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.
Mar 28, 2008 at 01:41 AM
teh_rebel Offline Image Upload: Off
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canon 5d
canon 350D .. first dslr though i let my bro-in-law borrow it
canon A80 .. kinda working
canon A70 .. somewhere in the closet
cell: tmobile dash
Mar 28, 2008 at 01:49 AM
JohnJ80 Online Image Upload: Off
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AE-1, AT-1, 350D, 5D, 40D.
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Mar 28, 2008 at 02:59 AM
steeeven Offline Image Upload: Off
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digital rebel xt, film rebel k2, minolta srt-201 manual focus, fuji finepix something or other.
Mar 28, 2008 at 03:06 AM
darknite Offline Image Upload: Off
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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 realized that both the 3 and more qualify!
I have expensive, non-pro cameras!!!
note: I consider expensive by the fact that my cheapest digital camera I bought new, cost more than my first two film camera's combined.
Mar 28, 2008 at 01:51 PM
CKrueger Offline Image Upload: On
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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.
Mar 28, 2008 at 02:11 PM
jerrykur Offline Image Upload: On
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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.
Mar 28, 2008 at 03:19 PM
Riff Raff Offline Image Upload: Off
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Two DSLRs: 40D and Rebel XTi
One Film SLR: Elan 7NE
Two P&Ss: Olympus C-5050 and C-3030
Granted, the P&Ss are never used anymore. But they still work, technically.
Mar 28, 2008 at 03:31 PM
edwardkaraa Offline Image Upload: Off
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I successfully sold 3 out of my 4 Contax film cameras and I currently use the 1DsII with the 5D as backup, along with a nice collection of Zeiss glass.
Mar 28, 2008 at 03:37 PM
cogitech Online Buy and Sell: On
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Own: 5D, 10D, 20D, OM-2n, Olympus Pen EE-2, Sanyo Xacti E-1 (H.264/6MP still) a couple of older Fuji P&S, a few kids cameras.
Owned: Oly E-410, 1D, 10D (different one), 2 x 350D, 2 x 300D, Canon AE-1p, Contax 139Q, Minolta SRT-101, ...
cameras per person, not per family!
