What camera do you shoot the most?
barondla -- Tue, 04/21/2009 - 08:31
Have lots of cameras ( not sure how many). Most used is Pentax K20D. Also have K10D. It is nice but doesn't hold my attention like the K20D. K20D just does every thing a little better. Most used film camera would be between Leica M4P and Olympus OM4ti.
thanks
barondla
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I use my Panasonic G1 the most.
I also have a Pentax system with K-100 and K-10 bodies and a bunch of lenses including most of their limited series and several of the M and A series wide angles. (including a great 28/2). I even have a K series 35mm film camera for those rare times when I need to shoot film (I haven't used it in the two years I've had it).
My Panasonic LX-3 travels on a belt pack 65% of the time.
The Pentax system rarely leaves my still-life studio these days - great for product shots but too much stuff (and too heavy) to carry around.
Steven Stone
Contributor to The Absolute Sound, EnjoytheMusic.com, Vintage Guitar Magazine, and other fine publications
Film Nikon F2
And digital my new
Nikon Coolpix P80- does what I need it to do. Has held up bouncing around on my ATV for last month. takes great pixs and vids of the dogs working and loading the lambs in the trailer as they say bye bye mom and go to the slaughterhouse. No need for different lens to haul around. i can haul in my waterproof bag on the ATv along with ammo, explosives and detonators. Coyotes, bears and mountain lions love lambs.
I was all set to by D700 with lens when I asked to take a look at the P80. My girlfriend got the D 700 for client shoots etc.
Sheepherder
Shenandoah Valley, VA
Been using a Leica-sonic LC1 for the past few years. Must admit that digital is the answer for underfunded (now) amateur photographers. Film was great while the client paid for it, less so when it came out of my pocket.
Need to get the Contax G2 and the Olympus OM-4 out, though, and try my hand at good ol' film again, however...
My favorite camera--and probably the best photographic device I've used (and I've owned them all from 11x14 to point and shoot)--is the 6x7 Mamiya 7 II, which delivers near large-format quality from a 2.5 lbs. handheld. The Mamiya 7 II lenses are famously fabulous. It is, of course, a film camera.
I also use a Nikon F4 and, when traveling, a Canon G10.
<< Film Nikon F2>>
You still shoot film, Sheep?
No not in ages but I keep my F2 in great shape along with lens just in case. I like my P80 for shooting action shots of my dogs and friends dogs working and trialing on sheep. It has held up to hundreds of rides on the ATV w/o a problem.
I really should get out and shoot the collies w/F2 just for fun but its so much easier in digital. I am have mountain lion tracks on my property but the Tatras(Polish livestock guardian dogs) are doing a great job since I haven't lost any lambs or sheep to predators since the late winter. I have some game cameras set up in hopes of getting some pixs of cat since the US govt and the state of VA say mountain lions aren't supposed to be exist in Upperville, VA. At dusk and in the early morning I ahve my camera ready.
And I don't want to kill it unless my sheep losses get too high. Live and let live and the Tatras will either scare it off or kill it. They decimated a coyote pack in the late winter that had been terrorizing area farms. Coyotes tried to ambush and lure one of my collies off the flock and Tatras set them up and killed five pack members. Coyotes are not stupid. They would have got the roadrunner the first time with no help from Acme. Coyotes used a bitch in heat to set up the ambush but lost out in the end.
And no I won't have the photos published don't need the local yahoos, PETA members and urban dwellers roaming the woods causing trouble.
Sheepherder
Shenandoah Valley, VA
We use the compact Canon A590 IS almost all the time. Our Nikon SLR gathers dust (well, OK, the bag it's in gathers dust). Darn little A590 IS works great for all casual shooting, and its portrait quality has to be seen to be believed. You can easily zoom and shoot with one hand after a little practice. Optical image stabilizer works fine. Color is vivid but not over-saturated. Other than the image stabilizer nothing is pro quality, but we never feel we've been sold short, either. Greatest limitation is 3.8x zoom. We have a 2.2x telephoto adapter, but by the time you lock on the adapter tube and screw on the lens the shot you wanted is usually moved or gone. (And besides, the 2.2x adapter turns a handy lightweight item into a heavier bulkier job with front-heavy balance).
Essentially, the Canon is so pleasing and convenient that we're rarely motivated to use anything else!
Panasonic DMC-LX3:
It fits into a jacket pocket, has a tack-sharp Leica lens with a maximum aperture of f/2, and almost instantaneous shutter response. It is hard to beat.
Canon 50D. Love it.
Have a bunch of other cameras including a little P&S Sony W300 that is a nice pocket cam that I have most of the time with me. I take a lot more pictures with the 50 D however.
Nikon F2AS fully loaded & Nikon F6 fully loaded for film, Nikon D3 fully loaded for digi. I like film MUCH BETTER!!!!!
Canon EOS 5D mkII with variety of lenses ... fantastic camera although disk usage has rather shot up (from ~2Gb when I had a 350D to ~35Gb now)but the majority of that is HD video of the kids ;-) Yes it's a pain to carry around but the results make it worthwhile ... for me. 350D was my first digital SLR and results were ok but never as good as my film EOS 50 (a step up from my first SLR ... an EOS 1000FN bought about 18 years ago), I'd say 5D mkII gives me results as good as any I shot on film but with the obvious convenience of digital ... which has helped make me a better photographer (instant feedback means I can play with settings more and understand the impact of the changes I'm making).
An image taken (handheld, on Kodak Tri-X 320) with the Mamiya 7 II and 150mm f4.5 lens.
Blown up--and, boy, can you blow these 6x7 images up!--pix like this one are almost indistinguishable from 4x5 in anything from A3+ to 20x24 prints. incredible resolution, contrast, and tonality. The Mamiya 7II is a phenomenal camera with phenomenal lenses, although I grant that using film (which means developing it--or getting it developed--and then scanning the negative before launching into LightRoom) is a pain-in-the-butt from a workflow standpoint. Still, the results speak for themselves, IMO.
Great picture Jonathan.
Can't beat the big 6x7 size and the 150mm lens. This is Professional stuff man!. I left my Mamiya 4.5 x 6 out for a long time. Even my Nikon are getting too heavy for my holiday shots. I'm waiting for the Lumix GF1 20mm f:1.7 which will fill the gap in my bag. But when I see your pictures I do get the urge again to grab the old big size. :-)
Great picture Jonathan.
Can't beat the big 6x7 size and the 150mm lens. This is Professional stuff man!. I left my Mamiya 4.5 x 6 out for a long time. Even my Nikon are getting too heavy for my holiday shots. I'm waiting for the Lumix GF1 20mm f:1.7 which will fill the gap in my bag. But when I see your pictures I do get the urge again to grab the old big size. :-)
Thank you, Grant.
Nice pic Jon! Do you have any shot with Panatomic-X or Plus X???
Thank you, Antslappy.
I tend to shoot on higher-speed film in larger formats--Tri-X 320, TX400, Provia 400. With this camera it makes it much easier to hand-hold AND get the right depth of field, plus I really like the look of Tri-X. For what it's worth here is another Mamiya 7II pic, this one taken (handheld on TX400), with a 7 II 80mm f4 lens.
Another Mamiya 7 II shot. This one taken on Fuji Provia 400, handheld, with Mamiya 7 II 43mm f4.5 lens--a lens that Ken Rockwell and others have called "the most perfect" they've ever used. To see the whole shot, go to jlvalin.zenfolio.com/p583858251/h3fb89f8f#h3fb89f8f, although honestly it doesn't look as good as a JPEG, which is how I have to post it to Zenfolio, as it does as a TIFF. You should see the color on the original TIFF!
Beautiful image JV. The colors are striking. Fabulous nature image. Agree that jpeg squashes quality. 16 bit tiff is much better. Even better to see this custom printed on great photographic paper. No digital conversion. Big negs are incredible. Need to get my Pentax 6x7 out and use it.
Remember the first time I attended an Ansel Adams exhibit. Had "seen" all the images in high dollar coffee table books. The real images were so much better it took the breath away. Lady artist (painter) told me the same thing about seeing the original classics in an European museum. Overwhelming. She then understood why those paintings were so cherished.
thanks
barondla