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So, what do you take with you on your daily journey (home-&gt;school/work/shopping/etc...)? Also, if you&#039;re just running out and grab a single camrea &amp; lens, what are they?<br /><br />My daily kit at the moment is an R2a with 28/1.9 Ultron mounted. In my messenger bag I have a 75 Heliar and either a 15 or 21mm.<br /><br />If I&#039;m just carrying one lens, it&#039;s usually the 35/1.7 Ultron (even though I like the 28 Ultron better ).

Mainly just try to keep the R3A close to me--99% of the time with the Nokton 40/1.4 SC...still kind of getting used to that range after becoming addicted to a digital-zoom-autofocus. I usually keep the 75/2.5 in my bag--a crumpler 4Million dollar home--with a couple of rolls mostly Ilford XP2 and Kodak UC 400 these days. <br /><br />I find I leave too much room at the top of my shots sometimes because I&#039;m not used to the focusing patch, so I frame the shot using the focus patch then kinda forget to reframe the picture with the final image in mind. Any suggestions? At least I&#039;m getting over the forgetting-to-focus-thing after using auto-focus for so long......

I tend to choose a body and two lenses almost every day. Recently, I&#039;ve been taking my Zorki 1c with the 50/3,5 Industar-22 and 35/2,8 Jupiter-12 mostly but I think that may change when the novelty wears off a bit. Before I got my Zorki, I was alternating my MP with the 35/1,7 Ultron and 75/2,5 Heliar combo and my Bessa-T with the 21/4 Skopar and 50/1,5 Jupiter 3 combo.

These days it&#039;s ususally the CV50f2.5 - love the compact size of this lens (and sometimes the CV35f2.5) on my Hexar RF.

I know it is sacrilege, but when I go out and do not intend to take photographs, I take a Kodak C530 5MP non-zoom consumer digicam with me.&nbsp; Very small, real internal optical viewfinder, decent photos, and it was something like $70 new.&nbsp; One CR-V3 battery (or two AA) and a SD card, and the thing is good to go for weeks at a time sitting in a jacket pocket.&nbsp; Heat does not bother it, unlike my previous &#039;go anywhere&#039; camera, an Olympus XA2.<br /><br />Now, if I&#039;m out to take photos, it is usually the Cosina-Voigtlander Bessaflex TM or lately, the Vivitar XV-3 (Cosina-made).&nbsp; In fact, I&#039;m running two rolls of Tri-X through the Diafine this afternoon that I took with the Vivitar on Tax Day at the local post office.

Leica D2.................the BessaR4A 2 ..... then sometimes the Ricoh GRD...................pentax100 21mm lens.................the XA............... my daily journeys vary