One Camera or Two? (Page 5): If I'm photographing in a "safe" place (SE Asia, African Safari, China), I carry two cameras, Nikon D800 with 70-200 f/2.8 and Nikon D700 with 17-35 f/2.8...

berchman Loc: South Central PA

If I'm photographing in a "safe" place (SE Asia, African Safari, China), I carry two cameras, Nikon D800 with 70-200 f/2.8 and Nikon D700 with 17-35 f/2.8 on a CameraSlingers harness.
If I'm doing street photography in NYC I just carry the D800 with Nikon's 24-114 f/4 so as not to be too conspicuous, unless it's Central Park where I might want to do some landscape as well as people photography or unless it's an event like the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. For the latter two types of excursions, I'll carry two.

GH2man Loc: Portland Oregon

I use two at once for soccer.
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-98557-1.html

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

GH2man wrote:

I use two at once for soccer.
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-98557-1.html

Ah, 3-D soccer pictures. Good idea. :D

pebble70 Loc: Winchester, MA USA

vey often when just going out to shoot, I'll take two cameras.
when traveling, second camera stays in the hotel, and I'll just take a handfull of lenses with me in a pack.

profpb Loc: Venice, Florida

Every person is different. When I'm feeling my age (old) I concentrate on my D800e with a tripod and my expensive 70-200mm f/2.8.

When I feel younger, the Optek two-body strap system lets me add my D7000 with the 28-300mm or my 8 mm Fisheye.

When I'm just out I always have my Panasonic ZS20.

So we need lots of stuff for the variety of situations, that what I tell my wife when the UPS truck stops in front of my house.

Dlevon Loc: New Jersey

As I've gotten older, it is a lot easier to carry one camera. Using canon slr's for years in wildlife refuges, A-1's, 10-S, 20-D, 50-D and all the respective lenses and of course the necessary tripod, I bit the bullet And picked up a Canon SX40 and now a Canon SX50HS and haven't looked back. It's made me enjoy photography more now , even that I'm older. I'm not tired carrying heavy equipment after a long day anymore, The camera takes raw also, and the pictures equal previous ones with the SLR. The lens is excellent and the optical zoom of 50 is awesome. The great image stabilization makes it unnecessary to even carry my tripod anymore! I am now one happy fella. Hope this helps.

Eveline

I carry two. One is my DSLR and one is an Iphone. I also carry a point and shoot sometimes. I must admit I would like a second DSLR so I could use a wide angle and a telephoto. Hee hee. Each camera has a different feel and I like them all.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Dlevon wrote:

...and now a Canon SX50HS...

That's quite a zoom, 24-1200mm.

THEMRED7007

jerryc41 wrote:

Sometimes I like to bring two cameras when I go out shooting. I have one with a tele and the other with a wide angle. I use an OP/Tech double strap arrangement to carry one on each shoulder.

I'm wondering how many of you carry two cameras when you're out shooting or when you go on vacation. On the one hand, you don't have to stop and change lenses, but on the other, you have to carry two cameras.

I never move without a KODAK M380 on my belt...small, cheap, works .

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

jerryc41 wrote:

That's quite a zoom, 24-1200mm.

Lillian Stokes, the photographer and birder has been touting that camera on her blog http://stokesbirdingblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/here-they-come-buntings-tanagers.html

steve03 Loc: long Lsland

I always carry 2 cameras on a special shoot + a little p&s I carry with me every where. I also bring the lenses i think I will need.

David Kay Loc: Arlington Heights IL

jerryc41 wrote:

Sometimes I like to bring two cameras when I go out shooting. I have one with a tele and the other with a wide angle. I use an OP/Tech double strap arrangement to carry one on each shoulder.

I'm wondering how many of you carry two cameras when you're out shooting or when you go on vacation. On the one hand, you don't have to stop and change lenses, but on the other, you have to carry two cameras.

I always have two cameras when I go out shooting. I should say, at least two. The digital cameras are electronic and the question is not if it falls.... It is WHEN it fails. It will fail at some point. So a second body is always at hand. Then I usually also have with me, my film camera. In that case there are two bodies also. Yes even when I go out with the medium format camera, the case for them has two bodies. Actually a seperate case for lens'. Because I was not smart enough to own two of the same body. I have a Hassie and a Mamiya. What was I thinking? Oh.... Yes, I have had to put the second digital body to work when I had a minor problem with the first body.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

mborn wrote:

Lillian Stokes, the photographer and birder has been touting that camera on her blog http://stokesbirdingblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/here-they-come-buntings-tanagers.html

"...taken with my Canon SX 50 HS at 200x (4800mm equivalent), 400% digital zoom, handheld, AV, 1/500, f6.5, ISO 400. Note, this is way beyond the usual 50x optical range of the camera, into the far end of the digital range."

I don't understand this at all. I thought the camera had a 50x, 1200mm zoom. So it has 50x optical plus digital zoom capability? And handheld at 4800mm? Was she alive at the time?

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

jerryc41 wrote:

Sometimes I like to bring two cameras when I go out shooting. I have one with a tele and the other with a wide angle. I use an OP/Tech double strap arrangement to carry one on each shoulder.

I'm wondering how many of you carry two cameras when you're out shooting or when you go on vacation. On the one hand, you don't have to stop and change lenses, but on the other, you have to carry two cameras.

I strap both dslr cameras around my neck when I shoot events. One for video one for stills. Very handy not to have to keep switching the one camera from video to stills and back again.

Bill MN Loc: Western MN

mborn wrote:

Lillian Stokes, the photographer and birder has been touting that camera on her blog http://stokesbirdingblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/here-they-come-buntings-tanagers.html

I've never seen a good picture yet taken with a bridge camera. Maybe I have better eyes than most.