Street photography has unique requirements, and Chris Niccolls has strong opinions about what most compelling options are. He’ll walks you through his picks for the best street photography cameras at three different budgets.
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0:00 – Intro
0:49 – Under $1000
4:10 – Under $3000
6:56 – Money’s no object
10:30 – The wrap
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“Tons of lenses”??? For the gfx?? Compared to like no one ! Where is the OMD ? Best street c@mera? Olympus EM1 MkIII with a LUMIX 14mm f2.5
Just got here from watching your Pentax Q Video from what must be 12 years ago now
I have a Ricoh GR digital from 2005. 28mm equivalent lens that gives beautiful filmic images especially with black and white. I paid $160 for mine from Japan. I would buy another tomorrow if I lost it. Or
the Ricoh GR digital 11 if I couldn't find the 8.1 Megapixel Ricoh.
For film I would use my Zorki 4k with the 50mm f2 Jupiter 8.
I can buy another for $70.
Coupled with Kodak Tri X film and Xtol developer you've got it made.
It's got to be a phone camera
I love the Richo but the battery life is pants! X100v has no stabilisation and battery not great, sony a7 cameras are too bulky/ ugly but great battery and high quality mp, is the fuji xe4 as good as the x100v sensor?. How about leica q2 reporter? Or the mew Fujifilm xt5 with 27mm prime lens?
My opinion is street camera should be compact, quick and ready to shoot. Quick focus, lightweight and have good battery life.
Ricoh GR III / IIIx is better than your canon and also better than your sony for street
Q2 for me
No Fuji X-Pro?? not even a mention??
Also consider 1" pocket cam if you want more discreet
How about Lumix GX8, GX9?
Best means ONE best camera. The most are 3 cameras. One for each budget range. Not the entire shopping list of them!!! What a misleading title.
GX80/GX85 just can’t be beat for $200 used. A bargain. Add a leica 15mm f1.7 and nothing can beat this combo for the money.
Sony a7r5
I see Chris, I click
Laughing..At the first glimpse of you I thought I was looking at the TV show " Tool Time " side kick..
Over-expensive cameras, and lenses are a distraction, particularly if you're worrying about damaging it, or having it ripped from your neck on the streets. If you have to put black tape over the namebrand, your camera is probably too expensive to be on the mean streets. I use a canon m50 for my edc with an 18mm pancake UFO lens (28mm). Small, light, takes quirky shots with a unique lens signature, and is dirt cheap. It looks like a toy camera, which I find helps me to blend in to the background. I can swap-out the lens if I need, Canon 22mm pancake, (35 equiv), or even slap on a nifty-fifty with an adapter, giving me 85mm F2 which is what I tend to shoot at night. I also like to use the full frame Canon 6d classic with a 24mm prime. I mostly shoot manual, and will use vintage lenses also, which I find are much better for zone focussing. I've never even touched a Leica, and thinking about spending that hideous amount of money for a street camera would definitely put me off from buying one. Each to their own… 🤔
You guys were The Camera Store. But you abandoned your country and let the Soros stooges to run it to the ground.
Ricoh is the king (Ricoh Gr II )
Using Fuji XS10 from last 1 year now! Really happy with the decision!
Glad that even after a year…it is among one of the best given the price range! 😊
awesome video thanks!
The Lumix GX9 with the Leica 15 f1.7 ???
cry in Panasonic hic hic
I don't get the Fuji appeal, Horrible colors and mediocre lenses.
I always enjoy your videos. That is all.
My favorites over the years for street…
Small m43 rangefinder style…
Currently a pair of lumix gx9 bodies.
The eosM6 is a contender
Sony a7s or a7s2 full frame
Canon eosRP is great and cheap as well
Though I much prefer flip down screens.
For fuji I love the x-70 to bad its no longer in production. Cheers
Three Budgets: $225 / $450 / $900 please!
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Why the campera expert can't shoot his own video with reasonable human skin colors? You need to use DCC40 to do manual white balance lock before you take photo or video.
The only cameras that should be on the list are the Fuji X100V, Ricoh GRiii, Leica Q2, and any other Leica film or M series camera.
Greetings Chris,
Question:
Leica Q2 vs Summilux 28 1.4?
I’m giving serious thought to the Q2 for my pending trip to Vietnam. But I’m also wondering about the 28 Lux on my M11. I’m aware that the Q2 is cheaper with AF, macro capability, and slightly smaller.
But the Q2 lacks the versatility of the M. Less megapixel for cropping. Subject isolation for the background is better with 28 Lux 1.4. And resale value has to be higher for the M lens than the Q camera.
Please share your thoughts.
Continued happiness and success to you and yours.
Be Blessed,
“Doc Chaps”
The whole point of a street photography camera is to be relatively discreet and inconspicuous to capture candid moments without tipping off the subject. Practically speaking that probably means a cell phone camera but if we are talking real cameras then it just has to be rangefinder or rangefinder-styled. And to really be workable in a reportage situation ruggedness and protection from the elements is a non-negotiable attribute. That leaves very few but very good options starting with the Fuji X-Pro 2 & 3, the X100V, the Leica Q2 models, and the various incarnations of the Leica M10 and M11.
You don’t pick a camera just for street photography but for the entirety of photography as an art. Hence, any camera would do and it’s just a matter how you do street photography.
Your last comment hit home with me. I have every camera type under the sun, from medium format down, but my favourite of all of them is my Leica Q2 Monochrom for street and much more. I have already been thinking of selling off my two GFX bodies (50s & 100s) and suite of GF lenses and buying a colour Q2 to go with the mono. Why not just use a colour Q2 and derive black and whites from it? Not the same. The Q2M is special.
Great choice but not really street cameras more rather just Favourite cameras. Some beautiful cameras though
interesting video, you should a film camera version not everyone shoots digital
Under $1000 – how about the Fuju X-70? Small, fixed 28mm equiv lens.
A very good guide 🙂
And what about film? I have two F3s and an FE2 and three f/1.4 lenses – 35, 50 and 85 – and you can pick up kit like this much more cheaply than digital but have just as much fun. I only ever use film in the street. Manual focus lenses of course, but to me that's a much better street solution than AF anyway. And shooting with film can improve your skills, not least because you learn to 'chimp' in the viewfinder before you shoot, so shoot less and get a higher keeper rate (and develop a skill you can transfer to digital shooting to reduce all that pesky, time-consuming sifting through hundreds of images).
Used to not be Sony fanboys…