I was an old 35mm guy holding on to my Olympus OM2N kit and color darkroom as long as possible. I finally relented and went digital. Started with a Ricoh RDC-2 in the late '90s. In 2003 went with a Minolta Dimage S414. Then in quick succession I went Panasonic with the DMC-FX01 in 2007 and DMC-LX3 in 2008.

Those two are still in use today providing satisfactory service for this old man along with the ever present cellphone camera. I continue to resist DSLRs and mirrorless units. Despite their superior capabilities they still are larger than I want to pack along. I'm fine with the diminutive sizes of what I have.

My first was a Minolta S414 also. Seldom gets used, but it still works.
I stayed with film for a long time, Minolta XE-7 as it wore Leica lenses and attached to my telescopes. Knock around digital cameras were a series of Lumix; last one bought and still used is a DMC-ZS50 that fits in the wife's purse and a Samsung NX-100 with a 18-200 Movie Lens and a 18-55. It also mates to the telescopes and allow me to view on my desk monitor/ lap top.

Nikon guy here...good lenses, good pedigree. Lots of the old 90's era autofocus lenses can still be used with my D7100 and they have tremendous glass. You can find them used on eBay shipped from Japan. Quality product. But I think Canon is just as good and I know there are a lot of people that love them.

My daughter has my old D40 that I go back maybe 15 yrs - first foray into DSLR photography. She uses it all the time.

I bought my wife a used D3200 thats a great entry level camera.

I have a D7100 but its heavy. Takes great pics though.

When we travel we usually take her camera and the 18-200 mm lens. The 7100 is bulkier (its has a lens focus motor, the D3200 doesn't).

You can learn a lot about camera gear here:

https://www.kenrockwell.com

Canon S120. Great balance between features, quality, and compactness. Size matters a lot, as I don't feel like lugging an SLR around anywhere these days. I also find creativity and composition matters more to me than capabilities and technical statistics. The S120 travels pretty much everywhere with me. I don't own a smart phone!

Olympus C-8080.

It still works.

I have a Canon M50 and Canon Eos R. I do more landscape and birding than anything. For as much crap as the Eos R took 18 months ago when it came out, it is a great camera, and works very well with my lenses. I had a 7d, and traded it for the M50 and an EF to M adaptor in the summer of 2018. I wanted a smaller body, with more autofocus points, and updated options.

I already had canon glass, and have supplemented it with newer glass.

The Eos R is another step up altogether, and the M50 mirrorless system made the R the logical step. When they were on sale between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I picked one up with an adaptor for less than $1300, shipped. Think the 7d was more than that when I bought it in 2014.

If you are happy with the Micro Four-Thirds, I will give you a deal on an upgrade and some lenses...

Panasonic Gx9 20mp camera if interested send me an email


As for me, Canon EOS R and M6 Mark II. New R5 on order...

I'm still rocking my Olympus EPL-2. I haven't been able to upgrade her but she does great for stills. I rely on my cellphone to take pictures of my kids.

Canon 5D4 here, same reasons as Jimbo Jones. I've had some flavor of 5D for the past 10-15 years, and I know the controls. Plus, I have a ton of good glass.

I was a Nikon film guy for a long long time. My last film camera was an F4s and I still kind of regret selling it. Although I do have a really old F2AS sitting in a camera bag somewhere. I went to a D70 in about 2002 and then traded that for a D200 a few years later. I still have the D200. It hasn't seen a lot of use lately, the cell camera is just too damned convenient. But as I get closer to retirement I want to get back into "real" photography, and in that context I'm considering upgrading again, to a D750 or 780.

I have a Sony HX90V 18.2 mp camera that fits in a pocket. It also has an optical 30x zoom and a pop-up view finder and it takes shots that rival my Nikon D5300. I think I paid around $450 for it and it's worth every penny.

Jim

I'm a Canon guy, have the 5D, 5D II and a 5D IV. I've stayed with Canon because I have a lot of glass, some bought as far back as 2007. I, also, have a 40D that I use at certain times.

I sound like Intrepid Traveler!

My first foray into the digital world was a Kodak DX7630 PAS. I bought it in 2004 to use on a tour of New Zealand. I did take my film cameras with me "just in case" but didn't use them. Although I got good photos with the Kodak, the delay between pressing the shutter and capturing the image drove me to distraction, and it didn't work well in low light, so in 2005 I bought a Nikon D50 and the new 18-200mm VR zoom lens. I used the D50 until 2013, when I bought a D7000 to get better low-light capability. Still using the original 18-200VR lens. In 2016 my D7000 failed (salt air exposure) and I bought a D7100 as a replacement. The original 18-200VR was also gritty, so I replaced it with the VR2 version at that time. I've been using the D7100 with the VR2 lens since then. Ever since getting my first DSLR, virtually all my photos have been taken using an 18-200VR/VR2 lens; however, for my 2019 tour of Africa (Kenya) I rented another D7100 and put the Nikon 200-500VR lens on it. I used both cameras on that tour (2 cameras to avoid lens changes in the dust).

I have no plans to change my current camera/lens choice until failures require it.

flashguy

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Nikon D70

It was free, hand-me-down from my mother-in-law when she upgraded.

Nikon V1 with 3 or 4 lens - it was given to me as a supplier to Nikon.

Canon SX620HS. The old man had something similar and liked it, it's fairly portable and packable, and the camera on my cheapo flip phone is only so good.

Three decades shooting Nikon, film cameras (FM2, F3, F4) all the way to digital from D1 through the D5 (including the first digital to use Nikon lenses, the Kodak DCS unit that the AP and newspapers went with back around 1996 or so).

Today, I am a Sony guy, having switched in early 2019 to the A7 series of cameras. Video now rules the roost, and is where the money is to be made. The Sony A-7 series are the best all-around cameras I have ever owned. The glass made for it (Zeiss in particular) is exceptional.

My Nikon glass gathers dust, including the 300/2.8.

I do have a Canon C100 cinema camera with 24-105 EF lens that I use as a B or C camera from time to time. It is video only, however.

So, my answer is Sony.

Sony RX10 Mk IV. Much like my Olympus IS-3 DLX film camera. Both offer all-in-one portability, excellent image quality, and ease of use.

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I shoot a Nikon D7200 with a Nikon 18-200mm zoom. Incredible.

Sony Alpha 6000 with 35mm lens. I keep it simple.