Two lens - two camera solution

[Pontus]

I'm sure I'm not the first one to think in these lines, but the idea is new to me so here we go: A small and light two camera, two lens combination that would fit into a small bag and do almost everything I need.

I was thinking that if I had an APS-C Sony NEX and a full frame Leica M camera and a 21mm and a 75mm lens, I would have a great setup.

By combining differently, I would have (in equivalent focal lenghts):

21mm, 32mm, 75mm and 112mm

The Leica 75/2 APO Summicron (if chosen) could even be used as quasi macro since it focuses close, and with a helicoid adapter on the NEX, even closer.

Would this work for you? What camera and lens combinations would you choose and why?

[Lloydy]

With my NEX and the right adapters I generally choose a film camera / adapter that matches so I take all Minolta, all M42 or whatever lenses. It's easier on by back than carrying the Tair 300 and a Soligor 300

[xjjohnno]

I often use 2 camera and lens set ups for photography outings.
Seeing as the cameras I own are APS-C cameras being the K5 and K20 I don't really optimise the lenses to get the best out of different sensor sizes though. Common set ups for me are a wide and macro lens for the local botanical gardens as well as macro and long as in 500mm+ lens for going bush.
At some point I'd love to have a FF sensor for wides with the APS-C or smaller sensor for the longer lenses.

[rbelyell]

i usually go out with some combo of two of the following: ricoh gxr m mount for portraits/street + fuji x100 35mm equivalent for landscape/pano/low light/travel + nikon v1 for telephoto (2.7 crop) + film cam.
tony

[iangreenhalgh1]

Funnily enough, only this morning I decided on a small bag:

Cameras:

Kiev-II
Nex-3 (with Kiev adapter)

Lenses:

CZJ Sonnar 1.5/50
Jupiter-12 2.8/35
Jupiter-8 2/50
Helios-103 1.8/53
Jupiter-9 2/85
Jupiter-11 4/135

That covers everything I need apart from wides, for that I have to use my Hexanons and for that I carry a bigger bag including a Konica SLR body and a selection of Hexanon plus my NEX-3 with Konica adapter

[LucisPictor]

[Pontus]

After seeing what the Olympus OM-D is capable of I'm starting to think that I need (cough) one of these in addition to my Sony NEX-5N. The nex would handle shorter focal lenghts and the OM-D would do tele and macro.

I'm guessing that the Contax 100-300 200-300mm equivalent) would work very well with the image stabilization of the Olympus. And my Voigtländer 125/2.5 would make a very interesting stabilized 250mm equivalent 1:1 macro.

Having one APS-C and one 4/3 camera would really open up a lot of new possibilities.