What camera are you lusting after, and why?

[Theo Sulphate]

How weird it is to prepare a reply to this thread only to realize that I made that identical reply two years ago:

https://www.photrio.com/forum/index...sting-after-and-why.43184/page-11#post-618097

This is still true:

What I do wish [for] ... is to have a 16mm Bolex Rex with 400' magazines plus a good supply of reversal film. That, and an NBC Television studio camera from the 1960's.

 

[JensH]

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

 

[SasquatchQB]

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.

 

[macfred]

Nothing too special ...

- Nikon SP 35mm Rangefinder
- Zenza Bronica S2a

if possible in minty condition / cla'd

 

[Cholentpot]

Nothing too special ...

- Nikon SP 35mm Rangefinder
- Zenza Bronica S2a

if possible in minty condition / cla'd

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,

 

[pthornto]

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.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

... The dof would almost make it point and shoot.

It can be: just keep the bubble centered (which is visible in the finder along with your lens settings).

SWC is magic.

 

[Eric Rose]

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.

 

[pthornto]

Not helping Theo....lol

 

[Soeren]

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.

 

[Soeren]

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.

 

[Ian Grant]

Actually an MPP Mk VII or VIII, or a Linhof MK III onwards would be a far better option than a Speed or Crown Graphic, alternately a Super Graphic or Toyo. The Crown & Speeds have severe limitations with their poor range of movements compared to their competitors.

Ian

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

 

[Cholentpot]

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.

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.

 

[Sirius Glass]

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.

Got one of those. I used it a lot in Greece in the narrow streets.

 

[LeftCoastKid]

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?).

 

[gr82bart]

No camera. I have them all. I'm listing for this Hassey lens:
Hasselblad Telephoto 350mm f/5.6 CFE Zeiss Tele-Superachromat Lens

 

[MartinCrabtree]

No camera. I have them all. I'm listing for this Hassey lens:
Hasselblad Telephoto 350mm f/5.6 CFE Zeiss Tele-Superachromat Lens

Well that's nothing a spare 8 or 9 thousand USD won't fix.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

I would have no objections to a Hassy SWC either. Or one of the new Rolleiflex FW bodies with the 50mm lens. It's not as wide as the SWC, but it's still a sweet camera. Barring either of the above, a Kiev 88cm with MLU, and the 30mm Fisheye.

 

[c41]

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.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

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.....

 

[M.A.Longmore]

A Sinar P2 8X10 !

 

[JWMster]

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.

 

[Drew B.]

Cambo wide or Silvestri S-4

 

[benjiboy]

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.

 

[Lachlan Young]

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.