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What do you shoot with?

How have you liked that 75mm Summarit lens?
 
In the past, I've mostly used my Canonet QL17 G3, though at least once I've shot my Petri 7 on a street outing. These days, I'd be very tempted to take my Century with Graflex 23 roll holder and go out at night. The Ektar 101 is only f/4.5, but if I push my XP2 two stops in C-41 and bleach bypass, I can get EI 3200, which works pretty well under streetlights. I'd rather use my RB67, but the Century weighs about half as much...
 
RalphLambrecht said:
I recently switched back to simple low-end Nikon film
as the Nikon N70. It has all the features I need and none of the ones I don't.
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I have been happy with the Nikon N75 since 2004 and I use it for color C-41 films. For black & white I use the F100 to have some extra features to play with.
 
Sirius Glass said:
I have been happy with the Nikon N75 since 2004 and I use it for color C-41 films. For black & white I use the F100 to have some extra features to play with.
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the only features I want are:
1. autofocus
2. autoexposure (3Dmatrix preferred) (must have aperture priority and manual too)
3. light weight
4. plastic body (metal is too cold on my hands)
5. autowind and autorewind
 
RalphLambrecht said:
the only features I want are:
1. autofocus
2. autoexposure (3Dmatrix preferred) (must have aperture priority and manual too)
3. light weight
4. plastic body (metal is too cold on my hands)
5. autowind and autorewind
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Wow. Aside from light weight, that's a near perfect list of what I want -- to avoid. Okay, my Century has a plastic (Bakelite) body, but generally I prefer metal (or wood). All the rest of that stuff comes with IC level electronics (except some of the early, primitive auto exposure systems, like the trap-needle in my Olympus Pen EE family cameras).

I saw a comment recently that I agree with: we'll likely still be shooting 1940s to 1970s all-manual cameras after all the 1990s-2000s electronic wonders have unrepirably failed.
 
I shoot a Remington M700 heavy barrel 7.62 NATO.

I take photographs with any number of different cameras in my collection depending on what I want to achieve.

My go to cameras are Panasonic GH5, Hasselblad 500C/M, Leica M4 and 4x5 wooden field camera.

I don't shoot any people with any of above, however I might take photographs of them.
 

I use my Leica Q2 Monochrom because I prefer B&W for street photos.
 
Although a bit late: in general, I am shooting with a Nikon F4 and 35-70/2.8 lens, but when in situations of very crowded or very close to subjects, I use the XA2 with 400 film. Very sharp lens, excellent metering. And of course, a Minox 8x11 camera, usually a C or LX.
 
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Sadly, all my firearms were lost in a boating accident.

I like my XA2 for street photography. I wish I had a WLF for it.
 
I shoot with 2 Canon F 1n's and 2 Canon New F 1 AE's, and also a Canon E F, but not at the same time, I rarely carry more than one camera at a time because they aren't lightweight
I have fourteen Canon FD lenses, and a Tamron SP 17 mm to choose
from depending on the subject I want to shoot.
 
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If I were going out now, I'd have to think about whether to take my Speed Graphic (now with four working Grafmatics) or my Kiev 2 (with 35, 50, and 135 lenses).
 
For the last 1 1/2 years, I have not been shooting much, due to various reasons. I also started down-sizing. I sold off a lot of gear. I mostly shoot street, so I am down to one camera and another camera that is on the way. I shoot with a Panasonic GF-1 with a 12-60 zoom lens. I have ordered a Ricoh GRIIIx, which should arrive at the end of June.
 
The last time I went out I was shooting Fuji Reala with a Canon F1n and Canon 24mmf2, 35mm f2 and 135mm f2.8 lenses.
 
My strange combo is a GAF LE-S with a Vivitar Series One 35-85 Vari-focal. As the LE-S's shutter has a (unpublished) maximum shutter speed of 1/4000, I set the lens to f8 and fire away. It's a heavy combo, but I like it.
 
My EDC is usually A S&W series E 1911, but I have these for back up.
 
Fritzthecat said:
I have these for back up.
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Those seem unnecessarily lethal for a photography forum.

Not to say I don't have a Witness (with barrel/slide sets in 10 mm/.40, .38 Super/9 mm, and .45 ACP plus the .22 conversion) and a number of other firearms of various sizes and ages, but I think the question was about street photography, for which "shoot" is a widely accepted slang...
 
1874 Sharps 45-70;

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a Pentax K1000 and a Asahi Pentax, both with a 55mm f1.8 lens.
 
Minolta CLE - go to 35mm street beast
Fujifilm GS645S - for compact 120/220 shooting
Nikon L35AF - backup 35mm or when hanging with friends

i shoot color and B&W so usually I have two cameras with me
 
Eric Klingberg said:
Minolta CLE - go to 35mm street beast
Fujifilm GS645S - for compact 120/220 shooting
Nikon L35AF - backup 35mm or when hanging with friends

i shoot color and B&W so usually I have two cameras with me
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