What camera are you lusting after, and why?

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Hi,

two cameras:
First a Sinar Handy (4"x5") with Grandagon-N 4.5/75 mm and Apo-Sironar-S 5.6/150 mm.
Second a 11"x14" Gandolfi Precision with Super-Angulon 8/210 mm and 6.8/360 mm.

Just dreaming...

Jens
 

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If I had the money to spare for it, I'd be on the hunt for a Pentax LX right now. My K1000 (and everything else...) is suiting me just fine for now, though.

The real long shot, though, is a Fuji GX680. I don't know what it is about it, but ever since I first saw a picture of one I wanted to try it out.
 
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macfred said:
Nothing too special ...

- Nikon SP 35mm Rangefinder
- Zenza Bronica S2a

if possible in minty condition / cla'd
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I got me one of those for free! It's an S2 minus the A though. Lens is a bit fungy but it takes sweet photos.

I'd love me an Xpan or the ilk. And a FF DSLR, but that's for somewhere else...

From my S2,

 

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A later model hasselblad swc.

While there are other ways of going wide on medium format, everyone raves about the biogon 38mm. The dof would almost make it point and shoot.
 

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pthornto said:
... The dof would almost make it point and shoot.
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It can be: just keep the bubble centered (which is visible in the finder along with your lens settings).

SWC is magic.
 

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Well it's not analog. A Nikon FF mirrorless that has professional 4K video and takes legacy lenses. I guess it's a dream rather than lust at this point. For analog I lust for a Rollei 6006 with full compliment of lenses.
 

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H Hs Ha H Has...... Mamiya M7II. Light, large negativer, looks cool, could be what open my eyes to rangefinders and the lenses should be stunning.
8X10, just because.
 

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H Hs Ha H Has...... Mamiya M7II. Light, large negatives, looks cool, could be what open my eyes to rangefinders and the lenses should be stunning.
8X10, just because.
 

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Returning to this thread, since my post above - not long after I found a Super Graphic here in the UK, at a bargain price, it needed some work/parts and it has replaced my Crown Graphic, it has all the movements I require. I've also acquired an MPP MkVII another nice camera to use.

Ian
 

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Eric Rose said:
Well it's not analog. A Nikon FF mirrorless that has professional 4K video and takes legacy lenses. I guess it's a dream rather than lust at this point. For analog I lust for a Rollei 6006 with full compliment of lenses.
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Any decent FF for me. I've out grown my APS-C but really can't justify dropping $5-700 on a camera. I stick with film for FF and it's really done me no wrong.
 

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pthornto said:
A later model hasselblad swc.

While there are other ways of going wide on medium format, everyone raves about the biogon 38mm. The dof would almost make it point and shoot.
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Got one of those. I used it a lot in Greece in the narrow streets.
 

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Not sure if "lusting" would actually describe it, but there are two cameras that I'd like to take out for a spin, just to pique my curiosity: Hasselblad X-Pan, and a Texas Leica. The former because I'm intrigued by panorama cameras (I shot on a borrowed Widelux years ago), and the latter just to see how it would work as a camera for street photography (how would strangers react to having the thing pointed at them?).
 

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I've got the SWC/M, with the bubble on top of the body, I recommend this version for ease of levelling off. Fun camera to use.

I'm ok for cameras and lenses, if anything I'm selling a few 35mm lenses I really don't need. Taken a long time to get to that point and famous last words probably but there's only 7 days in the week and I have >7 cameras.

*If I'm lusting after a camera, I either don't know what it is yet, or it doesn't exist yet.
 
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I'd have to say I don't get much gear lust these days. I have used so many cameras in my life and because of that I am pretty happy with what I have. I wouldn't mind getting a second Leica body to my M3 since I know the Hexar RF is eventually going to go south. I would also like to pick up a medium format camera since it has been years since I shot with one. I have one in mind but I don't want to raise the price..... A new 4x5 would be nice, but the Speed Graphic that I have had for 25 or so years now has served me all that time. For the images I take, I don't really need anything more elaborate, although a Canham would be nice.....
 

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Lust at the moment is to "solve" the Medium Format "problem". Been trying Bronica SQ (which is "fine"), but going to give a Rollei SLX a "try". If not, then the big clunkers may go, I'll surrender altogether and pick up a Mamiya 6 RF and be "done" that way. MF has had a steeper learning curve in forcing issues to make really good negatives, but I'm thinking it pays dividends that flow everywhere. Even if I don't stick with it.... but I'd like to stick with it.
 

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I don't lust after any cameras, I've been at this game for sixty-five years I'm content with the two Canon F1n's and two Canon New F1's with AE prism finders I have, and just hope I stay in good health for a few more years to enjoy them.
.The more cameras one has the more one has to worry about, protect, store and insure.
 
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Plaubel Makina W67 or a Voigtlander 667w.

Or an ultralight, stripped down 11x14" with 18"/ 460mm max extension for use with lenses up to no more than 14" focal length.
 
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