Do you know how many cameras you own?

[jan normandale]

Originally Posted by Roger Hicks

Dear Damien,

That's precisely why I have so many: probably 70% of the cameras I have are not worth selling. On the desk in front of me there's an Ultra Fex Himalaya (bought as a superb piece of design), and on my desk upstairs there's a fixed-lens non-RF Foca (bought for a 'classic cameras' piece) and a Zeiss leaf-shutter SLR (a gift that arrived unexpectedly in the mail, along with a Kodak point-and-shoot).

Next there are cameras I don't use often any more, such as my Nikon Fs. Mostly, I use them just with a 200/3 Vivitar Series 1. I think I have 5 Fs, dating from the 70s and 80s when I used them more, along with probably a dozen lenses and even a Polaroid back. Frances used to use Nikkormats, and they're not worth selling: I think we have a couple left. And so forth.

Then there's sentimental value: I still have the Kodak box camera that my father bought in 1947, along with a KowaSIX (very usable!) and a Graflex Super RB that belonged to my late father-in-law...

There's also the point that in professional use, it's quite common to find that you need a particular camera less and less -- I shoot far less 4x5 than I used to -- but you keep the camera 'just in case' and then realize you've not used it in half a decade.

On top of all that, there are cameras that are only occasionally useful, but that are very useful when you do need them, like the 10x8 De Vere monorail that I'm using for the Ilford Direct Positive paper.

Cheers,

R.

I'm somewhat the same boat... taking shots, writing ads, uploading it all, paying for the ad with more forms to fill, answering legitimate questions, dealing with packing and mailing, trips to the post office and then resolving problems with purchasers .. All for $30 - $100 a camera and you eventually ask can I use my time for something else.. that's one reason I have a 'camera backlog'

BTW Roger thanks for the info / mention regarding the Ultra Fex, that is some wonderful magic with bakelite! Also I was unaware of the Ilford "positive paper", I will have to check it out.

[viv]

Nikon D700, Nikon D200, Nikon D300, Zeiss Ikon, Leica M9, Bronica ETSRi, Minolta 7000i, Canon Ixus 800is, Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8.

[Stuart John]

Zorki C, Zorki 1, FED2, FED3, Canonet QLIII, Canonet 28, Nikon FM2n, Nikon F801, Nikon D1h, Nikon D80, PAL Junior, Yashica D, EOS100, Canon IXUS, Olympus C220 and a funny looking Gilbert.

[dleyva2]

that's the million dollar....I mean euro...... question among my inner circle here in Huesca. I'm not counting....and I'm not telling.

[Paul Luscher]

How many cameras do I own? Too damn many.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Steve Bellayr

I know exactly how many cameras/lenses I own and their serial numbers & what batteries they use. In many cases I tell you where and when I purchased the items and for what price. I computerized this information. Computers do serve a purpose.

Same here... including details I'm likely to forget such as repair info, part numbers for the correct accessories, camera specs, etc.

[dtcls100]

Like alot of others here, I probably have too many cameras and lenses. I'm a Mamiya 6 and Olympus OM nut. I've got:

4 Mayima 6 RF bodies, with the complete lens trio of 50mm, 75mm and 150mm, plus an extra 50mm that I bought with the idea of re-selling, but have not been able to part with.

Olympus OM bodies:
2 OM-1 MD
1 OM-1n
3 OM-2n
1 OM-4 (with upgraded, low drain circuit board)
3 OM-4Ti
1 OM-PC (stripped of focusing screen)

Too many OM mount lenses -- Zuiko 21/2, 24/2.8, 24/3.5 shift, 28/2, 35/2, 50/2 macro, 50/3.5 macro, 50/1.8 (4 versions), 90/2, 100/2, 35-80/2, 75-150/4; Vivitar Series 1 90/2.5 macro, Series 1 70-210/3.5 v.1, Series 1 70-210/2.8 v.3, Series 1 28-90/2.8 (2 copies), Tamron SP 17/3.5, Tamron SP 80-200/2.8 (2 copies). I guess that makes 23 lenses in OM mount!

Also have a Contax T2 (great pocket camera), and a Canon Digital P/S -- Digital Elph 800is, or something like that (I really don't particularly like or use it).

Glad the prices for the Mamiya and OM equipment has been holding up, in the unlikely event that I ever decide to sell some of it.

[Bob Ross]

I couldn't answer Roger's question, so I took a count and came up with 34 of which 7 are digital, 5 are medium format, 7 are RFs, 1 sub-miniature, 1 half frame, 3 memo cameras....or 7 Olympus, 4 Leicas, 3 Nikons, 2 Kodaks.......the oldest is a Kodak from 1938 and newest is an Oly E-5 from 2010.
Thanks for a fun question and all the fun answers.
Bob

[Roger Hicks]

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

I couldn't answer Roger's question, so I took a count and came up with 34 of which 7 are digital, 5 are medium format, 7 are RFs, 1 sub-miniature, 1 half frame, 3 memo cameras....or 7 Olympus, 4 Leicas, 3 Nikons, 2 Kodaks.......the oldest is a Kodak from 1938 and newest is an Oly E-5 from 2010.
Thanks for a fun question and all the fun answers.
Bob

Dear Bob,

Thanks for counting!

But are you sure you have checked all your drawers, cupboards and camera bags...?

(I live in quite a big house -- they're cheap in rural France -- so I can pretty much guarantee I'd miss some.)

Cheers,

R.

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by Roger Hicks

Dear Bob,

Thanks for counting!

But are you sure you have checked all your drawers, cupboards and camera bags...?

(I live in quite a big house -- they're cheap in rural France -- so I can pretty much guarantee I'd miss some.)

Cheers,

R.

You know that is sort of the way my counting went. I had the first batch and then over coffee this morning...."what about the Nikonos, the Mercury and the Holga?" ...and a few more later. I have a few that were just given to me because "Bob collects cameras doesn't he?" The ones that you never used are hardest to remember. I did have an electronic list, but it went the way of a computer crash.
Now, the next mega count would be to add all the cameras that we owned and sold/traded/lost/used up/destroyed. For me those were the stepping stones taken to finally arrive at the mythical state in which the desire for more cameras is gone
Bob

[CNNY]

How many parts that don't fit together (yet) does it take to count as one camera. I seem to have as much in the way of un-whole cameras as I have that are fully functioning. And then there are the ones that are in drawers and boxes across the pond.
You are not getting a number out of me...

[Muggins]

The last time I counted I had over fifty, mostly box cameras. I've tried to be one in one out since, shifted some duplicates via the local Oxfam sale, but I have a nasty feeling that it's much the same number because I keep being given the things!

There's pictures of a lot on my Flickr, in the set called "I have too many cameras", but several of those have now gone.

Funny you should have an Ultra Fex Himalaya, Roger - a friend who spends his summers in France tells me that it's a legal requirement that a French car boot sale must have at least one Ultra Fex on sale, or at least that's what it looks like to him! I must do a respool and put a roll through the one he got me. Then there's the Photax Blinde, the French Hawkeye....

Adrian

[GeneW]

I went on a purge and cleared out all but one film cam and two digitals. Since then the number is creeping back up. 4 film cams, 2 digital, and an iPhone 4, which takes remarkably decent grab shots.

There's some kind of universal law at work. Cameras on the shelf attract yet more cameras on the shelf. Resistance is futile.

Gene

[sreed2006]

Roger,

I responded earlier in this thread, and writing up the response was unexpectedly therapeutic! It's nuts to have a bunch of non-working cameras laying around.

Today I packed up and sent off five cameras and six lenses for service or repair, and then packed up six more cameras and they are ready to ship (but it is too late to get them in the mail).

It'll be expensive - but man I'll have a lot of really nice working cameras.

[rizraz]

Which number? the one I tell my wife or the "real" number....... my wife thinks I got 4 cameras......

[ErnestoJL]

Actually there are about 30 to 40 cameras in working order, but if the count must include the non working gifts I received and/or bought for parts, there are more than a hundred... but my wife sees from time to time only a few... because we don´t live under the same roof...
But she knows very well that I´m absolutely insane, that´s why we´re still together after six years.
I also know that I´m a very fortunate man!
Cheers
Ernesto

[Stanton]

How about 342 -- most of them operable. Dave

[jcrutcher]

17 Leica's
IIIA
IIIB
IIIF
CL
D-LUX 5
V-LUX 20
X1
M2
M3
M4
M4-P
M5
M6
M7
MP
M8
M9

4 Canon Digital, 4 Canon Film, 1 pentax 67, Zorki 1C, Contax IIa, Contax Keiv knockoff, Rollei 35, 2 Retina IIIC

32 total, all are in working order and except for the Pentax are shot on a regular basis.

Don't tell my wife!

[kram]

Lots - but no where near as many as some of you guys. How many don't I use: 3- Rioch TTL (my father's which he no longer uses), but the speeds are all off- so can only use it with flash. Fujifilm super DL, used this camera for years as my carry around compact, but I expected more from the lens quality. Finally a Minolta super 16 (used it once). Come on folks how got a sub miniture which they use.

cameras I own and have used over the last year: Mamiya 7, MPP 7, MPP8, Walker 57 XL, Nikon F, Nikon F2, Nikon F6, Minox GT, Minox GT-E, Rollei 35SE, Zeiss Ikon ZM, Contax TVS 2.

I have purchased my wife a Contax TVS 3 a few years ago - but I seem to use it more. I purchased my first digital camera at the end of last year- great for puting photos on the web/email etc., but never printed anything off from it. Not as 'fun' as film, I don't why.

[Roger Hicks]

Originally Posted by kram

Lots - but no where near as many as some of you guys. How many don't I use: 3- Rioch TTL (my father's which he no longer uses), but the speeds are all off- so can only use it with flash. Fujifilm super DL, used this camera for years as my carry around compact, but I expected more from the lens quality. Finally a Minolta super 16 (used it once). Come on folks how got a sub miniture which they use.

cameras I own and have used over the last year: Mamiya 7, MPP 7, MPP8, Walker 57 XL, Nikon F, Nikon F2, Nikon F6, Minox GT, Minox GT-E, Rollei 35SE, Zeiss Ikon ZM, Contax TVS 2.

I have purchased my wife a Contax TVS 3 a few years ago - but I seem to use it more. I purchased my first digital camera at the end of last year- great for puting photos on the web/email etc., but never printed anything off from it. Not as 'fun' as film, I don't why.

How do you like the Mk. VIII as compared with the Mk. VII? Jack Dell once said to me, "You try to improve everything, but sometimes you don't succeed."

Isn't Mike Walker a nice guy?

And sub-mins? Um... Er... Yes... Well... I still have a Minolta 16-II (my first ever sub-min, $28 in the PX in 1967, a tenner in real money) but I cannot remember the last time I used it. All my other sub-mins are gone. Oh: except my Chadt.

Cheers,

R.

[RichL]

I always have a minox III with me. Probably avg. 2 shots a day with it.

[migtex]

What was the question?
ah yes! No, I do not want to know....
an Yamato Pal 4 with all lens and viewfinders just show up on the door...

All are mission ready BTW.

[cameosis]

m3, m4, m5, mp
zorki 4k

will buy a fed 2, and then i'm set in the realms of small format cameras.

[kram]

Roger, I blame your large format book getting into MPPs, and the XL. If I had never read it, I would have been quite content wit my Mamiya 7.

MPP VII verses MPP VIII. The 8 has some good improvements (e.g. lens board release) but handling wise, I prefer the 7. If only the 8 was constructed to the same standard as the 7.

When I saw Mike last time, I had an interesting talk about the proposed large format pin-hole cameras he is building. Not really my cup of tea, but very interesting.

Do you only have one Leica now, the MP, or have you still got the M3 (or was it the M2?)

[Roger Hicks]

Originally Posted by kram

Roger, I blame your large format book getting into MPPs, and the XL. If I had never read it, I would have been quite content wit my Mamiya 7.

MPP VII verses MPP VIII. The 8 has some good improvements (e.g. lens board release) but handling wise, I prefer the 7. If only the 8 was constructed to the same standard as the 7.

When I saw Mike last time, I had an interesting talk about the proposed large format pin-hole cameras he is building. Not really my cup of tea, but very interesting.

Do you only have one Leica now, the MP, or have you still got the M3 (or was it the M2?)

Absolutely!

As for Leicas, I still have MP, M4-P, M2, M8, M9.And my very first Leica, a IIIa.

Cheers,

R.