Where do you keep your cameras?

[Rich Silfver]

I keep my cameras in a number of places right now.
My 'most common shooters' are given a special place on a shelf next to a fireplace in the living room.

It may look as they are there for decoration only - but every time I leave my place and want to bring a camera I just go by and drop one of them into the bag and off I go.

It's no fun asking you to name the cameras - as this group is bound to get it right


(...oh...and they are conveniently close to my couch...so when I am in the mood for some fondling...I light up the fireplace...pick one of them from the shelf..and....eh......... TMI)....

[Crasis]

I used to keep mine strewn on the floor wherever I may put them down when I enter my home. Unfortunately, my parents visited me recently and my mother insisted on buying a cheap cabinet and storing them in that.

*sigh* I guess mother knows best.

[wlewisiii]

The CL is always in the go bag on the dining room table alongside the T90 and it's hippy strap (I justify it by remembering it was my mothers ) and then I just grab whichever on my way out the door.

William

[sf]

Two places:

in my backpack and in my camera bag - in the bag only on days when I leave the house with sole intent to shoot pictures.

[flashover]

shelf beside my computer desk and pass seat in my van

[Jester_rm]

Film cameras (1 RF, 1 APS, 1 paperweight) are usually in a glass front display cabinet in the dining room, digital p&s (2) are wherever they last were, most likely next to the computer in the office.

[rogue_designer]

Either the P or a Lynx 5000 is around my neck (or on the dresser with film in it, ready to go). The ready bag has other lenses for the P and the Rolleiflex + filters film and a meter. This generally goes just about everywhere with me.

F1 and a few lenses is in the car trunk as a back up for whatever I'm walking around with.

D100 is in its ready bag with charged batteries (and a post-it to grab spares off the trickle charger).

VHR is in its bag with 1 preloaded film holder and a post-it to remember to grab a box of polaroid out of the fridge. Same with the Wisner.

The others have a bookshelf devoted to them...Last one used is on the far right - so I can cycle through them and run a roll through every once in a while and make sure they stay usable.

[Rich Silfver]

Originally Posted by rogue_designer

The others have a bookshelf devoted to them...Last one used is on the far right - so I can cycle through them and run a roll through every once in a while and make sure they stay usable.

Not a bad idea.

[rogue_designer]

Originally Posted by Rich Silfver

Not a bad idea.

Seems to work - only problem is if I don't finish a roll, remember what film I'd loaded in one of them. It's forced me to standardize a bit for non-essential cams - so now it's more a matter of remembering if I threw in color or BW

[ehparis]

I store all my cameras anywhere it's difficult to find them. Or so it often seems.

It requires a certain amount of purpose to be disorganized.

[Flyfisher Tom]

Those on active duty, in my messenger bag.

Those on shore leave, on my desk.

[Rich Silfver]

Originally Posted by rogue_designer

Seems to work - only problem is if I don't finish a roll, remember what film I'd loaded in one of them. It's forced me to standardize a bit for non-essential cams - so now it's more a matter of remembering if I threw in color or BW

You could always put post-it notes on the back of them

[thelovecollect]

nice pad rich, you don't happen to be the rich silverstein of goodby, silverstein and partners?

my cameras are in domke wraps...
littered around the house..

[FrankS]

I have a dedicated darkroom. Cameras are on shelves and in camera bags on the floor. I'd love to have cameras sitting around the common areas of the house, but I am married with children, one of them a boy. My wife is fairly easy-going: I hung my cedar-strip + fiberglass canoe from the living room ceiling (10 ft) for many years, (but it is in the garage now.) Hope Earl reads this!

[Rich Silfver]

Originally Posted by thelovecollect

nice pad rich, you don't happen to be the rich silverstein of goodby, silverstein and partners?

my cameras are in domke wraps...
littered around the house..

No, I'm of Silfver's of generally poor Silfver's all over the world. Unfortunately.

[amateriat]

The pair of Hexar RFs, 28, 50 and 90 M-Hex's, along with other necessary knicknacks, spend their time where I've stored them since I bought 'em: in my Domke 803, always at-the-ready. Just add film.

Almost Everything Else (at this moment: Olympus OM-2n, T-32 flash & accessories, extension tubes; Konica Auto S3; Ricoh GR1) is stored in an oldie-but-goodie medium-sized Tenba bag, right next to the Domke.

The Glimmer Twins (Konica Lexio 70 35mm, and Olympus D-510Z a/k/a Obligatory Digital Camera) hang from the chandelier in my workspace (which I'm getting rid of as soon as I can find another fixture appropriate to the space). They both have the same exterior finish, hence the shared nickname. Just don't ask me which one is Mick.


- Barrett

[mikeb380]

I keep about 40 cameras on 5 shelves in my living room and one is either in my walker basket or on the desk next to the walker. I never go anywhere without at least one camera and two lenses, often more. Well, I lied, I go to the super market without a camera as I need the space in the basket for goodies.
Michael

[mikeb380]

Originally Posted by rogue_designer

Seems to work - only problem is if I don't finish a roll, remember what film I'd loaded in one of them. It's forced me to standardize a bit for non-essential cams - so now it's more a matter of remembering if I threw in color or BW

I don't know if they are still available but there used to be holders to stick on the back of a camera. You could put film box lids in to id your film. My Canon F1 has one on it. If nothing else you could tape a box top on the back.

[RdEoSg]

I used to use one of those.. but then my mind would play tricks and wonder if I remember to change the box lid or not

As for my cameras, well, one is on a table somewhere generaly, and the rest are sorta strewn about my room. Technicaly I have a part of my chest for clothes that is set aside for cameras, but I am often to lazy to actually put them in there!

[FrankS]

I often use the hot shoe to hold film info, usually a bit of the film package.

[LazyHammock]

The user MF and lenses are in a Tamrac backpack, The two user 35mms are in my Domke F6B with film, notebook, pen etc ready to go. There are a few older cameras which are looking pretty on my bookshelves and may never get used again - although I had my 1938 Voigtlander Brillant CLA'd and I love the results.
If I leave a camera with film in it I'll sometimes use the blue decorator's tape to identify the film.
Cheers,
Nick

[tajart]

i have a couple of bags readied for the grab and go, when i need to use a certain set-up. but my everyday carry bag is big enough to accomodate a variety of things- camera, a couple of lenses, cell, wallet, digital music and digital cam and, a moleskin...but the most dangerous thing is to have the camera in the bag once i've left the house.
i've used cabinets, shelves, safe deposit boxes for those not being used, but lately have come to prefer camera bags to keep them out of sight and free of dust....

[ErnestoJL]

Most of my cameras are in drawers under the computer table. A few others (those bigger than the drawer´s) are in shelves in my office and the one I use most (a Yashica Electro 35 GS(T)N), allways in my shoulder bag.

Ernesto

[rbiemer]

Hmm, do I really want to give this sensitive info away? (OK, OK, what I really mean is: Do I want to admit to the space I need for my "I'm not a collector" collection? )
So. I live in a boarding house and have one (large) room to myself. And won't leave anything valuable in the general areas. I got two of those steel shelving units and one is for books and the other is for most of the photo junk. I did line the "photo" shelves. The top shelf(tall enough that I can't actually see all of it with out getting on a chair) is where all the Medium Format stuff is. Next shelf down is where my current shooters, lenses, etc are. The next one down from that(second up from the bottom)is where the stuff I use occasionally but not regularly is: K2 slr, an EOS my sister gave me, a few others. The bottom shelf is where the negs, prints, and CDs are. The camera that I am using day to day hangs by its strap with the small bag that supports it(lenses, film, filters, etc) both on a honking big brass hook by the door.
And then there are the cameras at my mom's house(she permanently "borrowed" my Olympus stylus so she gets to keep a few things as well). And I'm pretty sure there are one or two at my dad and stepmom's house.
On my desk is where which ever package is the latest is.
Oh crap, do I have a lot of this stuff!
And for everyone's info they are ALL right next to the big ol' mean, rabid, insecure skunk. Just the other side of the moat. Near the land mines.
Rob

[back alley]

nothing fancy...i have an old folding table in the basement, about 6 feet long i'd say.
half of it has on old fabric sheet on it, folded a few times-nice and thick.
i have 5 camera bags on the fabric. most of my gear is in the 2 main bags.
of the 3 the smaller bags, one is usually ready to go. i always keep a camera in my day bag and it gets transferred to the basement on friday night to join the other gear and be readied for weekend duty if needed.