View Full Version : Poll: How often do you USE your camera(s)...?
Rich Silfver
10-11-2003, 20:43
I know we all own and love our cameras - but do we 'walk the talk' - do we actually put these tools to use?
Are we users or collectors?
Let's find out...
I go in spurts. Sometimes I shoot a lot, especially when traveling and doing documentation that is related to my profession as an anthropologist. Other times I can go months without taking a picture. I like to think of myself as a user rather than a collector. Regardless, I do have more cameras than I really need. In the past three years I have purchased five Russian rangefinders because I get a kick out of them. Where else could I get Leica and Contax copies for so little money? (I lusted for Leicas and Contaxes in the late 1950s when I was just getting into photography.) But I use SLRs for my professional work.
Well, I think I switch from user to collector and viceversa more than I would like to. I really enjoy taking pictures when I go travelling but sometimes I also like to simply take a camera with me on a "normal" day and use it almost on impulses.
On the other hand, one of the things I enjoy from taking pictures is USING the cameras, and I enjoy reading and investigating about them too. Also, the FSU rangefinder bug bit me hard, but as Oldprof says, the possibility of using generally good Leica and Contax copies so cheaply is one of the main points.
BTW, anthropologist ? that sounds interesting, there are no many interesting things to photograph in computer engineering... :( or at least I don't know how to "see" them...
znapschatz
10-12-2003, 20:02
My poll answer was #1 (every day, doesn't everybody?), but qualification is in order. I carry a camera every day, but don't always take photographs with it. Whenever I leave home without one, however, God punishes me with subject matter. So, under a definition that toting is a form of use, I am a constant carrier, with a chronic backache to prove it. BTW, most of the time, I also manage a snap or 2 or more.
I am bravely trying to resist being a "collector" in favor of remaining simply a "user"! Today I almost bought a sleek Voigtlander Vitessa with f/2 Ultron but managed to control the impulse.
"Too many" cameras spreads the usage too thinly, I think, and at some point I'd buy interesting cameras and never get around to trying them out.
Last month I felt the collecting danger too late to avoid getting a couple of ancient Pentaxes; one H3 just like my first one in 1964, plus an earlier 1958 vintage to keep it company. Must... resist....
Although I am in the healthcare industry, I do try to take photos on a weekly basis to document the world around me and to take photos of my colleagues at work and play. I would say I am a user. By the way I am Peter and I am new here. I posted some photos at www.pgallery.net/imago-singapura/
back alley
10-13-2003, 05:50
hi peter & welcome to the forum!
i took a quick look at some of your stuff, is that a self portrait in the men's room? i had to laugh because i have done the same thing!
great minds...
joe
Welcome to the forum Peter! I enjoyed seeing your pictures.
SolaresLarrave
10-13-2003, 09:16
Like znapz, I carry my camera with every day... and the day I choose not to take it, that's when I see more things. In any case, I'm a ferocious user, formerly collector and now seller. :)
Rich Silfver
10-13-2003, 20:44
Peter, some great photos there. Welcome to the RFF !
When it comes to carrying a camera anywhere you go I may start to put an Olympus XA in the briefcase going forward...
Thank you guys. In fact I actually volunteered to do a photo essay on nurses in Singapore that would be published in a Nurses' Day picture book next year. Back to the thread, I think most of us would be tempted to buy more and more RF equipment that we probably will not use. I am guilty of being tempted by the 'dark side'!
Originally posted by Peter
... I am guilty of being tempted by the 'dark side'!
Don't worry, there's plenty of guilt to go around. :D
back alley
10-14-2003, 14:04
Originally posted by Peter
... I am guilty of being tempted by the 'dark side'!
that's ok, just use faster film!
joe
Picture Guy
10-15-2003, 10:26
I think it is okay to be both.
I'm not really a collector, because I will certainly take something out and use it rather than keep it pristine.
I carry several cameras daily, if you include car trunk, depending on weather (Heat damages equipment.)
I do a lot of shooting from a moving car, despite the fact that I have never got a good shot from doing this.
Mainly shoot on weekends.
Originally posted by Picture Guy
... I do a lot of shooting from a moving car, despite the fact that I have never got a good shot from doing this ...
For some strange reason I'm not surprised this technique is problematic. :D
wierdcollector
10-16-2003, 05:56
Guess I'm the token collector in the group. Still, I try to use 3 cameras a week in the summer and fall but taper off in the winter since most shots of snow tend to look awfully similar. I'm falling behind the "use each one I buy at least once" credo I try and maintain, since lately I've bought approx. 8 and only have five films on the go right now. (and winter's coming too fast). Need to get out and use my 3 new FEDs this week.
Curt, maybe you should try to check Lars' PAW pages. Since I read those and other pages about the photo-a-week project (well, ok, only 3 days ago...), that I've convinced myself about following this project and carry my camera with me on my 'normal' life.
I cannot speak about results yet, and probably it will be difficult to find a really good one :p but at least, I enjoy having (and using) my camera on a daily basis, and I must admit I've found some pictures that deserved to be taken, or this is what I thought then... so I didn't regret bringing the 1 Kg aprox. Zorki3M+J8 with me...
Its easy with portable cameras such as 35mm rangefinders, and I'm still waiting the Isolette to arrive from UK to see if it really works as it should... Maybe you could try to establish some turn system in order to use each camera periodically.
This said, I think it's going to be difficult to choose another one and leave the 3M at home... :( as Jim Blazik said, these things are flat lovely !
MamaMiya_Girl
10-19-2003, 01:10
Wish I could say that I took photos every day..or even every week. I still have 3 cameras that I haven't even tried yet...
MamaMiya_Girl
10-19-2003, 01:11
Make that 2.5 cameras... one is a Brownie Hawkeye that I just got to replace one that had a very bad viewfinder. :-)
Hey MamaMiya, welcome! And how about dusting off those unused cameras and embarking on a Picture-A-Week project yourself? Good practice, good discipline, and keeps you "seeing." Hmmm... maybe I'll follow my own advice once I figure out how to run this new-to-me MF point'n'shoot! :-)
Doug
jacemanuel
10-26-2003, 13:24
I'm a user - didn't even collect stamps as a kid - I never understood collection mania.
I can't say that I use my cameras every day or every week, but some times I use 5 cameras and shoot 20-25 rolls for a couple of days, and nothing for several weeks.
If I had cameras of value($!) to collectors, I would sell them to get shooters instead.
Some of my Nikons look like the have participated in several of the more violent incidents since the Vietnam war.
BTW * And how about dusting off those unused cameras and embarking on a Picture-A-Week project yourself? Good practice, good discipline, and keeps you "seeing." *
It's not a bad idea, but I noticed that I "see" a lot of pictures when I'm not carrying a camera, and some of them I do return to later WITH a camera.
Jacques.
oftheherd
10-27-2003, 07:03
MamaMiya_Girl
Welcome to the forum. Is your name a cute takeoff on Mamiya cameras, or are you like me, and that is the first word out of your mouth when looking at the most recent photo attempts? :D
Well, my first PAW roll is now being developed, and I must admit that I've enjoyed my first 2 paw weeks a lot ! Taking pictures and using your beauties, what else could you ask for ? :)
BTW, a lot of time has passed since the last time I used one of my non-RF cameras :p but they are also fantastic users (a couple of manual focus Minolta SLRs and a Rolleicord).
Rich Silfver
11-10-2003, 16:44
The result from this mini-poll doesn't really surprise me - it's great to see that so many of us are active photographers!
I am personally now looking for a new 'always-with-me' camera. Not that I really need to replace the XA with anything - it's just that I'm itching for a new, small toy. :-)
I am personally now looking for a new 'always-with-me' camera. Not that I really need to replace the XA with anything - it's just that I'm itching for a new, small toy. :-)
Something like a voigtlander vitessa or some of the small 35 mm collapsable and pocketable rangefinders ? :)
I use the cameras about once a week. But like the other posts, the best subjects seem to POP UP when I have no camera handy.
Martin
Rsilfverberg wrote:
"... it's just that I'm itching for a new, small toy ..."
This is a common affliction among photographers. Sometimes I get the same itch. Logic should tell me I don't need more cameras. But it's hard to resist when something strikes your fancy.
Hi, I'm new to the forum and late to this thread. The weekends are my main photo-taking times but I usually carry an Olympus XA with me during the week to take some shots here and there in the city where I work. The XA is always loaded with HP5+
I sometimes carry an Olympus Stylus Epic, which is not quite a rangefinder, but is a P&S rangefinder-style little cam with a sharp lens. It's usually loaded with Fuji Superia 800.
Gene
ABarGrill
01-23-2004, 05:10
I think we all know what clearly is a rangefinder - the Leica, the Bessa R series, the Kiev 4 the Olympus XA, etc. And I know that many think that auto focus cameras like the Contax G series and the Hexar AF cameras qualify (I hope so because I love these cameras). But what else qualifies? Gene mentioned the Stylus, an auto-focus which finds focus much like the Hexar. How about the high-end autofocus (so called "point and shoot") cameras like the Rollei QZ, the Leica Minilux or the Ricoh GR1 and its progeny? I would be inclined to regard them all as rangefinders, but what do you think?
wierdcollector
01-23-2004, 05:15
Hi Gene and nice to see another Canadian face in our forum. I like your shot, it looks almost identical to an experimental tree nursery where I walk my dog and take photos in the warmer months. Keep up the good work and I'm sure you'll find everyone here a nice bunch of camera nuts, I mean people. :^)
Originally posted by ABarGrill
I think we all know what clearly is a rangefinder - the Leica, the Bessa R series, the Kiev 4 the Olympus XA, etc. ... I would be inclined to regard them all as rangefinders, but what do you think?
Hi-- I think of them all as "direct view" cameras, as opposed to reflex viewing cameras or others with ground-glass focusing. Three kinds of direct view cameras are those with no focus aid ("guess focus"), those with coupled rangefinders, and those with auto-focus. There are a few other oddities, such as the Leica I and M1, and the Voigtlander Bessa-L, which have neither rangefinder nor viewfinder. And the Bessa-T which does have an RF, but no viewfinder!
So "rangefinder camera" does have a specific meaning that, in my opinion, includes only cameras that have an optical rangefinder. But the term is often used less precisely to mean any non-reflex/direct-view camera.
In this Rangefinder Forum, I have not seen a definition of what's in and what's out, but I think the idea is to be more inclusive than exclusive. Cameras further from what is usually thought a "rangefinder camera", such as a digital point'n'shoot, may be less relevant here, but that's just a guess on my part!
ABarGrill
01-23-2004, 14:19
Thanks, Doug! A healthy perspective!
Alan
Rich Silfver
01-23-2004, 16:59
ABarGrill,
Some rangefinder definitions;
"A rangefinder camera is one in which the scene in the viewfinder does not come through the taking lens. Instead, the viewfinder and taking lens have separate optical systems, linked or coupled in a complex fashion.
Traditional coincident rangefinders provide a double image in the viewfinder. Adjusting focus causes the double image to merge into one when the subject is in focus.
Coupled rangefinder cameras are those in which adjusting the rangefinder setting also adjusts the lens focus.
As long as the camera determines the distance to the subject, it is a rangefinder. There are manual focus rangefinders and autofocus rangefinders."
I think most common 'confusion' is rangefinder vs viewfinder since one is a subset of the other: "All rangefinders are viewfinders - but not all viewfinders are rangefinders".
How about split image rangefinders? I know that some SLR's have them, but I have a 35mm TLR (Agfa Flexilette) which has one that is very accurate and which I find more useful than the TLR image for focusing. I will try to attach a picture.
Kurt M.
i stopped carrying a camera to my classes daily; when they took away the <my> darkroom. if the school dosnt have a darkroom ; why should i do the work at home on my time and dime.
i think ill get 150 feet to 200 feet of b+w film done this year about 40 feet is 6x7; the rest is 35mm- its all b+w.
i shoot color for others but its sent-out for processing.
my home darkroom is super- i built it in a studio apt ; and sleep in it during the summers.
all the windows are cardboarded and light tight- and the bathroom has a exhaust fan+ window baffled; so its easy to breathe.
i also use a cover on the stop tray - keeps the smell down.
my enlarger a 6x7 bessler with coldlite head;
which is what i use these days ****e others are leitz valloys i rebuilt> they are limited to 4x4cm/with clipped corners- IF you have a carrier; and yes;
i still make most of my own carriers from sheet brass- by hand;+eye; with a jewelrs saw; and a set of needlefiles.it takes me back to my childhood; when stuff was often handmade.
fcg
Rich Silfver
04-27-2004, 11:14
[bump]
I'd forgotten this poll. Since my first posting I've acquired a little carry-around digital and I now shoot almost daily. Canon S45 -- nice little cam, very compact, sharp lens, and it's more or less displaced my XA and Stylus.
Gene
For a while now, until recently, my only camera was a Canon G5 which I use much as I would a real RF, of which I have had some in the past. I carry this everywhere, except when I am out with the actual intent of taking pictures, when I take a Canon 10D. One thing I am impressed with by this new camera is how quiet it is for an SLR.
I find it depends on my moods and subject matter, when I'm in an unfamiliar place or having a weekend away I'll shoot a roll or two a day, more if the trip is for taking photos. On the other hand I have a camera or two in my bag I take to work everyday but at the moment I havent taken a frame in the last week or so :( I find day to day routine and home town familiarity kinda kills my thirst for grabbing images somewhat... Its something I'm really trying to break as I feel the day to day stuff is what I'm really living, and I'm passing up good photo opportunities without even really noticing them, anyone can take a half decent photos when away on holiday. My carry everywhere bag has a FED3a/J8 in at the mo. Finding this site has given me a bit of a kick in the pants to get motivated again, maybe I'll hang around in the city for a bit on the way home tomorrow :)
Laika, as you know, things have a tendency to change from time to time, and hum-drum though they may seem, keep your eyes open for them, take note of them. Having a camera at the ready should help the practice of seeing. This adds to the richness of life, as we otherwise tend not to be as observant of the "ordinary", going about as if with blinders on.
An example might be refurbishing an older building, as a couple blocks from here there's a crew on scaffolding clearing out old mortar from between the bricks preparatory to putting in fresh mortar. Colorful scaffolds, interesting angles & textures, some photo opportunities in the ordinary!
Laika, being familiar with the place actually gives you the opportunities of exploring the best time and the best spot for taking the photo. Also, you can take a photo, request for critique, decide whether or not a suggestion is doable and take another shot of the same subject. That's a really good way to improve. Just don't take seriously bad comments from people who cannot show they are capable of taking good photos.
When I'm travelling, even though I take lots of shots, most of them are mediocre. Simply because I didn't take time to search for the best spot or camera angle, bad cloudy sky when I was there, etc etc. My best shots (according to my standard) are those taken in my home town.
narsuitus
08-25-2006, 08:43
I usually carry a camera everyday regardless whether I use it or not.
I am not a collector but I do have one unused mint camera that I keep in a box. I keep is as a backup to a working camera. Therefore, it will not be pressed into service until the working camera is lost, stolen, damaged, or broken beyond repair.
shutterflower
08-25-2006, 09:32
I also carry my cameras every day. I carry the Bronica RF645 and a little Canon digicam for taking vids. I got rid of my laptop satchel in favor of a camera friendly backpack just so I could carry all that stuff around without worrying.
I use my camera at least 5 days a week.
Gabriel M.A.
08-25-2006, 10:20
Well, if ::cough:: it isn't an old thread resurrected.
Ah, many of them old ones...oh the melancholy...oh ::cough cough:: the memories...
I carry a camera virtually every day. Rather, I think I hardly ever go out without one. Now, if I only lived in a place that wasn't so paranoid...
terrafirmanada
08-26-2006, 04:51
I carry both m2 and m3 every day. I think this might be why I have a sore neck, but I can't get myself to carry just one. Sometimes I leave the Luna pro behind, and that seems to lighten the load.
Good lord! This is an old thread isn't it. Well, thats OK. I carry everyday and use everyday. Right now I have some Delta 3200 in one body and some SFX200 in the other body. So it has to be either really dark or really light out... nothing in between. I can't wait to finish off that roll of SFX200 then get home to develop it. Mmmmmm NIR film.... yummii!
Hi, I carry a camera every day, usually my Canon QL 25. I also go out early every weekend to try for some wildlife shots.
Rod.
I'm not a collector. I'll buy a camera with a dent that works or a book with a little mildew and all of the pages.
I've taken pictures with every camera I own (except for a couple that I still need to repair) because I want to use them.
Re-discovering RF's led to a buying binge. Fixed lens and FSU cameras are so relativly cheap I could afford to try them out by buying 'em.
Fully intend to ditch the ones I don't like, but they were so cheap there isn't enough incentive to get me off my duff. There are a couple I keep for sentimental reasons, and one (a Bolex H8 with ALL the goodies you could screw onto it) that is too cool (and being 8mm, too worthless).
Then my wife's uncle sold me a cureo cabinet for $10. I stuck it in the basment and stuck cameras in it. Presto! I now have a "collection". It must be a collection 'cause it's in a cureo cabinet! Used to be a pile of crap in my office, but now....
I may be a collector of users camera and I use them all.
Raid
ErnestoJL
08-27-2006, 17:50
At some time I thougt of myself as a collector, but that means some kind of organization about what Iīm collecting... and there is no one.
In fact I just buy what drives my interest, but allways thinking about cameras I will use, not cameras to be placed in a library shelf and collect dust.
The only camera I didnīt yet shoot with is the Kodak Signet 35. Itīs as old as I am, but curiously looks younger than the owner, and being a present received from a customer surely it deserves some test shots.
Iīm carrying an Electro 35 all the time because of itīs ease of use, then Iīm allways ready to take pictures. Thatīs perhaps the reason why the other cameras I have arenīt used so often.
Ernesto
bobkonos
08-28-2006, 18:52
I marked "3-4 times per week" but I try very hard to go by the old Mastercard ad: "Don't leave home without it."
ndnbrunei
08-28-2006, 19:00
I find myself taking my Yashica Electro 35 to places I never took my other cameras! Don't tell anyone. (It is just so cheap and so much fum to play with - it is hard to leave it alone)
steve garza
09-08-2006, 08:29
I find myself taking my Yashica Electro 35 to places I never took my other cameras! Don't tell anyone. (It is just so cheap and so much fum to play with - it is hard to leave it alone)
the teenage years.....
Definitly every day, at least 2-3 frames a day.
I always have a camera with me.
I picked 3-4x a week
I take a few of my son during the week..But I may not do anything with them.
I take my Film Camera and a 28 or 35:... my take with me camera...
The 28mm is a great walk about lens for sneeky candids like this one
http://i.pbase.com/g6/01/313701/3/83113185.3lGXIfNw.jpg
mfunnell
08-04-2007, 15:12
I always have a camera with me if only my pocket digicam. I try, these days, to always have a small film camera handy as well. However, figuring out which one is still a work in progress as all I've tried have their strengths and weaknesses. That's in addition to any "real" camera I might take for specific photographic opportunities.
I said 3-4 times/week since "carrying" doesn't always mean "using".
...Mike
Bertram2
08-04-2007, 15:54
Ahh, one or those wonderful threads, where the fondlers can lie at themselves !
:D :D :D
Why so cynical Bertram?
Who do you believe is lying? Let's expose them right now!
landsknechte
08-04-2007, 23:26
I usually get out about once a week (on the weekends) for serious photography. It used to be a lot more when I worked in San Francisco, and had such a ready backdrop of the urban environment as well as a number of really scenic locations on the painfully long commute home.
There's always an XA2 in the glovebox of my car, and a digital point & shoot in my laptop bag for the opportunistic moments.
I take a camera with me whenever I leave my house.
You just never know ... when you want to fondle it. ;)
NickTrop
08-05-2007, 20:10
My collection is growing and I don't even worry about it. I'm admittedly both a user and collector. I take that back. I collect cameras for the purpose of using them. None are closet queens except for my digital. The cameras I purchase are relatively inexpensive, it's a guilty pleasure, who the hell cares. I embrace my love of these cameras. I've abandoned guilt over it. I was talking with a friend today who bought a new boat. 27 footer. I dunno what it cost - 60 grand? Guessing. He said, "... in 17 years it's mine". I'm glad my toys are so much cheaper, and I don't have to finance them.
Current collection of users, in order of most recent addition first:
- Zorki K4 w/ Leica Summar (like'n this combo a lot I might add)
- last time shot, last weekend. Will post some shots as soon as I can scan them. The Summar is a fascinating lens.
- Iskra Folder (LOVE this bad boy but trying to troubleshoot intermittent light leak) Last time shot, this afternoon, a roll of T-Max 100 ready to be souped in rodinal standing development.
- Konica Auto S3 (last shot, two weeks ago)
- Lynx 14 - last shot sometime in July.
- Yashica Electro CC, last shot, today
- Yashica GSN - last shot, Friday (Use this one a lot)
- Kiev 60 (purchased circa 2003) last shot in May (big klunker but love the low cost MF Zeiss Jena glass...)
- Cosina Vivitar 3000S SLR (purchased circa 1990) last used in July sometime.
sienarot
08-05-2007, 20:15
A camera goes just about everywhere with me. There's been too many times when I've seen some great stuff only not to have a camera on hand. I've learned my lesson.
foto_fool
08-05-2007, 20:25
I have more cameras than I can use at once, but they all get used. I nearly always carry a "good" camera and always a digital p&s wherever I go. When I have time I go out just to see what there is to see and maybe to photograph.
- John
I always have a camera with me and take pictures nearly every day. I don't keep any camera I don't use, I'm not a collector at all.
Ian
somecanuckchick
08-06-2007, 08:14
I use the Point & Shoot Canon (pretty much) every day... (Sadly) I only pull out the RF once a month... and I use the 20D (at least) once a week.
manfromh
08-06-2007, 13:45
I chose "Much less than that...once a month if I'm lucky..."
I need to shoot more. I would keep a camera with me all the time, but I have no place to keep it.
I've made it a practice to almost always have a camera with me. Something I've been doing for so long, that those times that I'm without one, I feel incomplete. This doesn't mean that I shoot every day, but when something interesting presents itself, I'm able to take pictures..
igoesmyth
08-08-2007, 12:56
When i leave the house I have 2 or 3 cameras with me. My Canon Poweshot G2 for quick and dirty to great, my canonet and a Contax T2. I can livewith out having a camera on me but IF I miss an opportunity because I was lazy my wife would never let me forget that I missed a potenially great photo. By teh same token she can't complain about processing!
Never miss a weekend, normally carry two, normally Kievs.
Noel
fdigital
08-13-2007, 12:17
every day on the train to uni and back, and basically everywhere I go, the olympus XA comes with me. it's so small and good theres no reason NOT to take it!
I voted every day. I keep my M4-2 on hand every day at work and try to shoot at least a couple of frames every day on my lunch hr. :)
Cheers,
B.
sepiareverb
08-27-2007, 11:35
Just about every single day. It's a compulsion you know.
der.chris.tian
09-30-2007, 11:40
I'd like to shoot more often, but the thing is... I don't have a job where I have to commute by subway, bicycle or something like that every day. In addition, my environment isn't very "urban" right now, so within the week it's hard to see interesting things to photograph. That's really not cool and I'm really looking forward to move away from here.
Anyway... When I go out on the weekends a camera is always with me.
Allways have a camera with me, sometimes more than one (other on the trunk)..now, if I take a picture every day... that's completely different.
yaadetgar
10-30-2007, 03:40
Well...
It depends... There are times I can shoot 2 films a day for a week and a half, and than not touching it for a month... I got 'waves'.
Yaad
As many who carry camera every day, I chose 3-4 times a week. Actually, I don't count, maybe I shoot 5-6 times a week :)
Touching user/collector theme, right this days I felt "enough for now". My latest period covered "P&S of 80ies". I have got some really nice pieces, and were watching AF35ML w/ fast lens and AF-C with complex lens. Some day ago I used Electro35 and I yet have to master RF myself, and maybe that smooth and silent shutter release just let me stop. Well, how I would use very nice Canon P&S with fast lens (coming without lens cap, btw) ? I have smaller cameras with nice lenses. If I want be silent, Electro is answer. So I decided to miss AF35ML which I waited for some time. Minolta AF-C ? it should be very good, it has manual wind and incredible 6/6 f2.8 lens, but hey - it's AF and I've got 5/5 Ricoh FF-70 which makes me smiling when I look at it. To be true, I don't believe there's practical difference in daily use between this both good lenses. So I missed AF-C too ! And how about Pentax PC35AF ? Well, it were -M type, so with motorwind. Hell, I'd like silent version of this Pentax, and FF-70 anyway is on par and has longer exposures too - so I let it go. I know - cameras are more than certain features, and shouldn't blindly compared by them.
Maybe I'm cured ? Maybe I'll shoot more real than "test" rolls ? I just know that I'll continue to shoot using no matters what camera. Limiting range just let me use cameras more often and feel better. But some cameras I have are just because they are nice. So I am somewhere between.
projectbluebird
01-05-2008, 21:52
My defense against the collecting instinct is only buying cameras that are in working condition, and can be used. Granted, you can buy a lot of working cameras (and I have!) but I haven't bought that Bantam Special (yet!)
sonofdanang
02-13-2008, 16:40
For some strange reason I'm not surprised this technique is problematic. :D
Probably already crossed people's minds, but when I think of shooting from a moving car, I see Lee Friedlander photos.....
Nice images, P... I especially liked "Stares" from the VN/MekongD group.
I always have a camera with me. Outside of actual projects (which are mostly digital), I shoot a roll of film a week, on average and maybe 200 digital images. Of the seven cameras I own, all but one are users. The work horses are the Nikons (35mm & digital), the Sony R1 (by far the most used) and there is always the Lynx or Canonet by the door, the Fed, well, the Fed gets pulled out as a diversion when I'm competing for a vantage point. It always works.
I used to own a Ricoh 500 G that I gave to somebody who ulitmately didn't appreciate it. One of my favorite character studies was done on the Ricoh - handheld several-second exposure in a dining room lit by candles on a chandelier.
I use my camera once in a week. When i got holiday from my work, i go with my camera to take pictures of nature.
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