Bring 'em Back...Nominate a Classic...

Dave Wooten

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What old camera models and styles would you like to see rebuilt and made available today. I personally like some designs of the past century , with the extender platform and the bellows the same size at both ends, the folding is simple and functional and the construction seems to be not as "intense" as some of the more popular designs. I recently saw an old Century that had been restored and it was really beautiful and functional....
 

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Rollei SL66.
 

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I'd go for a medium format folder with coupled rangefinder, made with modern composites for lighter weight. And the Graflex.
 

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Rolleidoscop (with modern coatings & 220 capability)
Thornton Pickard Puck
Agfa Super Isolette
Kodak Medalist (chambered for both 120 & 220)
Olympus XA
 

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Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta, folding MF camera with coupled rangefinder.

"Tailboard" type folding self-casing LF cameras - like the old German "Reisekameras", but in modern materials making it even lighter (the best originals are ultralight, very stable, and go from superwide to very long without changnig bellows).
 

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Veriwide with the updated Super Angalon MC lens or interchanable lenses SA MC 47mm f4,5 and the Grandagon N 38mm would be my choices since we're dreaming here.
 

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The Olympus OM-1n MD.
To my mind it was the perfect evolution of the manual 35mm SLR. Small, light, with all the important controls (aperture, speed, focus) in the same place at the lens, plus mirror lockup.
 

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Andy K said:
The Olympus OM-1n MD.
To my mind it was the perfect evolution of the manual 35mm SLR. Small, light, with all the important controls (aperture, speed, focus) in the same place at the lens, plus mirror lockup.
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Beat me to it...

I'd also like to see a company like Cosina-Voigtlander introduce a series of fast primes for the OM mount. I don't have any hands on experience with their RF lenses, but I hear good things about them. I bet they could do a good job with SLR lenses.

Chris
 

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jd callow said:
Veriwide with the updated Super Angalon MC lens or interchanable lenses SA MC 47mm f4,5 and the Grandagon N 38mm would be my choices since we're dreaming here.
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Isn't that spelled Fotoman?
 

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Good Morning,

I'd also be glad to see new OM-1 models.

My first choice would be, as others have already suggested, a 6 x 7 folder with Makina-like quality; my second choice would be new Koni-Omega backs with the weaknesses addressed.

Konical
 

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jd callow said:
Sadly not.
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I realize that the 612 is wider than the Veriwide 100, but otherwise why not? I also note that with lens it is far out of range for people like me, but then so is a Veriwide in good order.

Have you looked into the ProPaq line of modified Graflex XLs as sold by SKGrimes? Again, not quite Veriwides but in the spirit. I've suggested to Adam that he should be able to beat Alpa handily on price but he hasn't taken the hint.

And, come to think of it, I see that Capaul & Weber are now offering a modified Linhof Super-Rollex back that gives 56 x 84. They want silly money for it, also for the camera bodies that accept it, but an Alpa 12 with slightly long nominal 6x9 back and a short lens is in the spirit too.

About the suggestion above that a Graflex SLR be revived, Ron Wisner tried. IIRC, his well-made wooden box got good reviews but sold very poorly.

A subtext of this thread is that the new alternative to clapped-out old cameras should be relatively inexpensive. But many of the clapped-out cameras nominated for modern replacements were pretty expensive when new.

Cheers,

Dan
 

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I'd like to see Kodak produce something matching models from that 40's and 50's era

I'd just like to see em use the names again ..with new products that match or exceed the quality of those beasts
Medalist and Ektra

How about a new Diana camera? 35mm model and 120. Panoramic Diana
New Zuiko lenses would be nice but then I couldn't afford them anyway and wouldn't bother buying em if I could
 

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Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar, Ensign Selfix w, Ross Express lens (if you,re old enough to remember) and without doubt the finest 35mm SLR system ever produced, the Olympus OM-1/2/3/4 - bet the OM-5 could have accepted digital backs and made toast and coffee!
 
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