Your Dream Camera

[Pumalite]

I have all the ones I love:

Nikon F
Nikkormat FTn and F2n
Canon F-1
Canon "New" F-1
Rolleiflex 2.8
Rollei 35
Olympus OM-1
Olynpus OM-2n
Olympus OM-4Ti
Mamiya 645
Mamiya RB6X7 Pro S
Minolta XD-11
Pentax MX
Pentax KM
Yashicamat 124
Nikon F4
Nikon F-100
Nikon F2AS with Motor
Bronica 6X6
Nikon F3
Olympus Stylus Epic
etc,
etc.

 

[lxdude]

Another dream of mine is a Hasablad!

Jeff

A what?

 

[2F/2F]

My dream camera for most things would be a 6x9 Mamiya RZ. And a 6x9 version of the D700's sensor to put on when desired.

Guess a Fuji 6x8 is the closest thing.

 

[markd]

I absolutely love my Pentax Spotmatic IIa. I also love my Canon Elan 7n. When I start using it again I think I'll begin to really love my Pentax 645. I like my well-loved Canon A2 a lot as well.

I'll always have a special place in my heart for my K1000, though. It was with my family when I was a child and it was my first camera.

I think a "dream" camera has to be a camera you don't already own. A camera that you aspire to. A camera that you don't necessarily think you'll ever get. With that in mind I think my dream camera would be something like a Hasselblad or a Leica because I can honestly say I don't think I'll ever acquire one.

I'd like to get a rangefinder camera, though, like a Voightlander and I'd also like to get a field camera. These things interest me and I think they'd be good experiences.

 

[panchro-press]

#10 Circut and film

 

[Marc Akemann]

For 35mm my dream camera would be a Leica M3 and/or a R6.2. For MF, a Rolleiflex SL-66. I've always wanted a Sinar Norma for 4x5 but I've since settled for a Plaubel Peco Universal III with red bellows. Lastly, a Deardorff 5x7 View would be nice.

-Marc

 

[Paul Goutiere]

The problem with having a dream camera is, you might get it. Then what?

 

[Marc Akemann]

You then use it...with much exuberance!

 

[lacavol]

I had my dream camera an OM4, IMHO the best metering system I've seen. And yes I have seen and tried at least one from all of the 35mm SLR's. Love the lenses too.

Then I got old and I have to change glasses to focus an SLR. Bifocals don't work in the desert, you can't see snakes at your feet and I stumble.

I have my new dream camera which is a M2 has all the framelines I need and has a bright enough rangefinder for me to focus. Also has DOF cutouts in the rangefinder patch. The MR4 meter is just basic but I get by. Better to be in focus than perfect exposure. Plus the best lenses, IMO.

 

[Pumalite]

I agree that my best canera without lenses is the LEICA iiiF

 

[benjiboy]

I let them remain "dream cameras", because my expectations are often not matched by reality.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

My dream cameras are satellites , multispectral and SAR radar ones. I learned that one young high school girl invested one day on google earth and found 50 archaelogical remainings at France. I said wow !

Photography cameras , I used best ones and my dream is Sony Z1 with Zeiss Lens hd video camera , it is better than all my Leicas. They rent it here 80 dollars a day. May be one day I try it.

Umut

 

[Jeff Kubach]

A what?

Sorry about my spelling!

Jeff

 

[steartandphoto1973]

In 1979 i bought my very 1st SLR camera. Chinon CS. It lasted donkeys years ]It was staggeringly exellent at its Job. You had to set it up from scratch, which took time, however, it was all worth the effort along with its standard chinon 50mm lens ,
It could last a lifetime,. this was a dream camera for me since 1974. I recently bought via E bay a Chinon Cx. Built in 74 It still works just as good now as my Cs did back in the seventies. I also own a Chinon CE5,brilliant little shooter, also built like a tank, ans a Pentax SF1x pro shooter,with the reqiured 1/4000 shutter speed to maximise on wildlife shots.

 

[guitstik]

I guess you could say that I inherited my love of photography from my grandfather. As a child, I can remember him always with a camera in his hands. I was to young to know anything specific about them but he always had the latest. He shot mostly 35mm but he also had several Polaroid land cameras. It was always a treat to be there when he got the film back from the apothecary Or when he would pull the film out of the Polaroid, wait to peel it and then swipe it. The anticipation I had was maddening. Whether camping in the mountains or beach combing for clams or even the weekly family gatherings at my grandparents house, there was always a camera.

He passed away last year and I mourned his passing but then I received a box in the mail from my mother. It seems that as he got older and less able to get around he got rid of all his cameras, not realizing that I would have treasured them. But what was in that box was almost as special as having his cameras, it was just about every picture he had taken of my siblings and I. My wife and I had tears of joy as we sat on the floor going through all of those old photographs seeing my mother so slim and radiant with that 60's bufount hair style holding me and smiling at the camera. The one that grabbed my attention tho was a Polaroid with the tell tale yellowing border and muted colors, of my grand father seated in a lawn chair under the pear tree that grew in his front yard, backed by a white picket fence and his old 57 Ford coupe in the drive. In those days my grandfather worked for BNR as a railwayman and in the picture he must have just gotten home from work because he was still in his blue and white stripped bib overalls with the matching cap. It must have been early spring because the white and pink blossoms on the pear tree have burst forth from the branches but there are none on the ground. There are no markings and nothing written on the back to indicate what year it was taken but from the car I can assume that it is the waining of the 50's or the dawning of the 60's. But what held my attention was the obvious camera bag at his feet and what appears to be a Minolta SR-2 nestled in his upturned hands. Judging from the smile on his face I can pressume that the camera is a shinning new aquisition and the picture is proof of his latest find, as a marlin fisherman would record his latest trophy catch. When I pointed the camera out to my wife she looked to my camera area and said "that explains all of those Minoltas you have". I had never thought of it that way but perhaps subconsciously I had developed my admiration for Minolta gear from him. So I guess I cold say that my dream camera that I have yet to aquire would be that self same SR-2 from the picture of my youth.

 

[thedancefloor]

My dream camera would be a Leica MP3 in black chrome. And I would use it to play all of my favorite songs.

 

[ColdEye]

My dream camera would be a Leica MP3 in black chrome. And I would use it to play all of my favorite songs.

Brilliant. )

 

[John_Nikon_F]

For 35, already have it. My F2AS. Need to get a MD-2/MB-1 motor drive for it, then I'm happy as a clam.

-J

 

[Sirius Glass]

Hasselblad 503 CX
Hasselblad 903 SWC
Graflex Model D
Pacemaker Speed Graphic

I have always wanted them. Thank to the evil influence of APUG and the digital revolution, I have all of them, my Preciouses! Mine! Mine! Mine!

 

[vpwphoto]

A F100 loaded with a miracle film that did everything the D700 sensor can do..

 

[Two23]

My dream camera would be a small to medium sliding box camera from the late 1840s to early 1850s. I already have an 1880s tailboard camera.


Kent in SD

 

[Jerevan]

Guitstik,

a really beautiful story, thanks for sharing it.

 

[lxdude]

Guitstik,

a really beautiful story, thanks for sharing it.

+1

 

[Marc Akemann]

Guitstik,

a really beautiful story, thanks for sharing it.

Yes, a wonderful, heartfelt story. Thank you.

 

[WRSchmalfuss]

My dream camera

would be the ROLLEIFLEX HY6 (latest version) with an 80MP LEAF or PHASONE digi back and a couple of glasses!