Cameraholic ~ chronological

currently owned cameras in bold

Kodak Instamatic 110 – very simple cartridge camera for a nine-year old in 1969

Canon AE-1 35mm, bought from an old school camera shop in SLC, 1980

Olympus OM-1, found underneath a chairlift at Sugarloaf

Wista DX Cherrywood 4x5 in 1983

Rolleicord 6x6 prewar, mildewed

Olympus XA, used mine for twenty years until it fell apart

Olympus OM-1n, excellent 1970s camera

Mom’s old Kodak DuoFlex 620

Wista Rittreck 5x7 with green hammertone enamel, very Japanese

Nikon FM-2n, four-plus bodies, NPC Polaroid back, MD12 motor drives, and 24/2, 35/2, 55/2.8, 85/1.4, 105/2.5, 180/2.8 AIS primes

Fuji 690 GW II 6x9, when I photographed the CEO of Kodak I put tape over the Fuji logo

Nikon S2

Korona Banquet 7x17, ridiculous, wobbly, dried out

Wista SP 4x5, I did everything with this, used 75-90-135-180-210-300mm Rodenstock lenses

Zenit SLR

Canon Xap Shot digital (1989) pointless but cool, a video-based digital camera

Mamiya 6 6x6, went all in with this system even dedicated a third body to a fiber optic Polaroid back

Nikon N60

Hasselblad 501cm 6x6 kit with two bodies, best lenses, too precious for me, I’m a Rollei guy

Olympus Stylus

Rolleiflex 2.8E2 Planar 6x6, wonderful, the just right Rolleiflex

Sinar F 4x5 – front standard is junk, buy the F2 instead

Nikon F3hp (two bodies) with 24/2, 85/1.4, 180/2.8 AIS, MD4s and a NPC Polaroid Back in a Domke F2

Calumet C2 4x5, the “coat hanger” camera

Ricoh GR-1

Santa Barbara Pinhole 4x5

Kodak DCS digital, early one with the 40mb shoulder carried SCSI hard drive

Polaroid SX-70

Graflex Super Graphic 4x5, the most modern and worst of the Graflex cameras

Fuji 690 GSW III 690 6x9, superb

Fuji MX-2700 digital, wonderful 2mp compact

YashicaMat G 6x6 good solid TLR

Olympus Stylus again

Leica SL and SL-2, these were great, had a 28, 50, 90 kit

Konica Hexar Silver, so quiet you wouldn’t know if you made the photo or not

Sony FP-3 digital, absolute garbage

Lubitel TLR 6x6 (2000) funky junky

Pinhole Resource 4x5 junky funky

Fuji 6800 digital, a great camera in its day

Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5

Rollei 2.8F Planar 6x6 with Flenor CLA and bright screen

Sinar Norma 4x5, superb

USSR Horizant 24x72mm panoramic, worked well but chewed up a roll every once in a while

Leica IIIc

Brooks Veriwide 100 6x10, horrible mechanically

Leica M2

Rolleiflex 2.8F Xenotar 6x6 – no different than a Planar

Olympus Stylus

Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5

Noblex 150UX 6x12 rotating lens panoramic

Arca-Swiss C 4x5

Bilora Bella 6x6

Linhof Kardan Super Color ST 4x5

Linhof Technika IV 4x5, I rebuilt this one

Leica III

Kodak DCS 520 digital, first usable DSLR for me

Konica Hexar Black

Nikon D70s (two bodies), 20, 24, 35, 50 AFD lenses

Sinar Handy 4x5, totally not worth the trouble

Arca-Swiss Discovery 4x5

Polaroid 110 modified to use 4x5 film by Dean Jones

Noblex 150 Pro 6/150 F 6x12

Rollei 2.8E 120 Xenotar 6x6

Rollei 2.8E3 120 Xenotar 6x6

Leica M6 Classic

Konica Hexar Black

Leica II ~ easiest way to get a black Leica

Linhof Technika IV 4x5

Leica M6 Classic

DeGolden Busch 8x10, the absolutely worst camera ever!

Nikon D70, two more bodies

Nikon D2X, bought it on the spot even though I couldn’t afford it

Fatif 8x10, cool design

Arca-Swiss A 8x10

Graflex RB Super D SLR 4x5, best choice for handheld portraits, find one with a Graflock back and clean mirror

Polaroid 110B modified to use 4x5 film, again

Graflex Super Graphic 4x5 with Aero Ektar, a dumb fad I participated in

Anba-Ikeda 5x7, wobbly AF

Nikon D80, better than the D2x if I am honest

Sinar F2 4x5

Crown Graphic with 135/3.5 Xenotar

Palm Treo 650 Smart Phone

Agfa Isolette 6x6

Linhof Super-Technika V 4x5

Leica M6 classic

Panasonic LX-2 digital

Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5

Leica IIIc

Nikon D300

Calumet C1 8x10

Sinar Norma 8x10 with 14” Kodak Commercial Ektar on a Gitzo Giantluxe tripod

Olympus 420, simply awful

Nikon D70s again!

Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5

Konica Hexar Black

Rolleicord Va 6x6

Leica IIIc

Rolleicord K2 6x6, pre war

Nikon D200

Nikon F100, pay extra to get one with non-sticky back and beveled rewind fork

Holga pinhole panoramic 6x12

Leica M6 classic

Leica M2

Ricoh GR-D II

Canonet QL-17III

Panasonic G1

HTC Incredible smartphone

Nikon N80 and D80, nice combo with small prime lenses

Arca-Swiss C 4x5

Sinar Norma 4x5

Leica IIIc

Original Toyo Field Metal Half-Plate adapted to 5x7

OIympus Stylii, never paid more than $20 each

Panasonic G1

Polaroid 600

Nikon D300

Kodak Medalist II 6x9, 620 converted to 120 by Ken Ruth, ergonomically absurd, beautiful machining and lens

Nikon D80 and Nikon N80, go-to compact SLRs

Linhof Technika IV 4x5

Nikon D7000

Fuji Klasse, tiny viewfinder sabotages an otherwise good design

Panasonic G1

Fuji GW690III 6x9

Nikon N80

Graflex Super D 4x5

Linhof Technika V 4x5

Panasonic G1

Rolleiflex 2.8E3

Nikon D700

Noblex 612UX 6x12 panoramic

Panasonic GX1 with 20mm prime

Sinar Norma 4x5

Nikon F3hp

Kodak Panoram 1d 6x18 panoramic

Chamonix F1 4x5

Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5, stripped of all rangefinder hardware and covered in gaffer tape

Apple iPhone 5s

Nikon D300

Olympus Sylus Epic

Kodak Autographic 127

Rollei 35mm

Fuji X100T

Leica M6

Leica II black

Panasonic GX1

Nikon F100

Nikon D810, three bodies with 28/1.4e, 105/1.4e, 300/4 PF

Olympus Stylus II

Konica Hexar AF black

Fuji Mini-Instax

Nikon Coolpix A

Cheap clone of a GoPro III

Kodak Panoram 1d 6x18

Fuji X-100F, lousy files

Apple iPhone 7s

Leica M6 Classic

DJI Mavic Pro drone

Aquatech surf housing for Nikon D800/810

Leica II

Nikon Coolpix A

GoPro Hero 7 Black

Nikon F3hp

Nikon D850

Nikon Z7 with 35/1.8

Leica II

D850 (x2) w Zeiss Milvus 35/1.4, 50/1.4, 85/1.4 ~ oh so heavy

Apple iPhone 11 Pro

Nikon Z50, recommended to friends who want a good camera for a reasonable price

Nikon Z7 w 35/1.8s

Leica IIIc

Leica IIIf

Leica IIIg

GoPro Hero 8 Max

Leica M2 black repaint

Nikon F2 black eye level DE-1 prism with 105/2.5, 50/1.2 AIS

Nikon F4s, DA-20 Sportssucher (sports finder) and 135/2 AIS, 20-35/2.8 AFD, 50/1.2 AIS

Rolleicord V, slower than the Rolleiflex otherwise excellent image and build quality, simpler

KMZ Horizont Горизонт these will chew up the film sprocket holes and jam occasionally

Nikon Z7ii with 50/1.8S, have owned the 70-200/2.8s, 24-70/2.8s, 26/2.8, 40/2, 135/1.8, 20, 24, 35, 85/1.8s and 50/1.2s lenses

Nikon D850, best all-around digital camera in 2022

Ricoh GR III

Fuji GL690 with 100/3.5 beater Texas Leica

Nikon F2AS with 85/1.4 AIS

Leica II Nickel with 50/3.5 Nickel Elmar

Leica M6 with 50 Elmar, 35/2 Summicron ASPH, excess frame lines removed, MP finder.

Canon 1n with 50/1.2L

Canon 1n with 40/2.8 pancake

iPhone 13 Pro Max bought for its amazing camera

Nikon Z5 with 40/2

Two Nikon D850 bodies with Nikon 35/1.4G, 85/1.8G and 300/4PF

Chamonix 810V 8x10 view camera with Fuji W 300/5.6

Dalle AI

Nikon F3P, very nice film body

Intrepid 8x10 v.3 unusable trash

Chamonix 8x10 WWA-V with 240/5.6 APO-Symmar

Nikon N80 with 20/2.8 AFD cheap decent reliable 35mm film camera

Minolta CLE with 40/2 Rokkor

Pair of Nikon D850s with 40/2 SLIIs Voigtlander; 85/1.4G, 135/2AIS; Zeiss Milvus 50/1.4 and 35/2

DJI Action 2 wearable, excellent

DJI Mini III Pro drone, big fan of our Chinese overlords at DJI

Nikon Z30

Linhof Technika IV 4x5 with rangefinder-coupled 150mm

Leica M4 with 50/2.2 VC Ultron

Nikon Z8 with 26/2.8, 40/2, 85/1.8s

iPhone 14

Olympus Stylus 35/3.5

Nikon N80 with 50/1.8g

Nikon F100 with 35/1.4g

Nikon F6 with 85/1.4g

Nikon Z50 with 26/2.8

Wista 45N with 135 Sironar-N