What non-Pentax cameras do you own?

Pentacon Six, Mamiya Press Super 23,three Ensign Selfix various models,Zeiss Contina, Prakticas (3 or 4 ),Voitlander Avus 9x12cm, Sanderson Quarter plate,Leica II (1934), M2 (1965), M6 (1986),Canon Ftbn, AE1, two Zeniths, Hasselblad 501CM. My wife asks how I can use all these cameras at once, why don't I throw them away - well, how can she wear 40 pairs of SHOES and carry 24 HANDBAGS ?

Fuji S306,3.2MP and 6x zoom, cracking outdoors but not so good at focusing in indoor lighting.

A Fuji fotonex 3500ix. It's an aps-compact, company christmas-gift and for the last three years gathering dust in my camera cabinet.
A Hasselblad 500c/m that gets quite a bit of use.

In the Pentax departement; two LX, one MX, and one 645n.

-- MW

Hi,

If I listed all the cameras I have owned and used, this post would take several days to read, so I will just mention the nicest cameras..in no particular order..

Canon F-1n..the original one..superb beast. Nikon F2AS..ditto, but I have always prefered the F-1. Most recently, the Contax ST & RX are without doubt the nicest cameras I have ever used, but I have now moved to the Leica R7, which must have the best viewfinder of any SLR.

I tried the Pentax LX for a while, but it just did not match any of the above...shame, since the K lenses are sooo good.

cheers Steve.

I have a Nikon FM2n, which has fantastic build quality and a brighter viewfinder than any of my Pentax cameras. However over the years, I've tended to use my MX instead due to its smaller size and weight, particularly when coupled with the M40/2.8 or more recently the FA43/1.9.

I also used to have a Nikon D100, but I sold that when I bought my *istD as there was little, if any, difference in image quality and again the Nikon was a bit big and heavy. It does operate a lot faster than the D though

I also had an Olympus OM4, which has the best metering system of any camera I've ever used. Unfortunately build quality was not up to Pentax (let alone Nikon) standards and I managed to break it
Also the Olympus lenses didn't seem to be as good as my Pentax or Nikon ones.

Cheers,
Reuben0

In the past I have had a Practica LB2, a Chinon CE2 Memotron, a Canon EOS (can't remember which model - didn't like it), a Nikon F4, & a Leica M6 (with Tri Elmar lens and 90mm lens). Now all gone/traded in, or broken.
Currently I have (apart from Pentax) a Contax G2 (+ 3 lenses), a Leica 111C with Elmar 3.5cm, a Rollieflex T, a Voigtlander Vito C, a Minox Leica 111F copy, a Thornton Pickard Ruby Half Plate with brass lens (c 1887), a couple of old pre WW2 folding Kodaks and a Minolta Dimage Z3 (for convenience).

My Pentax cameras are an LX, *istds & K10D.

Lots of lenses (all Pentax or Sigma) and accessories for the Pentax gear.

If I won the lottery I'd probably log on to a website like Robert White's and see how much it's physically possible to order online in 1 hour !! LOL.

Philip

It's amazing here are so many persons who had USSR cameras like Zenit and Lubitel. I still have Zenit TTL, Zenit 15M, Lubitel 166 and Agat 18 as a collection but there was a time I was using all of them.

I have an *ist Ds as my main camera but I do carry a canon A700 in my bum bag for unforeseen opportunities.

I have an Olympus OM10 which I use for B&W. It's a great MF camera which has lasted me the past 23 years with no problems.

I also have a couple of Praktica's which were donated to me but they are currently gathering dust in the wardrobe as I haven't had the time to give them a good clean.

The first camera I used was my parents Kodak Instamatic which you had to use a flash cube for indoor shots. I also had an early 80's hanimex 110 film camera - the pictures I still have from this are grainy to say the least and slightly out of focus - possibly due to me being 10 when I took them!!

My main camera's are the DL2 and the *ist 35mm.

I've used the (original) Nikon F, various Canon cameras, and a few oddities. I sold the Nikon gear and Canon gear because I didn't like it, especially the Canon.

For at least twenty-five years I've stuck with a couple of MX's, and now the D and the K10D. I still have my Mamaiya RB67 and my TOYO 4x5, but the customers seem happy with 10 megapixel images so I'm mostly using the K10D.

I also have an old Olympus E-20, which is now my "car camera" that I keep in the car. I also inherited a small Olympus compact from my father's estate, which is sort of amusing, but not really good for much.

In the past there was everything from a Kodak Brownie using 127 film to an Instamatic (silly camera) to a huge 8x10 that I no longer use because I can't even pick it up any more!! I bought a TOYO 45C to do architecture work.

The most interesting camera I own is a 1924 medium format Kodak vest pocket model B.

My grandad give it to me and was very impressed when I loaded it up with film and took a few family snaps

But boy did it need cleaning out. The camera that is!!

I still have my first camera,..a kodak Box 'Brownie' IIA on which I started the great adventure that has lasted, on and off, for my whole life. I had to get thru quite a lot of very primitive cameras before I eventually got to a secondhand pentax S1a which my next door neighbour still uses 41 years later!!

The first camera from which I sold some pix was a folding Zeiss 532/12(?) which i also still have somewhere,.....While shooting during the funeral of Sir Winston Chuchill the little red window came adrift and got jambed between the camera back and the backing paper of the film much to my extreme dejection and anguish!....the pix were fine and were some of my first to be published.

This post could be a a very long one but I will just mention two of the many old junk cameras that I still have;....

The 'Lubitel II' has been mentioned,...I have one which was given to me in 'non-working' condition. The problem turned out to be the shutter blades coliding..!!! I disassembled the shutter and trimmed the damaged blades with a pair of nail scissors. This camera then went around the world with the son of a friend and laid the foundations of his becoming a very serious photographer. The camera was returned to me and then given again to a begining photographer for her college photo course. The camera is now back with me yet again some twenty years after the nail scissors treatment and presently waiting for another user......

I still have the fully working kodak 'Autographic IIA' in the old '230' giant rollfilm size which my grandfather used in India to secretly photograph a widow throwing herself onto her husbands funeral pyre although this was illegal undr British rule at the time. In 1917 the camera was sent back to England with a ring hidden inside for my grandmother. however the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine when it reached the English Channel and the camera and other packages were all lost. In 1925 my grandmother got a message that the cargo had been salvaged and her package was now on it's way to her,..which it soon was.

That's one heck of a story!

I started on a Brownie 127, but the lens fell out at some point. After that, I didn't do any photography until I met my wife.

I always fancied a Pentax SLR, but couldn't afford it in my youth. My introduction to 35mm film was my girl friend's Halina (now my wife (the Girl-Friend, not the Halina)). After a clumsy exit from a boat onto the quay, the Halina suffered a topectomy. We then used my Father-in-law's Ilford Sportsman, complete with Hanimex Sektronic light meter, until eventually I bought an ME Super in the States. I've just discovered the Ilford still has a film in it! No idea what's on it, and it probably won't develop very well, but it'll be interesting to find out.

When I dropped the ME, and it suffered shutter and meter failure, I acquired a Canon AE-1 but this suffers from light leakage (must find a source of gasket foam).

My first digital camera was an Olympus 3Mp 3xzoom, which my daughter is still using.

My wife used a Samsung compact for a long time, but now has a Pentax S5n, and also uses the Pentax film and K10D SLRs.

I have also got a Kodak 66 Model M (bellows camera), but this is a bit of a curiosity. I have put a 120 film in it, and shot 6 frames, but never had a film developed from it.

My favourite non-Pentax classic camera is my MPP Microcord, a very nice twin-lens reflex that is actually British. It has an unusual focal length of 77mm, but the 4 element lens is said to be slightly better than the Carl Zeiss Tessar as fitted to the Rollei TLRs.

Results from my sample were OK but not spectacular, so it remains a collectable only.