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My wife says 19 cameras is way too many for anyone to own (she doesn't know I have 23 - hehe). I suspect I'm not even close to the limit. How many do you own? How many does your SO know about? What's your limit? Apr 01 06 01:15 pm Link Not as many as you, but a lot. More than is absolutely necessary I suppose. Doing a quick count in my head, I have a 645 system, a 6x6 system, a 4x5 system, a 35mm AF/digi system, a 35mm MF system, a 35mm rangefinder system, and a bunch of mess around/antique/toy cameras. Most of the systems have more than one body and several lenses. I like having them all and I wish I could justifiably afford a few more. But... I'm trying to stay away from purchasing any more gear for a while. Apr 01 06 01:22 pm Link I do think 23 is way too many:) Better try prioritizing them and see which ones you don't need anymore...There has to be some you are not using and they're just sitting around... M Apr 01 06 01:28 pm Link Tim, oh Tim... 23 is WAY TOO MANY!! Glad you asked. We're here to help. Listen, Tim... my wife is right now nere Fairbanks on business. I can ask her to swing by, take some of those cameras off your hands, and bring them down here to Anchorage. Happy to give you some domestic peace. No, no... doing a good turn is all the thanks I need! No, really... -jn (BTW nice port) Apr 01 06 01:32 pm Link Uh oh ... you guys aren't doing much to help convince my wife. :0) Apr 01 06 01:32 pm Link I'm not too big on gear and tend to get rid of stuff I don't need or use anymore. And yet I still find myself with multiple cameras  Canon D60 Canon A2E (and their accompanying lenses, etc) Yashica Electro GTS rangefinder Polaroid Spectra Holga (never given it a fair shake, really need to) HP Photosmart R707 Vivitar 35mm P&S (my very first camera!) And I'm debating selling the A2E to help pay for an EOS 3 or 1V body, for the better build quality (no on-camera flash or goofy "creative modes"!) and 45-point AF. But that's if I decide to start shooting film again. Apr 01 06 01:32 pm Link I'm downsizing, anything I haven't used in a year is out the door... my goal: 2 dslr bodies, 1 medium format film and a minimum of lenses. Everything else I can rent. Apr 01 06 01:34 pm Link northern clicker wrote: Hmm, thanks for the offer, but I'll pass for now. Apr 01 06 01:36 pm Link Counting my toycamera collection, I have about 40 working cameras at the moment. More if you count the nonfunctional ones I use as paperweights and bookends. Apr 01 06 03:12 pm Link So, as a recovering accumulator, some questions: Are all the cameras needed to take pictures? How many of the cameras are in top working condition (cosmetics don't count here)? Are any of the cameras going up in value? Are you able to instantly decide what format and lens to use or do you have to ponder this? What awesome new system could you aquire if you sold most of your cameras? Would you be better off with the new equipment? If most of your stuff is film based, it has plummeted in value in the last 3 years but it is not yet done losing value. If most of your stuff is digital, it is also plummeting in value and is obselete if it is 2 or more years old. Equipment should at least break even for you, cost to earnings, during it's stay in your possesion. Otherwise, cut your losses and try to do better next time. I am currently down to one camera, a Sony 828, not even an SLR. The image quality is as good as any 8mp out there and the lens is sharp and fast. I've shot so much stuff to sell on ebay with it that it has paid for itself in two years. I will eventually get a true digital SLR and use it for a backup. Have fun, take pictures! Apr 01 06 03:22 pm Link Oh dear. Isn't there a gear heads anonymous group or something for people like you? I have a mere 6 camera bodies, and feel like I'm close to my limit. I haven't touched 2 of them in a couple years. What on earth do you do with 23 cameras? Melvin Moten Jr wrote: Oh, now that is just way over the top. I don't even think gear heads anonymous will help you. You need serious therapy. LOL. Apr 01 06 03:23 pm Link I dunno. Six or eight I think. Something like that. Seems to me that 23 would be a maintenance nightmare, and thus too much work. -Lazy Don P.S. I don't have a limit. But I don't collect cameras either. Apr 01 06 03:24 pm Link 8 that i shoot with on a regular basis and 2 just lying around somewhere. Apr 01 06 03:25 pm Link how many cameras in each format do you have? right now i have two 6x6 cameras, and two 35mms. that's the only redundancy, and the 35's don't count since they're significantly different and both relatively cheap. i have no duplication in other formats (6x7, 4x5, and polaroid). i'll always have two 6x6s because it's my favorite format, but i think the rolleiflex 2.8 is going to have to go in favor of a mamiya 6. the hasselblad will likely collect dust once that happens. Apr 01 06 03:33 pm Link Guess I'm a light weight..........two digital SLR's and a Holga. Apr 01 06 03:35 pm Link I have 9. 1 DLSR 1 MF 35mm SLR 1 AF 35mm SLR 2 6x6 TLRs 1 6x7 SLR 1 35mm P&S 1 Brownie 1 16mm motion picture I could do without a couple, but I want a couple more, too. So 9 sounds about right for me. Apr 01 06 06:38 pm Link 1 DSLR 1 35mm rebel 1 konica minolta z2 3-4 polaroid land cameras (some in working condition, some not) various vintage cameras I recently inherited from my boyfriend's fathers estate which I have not really looked at or tested. Apr 01 06 06:40 pm Link Christopher Bush wrote: Have shot with in the past 12 months: Apr 01 06 07:14 pm Link I have 4. But my one teacher has 18 4x5 cameras and half a dozen 8x10's. Then he has just as many, if not more, 35mm, medium format, and digital. Apr 01 06 07:20 pm Link I have one (Canon 1Ds2), but have owned many, I just feel that when I get a new camera, I just don't use the old one anymore, and get comfortable with the new one. The only reason that I may want to have two is if I get into sports regularly. Backup you say? I respond, why buy it now? When something happens, I will run out and buy the best thing out on that day. Mark Apr 01 06 07:25 pm Link here is my on the road video/still package. I treked all that crap through mexico for a month, talk about getting thrashed  Apr 01 06 08:12 pm Link Now I feel inadequate with eight... I have 15 guitars...does that count? Apr 01 06 10:15 pm Link gee I only have one beat up pentax spotamatic f with a great big ding in the housing:P I understand my camera is older than I am:D Apr 03 06 01:13 am Link One Nikon FM-2 and 24mm, 50mm, 105mm lenses. Two Pentax 6x7's and 45mm 75mm lenses, 127mm bellows set-up. Wow!!!! I suddenly feel very, very practical! Oh wait, maybe I'm just broke. hahahhhahahaa Apr 03 06 02:06 am Link Scott Aitken wrote: True, 40 sounds like a lot, but most of them are made of plastic/bakelite, date back to the 40s/50s and cost between $8 and $20. I know toycamera afficionados who have way more than I do, and some who have 40 versions of the same camera. It's an odd little subculture to say the least. Apr 03 06 02:12 am Link dude... 23... O_O that's a whole lot way more than enough. Apr 03 06 02:57 am Link Tim Hammond wrote: There seems to be a lot of people with cameras they don't want/use. Apr 03 06 03:02 am Link Nemi wrote: you know what? that's not a bad idea! they should give me some too! lol Apr 03 06 03:16 am Link I think 23 may be a touch excessive.. I've currently got 3 Bronica ETRS's, and 3 Nikon slrs's. Just thinking of trading the Bronicas up to Mamiya RB67's... 9 seems like a good number to have!! Apr 03 06 03:19 am Link Thuy Anh wrote: Why, I think I am being mocked. Apr 03 06 03:19 am Link Nemi wrote: lol i'm not mocking you, i'm agreeing with you! i'm a poor college student! lol Apr 03 06 03:23 am Link Thuy Anh wrote: Oh okay, good, I thought you were going the whiney "cameras aren't free what makes you so god damned special to think that I, high and mighty photographer would GIVE a silly disposable model a camera" Route. Apr 03 06 03:28 am Link Nemi wrote: LOL, man a lot of MM people are mean though, I don't blame you for thinking that. Apr 03 06 03:31 am Link Nemi wrote: I would, but if you can't afford a camera, how will you afford film and processing? (Especially with the 6x6 TLR I'd throw your way. Film + processing = about $1 per photo.) Apr 03 06 03:31 am Link Thuy Anh wrote: Alrighty, I'm going to stop hijacking the thread and catch some Z's now.... Apr 03 06 03:32 am Link Nemi wrote: good idea, me too, night night! Apr 03 06 03:35 am Link HungryEye wrote: I think it's a strong indicator we suffer from a different strain of the same disease... Apr 03 06 03:38 am Link Just a few of the more utilized of the bunch... http://jpringlephoto.com/APR2006/oldpics/Gear-44819.jpg http://jpringlephoto.com/APR2006/oldpics/Gear-52251.jpg http://jpringlephoto.com/APR2006/oldpics/Gear-8239.jpg I also have five bass guitars, one current piano in lieu of the three others given away or the three large format cameras that do not see much light nowadays, or the two film cameras in storage... a number of other lenses, etc. Apr 03 06 03:52 am Link Well! I feel mean and lean - camera wise. I use a Canon 10D (Well not much; I just haven't gotten rid of it yet) Olympus E-1 Pentax 645N A wheelbarrow full of lenses. Apr 03 06 07:50 am Link Mamiya NC1000s Yahica FX-D Pentax MZ-6 tons O lenses... Apr 03 06 07:54 am Link |
