So you win the Mega Powerball what 35mm SLR would you bring back? Ower

Paul Howell · Oct 30, 2021

If there were a market for an 'F7', combine the best features of the F5, F100 and F6. Removable prism and choice of finders, 4 x AA with an optional CR123A holder like the F100, optional grip with additional batteries, secondary shutter release and maybe an integrated Arca plate, flippable AI tab for pre-AI compatibility as standard, add AF-P and 'E' aperture compatibility so that virtually any F mount lens can be used. AF module.

The AF, metering and lens compatibility of the Df, might be more difficult to engineer interchangeable viewfinders, but should have interchangeable focusing screens including a split prism for use with non AF lens. Maybe interchangeable backs, digital and film? Down side would only appeal nitch of well healed photographers.

Les Sarile · Oct 30, 2021

I would put the full hybrid shutter system of the FM3A and the spot metering of the OM-3 into the LX.

Selection 67 by Les DMess, on Flickr

Using them separately isn't bad either . . .

Sirius Glass · Oct 30, 2021

Winning the Power Ball would make me incredibly wealthy to go along with my fantastic good looks, charm and intelligence!

Huss · Oct 30, 2021

Auer said:
But then I also would rather have a OG Audi Quattro rally car over a Porsche whatever, or a Hayabusa over a Vincent Black Shadow.
I guess I enjoy driving more than parking at the boulevard.

Any 911 from the past 20 years is a much better drive than the Audi. Picking the Quattro IS about parking at the boulevard compared to a Porsche.

Now if you said Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione, that would be different.

Huss · Oct 30, 2021

I'd donate $5K or whatever they need to bring the Kickstarter Reflex 35mm slr project to fruition....

Backing that hopelessly doomed venture was the only time I lost money in photography! Well, that and buying a Leica M9 new...

All joking aside, the Reflex project was, AFAIK, the only attempt to release an all new 35mm film slr.

Paul Howell · Oct 30, 2021

I think it would take millions not thousands, unless either Canon or Nikon kept the the dies and jigs', Nikon may be the tools for the F6 but for a entry or mid level camera. And they still need IC boards, then set up a production line. Cosina may be the best position if they had funding and no risk.

Auer · Oct 30, 2021

Huss said:
Any 911 from the past 20 years is a much better drive than the Audi. Picking the Quattro IS about parking at the boulevard compared to a Porsche.

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No, Ive driven both.

Huss · Oct 30, 2021

Auer said:
No, Ive driven both.

So have I.

RDW · Oct 31, 2021

Paul Howell said:
The AF, metering and lens compatibility of the Df, might be more difficult to engineer interchangeable viewfinders, but should have interchangeable focusing screens including a split prism for use with non AF lens. Maybe interchangeable backs, digital and film? Down side would only appeal nitch of well healed photographers.

Yes, I think the market would realistically be far too small to justify the investment on an 'F7'. And with the way things are going, we may not see another flagship dSLR from Nikon, let alone a film SLR. In another flight of fancy, about about a film camera compatible with the Z series mirrorless lenses? You couldn't fit a mirror box in there, so it would have to be a non-SLR.

An 'FM4' doesn't seem likely either, though Nikon have done things like this before. The FM3a itself was something of a labour of love, and the S3 Millenium model, a replica of a 40 year old camera, even more so.

MartinCrabtree · Oct 31, 2021

Re:Audi.

An associate is an Audi technician. A quote. "Only rich people can afford an Audi...after the warranty expires." He does well for himself turning wrenches on them.

Helios 1984 · Oct 31, 2021

What about bringing back Cibachrome? I’d send a truckload to Christopher Burkett so he can keep doing his beautiful prints.

drmoss_ca · Oct 31, 2021

The F7 could be a cheap (relatively) option, in that the mechanics are already done and I see no need to update them. The electronics have moved on and it could adopt some of the clever functions of the D850, but obviously no those dependent on having a CMOS sensor.

But what I'd spend all of it on would be a new Olympus OM, just like the OM2n but either with Nikon's matrix metering, or even just an exposure lock button. And I'd get rid of that bit of fishing line or whatever it is that drags the compensation flag into the finder and keeps breaking...

Huss · Oct 31, 2021

MartinCrabtree said:
Re:Audi.

An associate is an Audi technician. A quote. "Only rich people can afford an Audi...after the warranty expires." He does well for himself turning wrenches on them.

The same can be said for BMW and Mercedes. That's the reason used ones are so much cheaper than new ones. The repair bills are coming! Some Porsches are much better (911, Cayman/Boxster series) at holding their prices, but the SUVs are the same as the Audis, pretty much because they share a lot with the Audis.

I do think the current Audis are much nicer looking cars than the others.

tballphoto · Nov 18, 2021

Zone medium format film camera | Dora Goodman Cameras

knock 3d printed mess of a mamiya press and rb67. Same idea as what is being talked about here

tballphoto · Nov 18, 2021

Honestly, this is a really hard thing to do project wise.

If done as a full production run, you have to figure the costs.. A TYPICAL die for plastic injection molded components is going to cost about 80 to 100,000 to produce. The drafting and design will normally cost you 10,000.

Learn to make leaf shutters everyone, that is the only easily feasible way to get it done. Or just use all the most easily obtained components online. I have seen companies on ebay selling small lots of electronic shutters from canon film cameras before.

There is no issue with making a mass produced low cost film camera with a lens on it.

the issue that to do it, you need to think technology before ww2.

RalphLambrecht · Nov 18, 2021

I still have three working Nikon FMs and oneFE. I doubt I need anything else in my lifetime.

Kino · Nov 19, 2021

Let's see, squander a fortune on a camera everyone will whine doesn't have this or that feature or do something else... hmmm...

warden · Nov 19, 2021

Paul Howell said:
Top of the line or midline that younger shooters can afford?

I'd address the growing market, not the shrinking one. Make a cheap, reliable camera with lots of lens options that a high schooler could save for, and buy. A K-1000 or similar. We need more teenagers.

film_man · Nov 19, 2021

I'd do a Leica R10, basically a R9 body that takes the SL lenses. Though that is of course impossible as the R is SLR and the SL lenses are not. But I'm sure with enough money an optical adapter can make that work.

Also I'd bring the M7 back.

film_man · Nov 19, 2021

Huss said:
The same can be said for BMW and Mercedes. That's the reason used ones are so much cheaper than new ones. The repair bills are coming! Some Porsches are much better (911, Cayman/Boxster series) at holding their prices, but the SUVs are the same as the Audis, pretty much because they share a lot with the Audis.

I do think the current Audis are much nicer looking cars than the others.

An expensive car is still expensive after the warranty expires.

Donald Qualls · Nov 19, 2021

topKam said:
A TYPICAL die for plastic injection molded components is going to cost about 80 to 100,000 to produce. The drafting and design will normally cost you 10,000.

My understanding is this is old information; CNC and 3D printing technologies have reduced the cost of an injection mold by a factor of ten from what it was twenty or thirty years ago -- enough so that cameras like the Konstructor can have injection molded parts (on a tree, like the ones for plastic models).

warden · Nov 19, 2021

topKam said:
If done as a full production run, you have to figure the costs.. A TYPICAL die for plastic injection molded components is going to cost about 80 to 100,000 to produce. The drafting and design will normally cost you 10,000.
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I think your price is low for design and high for a mold, but that's beside the point: remember, we just won the Mega Powerball and want to spend our riches!

Helios 1984 · Nov 19, 2021

Huss said:
I'd donate $5K or whatever they need to bring the Kickstarter Reflex 35mm slr project to fruition....

Backing that hopelessly doomed venture was the only time I lost money in photography! Well, that and buying a Leica M9 new...

All joking aside, the Reflex project was, AFAIK, the only attempt to release an all new 35mm film slr.

Only if they change the generic name.

flavio81 · Nov 19, 2021

Two ideas:

- a succesor to the RB67 using ligher materials (i.e. carbon fibre, ceramics, glass-filled polycarbonate)
- a Pentax 67III camera, with a completely smooth shutter and mirror mechanism. More lens shutters for the Pentax 67 system.

Huss · Nov 19, 2021

Helios 1984 said:
Only if they change the generic name.

Yes, Reflex is too generic

Might I suggest Reflexamat? Reflexax? Hmm, Reflexflex..

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