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What camera to take for going on a walk?


filmtrackr looks helpful
I forget pants too, but I squat in a ghost town and they don't seem to mind
 
Just finished a walk with my Minolta 9XI. Although hated for needing function cards for bracketing, multiexposure, and the like, for a take it on walk camera, set to program mode, a 28mm to 100mm mid level zoom, works well for me.
 
Jeez wimps, I'm known to walk a few miles with my 10x8 Agra Ansco Commercial View, and I'm past retirement age, admittedly I don't take the 165mm Super Angulon - that is a heavy beast.

Just a walk though, not a planned photo outing, a Rolleiflex. Planned either my Wista 45DX or Super Graphic and three lenses, plus a TLR, oh and a DSLR.

Ian
 
If I want to travel light then there is the Tessina.
 
I was looking at the various cameras in my wife’s closet the other day. I came across her like new Canon G11. I remember this is a pretty good little camera. I have been studying it and think it would be a few steps up from the iPhone for a walking around camera. I will give it a try and see how it does.

 
Sorry Larry, this is in an analog camera sub-forum, so that one can't be entered in the queue!
 
Are people compiling shopping lists for a new camera to carry when going for a walk? I ask because just about any camera you have laying around the house will work just fine.
 

That's a lotta gear to haul around. Do you employ a sherpa? or have a string of pack mules?

....and of course, pants are optional in the major metro areas of California when within a mile of the coast.

Footwear is where things can get tricky...y'know, I mean, flip-flops down South (South of Glenn Annie Road), Tevas up North and Birkenstocks around Berkeley.
 
BradS said:
That's a lotta gear to haul around. Do you employ a sherpa? or have a string of pack mules?

....and of course, pants are optional in the major metro areas of California when within a mile of the coast.
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I wear cargo kilts. Mark my words, they will be the next big thing.
 
Don't take a camera. Keep your eyes open for opportunities and ideas, come back fully intentionally and with whatever camera floats your boat then..
 
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I wear cargo kilts.
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The mind boggles.
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I take either a Yashica T4 or a Nikon N-75 (with the 28-80 kit lens) on hikes where the primary focus (groan) isn't on photography. Light weight is the key criteria. Another candidate I have always meant to try is a 6x6cm Zeiss Nettar. I have a small ball head on the head of my hiking staff. I carry a length of para cord to tie the staff to a tree for an improvised tripod, otherwise I use the staff as a monopod.

It isn't a real hike without a good staff in my hand and a good dog at my side; a camera is optional.
 

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I use to have a Garmin GPS attached to my hiking stick to navigate. This isn't my setup but it was similar.
 

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Today I skateboarded with my MP, Cv 40 2.8, TTA 28 5.6, Fuji C200 and Arista 100
Shot three rolls in the afternoon, mainly w the 40mm
 
I think small is important. A Pentax MX with wide angle or normal fits lens easily in a jacket pocket. An OM-1, etc. also.
 
This summer I used a Canon IIb with a Summitar on some hikes, everything fits in a fanny pack, and I carry a light tripod on my knapsack. I keep threatening to put a 1/4" x 20 screw on top of my staff....
 
Andrew O'Neill this morning, out on a walk with his camera:
 
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Andrew O'Neill this morning, out on a walk with his camera:
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I was giving her a wee pep talk... more like bribing her. She can be stubborn, especially in these early Autumn mornings... Just mixed up some D23 and about to develop those sheets...
 
My "go for a walk" camera is usually a Leica III. But the best kind of "go for a walk" camera is one with film loaded correctly. I've tried it the other way - doesn't work so well.
 
Don, I actually trimmed up a couple of rolls for the IIIf and threw them in the bag, just in case something interesting happened while I had it this weekend. It is an enjoyable sunny 16 gem of a camera.

But you remind me of an event this summer, trying to load an ETR back in the near-dark with a huge crowd around and wondering which way the film went. When I switch cameras too often those brain farts occur far more than I like to admit. Thankfully I sorted it out and didn't try to expose 15 frames of backing paper or anything, but it almost happened.
 
E. von Hoegh said:
This summer I used a Canon IIb with a Summitar on some hikes, everything fits in a fanny pack, and I carry a light tripod on my knapsack. I keep threatening to put a 1/4" x 20 screw on top of my staff....
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If you do that your workers' comp monthly payments will probably increase and your staff may quit to work elsewhere.
 
My usual " go for a walk" camera is a Canon P with a 50mm Summicron.

However, I recently acquired a sexy black Nikkormat FTN with a dead meter, a non-AI 43-86mm Nikkor, 15 rolls of Kentmere 400, and 2 bottles of Rodinal...all unplanned in regard to each other.
So Fate has decided for me that I will be 'walking around' with one camera, one lens, and one film for a while.
We'll see how that goes.
 
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