Too many to choose from...

One of my (many) problems is that I have too many cameras... And I never thought I would say that out loud!

Recently I purchased a medium format camera (645 format), lens, film back etc, etc... I then saw a package on ebay with two cameras (the same as the first) and a different lens and basically more stuff...

The plan was to buy the lot, create a single good setup and sell off the rest... And here I am months later wondering what went wrong.

So I went in to Melbourne today to speak to a store about trading some (or all) of the gear in on a Hasselblad system. I wasn't sure that the gear I had would add up to a Hasselblad in dollar value so it was with great excitement that I found it came close... Layby is a wonderful thing, the man in the shop now has (some) of my gear in exchange for the deposit on the next camera...

What this means in relation to "too many" cameras is that I will now have three camera systems, a digital slr (with which most of the photos on this blog are taken, a 35mm film rangefinder and the "Porsche of the camera world" the Hasselblad 6x6 medium format camera... Oh, and the point and shoot digital, the camera phone digital and a 35mm pinhole camera (that I haven't been game to use)...

So now that I am flush with choices I have a problem, which camera should I take? What do clients want (when I finally get some)? Each has its own advantages and disadvantages so I'm on a mission to find out what works, what doesn't work and as much as I can in between. In the meantime I'm off to the gym, I need to build up to carry it all around...