If You Had to Pick Two Cameras..

[Andrew O'Neill]

My Pentax 35mm and my Canham 8x10 (I'd stick my RB67 inside the 8x10, cuz I love it...)

 

[Anon Ymous]

An OM10 and another one in case the first stops functioning.

 

[colin wells]

My Canon F1n and my Olympus OM2sp with winder

 

[ac12]

Nikon F2 + Hassleblad 500c/m
Although as I get older, I may want the lighter Olympus OM instead of the Nikon F2.

I would also want the compact Nikon 35AF (or similar), for grab shots around the house.

 

[narsuitus]

EDIT: Can change it to just two cameras doesn't have to be an SLR Love reading these.

Fuji 6x7cm medium format rangefinder and either Leica M6 35mm rangefinder (left) or Canon QL17 G-III 35mm rangefinder (right).



Rangefinders by Narsuitus, on Flickr

 

[macfred]

35mm - Nikon F2
120 - FUJI GW670iii

 

[Cholentpot]

F3HP and EOS A2

I would keep something fully mechanical in case of SHTF though. That would take more thought.

 

[LeftCoastKid]

Hasselblad 500c/m and one of: Nikon F2AS, Nikon F2, Nikon F3P, or Nikon F5... or possibly:

Hasselblad 500 c/m and one of: Leica M6 or Leica M4

 

[TheTrailTog]

Nikon F2 and Olympus mjuII. The F2 is my favorite camera and mjuII is my "no excuse not to have it with me" camera.

 

[removed account4]

probably a olympus pen ft
and a cylcone #3

 

[Alan Gales]

I've all ready gotten rid of all my SLR's. I just have an 8x10 field camera, a Mamiya C220f TLR, a new to me Minolta Autocord, a 35mm Stereo Realist and a Fujifilm X100s digital camera.

Is five cameras too many?

 

[Down Under]

My partner and I have had this conversation before...

If I was FORCED (on threat of a painful death there and then, in the kitchen and most likely with a blunt carving knife), I put put my back to the walll and probably opt for my two Rolleiflex Ts. As most here will know, these shoot 120 roll film. One has a 16 exposure kit. I also have a circa 1949 Rolleikin 35mm film back in almost pristine condition which fits the T models, so I could also shoot the so-called "miniature" films, the disadvantage with this kit being that the Rollei Tessar is then a short telephoto lens. Lousy for landscapes, but ideal for lovely close-ups of flowers or my ever ongoing series of home portraits of our house cats.

I also have the entire set of filters for B&W and color and the three close-up lenses for the Rollei Ts, as well as a full small carton of other accessories.

I would then sell every other camera kit I have at home, hopefully for a nice profit, and spend the dosh on myself and my partner when we fly to North America (US and Canada) in September, for what will sadly but surely be my last visit to my home towns in this lifetime. Of course I will be taking the Rolleis.

All this would simplify my photography to no end, as long as 120 roll film continues to be manufactured. It would also ensure that I would never again have to participate in a thread like this one.

 

[Two23]

Nikon F3T with AiS 28/50/105mm, and Chamonix 045n (4x5) with c.1858 Derogy 6 in. Petzval, c.1922 Dagor 90mm, c.1926 150mm Heliar, c.1912 Dagor 240mm.


Kent in SD

 

[canvassy]

X-570 and Bronica ETRS.

 

[hollowman]

Minolta SR-7 and my Yashica D TLR

 

[David Lyga]

The query demands a bit of thought, but, in the end, I would choose two K mount cameras. Why? because adapters to convert same into the M42 abound. Thus, we now have TWO mounts for the price of one. - David Lyga

 

[dynachrome]

As of today, a Canon F-1 and a Bronica GS-1. If one had to be a non-SLR then I would replace the GS-1 with a Konica Auto S1.6.

 

[k.hendrik]

Who are you and why do you want to know something about my cameras?

 

[Sirius Glass]

If the OP is going to take anything away from me, please, please take my Kodachrome away.

 

[drmoss_ca]

Rolleiflex 2.8GX
Olympus Om2-n

 

[bdial]

It would mostly depend on my mood the day I had to choose.
Unless you mean get rid of two out of the collection and leave the rest, that would be a lot easier.

 

[DF]

I would like to acquire a Minolta SRT as well as an XE-7

 

[TheRook]

The question would be easier to answer if I had the choice of not two, but three cameras, as I would want a 35mm SLR, a 35mm rangefinder and a medium format TLR.

 

[film_man]

I'll keep it to 35mm:
1. Nikonos V
2. F3HP

But why just two when you can have it all!

 

[PGillin]

Assuming you mean just 35mm film, F2 & F3. My only other 35mm camera (a Petri 1.9) is quite nice, but the versatility of a pair of matching-mount SLR's is unbeatable.
If you'll allow a little heresy.... my F3 and my d700...