I don't need another camera, I don't need another camera...

[Donald Qualls]

I'm coming close on sixty working cameras -- and I just bought an Ensign Commando from Lithuania and a second (!), listed as "serviced" Welta Weltini. I'm not a collector, I just like variety...

 

[Ariston]

Ha! I've been eyeing those Nikkormats, too. But so far I've been able to resist. I have a lot of 35mm SLRs already. Too many.

 

[logan2z]

I'm coming close on sixty working cameras.

That makes me feel a lot better

 

[Sirius Glass]

You COULD buy a Hasselblad 903 or 905 SWC to avoid buy the Nikon.

 

[logan2z]

You COULD buy a Hasselblad 903 or SWC to avoid buy the Nikon.

I did see a nice SWC the other day that piqued my interest

I think I've said this before but you're a horrible influence

 

[Sirius Glass]

I did see a nice SWC the other day that piqued my interest

I think I've said this before but you're a horrible influence

No, I am not a horrible influence. I am your personal enabler. Go ahead buy the Nikon and the Hasselblad SWC. You earned the money, you want them, you will use them, you deserve them, and you will enjoy them.

 

[CMoore]

I beg to differ. I have (for example) two Nikon F2 - one silver and one black . I carry them both with one set of lenses that they can (obviously) share. This allows me to...
1) load one with color (the silver one) and one with B&W (the black one) or,
2) load both with the same film and mount the 28mm lens on one and the 50mm (or 50mm and 105mm) on the other.

When traveling this is very handy and I find it comforting, if not entirely necessary, to have a ready backup.

I frequently do similar.
something like.......Body-1 has a 35 and Body-2 has an 85.
I do not have any zooms, so i look like somebody who is working in 1973.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I beg to differ. I have (for example) two Nikon F2 - one silver and one black . I carry them both with one set of lenses that they can (obviously) share. This allows me to...
1) load one with color (the silver one) and one with B&W (the black one) or,
2) load both with the same film and mount the 28mm lens on one and the 50mm (or 50mm and 105mm) on the other.

When traveling this is very handy and I find it comforting, if not entirely necessary, to have a ready backup.

I frequently do similar.
something like.......Body-1 has a 35 and Body-2 has an 85.
I do not have any zooms, so i look like somebody who is working in 1973.

I stand corrected.

Body-1 35mm with color
Body-2 85mm with color
Body-3 35mm with black & white
Body-4 85mm with black & white​

 

[AnselMortensen]

IMHO, the best Nikkormat...it uses AI lenses!
Mirror lock-up! Match-needle metering!
It's not about need, it's about want!

 

[wyofilm]

If you have G.A.S. the worst thing that you can do is not buy. It leads to constipation. How are you going to buy the next camera if you don't buy this one. The whole system just backs up.

 

[Les Sarile]

Somebody help me...

Here, I'll help you . . . by pushing you over . . . black or chrome . . .

 

[logan2z]

Here, I'll help you . . . by pushing you over . . . black or chrome . . .

Thanks for the 'help'

 

[logan2z]

No, I am not a horrible influence. I am your personal enabler. Go ahead buy the Nikon and the Hasselblad SWC. You earned the money, you want them, you will use them, you deserve them, and you will enjoy them.

You're like the guy with the red suit and the pitchfork on my left shoulder. Unfortunately, there's some guy in a white suit with wings on my other shoulder who's a real downer

 

[Donald Qualls]

I do not have any zooms, so i look like somebody who is working in 1973.

I have one single zoom in M42 -- but after Monday's processing and last night's scanning (verifying correct slow speeds), I'm ready to look like 1973, as well. Both cameras would have been new-ish then... a pair of Kiev 4 bodies, one from 1971 and the other from 1973, one loaded with B&W, the other with color, each with a 50mm Jupiter-8, and along with filters, extra film, cable release, etc., a 35mm f/2.8 Jupiter-12 and 135mm f/4 Jupiter-11 (plus a Leitz 35-135 shoe mount viewfinder with parallax correction -- yeah, I know, but I needed a viewfinder worse than Soviet Purity).

Best thing about Kievs -- two bodies, two extra lenses, and I've got just about $200 into the kit. Worst thing about Kievs: hardly anyone will work on them, so I'm going to have to learn to do it myself.

 

[guangong]

Besides being instruments that take pictures, film cameras have much in common with guns and automobiles, in that mechanical design and construction can be appreciated in themselves. Many cameras are attractive in themselves. Cameras that immediately come to mind are Leica and Canon sm cameras, Contax IIa, Nikon F, Leicaflex SL (for clean design), Rolleiflex, Hasselblad, Minox (amazing capability and toughness in a camera that can be hidden in closed fist). All these, and there are others, are a joy to hold...even when not taking pictures.
The current bargain prices compared with an earlier time when many photographers felt fortunate to own one Leica or Rolleiflex contributes to GAS.
I have more cameras than I need. I never collected...just never got rid of old camera with new acquisition.

 

[CMoore]

I have one single zoom in M42 -- but after Monday's processing and last night's scanning (verifying correct slow speeds), I'm ready to look like 1973, as well. Both cameras would have been new-ish then... a pair of Kiev 4 bodies, one from 1971 and the other from 1973, one loaded with B&W, the other with color, each with a 50mm Jupiter-8, and along with filters, extra film, cable release, etc., a 35mm f/2.8 Jupiter-12 and 135mm f/4 Jupiter-11 (plus a Leitz 35-135 shoe mount viewfinder with parallax correction -- yeah, I know, but I needed a viewfinder worse than Soviet Purity).

Best thing about Kievs -- two bodies, two extra lenses, and I've got just about $200 into the kit. Worst thing about Kievs: hardly anyone will work on them, so I'm going to have to learn to do it myself.

Wow...... I think i paid about 200 for each of my Canon F-1
Still a pretty good price though.

 

[CMoore]

Besides being instruments that take pictures, film cameras have much in common with guns and automobiles, in that mechanical design and construction can be appreciated in themselves. Many cameras are attractive in themselves. .

Indeed.!

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

You think you have it bad?
I'm kind of the other way round with my gear collection, in that I'm top-heavy on large format.
14x17
11x14
8x10 (2)
5x12
5x7
4x5 (4, but I have a good reason- I teach classes on view cameras)
4x5 pinhole
6x18 pinhole
3.25x4.25 SLR
Lomo Belair X6/12
Lomo LCA 120
Mamiya RZ67
Rollei 2.8E (2x)
Rolleiflex Tele-Rollei
and last but not least, a Contax RTS III.

And this isn't even touching the lenses I have for each of these formats!

 

[Charles Escott-New]

A little tale of my battle with gas. Over a lifetime of photography I had accumulated 90 cameras and hundreds of lenses and, having reached an age when the question is do I sort this out or do I leave it as a future burden for my wife?, I did a deal with an excellent Hampshire trader in vintage stock to take everything I could bring myself to let go, good, bad, ugly, film and digital. This got me down to 17 bodies and 60 lenses. Apart from the sense in doing this it was a relief to now only own kit I could use, some stuff had sat on a shelf for five years. The next move was to cut down to 10 and then to 6 but so far I have failed in this as I really like the gear I have left and would miss it. I have slipped twice off the programme in that I bought back one exact camera I had sold, incredibly a Zorki 4K that I saw advertised and knew I had to get it back. Of all the fine cameras it was this old Soviet that returned. The other fall from grace was the acquisition of a mint Canon P, a long time dream that I fulfilled. So now 19! I have given my word to my family that 20 is the top and it will then be one in one out. Giving myself room to get one more keeps me in the game and lets me get excited with possible buys but I find I never pull the trigger because that super deal is right around the corner. In order of quantity the cameras left are Leica, Nikon, Canon, Panasonic, Rolleiflex, 7 digital, 12 film. The best part of the process has been giving away equipment to young people. All the best to fellow sufferers, Charles.

 

[NB23]

50$ is close to toilet paper worth these days... converting 50$ to such a device is like buying gold.

 

[Huss]

We recently had a terrible dinner experience. $120 wasted. All the time I was thinking "I could have bought film or another lens or film and a lens or another body or.."

 

[Sirius Glass]

You're like the guy with the red suit and the pitchfork on my left shoulder. Unfortunately, there's some guy in a white suit with wings on my other shoulder who's a real downer

Ignore the guy in the white suit. He is the harbinger of remorse. I will take him out.

 

[logan2z]

We recently had a terrible dinner experience. $120 wasted. All the time I was thinking "I could have bought film or another lens or film and a lens or another body or.."

I've used the same logic many times.

 

[George Mann]

Let's look at this objectively. You may not need another camera, but this is the most sophisticated Nikkormat model, and comes with the famous copy of a Summicron, which happens to be the best 50mm that nikon has ever made IMO.

You may find yourself preferring it over the FM in no time!

 

[logan2z]

Let's look at this objectively. You may not need another camera, but this is the most sophisticated Nikkormat model, and comes with the famous copy of a Summicron, which happens to be the best 50mm that nikon has ever made IMO.

You may find yourself preferring it over the FM in no time!

I have the 50mm f/1.8. Is the f/2 superior in some way?