Hey Everyone! Hope you're having a great week! Me ? Pretty good . Thanks for asking! LOL Today I want to look into the question in the title of this blog. Am I a closet Canon Shooter? Over the years I have shot many cameras and my main cameras have been my trusty Pentax MX during the film days I also had a Pentax K1000 as my first camera that I bought. So during the film era I was a Pentax shooter. Then during the early stages of my digital era I shot Nikon.  Started with a fancy point and shoot and then onto a Nikon D90 and on to a Nikon D800 full frame with the holy trinity of lenses to go with it . So I was defiantly a Nikon Shooter. When I turned 50 I went mirrorless and got a Sony A6000 crop sensor camera for hiking and camping and slowly over the years converted slowly to Sony shooting an Sony A6300, Sony A6500 all crop sensors then I decided to change back to full frame and got a Sony A7III and a A7C which I still use as my main cameras. I have a very good collection of lenses to go with the two full frame bodies. As I stated before I have always shot film off and on since the mid 70's and started developing my own negatives in the 80's. A few years ago I bought some vintage cameras and started shooting with them. I wanted a rangefinder type of camera. Couldn't afford a Leica. So I bought a 1962 Bell & Howell/ Canon Canonet 19. (If you purchased them outside of the US they were just Canon Canonet but in the US at the time they had to be attached to an American company Bell & Howell) . Anyway I got this one off of eBay and it was fun to shoot.  I also got a point and shoot digital Canon Camera a G7X MII to carry with me while I commuted back and forth to work. A small camera that could be my EDC (every day Carry) camera. Later I traded a guy in my camera club for a Canon EOS M camera that had been converted to Infra Red and use that for special IR stuff. Wow so that's 3 Canon Cameras. Then I found a nice Canon Canonet QL17 GIII on eBay and couldn't resist. This one is a 1972 model. That makes 4 Canons. So then a few weeks ago I got gifted a Canon AE-1 Program camera. This one was introduced in 1981. That makes 5 Canon's. The older Canon film cameras are one from the 60's one from the 70's and one from the 80's. None of this was planned . I was never a big Canon guy. I don't have anything against them but was never a fan either but there you have it I now have 5 Canon camera's. Now I don't use the 1962 model very much anymore it has a 45mm F/1.9 lens that is very sharp but kind of tight for the way I shoot. So it doesn't get put in the bag and  doesn't get much use. The IR camera has a 590nm conversion and I take it out every now and then . I'll be taking it with me on a workshop this weekend but it stays stored away mostly.  Now my Canon Canonet QL17 is a great small rangefinder and has a 40mm F/1.7 on it . Another sharp lens but the length for doing street sometimes seems long for the way I shoot.  I do use it as my everyday carry film camera. But I also have an Olympus Super trip that my mother had that I carry when the size of the camera is more important than sharpness. It's a little fixed 35mm F/4 lens with Zone Focusing. Just a step above a box disposable camera. But is it's fun for casual snapshots and has a built in flash for indoor stuff. My newest Canon the AE-1 Program is going to replace my trusty Pentax MX as my main 35mm camera for street and Travel/Photowalk Projects.  So even though I always tell people that I'm a Sony shooter when they ask I guess I'm really a Closet Canon Shooter. For specialty stuff. Film , Infrared, and EDC point and shoot I shoot Canon and for everything else I shoot Sony.  Unless I'm shooting Medium Format Film then it's the Bronica. LOL This is truly a 1st world thing. I have lots of cameras and love them all. I am after all a man and a gear head with GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome)  I can't get enough of these small photographic machines . And of course all of the gismo's that go with them. So the answer is yes I'm a Canon shooter but I'm also a Pentax, Bronica, Sony, Olympus and iPhone shooter as well. LOL So until next time . Get out and Shoot!

PS: An update since I've written this blog. Now it's 6 Canons! I just purchased a Canon Demi EE17 a 1966 half frame camera. More info in a future blog. Good Grief Charlie Brown! LOL