I too always take two cameras when shooting for a client. Now it’s a K-1 and a K-3. I can fit both and about ten lenses in a pelican case, but it’s pretty damn heavy. That’s okay when I’m working out of the trunk of a car , which is almost always. My list of cameras owned is similar. I still have at least a dozen that are functional.
Paul > On Apr 8, 2022, at 5:54 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > > On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: >> >> For me, one camera is quite enough. > > I've run into enough situations where one camera isn't enough to always want > a backup in my camera bag. > > For one thing I spent a few years earning my ticket into motorsports events > by shooting for a website. That taught me that there are occasions when you > don't have time to swap lenses on a camera - you barely have time to switch > to the second camera setup. > > For another thing, there are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities where having a > second body with you is worth it just for insurance. > When I got a one-year job assignment in New Zealand one of the items on my > shopping list for the stop-off in Singapore on the way from London to > Auckland was an ME to sit alongside my MX (plus an M80-200 zoom and a few > other goodies). Ever since then I've almost always had two camera bodies in > the bag. > > Then there was the time when the MX Motor Drive bent the coupling in my MX. > Fortunately that had become my second body - by that time my primary camera > was a PZ-1p. > > And there was the time the PZ-1p stopped working on a rainy race day at > Laguna Seca. It was fine when it dried out after a couple of hours, but by > then the race was over. But the trusty old MX filled in just fine. > > Or the time when I slipped climbing down from a photo tower, and knocked > (most of) my MZ-S off the back of my big zoom. Again, having the PZ-1p along > as well meant I could continue shooting. > > And, of course, in the film days it was nice to have a second body so that > you could have two different types of film to hand. > > > I don't have anywhere near as many cameras as Godfrey, but I have still got a > fair number of the cameras I've used over the years. > I have owned: > Brownie 127 > Hanimex 35mm > Olympus Pen half-frame. > (I don't have any of those, but I do have my father's Ilford Sportsman 35mm). > Spotmatic II (later donated to a friend). > MX > ME (donated to a different friend) > ME Super > Super Program > PZ-1p > MX #2 (black) > MZ-S > Canon G1 > Olympus EPL-1 > *ist-D > K10D > K-5 > Olympus OM-D E-M1X :-) > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
