Do you take a camera everywhere?

[Bstanley]

So, this weekend my wife and I are about to go for a walk and I pick up the camera (with the 50mm I'm trying to 'learn') and she rolls her eyes and says "you don't always have to bring the camera"...

So I'm new at this game - just bought the thing 5 months ago - and I don't know the 'protocol'. It always seems like there's a great picture when I DON'T have the camera with me.

Do you always 'bring the camera'?

 

[Iwant2BAprincess]

Yes and No. I don't always take it with me because I have always had SLR's. We are actually planning on adding a p&s just to always have one on hand. I deem everything a photo op but hate to look like papparazzi everywhere I go.

 

[spinetnglr]

I pretty much grab my camera and bag and take it with me whenever I leave the house. Even if I am only driving a few miles to make a business delivery or go to the grocery store ... the camera goes along. Its gotten to be a habit with me and now I feel like I am forgetting something if I leave without it. I even keep my tripod in the back of the car most of the time.

 

[Amy]

I use a Canon SX10 IS, not quite as large as an SLR, but not pocket-sized either. But like you, I'd always find the perfect photo op when I didn't have it with me.

Back in Nov. I was shopping for a new cellphone (AT&T) and found the Sony Ericcson C905 - a cellphone with an 8mp camera. The only zoom is digital (boo!!!), but it has actual camera features - a lens cover, flash that you can turn on/off/red-eye, diff. settings (normal, portrait, sports, twilight, etc.), diff. ISO, things like that. I don't think you can adjust shutter and aperture, though. (Maybe you can and I just haven't discovered it yet.) Uses a tiny memory card (smaller than an SD card, I can't remember right now), so you can take lots of photos. I've used it occasionally, and the photos are really good - outdoors, indoors, from inside the car. I even tried it at one of my DS's band concerts (dark auditorium, lit stage), and the photo turned out great! It's thicker than a cellphone, but not quite as large as a point & shoot. But since I always have my cellphone with me, it's working out ok. Nice to have the "comfort" of knowing I have a decent camera with me if I need it.

Don't know if it'll be what you're looking for, but something to think about......

 

[plyeng2ff]

Yes. My camera is on me probably 95 percent of the time. The other 5 percent is because I probably forgot to grab it. I am only using a point and shoot that fit in my pocket, but I just bought a new point and shoot that not on the small size so I hope I grab it as much. My wife yell at me all the time about have the camera on me and I just tell I don't want miss any good photo ops.

 

[jupster75]

Oh, the eye roll. I know that look well. I saw it alot last month.

 

[MICKEY88]

my 2 tripods, monopod, reflectors and 2 pop up changing rooms are always in the trunk of my car, my camera bag always leaves the house with me, occassionally it stays in the car, but not often,

I've been known to end a date with a mini photo shoot LOL

since the big camera can be a little intimidationg to a date, and sometimes out of place,at some venues I just ordered a point and shoot last night, basic little camera that will fit in my pocket, so I will ALWAYS have a camera with me..

 

[NateNLogansDad]

It's so nice to have a place to go to where you don't feel weird. I usually take the camera out wherever we go. I have left it home lately when I go into work just because of the cold and I'm outside a good amount. If the wifey rolls her eyes too much when we go somewhere, I'll leave it at home or throw it in the car and grab it if the need arises and just use her pocket camera. I don't tell her about the mini tripod in my jacket pocket till it's too late

 

[Suburbanmom]

I bought a camera bag that looks like a giant purse so I could keep my camera with me all the time.

 

[TheGoofster]

Surprisingly, my wife is actually pretty much on the same page as I am on this subject. Often times, if I forget (or just decide not) to bring my camera, she'll ask me, "Aren't you going to bring the camera?". Or if she goes out alone, she might say to me after, "I wish you would have been there with your camera, because I saw something that would have made a great picture".
I don't know how long this "honeymoon attitude" is going to last, but I'm thankful for it as long as it does.

So far there has only been one time that my taking pictures got on my families nerves. We went to a local park (and of course I took my photo-taking friend with me). I started taking a lot of pictures of the various flowers, trees, people playing, etc... and I heard my son ask my wife "How many shots is Dad going to take, we're getting tired".

So to answer your question, I try to take my camera with me as much as possible. I do have a nice little P&S for those occasions that a DSLR seems out of place.

 

[ssanders79]

After a while your wife will just get used to you having your camera. You just have to put in the time.

 

[photo_chick]

When I was in school I did. Then that slowed and stopped.

There came a point when I realized I was so focused on taking the perfect shot (that I'm now convinced does not exist) of every moment that I was missing the bigger picture of what was happening around me.

Now I take it with me when I know I'll want to take pictures
(dance, school, Cubs, family functions) but it's not with me all the time anymore. I still take more than 10,000 imagaes a year, but I'm not whipping the camera out when we're out to dinner or at the mall or things like that.

 

[zackiedawg]

Yes...literally everywhere. I will never be without a camera outside my house (and often inside my house too!). Driving to the store. Walking to get lunch. At work. Commuting home. There is always a camera with me.

Of course, it's not always my DSLR. That comes with me often, but only when I'm planning photography at some point. For those other times, when I'm not actually intending to take photos, I bring my ultra-compact P&S along. That way, if I happen to see something that catches my eye and I want to photograph it, I can, even if I wasn't planning to take any photos. The ultracompact lets me be spontaneous and never miss an opportunity.

 

[Golf4food]

I don't carry the dSLR around everywhere, though I might throw the old one in the car now that it has been replaced. I do have a P&S that we normally have and now iPhones that take decent pictures and video in a pinch.

 

[voxy]

sometimes yes and sometimes no it depends in the place like if it is in the safe place where you can use electronic gadgets not like in water we cant bring them if they are not water proof, that;s why it depends upon the situation

 

[GrillMouster]

Yes, I always have a camera on me. No, it's not always a DSLR. In a pinch I always have my Droid smarphone on me with its 5MP camera.

 

[vandort]

I always have a camera with me. I keep a p&s in my purse and I usually put one of my camera backpacks in the car when I leave to go places other than work. If I don't have a camera on me, I always end up regretting it.

 

[Betner]

i used to almost always have my nikon coolpixL10 with me most of the time, until a few weeks ago, the LCD screen broke down, and now just shows white lines across it,but it still takes pictures, so now i don't have my own camera to use, but i take the nikon DSLR me and my dad use to a few places. I always say i wish i had my camera if i forget it and see something great for a photo. we live in a family where all of us take pictures.

 

[juligrl]

I usually have a camera in my purse. It's funny, since I've upgraded to my DSLR my S3 doesn't feel as big and it sometimes ends up being the camera that ends up in my purse.

 

[DebºoºS]

I keep a Coolpix in the car and a Coolpix in my purse. I'll bring my DSLR if I think they'll be interesting ops. My husband is used to my carrying a camera. He'll never get used to my lagging behind to get the shot