4x5 Speed Graphic

Rolleiflexible · Jul 22, 2023

Every time I see this thread pop up in my feed, I think it must be an exercise in GAS-shaming.

I stopped counting at twenty.

joe bosak · Jul 22, 2023

Cathartic maybe.

lrlebron · Jul 22, 2023

Nikon F2a
Canon Rebel T7
Minolta XG-M
Nikon F100
Kodak Retina IIa
Konica Pearl II

RalphLambrecht · Jul 22, 2023

ay too many (12) juat can't resist. I love these mechanical marvels.

mshchem · Jul 22, 2023

How would I know? I should make a inventory. Damn things breed when I'm not around.

4season · Jul 22, 2023

I don't have an exact count right now, but here's the photo-related stuff I sold from 2020 to date, and I acquired far fewer new items in the same period:

But I can tell you precisely how many Zenit cameras I have: Too many!

Zenit-E, early type
Zenit 122, early type (cyrillic)
Zenit 122K
Zenit 412
Zenit 15M

Have been thinking to unload 3 or more.

Rolleiflexible · Jul 22, 2023

RalphLambrecht said:
Way too many (12) juat can't resist. I love these mechanical marvels.

mshchem said:
How would I know? I should make a inventory. Damn things breed when I'm not around.

Like the typewriter collector who left a vintage Underwood in the back seat of his unlocked car to run into the store and came back to find three more.

Honestly, I need more cameras like I need a hole in my head. But then I walk into Ball Photo and there sits a cute Voigtlander Brillant in fine shape with a Skopar lens for $40. So of course I have to buy it. For the shelf of course. Except then I get an idea for some double exposures and in goes a roll of film and now the Brillant rides shotgun in my camera bag.

StanMac · Jul 23, 2023

I haven’t counted them lately - I’m embarrassed to know. But my guess would be 80 or so, encompassing vintage folding cameras (6x9 down to 6x4.5) through subminiature (Minolta). The "collection" includes Agfa, Ansco, Canon, Eastar, Fujica, Fuji, Kodak, Lubitel, Mamiya, Minolta, Olympus, Pentax, Petri, Ricohflex, Voigtlander, Yashica, Zeiss Ikon, Zenobia, and a few I can't remember. Most of the folders have bellows or focusing helical problems and some worse. None are the high-end collectible brands or types - just consumer grade cameras. I'm going to have to start thinning the herd - I don't want my son to have to deal with disposing of them.

Stan

CMoore · Jul 23, 2023

Still Too Many.
Like a lot of us, after Digital was king, i got caught up in the idea of owning many of those cameras that were so popular in the 70 and 80s
Barring some feature that is crucial to you photography...........sticking with one 35mm SLR is the way to go IMHO.
Buy 2 of the same bodies and go at it.

Cartier-Bresson set the world on fire with one of those cheap, little range-finders

GregY · Jul 23, 2023

Rolleiflexible said:
Every time I see this thread pop up in my feed, I think it must be an exercise in GAS-shaming.

I stopped counting at twenty.

Rolleiflex is a family unit of cameras so 1...

CMoore · Jul 23, 2023

Rolleiflexible said:
Like the typewriter collector who left a vintage Underwood in the back seat of his unlocked car to run into the store and came back to find three more.

Honestly, I need more cameras like I need a hole in my head. But then I walk into Ball Photo and there sits a cute Voigtlander Brillant in fine shape with a Skopar lens for $40. So of course I have to buy it. For the shelf of course. Except then I get an idea for some double exposures and in goes a roll of film and now the Brillant rides shotgun in my camera bag.

Reminds me of that old joke about a guy, who still has an 8-Track in his car in the 1980s.
After getting in his car one day, he found that somebody had broken into his car, and LEFT some 8-Track Tapes

Mogens · Jul 23, 2023

CMoore said:
Reminds me of that old joke about a guy, who still has an 8-Track in his car in the 1980s.
After getting in his car one day, he found that somebody had broken into his car, and LEFT some 8-Track Tapes

Here in Wisconsin the joke is that someone broke into your car and left you homegrown zucchini.

Xylo · Jul 23, 2023

Do I really need to count?
But on the up side, almost all the ones I have I got for little more than a foot long sub at that sandwich place.

mshchem · Jul 23, 2023

The inexpensive and affordable cameras are more fun than any other.

juan · Jul 23, 2023

30 that work. I got most of them dirt cheap or free when everybody else was going digital. I only paid retail for my Wehman 8x10.

Yashica · Jul 23, 2023

I am too lazy to count, but i guess over 50...with some dupes, from Nikon, Minolta..

dynachrome · Jul 23, 2023

I'm with Frank except that I must have more than 100.

Sirius Glass · Jul 23, 2023

dynachrome said:
I'm with Frank except that I must have more than 100.

I lost track, who is Frank? Is someone being Frank?

Nicholas Lindan · Jul 23, 2023

This was all sorted out years ago. Starts with safety pins...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwig3YH__aWAAxVKkokEHYHdB5gQFnoECCUQAQ&url=http://www.leprecon.org/w62/OrAllTheSeasWithOysters.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2dRaCFHXOKfwWPZGkxKk-o&opi=89978449

(Won a Hugo award, or was it Nebula.)

Kino · Jul 23, 2023

Rolleiflexible said:
Like the typewriter collector who left a vintage Underwood in the back seat of his unlocked car to run into the store and came back to find three more.

I have the unfortunate status of both camera and typewriter "collector" , but have managed to slim the typewriters down to about 10.

How many film cameras do you own?

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