CathyAnn Loc: Apache Junction, AZ

I do not have just one working camera. I have four, but my favorite is my Nikon D750 with which I shoot flowers using effects lenses such as Lensbabies. I have a modern version of a Daguerre lens that is a lot of fun since I can get interesting effects with it too. For travel, my go-to camera is my Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 II, perfect for when traveling and weight is a big consideration. It's easy to use, and takes excellent images, from close-ups to landscapes.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I have several working cameras. However, if I had to choose one to take on a photo outing, I'd pick the one that allows me to shoot both digital and/or film. Can't miss that way. I hope that isn't cheating.
--Bob

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

With cellular phones, there is always one camera around.
It makes me wonder. Why the lack of clear ghost & alien/UFO photos?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Lots of "reasons." The crafts are too far away, the people are too shocked to think about taking pictures, they forgot to set the camera correctly, there was no memory card, radiation from the craft messed up the pictures, everyone forgot to bring their camera or cell phone - just to list a few of the reasons.

awis01

I have 2 D-500's. Both well used.

zarathu Loc: Bar Harbor, MDI, Maine

I use just one camera. It's a $4000 Canon R5. And I only have four lenses(my wife uses the others now).
Most of my work is in the studio in macro or bugs in the field, and for that I use an EF Irix 150 mm f/2.8 macro manual., along with a teleconverter, 5.5 inches of extension tubes and sometimes a NiSi 2+ diopter closeup filter. In my bird work, I use a Canon RF 800mm F/11, sometimes with a 1.4 telextender bringing it up to 1120mm. For astro photography I use an EF Tamron 17-35 which has particularly low coma distortion. And for everyday work, I use a Canon RF 24-240. The NiSi is particularly super for getting almost to Macro with my 24-240. It normally focuses down to about 20 inches. With the NiSi, it focuses down to about 6.5 inches, which is about 1:1.

While I own a complex $4000 camera, I don’t own any lenses costing more than $1000. Since I only print to 13 x 19, all of these lenses do wonderfully for that. I would have to print to 20 x 30 and need to view these 20 x 30’s at 6 inches to notice any shortcomings in any of my lenses. The manual Irix is about as sharp as they come matching the best Canon has to offer.

I always have my iPhone. Is that considered a second camera?

I do a lot of editing in Affinity Photo.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

Exactly...with the technology today and even 20 years ago, tactical radars (fighters and AWACS) and cameras (FLIR) in tactical a/c have been improved and even sync'd and good quality pictures/photos should easily have been taken. I was in A-6 Intruders, back in the day (70's-80's) and with the quality of that radar back then I could actually define the shore based arresting gear and even the rubber supports that keep it slightly off the runway.

Seems the only ones whoever takes UFO photos are the ones with the crappy cameras or bad radar/FLIR...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Bubba211 Loc: Southport, N. Carolina

iPhone 13 does most of what is needed

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

amen

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

Probably they made-up stories to fullfill an secret agenda

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

Don't know about an agenda but it sure makes for great war stories at the bar later on that evening...

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

wonderful, mysterious and very intersting stories

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

when I started in professional photography, the average press, wedding, or industrial photographer used a 4x5 "press" camera. One camera, a strobe, and a box full of film holder was enough to lug around. The good thing was, you learned to make the best of that simple gear and workaround many issues. That same concept followed in medium-format usage. Once 35mm became, more or less the STANDARD press photographers'' and photojournalists' tools, multiple camera usages came into vogue- even among folks who did not need so many.

In the days before zoom, lenses were as good as they are today, for photojournalists, juggling lenses with one body was impractical. Waht do you do with a 300+ prime, where do you keep it? Open bodies, lens caps, all things to fumble with in fast shooting situations. What do you do if a single body quits in the middle of an assignment?

Nowadays, especially for pros, you are playing Russian Roulette if you only carry one body. There are too many electronic circuits and onboard gadgets that can go south.

zarathu Loc: Bar Harbor, MDI, Maine

Even when I was a wedding photographer in the 1980’s, I carried my medium format Mamiya, and a Canon 35 mm. And I carried three sets of flash cords for the formals in the church. I remember more than one where somewhere along the line the first 2 stopped working. Of course when I went home, they all worked flawlessly.

The primes we had in the 1990’s are rather inferior to the consumer quality zooms we have today. You used primes from(my time) 1973 to the early 20teens because zooms were so bad. And of course, there was no such thing as auto focus, and the concept of auto eye focus before powerful computer chips was hard to imagine.