Over twenty years I have taken photos since my early teenage years. As many photographers, I have been with quite a few cameras and photographic equipment. If you love photography, you cannot help but like cameras and accessories.
Some may say that they don’t really care much about photographic equipment and that their equipment are only tools. After many years of my experience, I don’t really believe these words. These words might make you look more artist and photographer than collector.
However, I haven’t seen a photographer, either professional or amateur, who love photography but don’t have any preference on their equipment. Nor have I seen a photographer who does not appreciate the qualities of their equipment. If there is someone who disdains his/her equipment but regards him/herself as an artist, I am highly suspicious of him a kind of hypocrite.
Because photography is depended on optics, mechanics, and/or electronics, a photographer cannot but rely on his/her cameras and other equipment for the quality of photos and even for his/her artistic creativeness, not absolutely and totally, but to a certain degree for sure.
This is why photographers always talk about cameras and photographic equipment. Nevertheless, excellent optics, mechanics and/or electronics, plus form factor of camera will not automatically produce a great photo at a particular occasion. It should be you who decide and take a beautiful photograph at a particular scene. But, to achieve this, you need proper equipment.
[Previous Photographic Equipment]
- Minolta X300, Minolta 50mm f/1.4
- Nikon bodies: F5, N90s, FM2N, FA, FE, N80, D80
Nikkor lenses: AF 24mm f/2.8 D, AF 35mm f/2 D, AF 50mm f/1.8 D, AF 85mm f/1.8 D, Micro AF 105mm F/2.8 D, AF 180mm f/2.8 D
Nikon lens: 50mm f/1.8 Series E AIS - Leica: M3, M4, Minilux 40mm f/2.4, Summaron 35mm f/2.8, Summicron 50mm f/2, Summicron-C 90mm f/4
- Contax G: G1, Biogon 28mm f/2.8 T*, Planar 45mm f/2 T*, Sonnar 90mm f/2.8 T*
- Fujifilm X20 (28-112mm in 35mm equivalent f/2-2.8)
- Olympus: XA (35mm f/2.8), C3000
- Canon: Demi
[Current Photographic Equipment]
- Medium Format (120/220)
- Yashica MAT 124 (80mm f/3.5)
- Fujifilm GA645W (45mm f/4)
- Fujifilm GA645 (60mm f/4)
- 135 (35mm) format point & shoot
- Contax Tvs III (30-60mm f/3.7-6.7)
- Olympus mju-II (35mm f/2.8)
- Fujifilm Silvi f2.8 (24-50mm f/2.8-5.6)
- 135 format SLR
- Olympus bodies: OM1, OM1n, OM2n, OM2n black
Olympus lenses:- Zuiko Auto-W 28mm f/2.8
- Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8
- F. Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8 (Silver Nose: older model)
- F. Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8
- Zuiko 50mm f/1.8
- E. Zuiko Auto-T 135mm f/3.5
- E. Zuiko Auto-T 200mm f/4
- Minolta body: XG-M, XD5
Minolta lens: MD 28mm f/2.8, MD 50mm f/2, MD Rokkor-X f/1.7
Tamron lens: F-System 135mm f/2.8
- Scanner: Epson Perfection V750M Pro
- Digital
- iPhone 3GS (37mm in 35mm equivalent, f/2.8)
- Nikon Coolpix S210 (38-114mm in 35mm equivalent, f/3.1-5.9)
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