Is the question about the collecting dust museum or the camera that are used day to day. If it's like car or computer, I had many, but currently I'm using only one and get rid of the others.
30D, G5, and my cell phone (junk). My fiance has some lump of crap Sony Cybershot, but that doesn't even qualify. She's like "it has 10 megapixels" or however many it has. I say "10 bad megapixels".
When I shot film I had one for slides, & one for prints, or 1 with ASA 100 & one with 400, plus another older manual one I rarely used. Now I have one specifically for underwater use, one for abusive conditions, and 2 more because I simply want them for their unique features, crop for wildlife, FF for portrait style stuff. Fortunately for me I am old enough to have already accumulated all the other stuff most of us think we need including enough cars to last far more years than I will.
1) 1DmrkII 2) Rebel XTi 1) Digital Rebel IR mod 2) EOS A2 1) EOS 1n
4 in the family, we are looking at another DSLR, either a 40D or another XTi (wife and kids don't like the heavy 1 series bodies) wouldn't mind getting another original digital rebel to do another IR mod
I didn't vote because the terms "pro" and "expensive" have no accepted meaning.
Is a 20D used by a wedding shooter a "pro" camera? How about a 1DsMk3 used to shoot one's cats? And where is the "expensive" line crossed? The vast majority of the population would say somewhere before $500. Many of us would say above $2000. And some would say $1 less than whatever 1Ds body Canon happens to be selling at the moment.
My family has a 5D, 40D, 350D, E-410, A70, F30, a half dozen film bodies/cameras, and a few cell phone cameras. My wife uses the Fuji and all the DSLRs except the 5D. I use 'em all. Technically, the 5D and 350D are "pro" cameras, as they've both been used professionally. The rest haven't, yet.
shrink1 wrote:
I just thought of this today, while taking kinda trivial pics with a professional camera: Back in the old days of film, most people I knew (not professional photographers) had a camera, and that was it. Now, everyone has several cars, and TVs, and cameras, of course. True? let the polling begin!!!
I don't think the number of cameras people owned has changed much in the last 30 years. The people on these forums represent a very select group of photography enthusiasts. This same group has always had multiple cameras. I still remember seeing guys in the 70s with a couple of Nikon F cameras dangling around their necks.
What has changed is that photography is much more affordable. A Nikon F in the 70s was around $1000 (a nice Corvette was about $4000 and gas $0.35/gal). Then there was the film and processing which could easily overshadow the cost of the camera. Photography now is much less expensive.
