John, a lot of sense in which you say. I have never been that fussy &
luckily have never had a crisis. I have retained my K110D body just in
case my K5 packs up some day but don't cart it around with me. In fact I
still use it occasionally just for the hell of it. If I don't need to
crop much, it does quite well. I also have a mint MZ-60 which I haven't
used for some time because there is no local film lab & the logistics &
expense of sending films to Cape Town is not on. (Film is still alive &
well down there). My fav. film camera was an ME-Super which I gave away
to a mate in Port Elizabeth still shooting film. All my photography has
been personal, never professional.
Alan C
On 08-Apr-22 11:54 PM, John Francis wrote:
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 :-)
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