If you were a camera...

[EASmithV]

If you were to be reincarnated as a camera, what would you be?

I'll start with Speed Graphic.

This should be an interesting thread... Please think carefully before you post.

 

[bsdunek]

Gowlandflex!

 

[Jeff L]

Broken

 

[glockman99]

I'd have to be a Nikon F3HP since it's my favorite 35mm camera.

 

[nickandre]

Holga

 

[2F/2F]

hmmm...something kinda cheap and sloppy, not the most high-end camera in the world, yet well made, versatile and capable of producing nice results if you put the time and effort in...I would have to say a Graphic as well. I'd like to be a 2x3 Speed with an RH-8 back, I think...and I would like to be shot by a photojournalist every day, not put on the shelf as a curiosity.

If I had a second choice, it would be a Mamiya Press Super 23. Same basic idea as the 2x3 Speed Graphic, but a bit different.

 

[k_jupiter]

Kalart Press Camera.

Stunningly beautiful,totally advanced for it's time, totally obsolete when made. A great piece of engineering, and less than 5% of them still work.

Kinda like the Fiat of cameras. That's me.

tim in san jose

 

[alanrockwood]

Exakta VX iia, because that was my first serious camera, and I am kind of old fashioned in a lot of ways.

- Alan -

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

4x5 film box with a hole poked into it, one sheet of film inside, a lens taped on the outside, and a cardboard flap for a shutter

 

[markbarendt]

Nikon FM2; simple, dependable, capable.

 

[David William White]

Aww, with my luck, probably something embarrasing like a Kodak Disc camera...zero collector value and you can't get film for it anymore.

 

[MattKing]

OM3

Not that I could demand the prices

Matt

 

[Ektagraphic]

A LEICA

 

[benjiboy]

A Kodak Instamatic, old ,cheap, obsolescent , and not much good.

 

[archphoto]

Sinar P2: dependable, precize and seeking perfection.

Peter

 

[Jeff Kubach]

A Kodak Instamatic, old ,cheap, obsolescent , and not much good.

Same thing with me!

Jeff

 

[removed account4]

no name box camera

 

[Christopher Walrath]

OK. It would have to big and loveable. It would have to be able to take some punishment and then come back for more. And have a little bit of an attitude when the situation called for it. I dunni. How about a Fotoman 617.

 

[Kino]

A Mercury II.

 

[JBrunner]

8x10 Korona View by the Seebold Invisible Camera Company.

 

[David Brown]

Pentax Spotmatic. Simple, efficient, and often overlooked (even in its "day"), but brilliant and reliable.

 

[EASmithV]

Broken

A broken camera?

 

[darinwc]

I'd be the deardorf used at playboy =]

 

[wayne naughton]

I wanna be Helmut Newton's camera

 

[jolefler]

A Fed II.....

old, unreliable (everything grinds & moans in use), a knockoff of something nice, but spits out a good pic every now & again.

My wife happened by as I was posting this and said.."don't forget to mention your miniature format!" Sheesh...well at least she didn't make quips about having a Polaroid back that lets me finish in a minute!

Jo