Some years ago during the pre-digital era (remember that?) I was in outback South Australia when the only camera I had (a Ricoh as it happens) packed it in. I was unable to replace it until I reached Adelaide a week or two later (another Ricoh!)
I vowed never to travel without a backup again - and I never have. I've also never again had a camera failure when travelling.... Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ https://500px.com/supera1000/galleries > On 10 April 2022 at 01:16 Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > > > 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 :-) > > -- > > %(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. > -- > %(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. -- %(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.
