Is there a camera you like so much that you have more than one of the same model?

My Mamiya Super Press 23 has 5 backs, does that count? :p

I also have two other bodies, both of which are in bad shape and will some day hopefully become one good working body.

2 Canonet 17's (1 19)
3 FX 103s
3 Yashica TL Electro X

and of course

3 Fujica ST 901
2 Fujica ST 801 (I have quit counting the one I gave my daughter, she's keeping it). Same for the Fujica AZ, I now have only one, she has the other.
 
I have two M6 ttls - one with the 0.72 viewfinder and one with the 0.58. The 0.72 was my first Leica and I've always thought of it as a lovely camera. When eyeglasses came a callin' in my life I added the second body and have found that carrying & shooting with two bodies and focal lengths is really useful and nowhere near as cumbersome as I thought it might be.
 
My first serious camera was a new Pentax MX (in 1980). I used it exclusively until 1999, when I swithched to an AF/AE Canon (an EOS300). This revived my photography, so the MX also got a second lease of life, and I'm so fond of it that I acquired several secondhand ones just in case. So now I have four standard ones and a black one...

I also acquired a second EOS300, which I sold when I bought the much nicer EOS30 which has been my main camera for several years (and I'm still hesitating to buy a second one, at the ridiculous prices they're currently going).

Apart from that, I have 2 Olympus 35RC's. I also have several Bessas but they are all different models (L, R, R2A, and an R4M currently on its way from Robert White), so that doesn't really count. Although I'm on the lookout for a black R to complement my chrome one...
 
why buy one when you can have two at twice the price

why buy one when you can have two at twice the price

paraphrasing "First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?" - said by S R Hadden in the film of Carl Sagan's Contact.

Never two 100% identical but :

2 x M6 classics ( one x0.72, one x0.85 )
2 x Minox AX ( one silver, one black )
 
Of course...there's always Tom A. and his M2's....

For me, not out and out duplicates, although I used to have two Canon F1N's, (but with different prisms)... but I do tend to have 2 or more bodies pretty often, even if they're not exactly the same:

Contax G1 + G2
Pentax ME super + K1000 SE + PZ1-p

only one Leica so far though...

-Brian
 
I used to carry two similar bodies so that I could quickly switch lenses by switching cameras. Now I carry two dissimilar bodies so that I can shoot digital on the SLR plus film with my RFs (because I can't bear to stop using the RFs).
 
Probably not the obvious choice, but I have two OM40's (OMPC) - and I'm jonesing for a third. There something about them that just suits me perfectly. I also have two Trip35's but one's a silver button and the other's a black.
 
2 x Canon 650's a simple AF camera with a spot meter at the push of a button. They just suit me so well and so very cheap.
 
Currently I have two CLs, two Canon QL17 GIIIs, and two Canon A-1 SLRs.

I used to have 2 Yashica Electro 35 GSNs, but I only have one at the moment.
 
2 x Olympus OM2n (plus 1 x OM1n)
2 x Kodak Retina IIa

(3 x Olympus XA - well, 1 x XA, 1 x XA2, 1 x XA4, so no two of the same model)

The camera I'd most like to have two of is the Leica M2, but finances currently limit me to just the one.
 
Looks like I've got 4 sets of twins if you count very similar models.

IIIf, IIf and Rollei T and S
 

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Well . . . do they have to be absolutely identical? OK. First thing that comes to mind is my two Leica M6s both with .58 finders. They have become the two Leicas I have taken on my last two airline trips: to Chicago, and to Toronto. For both those trips I used a 40/1.4 CV on one body, and a 28mm Summicron on the other. A 21mm ASPH was in the bag, just in case (and I needed it). This has become established as a really good 3-lens outfit for street photography when visiting cities. One M6 is around my neck and the other stays in the Domke 803, ready to pull out.

For photographing the mountains in Colorado when traveling the back country by Jeep: two Nikon Fe2s.

That's about it for identical cameras. for those that are merely similar, see my list below.

Oh, I also have two IIIcs, but they are not quite identical. One was made in 1946, the other in 1950.

And a D-lux3 and a D-lux4. Not identical, but close.
 
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oftheherd said:
My Mamiya Super Press 23 has 5 backs, does that count? :p
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Well, I'll count that! I have only three backs, but two of them take the masks for 6X6 & 6X4.5, as well as the full 6X7. Is that like seven to count?
I also have five Nikon F's, two with FTN heads. Got the first one in 1970, and aquired the rest when they weren't worth much - they were just considered 'old' cameras. I think the Nikon F and the Leica M3 are the two best 35mm cameras ever. Some may disagree, and that's fine.
 
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