Out of my cold dead hands !

nolanr66 · Apr 14, 2016

I have a F100, FG and a FM2n. They are all just ordinary camera's and any of them would be fine. I guess I would go with the FM2n as I think it would be the most likely of the bunch to still be working down the road.

fstop · Apr 14, 2016

I can only boil it down to Minolta XD-11, XK AES, Nikon FA and F3 DE2. If I had to pick just one it probably would be the FA.

Besk · Apr 14, 2016

2 1/4 X 3 1/2 Miniature Crown Graphic. Not sentimental - just practical.

frank · Apr 14, 2016

35mm scale focus viewfinder: Rollei 35S
35mm mechanical RF: Leica M2
35mm electronic RF: Konica Hexar
35mm mechanical SLR: Leicaflex SL
35mm electronic SLR: Nikon F4
120 RF: Plaubel Makina 67W
120 mechanical leaf shutter SLR: Hasselblad 500cm
120 mechanical focal plane shutter SLR: Bronica S2a
120 electronic SLR: Rolleiflex 6003src1000
120 TLR: Rolleiflex E, Planar 75f3.5, (and this would be the very last camera)

Chrismat · Apr 14, 2016

My Pentax 6X7, my first medium format camera. I don't use it as much as I used to, but I could never give it up.

John_Nikon_F · Apr 14, 2016

Everything that had sentimental value for me hasn't been in my hands since 2005-06. The original Nikkormat bodies, gone in 1997. The original FM2n, traded for an F3P in 2004. That body, sold in 2006. None of it was in really that great of a shape cosmetically. Either by my doing or by others before me. If I were to choose between those, I probably would've kept the original Nikomat FTn, replaced all the dented parts on the body, and finished fixing it up. No, it wouldn't have had the same serial number as it did back in 1997, but, it would've been the first Nikon I shot with. A hand-me-down that I got from my father when my Pentax H3v started flaking out.

*edit* of my current arsenal, I'd narrow it down to the F, F2AS, and F3P. If I had to go down to a solitary body, probably the Soverized F2AS.

-J

BradleyK · Apr 14, 2016

My 1979 Nikon F2AS: I'd sell the first-born before parting with the camera...

Poisson Du Jour · Apr 14, 2016

My Hassie with its bog standard 80mm and Pentax 67 with 75AL. I cannot for the life of me choose one.
Your choice of the OM1N is a wise one.

winger · Apr 14, 2016

My heart would chose my Pentax H1a that I've been borrowing from my dad for 35 years. But I think I'd have to go with my head and chose my Pentax 645N. The slightly bigger negative is nice and the camera is nicely basic enough while not being bare bones.

Sgore · Apr 14, 2016

narsuitus said:
My dead mother's camera. I had to promise her I would never part with it before she would give it to me.

Detrola by Narsuitus, on Flickr

I just watched a documentary about Saul Leiter the other day, and this was his first camera, a gift from his mother

BrianShaw · Apr 14, 2016

frank said:
35mm scale focus viewfinder: Rollei 35S
35mm mechanical RF: Leica M2
35mm electronic RF: Konica Hexar
35mm mechanical SLR: Leicaflex SL
35mm electronic SLR: Nikon F4
120 RF: Plaubel Makina 67W
120 mechanical leaf shutter SLR: Hasselblad 500cm
120 mechanical focal plane shutter SLR: Bronica S2a
120 electronic SLR: Rolleiflex 6003src1000
120 TLR: Rolleiflex E, Planar 75f3.5, (and this would be the very last camera)

How big are your cold hands?????

Sirius Glass · Apr 14, 2016

I am taking them with me. Period. End of story.

frank · Apr 14, 2016

It seems that I may have a problem.

4season · Apr 14, 2016

(Not personally autographed by Moriyama)

benjiboy · Apr 14, 2016

One of my Canon New F1 AE's

nosmok · Apr 15, 2016

I am torn between my Kodak Bantam and the Ensign Selfix 820 Special. Probably the latter, since if you only have 1 camera it shouldn't use 828 film!

chuck94022 · Apr 15, 2016

Well. If my hands are cold, and dead, I'll have a helluva time focusing my Chamonix 045n2. So it would have to go. I'd want to keep my Mamiya 6MF, because it has the best lenses. But with my cold dead hands, maybe I'd need to keep my Nikon F5, which can take photos all by itself.

But this is tough - with my useless hands, I'm not sure I could buy the batteries for the F5. So maybe I'd have to keep my Nikon FM3a, which works just fine without them.

RalphLambrecht · Apr 15, 2016

John Bragg said:
Ok so the headline is a bit dramatic, but what would be the last camera you gave up if for one reason or another it all had to go ? I have several nice cameras, but the choice would not be perhaps as rational or obvious as some may think. I think if push came to shove, my Leica M6 and Nikons would go and the humble but efficient OM1n would stay. How about you ?

I'm taking my Hasselblad501c with me and come back with at least one exposed roll of 120 to show you all

Kyle M. · Apr 15, 2016

I don't know if I currently have a camera that I'm that attached to, at one point I'd have said the RB67 but I have since sold it. I suppose if I had to pick one it would probably be the Crown Graphic.

BrianShaw · Apr 15, 2016

RalphLambrecht said:
I'm taking my Hasselblad501c with me and come back with at least one exposed roll of 120 to show you all

Can't wait to see that! But aren't you concerned about the potential for heat damage, or bad exposure from the bright white light?

E. von Hoegh · Apr 15, 2016

This is a bit like the irresistable force/immovable object conundrum. I.E. pointless.

I'll be buried in a large coffin with all of my favorite gadgets. So no-one else can have them, of course.

skorpiius · Apr 15, 2016

Really hard to answer because the cameras I use regularly (polaroid 250, nikon f100, yashica LM, and a compact and SLR digicam) have no sentimental value to me, but the ones that do have sentimental value (Ansco Cadet II, Brownie Hawkeye), are basically unusable.

Maybe my first SLR, Pentax PZ-1. It is basically a backup SLR to my F100 nowadays, but I have taken more film photos with that camera than all other cameras combined.

Sirius Glass · Apr 15, 2016

Sirius Glass said:
I am taking them with me. Period. End of story.

RalphLambrecht said:
I'm taking my Hasselblad501c with me and come back with at least one exposed roll of 120 to show you all

Like minds on the same wavelength.

Heat will not be a problem. I do not believe in Hell and Hell does not exist.

Theo Sulphate · Apr 15, 2016

Y'all are getting away from what was asked:

John Bragg said:
... what would be the last camera you gave up if for one reason or another it all had to go ? ...

So, if your house was on fire and you could grab only one camera.

Many have selected what was their first important camera, as did I: my Kodak 8mm.

Sirius Glass · Apr 15, 2016

In that case my Hasselblads. Was there ever really a question about that?

Out of my cold dead hands !

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