On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > > For me, one camera is quite enough.
I've run into enough situations where one camera isn't enough to always want a backup in my camera bag. For one thing I spent a few years earning my ticket into motorsports events by shooting for a website. That taught me that there are occasions when you don't have time to swap lenses on a camera - you barely have time to switch to the second camera setup. For another thing, there are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities where having a second body with you is worth it just for insurance. When I got a one-year job assignment in New Zealand one of the items on my shopping list for the stop-off in Singapore on the way from London to Auckland was an ME to sit alongside my MX (plus an M80-200 zoom and a few other goodies). Ever since then I've almost always had two camera bodies in the bag. Then there was the time when the MX Motor Drive bent the coupling in my MX. Fortunately that had become my second body - by that time my primary camera was a PZ-1p. And there was the time the PZ-1p stopped working on a rainy race day at Laguna Seca. It was fine when it dried out after a couple of hours, but by then the race was over. But the trusty old MX filled in just fine. Or the time when I slipped climbing down from a photo tower, and knocked (most of) my MZ-S off the back of my big zoom. Again, having the PZ-1p along as well meant I could continue shooting. And, of course, in the film days it was nice to have a second body so that you could have two different types of film to hand. I don't have anywhere near as many cameras as Godfrey, but I have still got a fair number of the cameras I've used over the years. I have owned: Brownie 127 Hanimex 35mm Olympus Pen half-frame. (I don't have any of those, but I do have my father's Ilford Sportsman 35mm). Spotmatic II (later donated to a friend). MX ME (donated to a different friend) ME Super Super Program PZ-1p MX #2 (black) MZ-S Canon G1 Olympus EPL-1 *ist-D K10D K-5 Olympus OM-D E-M1X :-) -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.