How many film cameras do people still own and use?

[menos I M6]

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Just got a Nikon F3 HP to the bunch, so the list goes now:

 

 

Nikon FM3a - tiny (in SLR speak), light with AE

 

Nikon F3HP - best SLR finder, ever, beautiful H2 clear prism screen

 

Nikon F5 - great, fast, rugged, takes all modern G lenses

 

Leica M6 0.72 - my first Leica, promised, to not sell it

 

Leica M7 0.85 - love the 0.85 for fast, long glass and rely on the AE

 

Rollei 35 1968 Made in Germany - nice little fun camera, adjusted for modern batteries, so the meter is good

 

Praktica MTL - my first "serious" camera, when I studied - I took only snaps, had photography boxed in cartoons for many years and started all over 3 years ago

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[JBA]

Nikon F3HP - best SLR finder, ever, beautiful H2 clear prism screen

 

I use H2 screens in my two Nikon Fs and sometimes my F2. At least equal to if not brighter than the Leicaflex screens, though not optimized for use with every lens.

[menos I M6]

I use H2 screens in my two Nikon Fs and sometimes my F2. At least equal to if not brighter than the Leicaflex screens, though not optimized for use with every lens.

 

Now, if I only could figure out, how to transplant this H2 screen into my D3 for manual focus shooting without compromising metering and the AF system (which is the sole reason for my F3HP buy to start with) !?

[shannon_henwood]

I now have two

 

Blad 500c and....as of 6 hours ago a CL

[Heather]

I only have one but am working on getting more....and more. I'm still surprised that there are people who still have not gone digital, but honestly you haven't been missing that much.

Digital has it's place-like Churchill MB! I had a digital camera for 7 years and it would shut off all the time even if I programmed it to stay on, I'd have to fiddle for ages to get the right setting and by then the camera would turn off again, the sensors died, got replaced, camera was never same again. The batteries would die instantly, and I hated 'manual' being programmed by buttons rather than using the lens! And I wanted to throw it off cliffs many many times. Also we bought a used digital slr for my stepdaughter this spring and it was dead by end of summer! Digital cameras have too many bits that break and die.

I would hold onto your film equipment and find a digital leica camera so you use your lenses.

[Quorum]

2 OM-1's and various lenses

Minolta XG-7 and two lenses

Minolta 7SII

Yashica J

Kodak Retina IIIc

Leica M4, Summitar 5cm, DR Summicron

Leica C3

Olympus Stylus

Agfa Speedex B

Polaroid

and a variety of antique Kodaks

 

Most of the older stuff is just for display now.

He is my list;

Rangefinder

Canon L1 x 2; chrome and black

Leica MP

Leica MP

Nikonnos V

Olympus Trip

Olympus XA

Petri 7II

Werra V x 3 interchangeable lens

 

SLRs Manual Focus

Nikon FM2n

Nikon FM3a – unfortunately this was stolen

Nikon FM3HP

Olympus OM1 chrome

Olympus OM1 black

Olympus OM4 black

Olympus OM4 Ti black

 

SLRs Auto Focus

Canon EOS IX (APS) x 3

Canon EOS 1V

Canon EOS 3

Canon EOS 3

Nikon F6

Nikon F6

 

All have a least one roll put through them once a year, but naturally, I have my favourites that get frequent use. As they are worth nothing in the secondhand market, I choose to keep them. I have own all but the Werra and the Trip from new. However, these are in excellent condition.

[Sailronin]

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I'm down to only two film cameras; my M6 (mostly carried on trips as a backup to the M8 not used much) and a Hasselblad 501CM which gets about three to four rolls per month run through it.

 

My only digital cameras are the M8 and a Nikon D700 (used mostly for macro and long tele work).

[Nick De Marco]

I have too many film cameras to count!

I collect them and find it difficult to part with them

The most expensive thing is I keep thinking I need a bigger house for them

 

But my favourite film cameras, which I use regularly are:

 

Toyo 45 IIA

 

Mamiya 6

Rollei f2.8

Hasselblad 500

 

Leica M7 0.85

Zeiss Ikon ZM

Leica M6 0.58

Voigtlander R4A

Voigtlander R3M

Minolta CLE

 

As well as many other film, mainly RF cameras, I have the Canon 5D Mk II, and the Olympus Pen II and Panasonic GF1 - none of which I use as much as my film cameras

[pharyngula]

I still own 2 film bodies: a Nikon FM2n with 50/1.2 and my new MP with 35 Cron Asph.

 

When I think of the film bodies I've sold off in the past 10 years I feel kind of sad. I have yet to feel quite that way with any digital, including my M8.2.

[atournas]

Well, the above list of mine now needs an update. Film cameras added since last post:

 

Linhof Super Technika IV 6x7 & 6x9

Leica CM

 

Paul

 

Well, a new update (hopefully the last one, though I doubt it):

 

Rollei 6008 integral 2

 

Paul

[Nicoleica]

I've just added two more to my (Working) film camera collection.

[chrism]

This goes back some way....

 

Olympus Trip 35 - still have

Praktica Novaflex - sold

Praktica LTL - sold

Pentax K1000 - still have

Rollei 35 - sold

Pentax ME Super - still have

Olympus Pen FT - still have

Pentax SF-1 - still have

Pentax SF-10 - still have

Leica M7 - still have

Leica MP - still have

Bronica RF645 - still have

Bessa III folder - still have

 

The last four are still in regular use.

 

Chris

 

Time to update that list.

The M7 has been swapped for another MP

KEH have been particularly tempting this year, given how cheap the cameras I lusted after in the seventies (and couldn't afford) have become, so add to the list:

Fuji GA645 Pro

Olympus OM-1

Olympus OM-2

Another Pentax ME Super

Pentax MX

Two Nikon FM3a

A 'Nikon' FM100

 

And to justify all this goodness, a new enlarger (Beseler VC67).

 

Chris

[chrism]

Ah, the 'Nikon' is an FM10, but it's too late to edit the post.

 

Chris

[PauloSm6]

Still use film cameras exclusively, have my eye on a black X-1 however...

M6 TTl w/ 35 Lux 1.4 ASPH

Mamiya 7

Mamiya7II

Rolleiflex TLR 75mm Tessar

Rolleiflex TLR 80mm Planar

Nikon F3

All still get plenty of use except the Rollei 75mm Tessar

Paulo

[Gerd K]

Leica IIf

Tower Type III (Made in occupied Japan)

Russian Leica, Russian Leica with chinese Letters

Russian Leica M39 as SLR

Minolta CLE

2 Leica M2

Leica M4P, Leica M5, Leica M6, Leica M6TTL

Leica R4, Leica R4, Leica R8

Konica Hexar, Konica Hexar RF

Hasselblad 500. Hasselblad EL, Hasselblad FC 2000,

Rolleiflex T, Rolleiflex 2,8

Nikon F90, Nikon F, Nikon F4

and some more.

Still as my own, using only Digital Nikons. sorry!

Gerd

[nikau]

SL (retired)

SL2

R6.2

M4.2

MP

Hasselblad 903

Hasselblad 553ELX

Hasselblad 203FE

Bronica RF645

 

And I just added a never-used Voigtlander Bessa L which I use with the 15mm lens.

 

Like and use them all, though not necessarily frequently. The ones I enjoy using most are the MP, the Bronica, the Bessa and the 903.

[Jaybob]

I just have 4 at the moment

 

• Nikon F5--I still consider it to be the finest "full featured" film camera ever produced. I would like to get a second "new" body (or an F6) to have two
  
• Olympus XA--I love the concept of aperture priority
  
• M2
  
• M3
  

 

I gotta start shooting up the rest of that Kodachrome, only 5 rolls and 2 weeks left!

 

Jay

[click]

I continue to use film professionally, I don't even own a digital camera and have no plans to go that route. Allow me to explain my thinking: Film has value, everytime I press the shutter it is like a "petite mort" where I have to concentrate on getting the best shot I can because it counts. Digital (and I did buy one a few years ago and later sold it) is like masturbation where you fire off meaningless shots and it doesn't matter whether you made a mistake or not, the value of the image plummets because there is no longer anything at stake. I continue to use film because of the psychology that film creates within my own mind and the value that is placed upon it.

 

I think Benjamin Franklin said something to the extent of "That which we obtain too easily we esteem too lightly."

 

Sincerely,

 

Justin

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[SteveYork]

Picked up a few toys this this year -- M7, M4, Contaflex IV, & Contarex Bullseye. I like to try different machines. I get bored easy. I'll probably keep the M7, and the M4 if a cla can restore the rangefinder contrast, but I think I'll stop picking up old cameras. They take so much work to get them working properly.

[bw762]

If working the shutter (and not necessarily loading film in all of them) counts as "using" then:

 

IIIG

M3

M5

M6

R5

R6.2

R8

 

And all are silver/chrome. I guess I have a thing for the bling.