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What do you shoot with?

Changing things up a bit (no real reason to do so), I have, for the last several weeks, been leaving the M6s at home and begun carrying a single F3HP (sans MD4) with a 50mm F1.2 Ais Nikkor to shoot on the street (no camera bag, no other lenses). I stuff a couple of rolls of HP5 or Tri-X into my jacket pocket and go. The feeling is oddly liberating! While the Nikon will never match the Leica for quickness of focus, I am, by my own admission, getting fairly quick with the Type A screen that came with this particular camera (an $85.00 USD evilbay "win").
 
Crown Graphic 4x5 with 135 mm lens also as need a 215mm lens it may be the last one ever sold I do know it was the last one sold in Fresno CA. I also have a Pear River I purchase back 1987 and have new put a roll of film in it and digital for computer work. This only way I hunt no bomb bomb Banby lives. I am also a gunsmith and I do not hunt with a gun just a camera.

Dave
 
I make it simple on my self. I only have 2 cameras. Both Nikon F5s, one for B/W and one for color, so those are all I shoot with. Don
 
Rolleiflex TLR's or Nikon FE

Todd
 
I don't do a lot of 'street' but when I do it's usually with one of the following...
Mamiya 645 Pro with wlf and 80mm lens
Yashica Mat 124G
EOS RT with 40mm pancake

More often though I just use whatever I happen to have with me.
 
at the weekends in street markets I use Canon Ps with 28, 35 and 50mm Canon lenses.
400 ISO /125 prefocused

28@ 5ft
35@ 7ft
50@10ft

instinctive point for the hangunners, from the hip for the rest of you

the P shutter is louder than a Leica's fabric but you have got the shot before they hear it
 

Liked(even if there's no like button)

I imagine you with a book in one hand and the cable release in the other, making an exposure between 2 paragraph.
 
I've simplified my gear, for "street shooting" down to a single Leica with a 50mm Summilux ASPH (M4 or M6, depending on whether I feel like shooting color or black and white) for the past while (though a little too busy to be shooting much).
 
Very cool thread!
I have nothing special. M3 ELC with Summicron 50 as HCB did. M4-P with 28 Summarit-M 28 III, very close to used by GW and what is Gary Gumanow, Robbie McIntosh are using. And M4-2 with Summarit 35 2.5 as many others great photographers used and using. I'm just nowhere near to them.



You could check the rest at the link bellow.
 
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Leica M6 is usually my go to but have been using the Fuji X series as a good digital compliment.

Recently added a Mamiya RB67...which is a complete switch the other way (bigger camera, larger negative, slower lenses) but something about the RB67 feels right...
 
Well, I mostly use Fuji MDL-5 (in case you don't know. its pint and shoot Fuji with 35mm f5.6 fixed). I just got my Olympus Pen ee-2 today. Any issue on the film development? since its a half frame.
 
Hasselblad 903 SWC
 
I started with a Mamiya C330 and eventually started trying some other things. The Olympus XA would have been brilliant if the RF patch had been worth anything. I still think the XA was close to the zenith of what a pocket camera should be.

Eventually I hopped over to digital and did quite a lot with the Ricoh GR. But they tended to be less composed, with more effort put on walking up to people and trying to get their photo before they noticed I had a camera pointing at them from a meter away. That’s not the camera’s fault. That was definitely mine, definitely putting my own spin on the Bruce Golden school of street photography.

My more recent stuff has been with a Fuji X100F as well as the X-T2. I’m honestly playing around a bit right now trying to find my voice. I’m definitely past wanting to get in people’s faces at this stage, more about slowing down and waiting for the right person to enter the right scene. So I don’t take so many photos anymore (each one is more work).

Through an amazing act of generosity, I just took ownership of a Leica M2 and Summicron 50mm DR. So now suddenly I’m breaking Tri-X out of the freezer for the first time in a long time, stopping by the camera shop for chemicals, etc. I’m curious to see where this takes me.
 
Usually something not too big. A Leica, either sm or M, Contax IIa, Retina or Contessa folder, Rollei 35. Always carry a Minox 8x11 or Minolta 16 in pocket, just in case. An Olympus XA is sometimes handy.
Most of my “street photography” occurs in coffee shops, cafes and bars. Unfortunately, such venues with unique character are disappearing as local neighborhood spots are owned more and more by chains, and ambiance manufactured by interior designers.
I must applaud those who do street photography with MF and larger. Great pictures and a joy to see.
 
That is one of the most brilliant things I've heard on the subject. I don't do street photography, but when I set up my RB on the beach, I suddenly become invisible. No one even offers to politely stay out of the way of my shot. I never realized how useful that would be for street photography.
 
I guess it depends on your definition of street photography. Some consider it to be anything shot in an urban environment, others differ. (Not photos of the homeless!) For me "street" photography is of interesting individuals, interesting juxtapositions, interesting moments and compositions. Those situations can pop up and disappear very quickly. For that, I prefer a camera with a normal to moderate wide angle lens that I can zone focus. That way I can shoot with having to stop, without raising the camera to my eye if I want to. Auto exposure can be OK, autofocus gets in the way. Manual everything with HP5+ rated at 200 works for me. And digital with the same settings.
 
I shoot mostly urban landscapes and some 'street photography'. I use a Leica M-A and an M4 with a 35mm Summarit lens (I also have a 75mm Summarit lens but it doesn't get used very much). Typically Tri-X 400, but I occasionally use TMAX 3200 indoors.
 
With some 60+ years under the dark-cloth, I have come to taking an extreme dislike to the word "shoot" when it is used to
express the action of depressing the 'shutter release' to activate the shutter mechanism to allow him to expose 'light' to the fiim. My mentor (those many years ago) always referred to that 'action' as 'making' an exposure as a means of "making a photograph". To this day, I still consider "shooting" (as a word to describe exposing the light sensitive emulsion' behind the lens) to be more more of a ''violent' rather than a 'creative act....

Your 'mileage' may vary.

Ken
 
I usually prefer small to moderately sized SLRs, Pentax LX, MX, Spotmatics, Fujica AX5 and Praktica B series are my favourite, sometimes I also use my Leica M4P and M5 even if the latter is relatively big.

Everytime I carry a Nikon F2 or a Canon F1 I realise these pro cameras were for other uses...
 
Degas once said, "A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime."
Of course, my favorite is, "I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death."
 
All my gear is Canon FD ,
2 New F1s with AE heads, 2 F1n's and an EF, plus too many lenses to list here.
 

I recently rediscovered my love for a Nikon N70 and a 35mm AF f/2.0 Nikkor.
 
Different subjects, different situations [occasions, traveling, serious photography] means that different cameras and formats as the needs are varying.
 
These days a Leica M-A or a Contax IIIa with an assortment of LTM, M, and Contax/Nikon RF lenses. Almost always 50mm or 28+50.
 
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