What are your top 5 game changers?

Steve Smith

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Music:

Bill Haley
Chet Atkins
Grady Martin
Les Paul
Jimi Hendrix

Cameras:

Polaroid
Hasselblad
Rolleiflex
Leica
Nikon F


Steve.
 

DcAnalogue

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And.....
what about the fuc***g Smartphone....& Social Networks? There starts the death of photography.... at least as we always knew it....
 

RalphLambrecht

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Helmut Newton
Hasselblad 501c
NikonD800
RHDesigns Zome Masterwith f/stop timing
Mamiya 6
Carl Zeiss Optics
TMax filmsand Ilford papers
 

Sirius Glass

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Going back to the original post, I'd swap out the Hasselblad 500C for the original Hasselblad, the 1600F. That set the paradigm for interchangeable lens medium format SLRs.

Camera Obscura
Henry Talbot Fox
Daguerreotype
George Eastman & roll film
Kodak Brownie
Graflex Speed Graphic
Barnack Leica
Hasselblad 1600
Nikon F
Strobes
CCD sensors
 

Slixtiesix

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dry plate camera
roll film box camera
roll film reflex/TLR
35mm SLR, MF SLR
AF and auto exposure
 

flavio81

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Amazed no one wrote "spectral sensitization" so far. Before it, emulsions were only blue sensitive. SS made panchromatic film and COLOR processes possible.
 
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