'Coolest' Medium Format Camera?

[2bits]

ambaker, very nice collection!

 

[Texsport]

I have praised the Fujica 690 100/3.5AE + Auto Up accessory for its ability to capture close up head portraits.

I must add the Norita and Rittreck 66 80/2 because of their low light and bokeh head shot portrait abilities.

Both these camera/lens combination can do things which are very uncommon and unique for medium format cameras.

Texsport

 

[che]

I vote for a holga. I have a few and each one gives a unique image.

 

[Vaughn]

I vote for a holga. I have a few and each one gives a unique image.

And her sister, Diana, of course!

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Having worked with medium format cameras since the seventies, it's challenging to conceive of a large, heavy, squarish optical device design as cool. My fear is people are really asking, 'how does this camera look on me' ...

Or, less commonly, "does this RB67 make my ass look big?"


My vote for coolness, as viewed by both photographers and the general public, is the Rolleiflex 2.8F.


There is also this yet unmentioned gem:

http://youtu.be/h7k2uwJmwxo

 

[Roger Cole]

Or, less commonly, "does this RB67 make my ass look big?"


My vote for coolness, as viewed by both photographers and the general public, is the Rolleiflex 2.8F.


There is also this yet unmentioned gem:

http://youtu.be/h7k2uwJmwxo

I had a swinger as a kid, one of my first cameras! I actually still have it, though it's a nostalgic paper weight now.

 

[Jeff Bradford]

The Kodak Medalist is an art deco monolith made of solid aluminum and shoots 6x9.

 

[Alan Gales]

Any "film" medium format camera!

 

[Sean Mac]

2.8f Rolleiflex of course..

 

[FujiLove]

2.8f Rolleiflex of course..

Yes, I think I'd have to agree with this.

But of the ones I own/have owned, I'll vote for the Pentax 6x7 because it looks awe-inspiring and scares small children.

 

[Sean Mac]

Small children of all ages seem to love the Rolleiflex

 

[FujiLove]

Small children of all ages seem to love the Rolleiflex

I only have a lowly Rolleicord, but that also gets a lot of attention...often from young women. Unfortunately I didn't know this when I was single.

 

[mooseontheloose]

I only have a lowly Rolleicord, but that also gets a lot of attention...often from young women. Unfortunately I didn't know this when I was single.

No matter which TLR I shoot, it always gets noticed by either young or old men - but never, it seems, from someone around my own age!

 

[Sean Mac]

A Rolleicord is just as cool as a 'flex. Astrid Kirchherr and Don McCullin..

 

[Vaughn]

No matter which TLR I shoot, it always gets noticed by either young or old men - but never, it seems, from someone around my own age!

Last month, sitting on a chunk of volcanic rock on top of Haleakalā (Maui - at 10,300'), with the Rolleicord on the tripod in front of me, I only attracted an elderly digital-using couple, and then the only other film user in the area (he was from Austria)...35mm. But I have been under the darkcloth of my 8x10 with lovely young ladies -- "Hey Baaaaby! Want to look through my....camera?" Actually what is as much fun is having fathers hold their kids up to look through my 11x14! I will get in front of the camera and be "upside down" for them!

 

[Sirius Glass]

Actually raise your hands for SWC!

 

[k.hendrik]

Rolleiflex 4x4 ?? or is this grey baby child not medium enough https://www.flickr.com/photos/77846450@N00/17244037329/in/album-72157652466228732/

 

[Roger Cole]

I only have a lowly Rolleicord, but that also gets a lot of attention...often from young women. Unfortunately I didn't know this when I was single.

No matter which TLR I shoot, it always gets noticed by either young or old men - but never, it seems, from someone around my own age!

I find interested and "how cool!" looks and comments from people of all walks of life when out with my Yaschicamat 124 (non-G, so it has more chrome than the G model.)

 

[TheToadMen]

SWC...hands down,
nsfw
http://hasselbladswc.tumblr.com/

Actually raise your hands for SWC!

I bought a Bronica SQ-B new in 2003 - my first MF camera and it was/is the best with beautiful glass, like my 40 mm lens. But last year I got me a Hasselblad SWC (38 mm Biogon) from 1964 and a Mamiya C33f TLR camera - both also very fine cameras. So for me these three are my pick. Besides that I also like my Bronica RF-645 rangefinder very much as well.

 

[jeffreythree]

It has been mentioned earlier, but I add another vote for the Fujica GL690 w/ 100mm AE lens. I think a 6x9 camera that thinks it is an overgrown 35mm P&S camera when set to aperture priority metering is pretty cool.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Of course the MF cameras that I own. [Everyone can use this answer ]

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Hasselblad or Rolleiflex? Rolleiflex or Hasselblad? Why not both?

 

[Besk]

The miniature Crown Graphic. I own or have owned several medium format cameras from Rolleiflex and Hasselblad to old folders but the Crown Graphic is the most versatile by a lot. Sheet film holders, Grafmatics, 645, 6X6, 6X7, 6X9 and even 35mm in a 6X7 220 back. And rangefinder focusing, use the ground glass or estimate the distance for focusing. Many different lenses from 47mm to Ektar 203/7.7 - whatever fits. That is Kool.

 

[LMNOP]

Mamiya 7 is pretty damn cool. I think a lot of people end up with those because they see others shooting with them.

Also another vote for anything square, especially 500CM - mega cool camera.

 

[Nokton48]

Easy question. My Plaubel Makiflexes. Gratifying to collect and use.

A trio of Plaubel Makiflexes by Nokton48, on Flickr