One camera, one lens...

[Whiteymorange]

if i could sell everything off of mine
and just use one camera and one lens
i would in a heartbeat !

john

Really John? ...Really?

 

[removed account4]

Really John? ...Really?

yep, really !
but unfortunately its too late for me
im hopelessly addicted.

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Perfect sentiment.
Are these your 'Sunday' cameras?

Nope. Carry it most days. I'm quite enamored by it's ease of use and solid precise feel. Haven't touched a Canon since I got it. Feeling kinda guilty about that.

 

[semi-ambivalent]

There's a saying in the watch collecting community, " when you have one watch you always know what time it is, when you have more than one, you're never sure".

There something to be said for one camera one lens and just dealing with it. More than one and you're always second guessing yourself if you're using the right one.

Vendor in Sanbusco Market pen store, Santa Fe, NM: Can I help you?

Me: Just shopping.

V: You a collector?

Me: Nooo, not at all.

V: How many pens do you have?

Me: Two.

V: You're a collector.


s-a

 

[jimmybuzaid]

I always have carry one camera and one lens. And I never switch lenses, because I only have one for my N65.

 

[Paul Glover]

With the 35mm gear I tend to put whichever lens I felt like using that day on, sling the camera over my shoulder and go. 3 out of 4 times it's the 50/1.4. It's rare that I'll carry multiple lenses.

My favorite results lately have been with the Yashica A with its fixed 80mm, which I'd consider to be my usual one-camera-one-lens rig. That, plus #8 and #25 Kodak series V filters and the old Luna Pro F, and I'm generally happy. I seem to get better results when I arbitrarily limit my options.

 

[Moopheus]

OM-1n + Zuiko 35mm f/2.8

When I went to Paris last year, my kit was a 1n + 24mm f2/8. Good choice for walking around a city with narrow streets.

 

[batwister]

Update: one camera, two lenses

Picked up a 75mm for the Pentax 67, which I feel is the perfect focal length for this camera - the 105mm being a little limiting at times. The 75 still isn't as wide as I'd imagined, but just about right for straight photography - I'm sure the 55mm is too wide. I do find it strange how the 67 has a more restricted field of view than the Hasselblad.

 

[baachitraka]

When I went to Paris last year, my kit was a 1n + 24mm f2/8. Good choice for walking around a city with narrow streets.

I personally feel 35mm is more intimate in wides like 85mm in teles. Sometimes, I use 28mm too.

Of-course, Paris may need 24mm at-least to cover Eiffel.

 

[blansky]

I think one lens is a great exercise. It forces you to see differently.

If you have a comfort level with a certain lens you should make a habit of taking only something else.

If you like wides, then take only a telephoto.

It can force a scenic photographer to start to see tighter closeup and visa versa.

When I did darkroom work and had say, a 20x24 set up, I would make a test prints with just 8x10 to get the exposure and would have just a tight shot of the face. And I thought, hmmm that 's pretty cool.

It taught me to start to shoot tightly on the face occasionally, which is something I never did before.

It can elevate you work a lot because your first thought is often to take a rather mundane shot of things, and close cropping can open a whole new world of interesting work.