In street photography you don’t need a large group of equipments. You need only a camera and optionally you can use filters etc. The classic camera for street photography is the Leica 35mm Rangefinder. A good camera for street photography should be quiet, reliable, quick to operate and light. Leica Rangefinder cameras have all the specialties that needed for street photography but they are expensive. I’m a SLR user and i think that having a SLR is better if you are interested in more than one category of the photography. What i’m trying to say is you can take great street pictures with your SLR too, you don’t need to have a Leica Rangefinder camera for creating impressive results.

Compact cameras are light and quiet compared to SLR’s but they lack a lot of technical abilities, such as speed, lens quality etc. SLR cameras are lauder compared to Rangefinder and compact cameras, so what? Unless you are taking pictures in a library it wont be a problem, plus street itself is a crowded and laud place.

In sum, it is up to the photographer, i’ve seen people who took amazing shots even with the simplest compact digital camera. Equipment doesn’t matter for many categories of photography. Th most important thing is creativity and imagination….