Originally posted by womble It always seems a shame to me to stick cameras in a glass case when they should be out and about taking superb images. You might as well just buy broken ones if they are just going to be dust collectors.
Best wishes, Kris.
I used to think like this, maybe still do. But today, when these beautiful machines / objects / tools cost nothing compared to before, I can't just pass them by, it seems. Until a year ago I was a "one body, one lens" photographer. And, although that may seem strange, a profesional photographer too. Then I switched to Pentax because the other brand gave me too many problems. Got a LX right away, which is a great camera. But then the problem started, finding a KX at next to nothing, a Spotmatic F at even less than next to nothing . . . same for the lenses, I am only interested in the 35mm to the 58mm range, I am nearly ashamed to say I have about eight of those now . . . all Pentax!
We can only use one camera at the same time. Having film in many bodies gets kind of confusing later on, you lose a certain chronology. I do not have a glass case, I don't think I am a collector, but I do think I have too many cameras and lenses. On the other hand: over the past years I have the same problem with the old Leitz enlargers, the Focomats 1C and 2C. In 1980 I worked half a year as an assistant to a b/w printer in Paris and could pay for the 2C that way. Now they're almost given away. My darkroom looks like a Leitz forest.