I love my Mamiya 7ii, with the 80/4 lens. Most of this time is loaded with HP5. The prefect combination of large negative, compact size, and silence.
I love my Mamiya 7ii, with the 80/4 lens. Most of this time is loaded with HP5. The prefect combination of large negative, compact size, and silence.
my walkaround camera is my highly flawed memory.
Mamiya 7II w/80mm lens. I keep a Leica mini-zoom in my briefcase.
Moskva 5
With 15 cameras, I have many choices. Often it can be a 1937 AGFA Jsollette loaded with transparency film, but then I need to drag a Sekonic with me for metering. I have an adapter on the tripod mount to hold a Präsiza rangefinder, and transfer the distance to the front lens element focus ring. Other than that one, I have an AGFA 6x9 which is great for walkaround, or I can just grab one of several Nikon SLRs.
Sometimes it is fun to just walk around with a viewfinder, and scout locations for using my 4x5. I always need to work on practice, and improving my selection of images for my portfolio. So when I am not shooting for a client, I try to always have some camera, or a viewfinder . . . the idea being to think about photography as much as possible. If I need a break, I drag along a sketch book.
Ciao!
Gordon Moat
A G Studio
5D or Canon S45 for pure snapshots.
Good question to post here
I do not officially have a "walk around camera" at least for now as I am trying to decide what to get for this purpose.
My preference would be to always have a camera with me - bought one daughter a Stylus Epic with the fixed lens - nice little camera - gave my one son a Rollei 35 German version that my dad gave me & wanted my son to have it - bought another for my older son - both of them use them all the time with great results - had a Leica M6 that I also gave to my older son - sorry I'm rambling as I'm thinking here.
Still have a couple of bulk rolls of TP Tech Pan in the fridge & combining with an older Leica with a collapsible Summicron would be the ideal for me at this point - maybe an M2 or M3.
I am also wrestling with forcing myself to learn how to use a Nikon D200 well - last few days I have made a lot of progress & am very pleased & yet it's a bit much to carry all the time so to speak. Last round I did not chimp a single shot & am waiting until thursday to review
Otherwise I guess I will just have to simply get a banquet camera for the quick grab shots ...
Interesting; most of the respondents still stick to film... Me too. My "walk around" (aka lug around) camera has been the Rollei 6008 with either the 40mm Zeiss or the 90mm Schneider Macro. The damn thing is a tank, but it does take beautiful photos. I was going to sell it to fund the 11x14, but my wife wouldn't let me. Ha, jealous anyone?I love it too, but it's a bit big and a bit noisy, and I feel a bit awkward shooting it in churches.
Typically shoot Efke R25 or R50.
...and every once in a while I'll throw in a roll of color print film, to make sure I still remember how to print with it!
--A
Last edited by alec4444; 5-Sep-2006 at 18:31.
Mamiya 7II. Some recent pix:
Canham Lightweight 8x10.
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