Cameras you've used/owned...in order.

[Jeff Zueger]

Thought this could be interesting. What cameras have you mainly used (while employed) or owned as a professional. This is for recreational use only, no arguments please:).
These are approximate dates only...Here is my list:

Ike 740 1987
IKE HL79 1988
Sony 300 1989
Sont M7 1990
Ike 340 L&S Teleproductions 1995
Arri 2c (Owned) 1997
Sony UVW 200 Owned 2000
Sony D35 Owned 2002
Arri BL4S Owned 2004
Panasonic DVX100 Owned 2006
Panasonic HVX200 Owned 2008??
Red One Owned 2009
Sony EX3 Owned 2009
Canon 5D2 Owned 2009

[Jeff Zueger]

Would love to see Jim's list;) May not be enough bandwidth.

[D Fuller]

I'm not really as old as this suggests, but the PBS station I first worked at had cameras made in 1953 when I started working there. They had been donated by WNET in NY. There were 6 of them (I think), The engineers scavenged parts to keep three of them running most of the time, but I remember a live show on which two of the cameras died in the middle of the show, leaving only the camera I was running on the air for about 10 minutes.

RCA TK-11 1971
Marconi MK VI 1973
RCA TKP-45 1975 <--heaviest hand-held camera ever!
Bolex 16mm (Owned) 1976
Sony DXC 1200 1977
Sony DXC 1610 1977
RCA TK-76C 1980
Ikegami 730 1986
Arri 3 35mm 1986
Beaulieu R-16 (Owned) 1986
Arri BL3 1987
Ikegami HL79 1988
Bolex Rex (Owned) 1988
Arri SR (Owned) 1988
Sony BVW300a (Owned) 1993
Arri SR II Own 1994
Sony Digital 8 (Owned) 2000
Panasonic DVX100 (Owned) 2004
Panasonic HVX200 (Owned) 2006
Panasonic HPX170 Own 2008
Red One Own 2009
Epic (yet to come)

[Craig W. Bickerstaff]

I have never owned a professional camera, my current camera is a panasonic SD Mini DV 3 chip thing which I don't really shoot anything on anymore, before that it was a Sony single chip mini DV.
Camera's I've used are all Sony apparently, I shot 48 seconds on the 7D but I didn't operate the camera at any time on that shoot so I can't say I've used one before.

VX2000E
PD150
PD170
HV1P
EX1

[Phil Bates]

Bolex H-16 REX-3 16mm*
Arri 2C 35mm
Arri BL III 35mm
Mitchel-Fries 35mm
Arri 435 35mm
Arri 535 35mm
Photosonics 35mm 4E
F900
F900/3
F950
Phantom HD
F900R*
EX-1*
RED One/MX*

*owned

Thanks for the opportunity to travel down memory lane. :)

Phil

[David W. Jones]

I was only a young tot at the time, but my first camera was a Quaker oatmeal box pinhole camera.

[Ramesh Jai]

Sony BetacamSP 100, Sony PD150, Sony DSR500, Sony Z1, Panasonic 100B, Sony NX1, RED One

[Justin Kirchhoff]

CineKodak 8mm*
Panasonic VHS*
Panasonic VHS-C (don't recall model numbers)*
Panasonic DVX-100A*
Panasonic Varicam
Sony FX1
Panasonic HVX200
Canon T2i
Canon 7D
Canon 5D MK2
RED One*
RED EPIC (Coming soon)*

*Owned

I've always been a big fan of Panasonic cameras. They're well made and good for most productions. The Varicam was the best Sub-Full HD camera I've ever shot on. The images it makes, even at 720p, are pretty astounding.

When the HVX was just breaking through on the sales floor is the same time I was following Jarred's adventure to Oakley to see the first images of the R1 being constructed. After hearing about his travels and what Jim was doing, I passed on the HVX altogether and put my deposit down on the R1 instead. I haven't looked back since. Kind of funny thinking that I would have gladly spent $2000 on the Andromeda DVX mod.

[Curran Giddens]

My first camera ever was a Red One. The only other cameras I would like to try is a Phantom for super high frame rates and a Meduza for 3D.

Red One #561
Epic-M #508

[George Butterfield]

Would love to see Jim's list;) May not be enough bandwidth.

It would be interesting to learn of Jim's first camera chosen by himself as an "adult", and learn how many of us started with "better" equipment than Jim. My first that I chose myself after doing research was the Canon A1 a truly revolutionary camera which won my loyalty to Canon lenses and technology. The Olympus OM1 soon followed as a real "pro" camera.