This week I am shooting with...

[crabby]

*This thread has been split. part 2 is here: (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Feel free to add your own lists. I'll start things off.

This week, I have film loaded in the following cameras, ready for some pleasurable shooting.

Nikon F with plain e/l finder, 50mm f1.4 lens

Minolta XE-7 with 58mm f1.4

Soligor Reflex ( 6x6 SLR ) with 52mm f3.5 Kaligar

Ricoh 35 Flex

Agfa Optima 1

Fujica 35-EE

 

[roteague]

Nikon F6, Nikkor 24-120mm F3.5-5.6D AF-S VR Zoom Lens, loaded with either Velvia or Provia F (haven't loaded it yet).

 

[Steve Smith]

Just used my Bronica ETRS at my sister's daughter's christening. I only used one roll of FP4.... Except that when I took it out for processing I discovered it was actually HP5 which I had exposed at EI 100 !!!

It turned out o.k. with a significant reduction in development time.


Steve.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

5x7" Press Graflex

 

[ijsbeer]

Mamiya RZ with Fuji Provia 100 for my first Big assignment. wish me luck.

cheers

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

Minolta Hi-Matic 7 with PKR 64 for fun, and later on Spotmatic F with Portra for some assignment.

 

[Roger Hicks]

M2, M4-P, MP, M8 (Efke 820c + Ilford HP5 Plus as applicable)

Maybe Graflex 22 (HP5 Plus)

And if the weather holds, Alpa 12 WA, Zeiss Biogon 38/4.5 + 66x44 back, HP5 Plus.

If the weather doesn't hold, maybe still lifes with Linhof Technikardan 45, 56x72mm roll film back loaded with Ilford Delta 100, 210/5.6 Rodenstock Sironar-N.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

When I can get the ground-glass fixed for it, a circa 1905 Gundlach Wizard 11x14 field camera with an 18-29-39" triple convertible Rapid Rectilinear lens in an old Manhattan Optical pneumatic shutter. On hand-coated glass dry-plates.

 

[Flotsam]

My 'grab and go' camera this week is my Nikon F with a
[working!] Photomic finder and Yellow filter loaded up with Tri-X.
I like the classics too.

I don't have an XE-7 but used to have an XE-5. I loved the short-throw, smooth as glass film transport. They were wonderful cameras.

 

[Akki14]

Finetta 88 with Delta 100 (I think. I forgot what's in the camera, eek)
Need to finish up a roll of Portra 160NC in my Ilford Sporti too but the weather isn't cooperating much for ISO160.
There's some RSX II 200 in the Brownie No.2 Model E (the cardboard model) too.

 

[papagene]

A Kodak 2D 5x7 with holders loaded with some Tri-X.

gene

 

[PatTrent]

Nikon FM2n with 400TX film.

 

[Marc Akemann]

For work this week: Nikon F5AE with my 24-85mm f2.8-4 Nikkor Zoom and my Bronica EC-TL with either a 50/3.5 Nikkor or the 75/2.8 Nikkor.

For play: Minolta SRT-102 (MLU) with Exakta lens adapter, 28mm f3.5 Angenieux Retrofocus Type R11, Zeiss Jena 58mm f2 Biotar and a righteous Rodenstock-Yronar 135mm f3.5. I did a test shoot with these lenses two weeks ago, but the Exakta Varex VX camera I shot with had multiple holes in the shutter curtain. The attachment shows one of those images, for those who are interested, taken with the surprisingly excellent Rodenstock 135mm lens.

Marc

 

[Ole]

Vivitar "Ultra Wide & slim" - a travelling camera. Small, slim, wide-angle, plastic - with a 22mm lens, I don't really understand why it's got a viewfinder.

If I get any more time for shooting I'll be taking out a Speed Graphic and a couple of old brass lenses.

 

[ScottH]

No brainer. I have a short business trip, limited luggage room - street shooting. Canon P rangefineer with 50/1.8. HP4 and Delta 400. Can't forget the small gossen meter. Size and great quality, lots of fun to shoot with. It's why I bought that specific set-up.

 

[Captain_joe6]

I'm breaking in my new-to-me and newly refinished Calumet C-1 8x10, but I have to use the 4x5 back because I don't have any 8x10 holders yet. I made my first two exposures yesterday through my Turner-Reich 12-21-28, one at 12 and the other at 28, which was a scary length to work at.

Other than that, I'm using a Speed Graphic which bears a final patent date of 1913 and works perfectly, along with it's 127mm Ektar lens.

Film is Ilford FP-4+, rated at 100 because that little overexposure works well in my D-76.

 

[rusty71]

Bolex H8 cine camera with Fomapan R100
Rolleicord II with Fujicolor 160C
Olympus Pen F loaded with Kodak Tri-X

 

[Shawn Dougherty]

I've been prowling around at night lately with my Pentax K2 and 4 SMC lenses. Tmax100 for the reciprocity characteristics.

 

[IloveTLRs]

Pentax Auto 110 - luckily there are a few places downtown here that still sell Kodak & Fuji 110 film. Processing takes forever but beggars can't be choosers.

Nikon FM - bought a well-used one off auctions for a song but have only put 2 films through it. Chucked a Nikkor 50/1.8 on it and some TMAX 100.

Leica IIIf - can't keep my hands off it

Been itching to take out a TLR and/or my Yashica Electro 35 GS again ...

 

[crabby]

Thanks to everyone who replied. I hope to see this thread continue.

Very interesting replies about what is (and isn't) being enjoyed. I especially envy those of you who bring out the "big stuff".

So far, only one TLR shooter. Thought they'd be more popular. In the past year I have gone out with a SEM, Rolleimagic, Mamiyaflex, and Flexo, among others in my collection.

I seem to be the only selenium-cell shooter. I realize most of the meters are dead by now, but if you found a camera from this era that was safely stored in its case, many times the meter is still active. The selenium cell era was quite interesting.

Loaded, but sitting on a shelf for a couple of months, is what I consider my sharpest street shooter, a Koni Rapid with 58mm. Just haven't had an opportunity to take it out.

 

[Paul Cocklin]

Kodak 2D 8x10 with an (moderately) old Ilex Acu-Tessar 210mm lens. Gonna try my hand at the monthly photo assignment here with it.

 

[mckenna]

Wandering around the West for a couple of weeks, taking along a Toyo CF, Bronica Sqa, and a Contax G1.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Rolleiflex with Foma 400.

 

[Schlapp]

Koroll 24s and old Perutz film.

 

[copake_ham]

Finally shot off a roll of BCN400 that was sitting in an old Nikkormat FT-3. I'd been trying to take star trails with it but doubt if anything came out. So yesterday I found an old tumble-down barn and shot out the rest of the roll.

Have some Vevlia 100F loaded in the F5 - but don't consider that one an antique yet.

Ditto the Pentax 67II which is loaded with a fresh roll of T-Max 400.