Whats your "Go To" Camera? No Matter the Film Format or Sensor Size

[Lili]

I have way too many cameras.
I love the different ways each 'sees' due to lens/sensor/imaging processing.
But I find there are 1 or 2 I go to if presented with a shot with little warning.
In my case they are my 2 Fuji's; the F60fd and the S6000fd.
The former because it is so tiny it can be with me all the time, it has a very sharp lens and the IQ is really quite good.
The latter I use when taking a camera bag with; it has a quite decent zoom covering 28-300mm so makes a light kit far thats more compact than either my Oly or Pentax with the lenses needed to cover the same range. Further it is dead quiet in use and, while not nearly so fast in AF or shot-to-shot speed, it is incredibly versatile for all that. Plus it uses the same sensor as the cult-hi-ISO-classic-P&S Fuji F30/31 AND does RAW!
Neither yields true DSLR/Large sensor quality, but they give 80% or better every day with little fuss.
So what are your choices and why?

[wlewisiii]

For me, it's my Kiev 4a with my CZJ 50/2.8 Tessar. That combination can handle about 90% of what I shoot. I've plenty of other toys, to include some insanely great glass, but if push came to shove, that's the only one I'd bother to save from a house fire, for example.

You have to have something you know & trust to give you on film/sensor what your eyes see. It also must be something that can be with you constantly - and the old collapsible lenses do that well. This combination does it better than any other for me. Your mileage _will_ vary.

William

[LarryD]

For me it is the Nikon N90s and the bag of lenses.

[Mike Kovacs]

Rolleiflex TLR (as if you'd be surprised)

[Santiago Montenegro]

The Rollei 35. There's nothing that feels and works quite like it anywhere near its size, and I am conected to it as if by my synapsis.

[radiophoto]

I've owned my Canon AE-1 Program for 7 years now and have come to rely on its capabilities -- I have 5 lenses which I use with it on a regular basis.  It's been my work horse camera for all these years, and I've just recently added an A-1 (thanks, Murphy!) to be its surrogate brother.

All my other cameras work nicely, but if I have to count on "getting" the picture, it'll be one of my Canons every time.

[Captain Slack]

Pentax Spotmatic with Super-Takumar 50mm/1.4. 

[Philip]

That depends.  If it's critical, but not close work, it'd be a Canonet;  that's my favourite for family gatherings, weddings, etc.  I just bought a "new" Canonet QL17 GIII after the last one jammed (I think the cat knocked it off a shelf), and I'm glad to have one again. 

But being a rangefinder, the Canonet doesn't do close stuff very well (or I can't do it...), so I turn to an slr for that.  Which one depends partly on which is handy, though the one I trust most is the Minolta X370 (over two Nikons, a Spotmatic, a Ricoh, and a Zenit).

And just for everyday, carry-about, it's either a small full-frame (I really like the Olympus 35EC) or half-frame (Olympus Pen D3).

For really quick turnaround to the computer, I own a single digital camera, an Olympus C3020. It serves.

Today my FED Atlas is loaded with film, so I'm using it.

[Scott]

Quick and dirty: My wife's Canon 790IS.  Simple, 10 mP, makes great snapshot prints. 
More serious: Seneca 5x7 with Sironar-N 210/5.6.  Nothing else I own can equal the image quality I get from it.

That said, all the toys have their places.  I'm getting back into TLRs right now (the Yashica-Mat is loaded with Provia, and the Rolleiflex is an obsession right now), and the Clarus(es) are too much fun not to shoot (but scanning's a drag).  Feel guilty about never shooting the Ikonta 521/2.  The 20D is a tool for making an image; the others are as much process as product.

[sandeha]

Why, clearly my go-to camera will always be the one I purchased most recently (I'm slightly ashamed to say).

Which today happened to be a Contax 167mt.

But if I'm really thinking and caring about it, then it's going to be the Rolleiflex.

[sebastian toombs]

mamiya 7 with 50mm lens.


edit:  wait, thats wrong.  as soon as i put this ^ i realized i would probably go for the canon 40D.   as much as i love the mamiya and my other MF cameras, the 40D with the 17-85 lens is pretty useful in every possible situation.

[Wayne]

35mm: Pentax SP1000 (Spotmatic) - smooth, reliable and I've got a varied selection of nice M42 lenses.

Medium format: A toss up between a Rollei TLR and Mamiya C330.

Plus, I always keep whatever camera I've most recently repaired with me in my backpack for it's test roll.

[dhgee]

My Canon A-1 and 50mm 1.4. I carry it often. I also carry a little Yashica T4 Super but I like using the Canon better, composing shots manually.

[jake]

I'd say my Leica M7 with the 28mm lens. That's the camera and lens combination that feels the most naturally part of me - how I see in other words. But to be perfectly honest, some of the best photos I've ever taken (if I do say so myself) were with a plain prism Nikon F and a dog-eared Nikkor 55mm f1.2. I have taken too many photos to count with the Leica though, so that's the camera I can operate in my sleep. 

[LarryD]

That is not funny I also dream of shooting pictures. Is that a sign of an illness? The other day I woke up from a dream about developing film.. I looked around and there was no film hanging in the dryer.