I too always take two cameras when shooting for a client. Now it’s a K-1 and a
K-3. I can fit both and about ten lenses in a pelican case, but it’s pretty
damn heavy. That’s okay when I’m working out of the trunk of a car , which is
almost always. My list of cameras owned is similar. I still have at least a
dozen that are functional.
Paul
> On Apr 8, 2022, at 5:54 PM, John Francis wrote:
>
> On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Alan C 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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