Phew, that was close....

[Sirius Glass]

I'm in the same boat, going to Iceland, Denmark, and Sweden in a couple of months. I think I'm bringing the Hasselblad only, but a little devil on my shoulder keeps telling me to bring a 35mm as well. Just for those wonderful moody grainy landscapes and Iceland probably warrants using color film to some extent. So should I bring the Leica too? Or is that too heavy. Do I want maybe a camera with a built-in light meter. Maybe the Canon EOS-3? Big and bulky. Sigh. I think I'm just going to have to buy my old Rolleiflex back. Then I'd have room for a 35mm in my bag. But wait. I need filters to enhance the landscapes in Iceland. So I need the Hasselblad... Around and around it goes, in circles, ad nauseum.

Simple, only take the Hasselblad and multiple film backs. Put color film in some of the film backs. Then after taking a black & white shot, switch backs and take the same scene with the color backs. That is what I have been doing for years. It beats taking two 35mm comeras, one for color and one for black& white.

 

[xtolsniffer]

I have the same issues when going on a trip. I think 'I'll keep it to the basics', then perhaps I'll add a macro lens, as I might do some close-ups. Oh, and the extreme wide angle, that'll be useful for a few shots. Why don't I take the pinhole, that's light and easy? Then I'll need some ND grads as well, and so on and so on.....

 

[paul_c5x4]

Now you see why the likes of Ansel Adams had a mule to carry his kit around...

If you're taking the family, no need for a team of mules

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

This is why I standardized on my Rolleiflex. One camera, one lens, one focal length, no analysis paralysis. Just get out and make pictures. You find pretty quickly that if you don't have any choices, you start to just SEE, and make better pictures with the camera you have.

 

[ME Super]

My wife puts all of the shoes in a separate suitcase and uses a nametag with "Imelda" on it. If I take cameras she expects that I'll put them in a bag with a nametag "Ansel" in it.

+10

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

This is why I standardized on my Rolleiflex. One camera, one lens, one focal length, no analysis paralysis. Just get out and make pictures. You find pretty quickly that if you don't have any choices, you start to just SEE, and make better pictures with the camera you have.

Agree 100%. I just am usually not able to comply. Where it gets really screwed up for me is when I print. I enjoy printing from 35mm so much, using the Leitz V35. If I had an enlarger as nice as that for medium format (read: able to afford, and have room for), I think I would shoot exclusively with my Hasselblad.

 

[Laurent]

This is why I standardized on my Rolleiflex. One camera, one lens, one focal length, no analysis paralysis. Just get out and make pictures. You find pretty quickly that if you don't have any choices, you start to just SEE, and make better pictures with the camera you have.

After some musings with several cameras, most of which I finally sold, I'm on the same boat now. I still own a Leica with 3 lenses, plus the 'Flex, but I tend to go with one camera and one lens (of course, some filters also), at least for a given day. And even if I "bring'em all", that's only 2 cameras and 4 lens (one of which is welded on the camera), which is quite portable... And I think my pictures improve now that I don't have that many decisions to make before clicking the shutter.

The EOS3 is a nice camera, but I found it made me too "analytic" about the picture, trying to analyse all parameters (D.O.F., exposure range, etc...) and this took too much time. My Leica and Rolleiflex shots are much nicer!