list your cameras

[ricohnick]

as a gear junky I am always interested in others cameras. i would love to know what gear got you into photography.
My cameras were in order:
Olympus OM10 with 50mm lens.
Olympus Om2n with 28, 50, 135, 75-200mm lens.
Leica IIIf red dial with 50mm lens.
Mamiya c220 medum format with 65, and 80mm lens.
Nikon Coolpix 990 (I think) Digital camera.
Olympus E-1 with 14-28, and 28-200 lens.
Olympus c7070
Ricoh GX200!
Shen Hao 5x4. no lens for this yet!

my fave? if I only could keep one it would be the ricoh. but they all hold wonderful memory's. I started photography because I read a photography book to find out what the numbers on the lens barrel meant!

[Muddy]

Mine are and were:
GXR A12, S10 + DW6 + TC1.
GRD
GRD3
GX 200
Contax R4U(P&S)
long long time ago.
Contax RST, Nikon F3, Fm, FM2, Rollie 35.

[Shackleton]

Praktica super TL
Sanderson half plate
Praktica LLC
Yashicamat
Rolleiflex T
Praktica PLC3
Praktica BC1
Praktica BX20
Ricoh R1
Coolpix 8400
Ricoh GRD
Ricoh GX200
Ricoh CX1
RicohGRD3

Others I don't remember at present.

[odklizec]

I started with Olympus C700 10x zoom. Boy, that was expensive at that time (May 2002).

Next was Canon Ixus 400 (beautiful metal compact with large 1/1.8" sensor and just 4MP!). This one I owned longest time. (May 2003 - Spring 2007)

For a short period of time I owned also Olympus C5060, but I quickly sold it. (around a month in 2003)

Then I bought Ricoh GX8, my first Ricoh ever. Of course, I wanted GRDI, but I just could not justify its premium price. Not for compact with small sensor and no zoom. I was foolish I loved the GX8 feature set and excellent lens. But I was somewhat concerned about too much noise. As I said, I was completely foolish at that time. (June 2006 - Spring 2007)

Then Olympus came with their "mini" DSLR E400 and I was immediately sold for it. I sold GX8 and Ixus as I thought I will no longer need them and bought E400. It was great camera. I especially loved it with old school Zuiko OM 50mm 1.4 and 135/2.8. Both required manual focus skills and because E400 viewfinder was rather small, I adapted E400 with custom split screen and enlargement eyepiece. But after some time I found how I miss something more compact. I was tired of carrying E400 with lens or two everywhere with me. Not to mention it appeared stupid in some cases. Also the mirror slap was really distracting for me (January 2007 - August 2009 but not used since Spring 2008).

Sometime around Spring-Autumn 2007, I was again catched by the idea of GRDI. I read almost everything about it and despite negative reactions of some reviewers, I loved it. I also thought it would be nice to have a proper Ricoh related discussion forum. Yes, there was highly popular DPReview forum. But I found it hard to use (no attachments, nightmare to follow longer discussions, hard to find something, etc). So I started this forum When Ricoh announced GRDII (September 2007), I asked them if they would be willing to send me GRDII and GRDI for a comparison. To my great surprise, they were willing and now I have nearly every Ricoh camera produced since 2007 in my possession. I of course cannot say I own them, because I still consider them a Ricoh property, kindly loaned for the purpose of this forum. I wish I could spent more time with this forum. Ideal would be a full time job, because there is so much things that could be done! Who knows, maybe one day?

[thelps]

Interesting thread idea. I am almost embarrassed to list the stuff I have owned.

A list of what I can recall, film cameras I've had..
1. Olympus OM20, OM2n, OM1n many various Zuiko lenses including but not all, 16mm FE, 21mm f3.5 (about 3 of these came and went), 21mm f2, 28mm f2, 35mm shift, 50mm's (many), 85mm, 100mm, 135mm, 200mm
2. Nikon 801, F90, a few Nikon zooms and flashguns SB24 Nikon compacts
3. Canon EOS 50, EOS 1 a few lenses
4. Leica MP (2003 model) summicron 50mm - just didn't work for me - sorry HCB
5. Leica CM - the Contax T3 is better IMO
6. Mamiya 645J
7. Contax T2
Various other compacts and something I am sure I've forgotten.

Digitals that I had and have now gone
Compact Pentax - can't recall the model, it was such a battery muncher it rarely lasted more than 30 frames.
Olympus C5050 - sold
Nikon D80 with 18-135 - sold - too big and cumbersome

All of them are sold, sold sold, gone!

[andrewteee]

At the moment...
Ricoh GXR and A12 50mm (P10 on order and A12 28mm when available) - #1 fav
Ricoh GRD3 - #2 fav
Olympus E-P2 with Panasonic 20/1.7 and Zeiss C Sonnar 50/1.5 (with adapter)
Olympus E30 with 12-60mm and 50/2 macro - rarely used these days
Sigma DP2 - rarely used, but still enjoy - might sell
iPhone : )

I would like to simplify, but each is unique and does something for me.

Currently selling a Mamiya 7ii with 80/4

[CHICHORNIO]

Also a very few (I still keep them!!!)
- An 60´Voitglander film camera (my father´s)
- Polaroid
- Nikkormat SRL (plus 3 blue coated Nikkor lenses, beatiful all of them)
- Lumix DMC-Fx9 (now my 8 years old camera)
- GRD 2
- CX1
- Nokia phone!!!
- Lumix/Olympus Micro 4/3 maybe???

[busch63]

I´ll make 2 lists: #1 the currently ones and #2 the former cameras
#1 regarding the date of purchase
Sigma DP1s
Sony DSC-P200 (used, for my 10y. son)
Ricoh GX200
Fuji F100fd

Nikon Coolpix 2000 (still there but not in use)

#2
Sigma DP1 (sold as defect to China)
Fuji F45fd
Ricoh R5 (replace by Ricoh for R4 after 3rd unsuccessfull repair, sold)
Ricoh R4 (defect and replaced with refurbished R5)
Konica Minolta A2 (sold to Italy)

analog:
Nikon F801 with 28-85 +75-300+ SB24 ( sold to Italy)
Canon AT-1 (donated to "Ebay Users for victims of Tsunami" action)

[wymjym]

[quote="thelps"]Interesting thread idea. I am almost embarrassed to list the stuff I have owned.

I am embarrassed! and since discovering the Ricoh line I hope I'll be a bit more prudent going into the future.

Well this was eye opening to me! Over sixty some years and those purchases can add up. These cameras were used by me for months or years:


it all started in the late 1950's

Kodak Brownie
Polaroid One Step
Miranda Sensorex
Polaroid SX-70
Canon T50
Minox EC
Olympus C730
Olympus C770
Olympus C2100
Olympus E500
Olympus SP550
Panasonic FZ20
Panasonic FZ30
Panasonic FZ50
Panasonic FX500
Canon 30D
Canon 40D
Canon 50D
Canon G10
Canon G11
K-Minolta 5D
K-Minolta7D
Minolta XT
Minolta XG
Nikon D300
Nikon D300s
Fuji F10
Fuji F31fd
Fuji F100fd
Fuji F70
Fuji S100fs
Ricoh CX-1
Ricoh CX-3



I don’t collect cameras but I still own the The Polaroid SX-70, Minox EC, Canon T50, Oly c770 and a few of the more recent crop.

[Remko]

Nice topic for gearheads (me included). I'll do digital only.

Former:
- Ricoh DC-3/RDC-300 (actually the Philips rebranded one); 640x480 resolution, 25 pics on internal memory only, no zoom, and 4xAA batteries (were empty way before the 25 shots) 1998-1999
- Kyocera S3: 3Mpix (2002)
- HP 812: 4Mpix, nice saturated colours; 1/1.8" sensor! (2003)
- HP R507: 4Mpix, more compact; weak colors (2004)
- Canon PowerShot S2: 5Mpix, 12x zoom; Ok this is where things went wrong and I was infected by the photo virus (2005)

Current ones:
- Canon EOS 350D (dec 2005 - backup body today)
- Ricoh R5 compact (oct 2006 - now not much use anymore)
- Ricoh GX100 Serious compact (jun 2008 - now)
- Panasonic FT-1: Water & shockproof not much used (2009 - now)
- Canon EOS 500D (dec 2009 - now)