What's your walking around classic camera these days?

[charles_stobbs3]

Just starting with an Olympus Trip 35 (until I repair my Yashica GSN), just finishing with an Ansco Regent. So little time.

[sionnac]

My Falcon Miniature Deluxe (with Efke R100) for snaps, or my Rollei 35 LED for more control.

[jonathan_stark]

Mike,

 

This week the camera bag has an Agfa Karat 36 loaded with E100G, and the Rolleiflex Automat I bought from **you**, loaded with Ilford Delta 400. The VC meter perches nicely on top of the Karat, I use the old Sekonic 398M with the Rollei. Life is good!

[robert_mounier]

My current "walking around" camera are :

 

35mm : Retina IIIc, Vito II, Vitessa L, Leidolf Lordomat with Lordon

 

MF : Ensign Selfix 820 with Ross Xpress, Royer III with Flor Berthiot, TelkaII, Ihagee Ultrix with Schneider Radionar

 

a lot of fun with these old beaters...

 

Robert on Paris

[john_smullen]

Kodak Retina Ib

[mfophotos]

Dang it Mike, you always ask the best questions...<p>

My current walk about cameras -- at work I keep my Konica Auto S2 and a Graflex

22. I was shooting with the Graflex tlr yesterday and an older gentleman walked by

and said something like - "hey, I used to use one of those...about 40 years

ago..."<p>

I carry an Olympus XA in my backpack for when I am walking to and from work.<p>

My Argus C-4,depending on where I am going.

[bennybee]

Usually it is my Retina IIc, but lately it is the recently acquired Konica Auto S2. The Isolette III with Apotar when I feel creative (the results mostly prove the contrary, but that is not the Isolette's fault ;-)

[mike_elek]

Here's a shot from my Isolette III (Apotar) when I dragged three cameras up the Great Wall. That was a big mistake -- simply too much weight and too many steps.<div></div>

[bennybee]

That's a great Isolette pic, Mike!

[eric_miller10]

A Fed 2 with I-61 L/D

 

Waiting on my Kiev 4 to arrive so I can stick my Jupiter-3 on it.

[mark_jordan3]

A Konica IIIA rangefinder for 35mm and a Rolleiflex T for 6X6.

[silent1]

My current classic walking-around camera is my Olympus Pen EES-2. Since getting the stuck aperture fixed and the focus corrected (after missassembling the lens on the first try), I've been happy with it, though I do wish I could find a place that would print the half frame negatives as actual half frame. I can get the full image if I pay for a custom print, but the machine proofs print two on a sheet, and the exposure is a compromise between the two frame -- and then I lose a little image cropped off the outer edges of the pair, because the spacing between frames is a little narrower than full-frame 35 mm.<div></div>

[david_calleri]

Contax IIIa with Nikkor 50 f1.4, Bessamatic Delux with 50 f2,8

and Leica III with coated 50 f3.5 Elmar.

[dm2]

Well, I have to say first that for me, "classic" includes a lot of post-1970 cameras. Pretty much anything made before AF and plastic dominated the market is "classic" to me.

 

For walking around in Chicago, I take a backpack with Bronica ETRSi and several lenses. Not as heavy as you might think! I had a lot of fun in Millenium Park last weekend with this outfit (and yes, I did take photos of "the bean", as cliche as that might be already).

 

For bicycling, I've been taking a Nikon F2 with a Nikkor 35mm shift lens.

[ole_tjugen]

A 1934 Voigtlander Bergheil 9x12cm with 150/4.5 Heliar lens, and one of several MF folders (Perkeo, Bessa, Zeiss Ikon, Zenobia). But I often cheat by bringing along a very new Voigtlander Bessa L with 21mm lens - just for the wide shots ;)

[jerevan]

My Kodak Retina 013.

 

Took some photos of my friends out working in the autumn sun last weekend. Only problem is the fear of dings and dents which makes me bring along the Never-ready-case. Which hinders more than helps when taking photos.

 

If the leather on the camera wasn't so nicely embossed "Kodak" up front and "Retina" in swirly letters on the back, I'd throw away the case into the darkest closet I'd find.

[conrad_drake]

Today, Yashica Electro 35 G. Yesterday, the Rollop Lipca TLR (except the film advance is playing up) Next, maybe the Retina 1C. Who knows. But there's usually film in an MX or the mju II (gasp!)

[stuart_whatling]

Until a couple of weeks ago it had been a Vitessa L (Color Skopar) which, to my mind, fits the bill perfectly. Sadly though it got one knock too many while bouncing around in my bag and the rangefinder's now out-of-whack. Even more sadly, the last person to adjust the beam splitter was a gorilla and one of the all-important grub-screws has a broken head. So it may take me a while to fix. In the mean time I've cleaned up the Super Ikonta and will have to put up with the extra weight in the bag until I can find something smaller.

[valleye]

Minolta Srt102

[micah_henry]

Mike,

 

My current pocket camera this week is my Rollei A110 with Kodak Gold 400 (usually Fuji Superia 200, though). I bought it despite the fact it's missing a lot of paint but the lens is VERY clean (and, thats what matters). I have made some VERY sharp, near-grainless 5x7" B&W prints from this A110's Tessar lens from the Fuji Superia 200 color print film (in 110 cartridge).

 

I alternate between this Rollei and my Minox B or sometimes my Minox C, if I feel like taking color slides and/or being lazy--the C's autoexposure is very handy for quick, painless shots!

 

I also have been snapping quite frequently with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash Model loaded with Tri-X. (I keep the Brownie in my car--I would hesitate to call it a "walking around" camera.) I slip a yellow or red filter on it during bright, sunny days since Tri-X is wayyyy fast for a box camera.

 

For 35mm, I've been testing out my "new" Argus (import), too: the Argus V-100, ca. 1956. I learned this RF camera is a re-badged Iloca Rapid II L and was also sold under the guise of Sears Tower 52.

 

I've really enjoyed seeing the myriad of responses here!

 

--Micah in NC

[frank.schifano]

For me it's either a Nikkormat FTn or the Canon QL17 loaded with Tri-X or FP4+ depending on the day.

[r s]

I'd say my Leica M3 from 1964 is my favorite 'walk around' camera at the moment.<br><br>

Here's my walking around photos with it: <a href="http://www.pbase.com/rsilfverberg/leica_photos">link</a href>

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Photos of the camera: <a href="http://www.pbase.com/rsilfverberg/leica_m3">link</a href>

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<img src="http://www.pbase.com/rsilfverberg/image/34400699.jpg"><br>

<i>A few weeks ago, Leica M3, Summicron 50, Fuji Acros 100</i></center>

[MTC Photography]

Wirgin Edixa 16MB

[jim bob]

Over the last few years, I became obsessive about 50s-60s rangefinders and have an assortment of very nice vitessas, vitomatics, retinas, and leica screwmounts. But still my favorite is the Konica Auto S2 I bought for around $35 brand new in Viet Nam. It is the first 35 mm camera I ever owned. In terms of construction, features, quality of lens, I know of no other camera that provides more bang for the buck. It is largish and heavyish, but that tends to dampen camera shake. I would like to hear from users of the S2 their personal experiences and comments on photo quality. I have seen comments that the lens construction was modeled on the summicron.

[enrico_barsetti]

Rangefinder; Kiev 4a, Konica C35, Carena ComputerII

MF Agfa Isolette III, Kinax II

SLR Spotmatic