The Online Photographer

A Fuji X-E2 with Fuji 23/1.4 permanently attached, and a Sony RX100 VI, with a side of iPhone

Main: Fuji Sexy-3 Black, with Minolta MD 2.8/28mm (walk-around) or Pentax-K 3.5/28mm (town- & landscape).
Alternate: Fuji Sexy-3 Silver, with Pentax-M 2.0/35mm (portrait).

(I think they’re officially called Fujifilm X-E3).

Panasonic G9 for 98% my creative photography. Nikon D750 on tripod for copy work.

Sony A9II main camera. Sony A6600 and RX10MIV second and third.

2 Sony's - A9 and A7RIII, but I admit I still shoot Barnacks

My setup has not changed since 2007: I use a Pentax K10D as my main camera, and for casual shots or travelling, I use a Fijifilm Finepix F30. The few times I could used them in 2020 (covid be damned), it was a pleasure.

I'm sure at some point I will upgrade to get better files at low light than the K10D can provide; but still I love that camera and it has produced many great pictures since it came home. On the other hand, the capabilities of the F30 for low light (even if far from current standards) are still amazing to my eyes.

Things have changed around a bit over the years but currently: Main camera Fuji x-T2, second Leica MP (film).

Primary: OM-D E-M10 (Mk I) with the 17, 25 & 45 mm lenses.
Secondary: iPhone 11 Pro (note-taking as other commenters have mentioned).
The plan for 2021 is to use the just acquired Fuji X100V as an everyday / everywhere carry camera (maybe even try as OC/OL/OY).

I have three Nikon bodies: an F that I never use; a D700 that I can't use because the mirror jammed up and the importers into Spain tell me it cannot be fixed because no more parts available; a D200 that does work, beautifully, and that was my first digital camera.

The last two lenses I have employed have been a 2.8/24mm and a 2/35mm, both old manual AIS versions. I do miss a working ff body, though.

Wishes? Lottery win to finance a Q2 Mono.

Rob

My main camera is an EOS R. I also occasionally shoot with an iPhone 11, but I rarely use it for more than quick note taking.

Anything without a menu. My brain started to hurt. Lately, number 1 is a Leica IIf with a choice of several 5cm lenses. Number 2 is digital - Leica M-D, mostly with 50's but sometimes a 35mm KoB.

My eyes and brain. The most essential tools are the ability to see something worth photographing and quickly determine how to capture it. I still have a long way to go. I find my ability to see increases greatly with any camera in hand. These days those are an Olympus E-M5iii, usually with the Oly 14-150 zoom attached, and then my iPhone SE (2nd Generation). A new camera doesn't make me any better but it can stimulate me to try.

Mostly these days I use a Hasselblad 500C and a Plaubel Makina W67. Both fine cameras but quite different in the hand. I haven't purchased a camera or lens in several years but occasionally I dream of a new lens for the Hassy.

When Olympus prices dropped earlier this fall, I jumped on a second OM-D E-M5ii and then on a first E-M1iii. At my age, I'm planning on this being a lifetime supply of camera bodies, whatever happens to Olympus after December 31. At the moment I'm using the E-M1iii, trying to learn what it will do (and what it expects me to do), though I'd still consider the E-M5ii my primary camera, digital's closest approximation for me of the OM-2n.

Sony a6500 and a6000. I dropped my iPhone and broke the camera years ago. My employers recently sent a new iPhone, with a working camera, but I haven't yet developed the habit of using it.

Leica Q and Grd4 & 11

Main camera: Panasonic GX8
Secondary camera: Panasonic GM5

Nikon Z7 (love it!)

Fuji X-T4 / X-S10 (with primes only) for fun (love them too!)

Can’t go wrong with any camera today.

Fuji X-100S and Leica CL (film).
Rollei 35 may take over both when I go on longer backpacking trip, hopefully summer 2021.

The relative lack of Canon cameras on this list is amazing. Wonder what explains it...

For the last 5 years my main camera has been a Pentax 645Z (usually with the 90mm/2.8 macro) and my primary alternate has been a Pentax K-3 (usually with the DA* 55mm/1.4).

Now and then I take a snap with my iPad. Cats being cats, mostly.

Canon M50 for photographing friends and family, landscapes (for the choice of focal lengths). Handheld film camera for everything else which mainly consists of walking around and looking for photos. My film camera for the last month has been a Leica M2. I wanted to see why they’re considered such special cameras. So far, I’m really liking composing through the window-like viewfinder.

Panasonic Lumix GX1; Samsung Galaxy S9.

This question has turned into “comment bait”.

I am shooting more with my relatively new Leica M10M.
My Leica S is for color. I realized I was shooting more and more B&W conversions and I suspected the M10Monochrome could equal the B&W output of the S (before the S3). My testing satisfied my suspicion. If going on a landscape shoot I’d use the S 007 because I will want color as well, and the camera and lenses are weatherproof. But during a pandemic a rangefinder is easier to carry around the neighborhood than the S. I’ve shot with the S for 10 years, and a throwback to a rangefinder has been enjoyable. I had shot with an M8 earlier, and way back with an M6. The choice of M lenses has matched the S lenses, just much smaller. I walk around with a slow CV 21mm on the body, and keep an f4 collapsing Leica 90mm in a pocket. With the M10M having such high ISO available, I chose slower lenses for compact size.
I don’t put my S120mm in a pocket.

1) Mamiya 645 Pro (with all its superb lenses). Loaded with b/w, of course.

2) I wanna say my banged up Sony A6000... but in reality the iPhone SE is used more.

Dale

Really simple at the moment. An Olympus OM-D EM-1 MkII, and my Google Pixel 3 XL. Little that would be printed or archived with the Pixel (but a notebook camera is hugely useful!), but it is the source of most of the cat snapshots.

That’s a difficult question for me as I regularly use at least 8 cameras. These range from my iPhone 12 Max to a Nikon D850. I don’t use the phone as much as I’d like to (my excuse for buying it was for the amazing cameras) but I do use my DJI Mavic 2 Pro, GoPro 9, Olympus TG4, Olympus OMD EM5, Canon GX7, Nikon D800 and the D850 (my favourite) all the time. The GX7 and D800 are mainly used in housings for underwater photography (I’m a marine biologist). Off the top of my head the Canon is the most used (it’s my ‘work’ camera) with the D850 next, but in terms of fun and enjoyment it’s the D850 first followed by the Tough (TG4). This amazing little camera is indestructible, waterproof and easily shirt or pants pocketable and I carry it constantly. Great for note taking and documenting my activities on the sea and in the wilderness. I also love my drone and take a lot of pictures with it but it’s a bit nerve wracking flying it over water from a moving boat which I do all the time! Basically I just love being in nature with a camera and trying to document the amazing things that I see.

I am using a Canon Eos 5d111, but when I shoot symphony concerts in the national auditorium, I use a Panasonic Lumix bridge camera as it it completely silent. The image results are not as good as the Canon, but the client is happy!

I use my Olympus PEN-F for 99,9% of my images. Even though I sold most of my old gear I still count at least seven more cameras here at home. From a webcam to a Rolleiflex. The last time I used my smart phone camera was a year ago at an Asian supermarket when I needed to check if I had chosen to right tin of coconut milk. By far the most used camera in the house however is my wife's six years old Samsung Galaxy to communicate every day for free with our Indonesian family at the other side of the globe.

Out of the blue I started working as a casual pro recently. A big M43 fan, the two cameras (multiples of each available) are EM10 mk2 for short/close and EM1 mk2 for longer. Would love to say my well used EM5's, but they are too well used to trust for work.

Sony A7R3 and an iPhone 5.

The iPhone 5 is for note taking, the Sony A7R3 is when I need (or just want!) a decent image.

Back in 2008, I decided to get back into my photography hobby; but switching to digital and forgetting film. I also decided it had to be pocketable camera, so I started with a Canon SD870. Then the Canon S90, S95 then the Sony RX100. The 1" type sensor in the RX100m1 was an improvement. Later, I bought the RX10 mark 1; still a 1" sensor but a larger body and a fixed 24-200 f2.8 lens. The two Sony's were my "A" and "B" camera.

Some time later, I was gifted a hand-me-down iPhone 5 (my first smartphone). That replaced the Sony RX100 as a pocket camera.

Some time later, the "digital" look of the 1" sensor irked me, so I took a big step up into digital FF ... with a Sony A7R2. I liked the images from the mark 2 but not the ergos, so was pleased to see the mark 3 arrive.

I've sold off the RX100m3 but the RX10m1 is still in my camera bag ... as an imaginary backup ;-)

I can see that cameras are incrementally improving -- small increments -- but I'm happy with my current set-up.

As we read all these posts, it looks like that film photography death has been really prematurely declared dead.

I use 4 cameras regularly.
Kodak Retina IIIc ( folding 35mm rangefinder)
Canon 5Ds
Fuji GW 690 III ( 6x9 rangefinder, 90mm lens)
Fuji GSW 690 II (6x9 rangefinder, 65mm lens)

I should add that owning a medium format Nikon film scanner is a big part of these choices :)

Olympus EM1-II and Samsung S10 phone. Hoping Santa brings me an X100V to replace the S10 as my second camera.

Fuji X-H1 and iPhone 12 pro lately

Fuji X100F and iPhone 11 Pro. The X100F has been my exclusive digital camera for nearly 3 years and the limitations are freeing. I'll likely upgrade to the V when I can find a good deal but the F is still excellent. The computational smarts of the iPhone are incredible and like many, I sure wish traditional camera companies would embrace the software side in the way Apple and others do.

I'll toss in mine, but it mimics several others' reports.

I use my Oly EM5.1 regularly. I still really love that 10yo camera, probably even more than its updates. It's my second one, a replacement for one that I fell into a deep puddle with. Was forced to use my shooting hand to catch that fall. Sad.

I use it mostly with the 45mm 1.8 these days, for landscapes; the 20mm 1.7 for those too, and for artful printable snaps. I use the 12-45 Pro when I'm unsure what's coming, or when I need the reach of 12mm. All three lenses are good at what they do.

I keep being tempted by either a Z6 or an X-Pro3, thinking I need a better "film", but then I think of how much I'll miss the feel of the Em5 in my hand when I'm using those. I worry about my regrets of spending so much $$ just for the bump in image quality. And do I really want to learn how to mess with the look of a new sensor? I've worn that old one's looks like a comfortable, sturdy pair of shoes for years now.

I may instead buy a Em5.3 for the water-sealing, and another $200 used Em5.1 for back-up. Just the three Em5s each with a dedicated lens and then be done for awhile. A significant part of me will be really glad to no longer hover over camera review and gear sites and just pretend that better or newer cameras don't exist.

Oh, and I just got the iPhone 12 mini and its snapshot potential is pretty phenomenal, even somehow in low light. I think I'd rather have a 50ish-e over the super wide 13-e lens it comes with, but I also assume Apple does some sort of magic and wizardry to help the main lens take nice snaps.

Fun poll.

I rotate among an inventory of Fuji cameras - XT-2, XE-2, X100S, XT-1, in that order. As I write this, I think back to the decade plus I spent with an Olympus OM-1 with a 24, 50 and 75-150 for general use, and a Rollei 35 for backpacking. Of course, there was a brick of Kodachrome in the bag for a long vacation.

It seemed my post is still in the pipeline. [No, I checked, and all of your comments have been published. Perhaps it didn't come through? —Mike the Ed.] Just to say after waiting >1 year I finally get my 907x or more important the CFV 50c II. Guess I have to use it with my swc and 203fe. That will be more than two cameras in the future. As my film development process just restarted. May have to sell our gears.

I've been shooting with Olympus cameras since 1974. Just upgraded, so main camera will be E-M5 Mark III with 12-45 f4 pro as basic lens. E-M10 Mark III goes backup. Now with Leica 100-400 for birds at feeder. However, a TG is always in my pocket when I walk out the door. Just upgraded from a TG-4 to a TG-6. I have an iPhone 7, but it sits on the buffet most of the time, and I only use it as a camera to send videos and photos to grandchildren. Our broadband speed is so slow up here in far northern Minnesota that I can't send videos by computer. I recently bought a Pen F for my daughter-in-law as a Ph.D. graduation gift. She's doing wonderful food photography with it. My older son has lots of my old film equipment. He doesn't like digital. I said that I'm done with film, and don't want my hands in chemicals or breathe fumes any more. That's too bad for my wonderful large format equipment -- Nagaoka 4x5 and 5x7 and Agfa-Ansco 8x10 flat bed field cameras with Dagor lenses -- but I can't afford digital backs.

Very recently a newly acquired Leica Q2 monochrom to accompany an XH1. Starting in 1969 there was a new Nikkormat FTn which I still have along with enough other cameras in between to likely be noted by The National Inquirer.

Sony A7 III though recently I picked up an A900 and that has been fun to explore ...

Primary: Olympus OM-D EM1 Mk II (95%)
Seconday: Olympus OM-D EM10 Mk II (When something that fits in a coat pocket is preferred)

Mostly a Nikon guy using AIS manual focus lenses

DSLRs: Df almost always and rarely D700
SLRs: Mostly F6 and occasionally FM3a and FE
Non Nikon: Leica M3

Only will take an iPhone photo as a last resort.

Future thoughts:

Maybe a Nikon D850 ( if the price keeps going down - it seems to do everything very well)

Maybe a Nikon Z5 - but only to be able to adapt my Leica lenses on it ! Not enamored by EVFs. (I know, blasphemy.)

Because of COVID, I haven't done much photography in 2020. My main camera is a Fuji XT30. My plan for 2020 was to shoot more film using a Rolleiflex and my Zeiss Ikon. Maybe in 2021.

This year I managed to shoot one roll of Porta of my relatives on a Pentax 67 with the 75mm f/2.8 AL;

and I'm stuck on frame 32 of 36 of a roll of Ilford XP2 400 on a Leica R8, with a 35mm summicron-r mounted.

One roll complete, so it's the Pentax that got the most use :~)

I'm late to the party but what the heck.

Due to a recent injury I sold most of my heavier gear. I now shoot with a Nikon Z7 and a Nikon Coolpix A. Mostly do travel and some landscape photography. I miss my D850 though. It was perfect.

I think a related but important question is: do you use your kit for work or as a serious hobbyist? I'm the former, though work has been on hold since all of my documentary commissions are overseas and I can't get to them.

That said, I've started a large personal project (documenting sacred sites). It's an all-film project, and the main camera is a Graflex Crown Graphic and Fujinon 150mm lens. Mostly shooting Ilford HP5 Plus. My second camera on this project is a Rolleiflex 2.8F.

I'm using the kit in anticipation of adding large format film into a commission that's waiting for me to show up. That project's main camera will be an Olympus OMD EM5 (the original one from 2012), backed up by the Olympus Pen EP5, with three primes.

Related to the use of the film kit is processing film again, for the first time since the fall of 1971, when I was a freshman in college. This time, I'm trying to make as many mistakes at home with both black and white and C-41 processing (both Cinestill's excellent powder kits) and "scanning" with the Olympus digital bodies before I use them on the job. Shooting large format film is an expensive proposition. So far, slow progress.

I don't do much photography during the grey, wet, coastal winter (This year I decided to shoot during the spring, summer, and fall and spend the winter on processing) but when I do, recently it's been:

- The Ricoh GRII and an EOS M2 w/ the fantastic 22mm for digital. Also these are both tiny cameras so I pretty much always have one of them around. The M2 isn't a fantastic camera, but it's very small, which is almost my #1 priority, and it was a deal coupled with the 22mm on Ebay. Mostly I just wanted to be able to use the 22 so I could have an option nearly as portable as the Ricoh but with a tighter FOV.

- A Pentax MZ-5n or MX with 50mm Takumar or 40mm 2.8 for film or when I leave the house with the express purpose of taking pictures. The 5n is underrated, and is a very capable camera with a surprisingly good viewfinder and nice direct controls using dials and levers. It just always works.