One Camera Setup Around the World? What would you bring?

[removed account4]

sorry foidpoosening i didn't realize this was in the 35mm forum when i posted my post
in this order:
yashica T4 and use that, or the
agfa optima sensor
pen 1/2 frame
m3 and a 50mm.

my reasoning:
the T4 is probably the best PS camera ever made.
it makes PERFECT exposures every time, has a look through as well as WLF, optics that are beautiful, sharp, nice bokeh, accurate focusing
fill flash works great. ( downside is they don't make them anymore and wellused ones might have dead focusing
the agfa is a sweet RF type P/S .. zone focusing is a PITA i hate that, but if you get used to it sweet lens, bright ez viewer, light weight camera.
pen 1/2 frame .. sweet optics slr rugged, perfectly weighted, and lots of exposures / roll, so less to deal with.
m3 + 50mm .. its a great camera, great lens, pain to load from the bottom though, and kind of heavy.

 

[xtolsniffer]

Well, I'm sort of doing it at the moment. In Washington DC for a few days from my native Yorkshire. I'm travelling light, so it's Nikon FM3a, 55mm micro Nikkor and Voigtlander 20mm, orange filter and a lot of HP5 and Delta 3200. I'm hoping that will cover it!

 

[cooltouch]

the T4 is probably the best PS camera ever made.

OK, well, being unfamiliar with the T4, your comment gets my attention, so I jump over to eBay for a quick look. Holy Macaroni! Geez, from $200 to over $500 for a P&S? Now my curiousity has been piqued. But no way am I gonna pay over $200 to find out. Guess I'll have to start doing the CL/garage sale/thrift store prowl in the hopes of finding out.

 

[baachitraka]

If I have enough money I may get a nice Leica M3+50mm lens and travel around the world.

Otherwise, OM-1n + 28mm f/3.5 + 50mm f/1.8 and leave enough room for film.

If space is constraint then two Olympus XAs and lots of film.

 

[Don Promillo]

I'd bring something cheap and unbreakable which needs no battery. Sadly, this leaves my Mamiya out.

If light, then a Pentax MX.
If middle heavy, then middle format and a Kiev 60. I have one that really works and I am not afraid to use it.

It depends on the amount of luggage allowed.

 

[benjiboy]

Very true! But that wasn't my point, and is why I said I'd actually probably bring a canon AE1p if it was ever to come down to it. But I was just curious to see what others would bring.

I wouldn't bring a Canon AE1P although I'm a Canon enthusiast the canon A series cameras were a consumer grade camera whose original design philosophy wasn't to last forever but to have a limited usable life that has long past, and it's more than twenty years since the last A series camera was made.

I would choose a camera that was designed for heavy professional use a Canon F1, Nikon F, Leica M, Hasselblad 500 series, and I would have whatever I chose checked and given a complete service before I set off on my round the World travels.

 

[benjiboy]

Oh, my shoulder hurts already!

I'm used to it I carry this almost every day I go out shooting Hatchetman, and I'm seventy seven years old