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Collection
The cameras I keep.
Ten cameras. Each one chosen for a reason. I've owned others -- sold some, traded some, lost one to a Florida flood. These are the ones that stayed.
I don't collect cameras to have them. I collect them because I use them. Every camera on this page has been through a CLA -- most of them by me, a few by technicians I trust. They all work. They all get loaded with film.
The notes on each page are mine. The specs are accurate. The opinions are not objective.
01195435mmDouble-stroke advance. 0.91x finder. The benchmark everything else gets measured against.View →
Leica M3
The one I reach for first.
02198435mmTTL meter. Loaded with Portra 400 most of the time. The camera I'd recommend if someone asked.View →
Leica M6
The practical one.
03197135mmFully mechanical. DP-1 finder. Bought at a flea market in Gainesville, Florida in 2004 for forty dollars.View →
Nikon F2
Where this started.
04198235mmTitanium shutter. 1/4000 top speed. The camera that taught me what a CLA actually does.View →
Nikon FM2
Still in the rotation.
051970120 / 6x6Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8. Modular. The kind of camera that forces you to think before you press the shutter.View →
Hasselblad 500C/M
Slow, deliberate, worth it.
061960120 / 6x6Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8. TLR. The most elegant camera I own.View →
Rolleiflex 2.8F
Waist-level and quiet.
07198235mmZeiss glass. Real Spot metering. People overlook it because it's not a Leica. That's their mistake.View →
Contax RTS II
The underrated one.
08197235mmZuiko 50mm f/1.4. Lighter than anything else in the collection. The one I take when I don't want to think about gear.View →
Olympus OM-1
Compact and fully mechanical.
09197135mmFD 50mm f/1.4. Built like a tank. Canon's answer to the Nikon F. It holds up.View →
Canon F-1
The professional Canon.
101969120 / 6x7SMC 105mm f/2.4. Shoots 6x7 on 120 film. The negatives are enormous. I use it for Florida landscapes.View →
Pentax 67
The brick. Worth every ounce.