Your Favorite 35mm Camera?

[patawauke]

My favourite 35mm user-cameras include the Canon T90 and EOS1V, both superb in the hand and instinctive to use, and with the sheer solidity of the 1V, especially with big Canon zooms; Nikon FM2/T with 85 or 105 lenses, a usable classic; Leica M4P with Noctilux 50/1.1 or Summilux 75/1.4, ultimate low light film camera. I also greatly admire the Nikon (F, F2), Leica (SL2) and Canon (F1 and F1N) classic SLR's, but find them not particularly easy to use compared to the later generation above.

 

[dr. ego]

pentax lx.
it has everything i need in a camera.
the size and features makes it the best i can find.

 

[macrorie]

35mm SLR: Nikon F2A
35mm Rangefinder: Leica IIIf
Medium Format: Rolleicord Va

but I would love to replace the IIIf with an M6 TTL...

 

[flatulent1]

Update:
1. T90 (back where it belongs; I've always loved this camera)
2. New F-1
3. 1V (T90 with AF)
4. Tie: XD-11, F4, EOS RT, N80, 1N-RS, EOS 630, and a few others

 

[M.A.Longmore]

.
It's not really my favourite camera.
But I have been giving it a Whole Lot O' Lovin,
for the past few weeks since I bought it for $00.25 !
The Pentax IQ Zoom 95 WR (Water Resistant ), No Less.

My truly favourite 35mm camera, is my Minolta XE-7.
Especially when the 85mm f1.7 is attached !
It's a nice rugged handful of camera.

That's until I get an XK Motor, then that will be The One !!!


Ron
From The Long Island Of New York,
And The Macro Management, and Long Island @ Large Format APUG Groups
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[j-dogg]

My Nikkormat FTN, and my Minolta Maxxum 4, although my dream film camera is a Nikon F6.

 

[Focus No. 9]

Looking at the dusty collection it appears I haven't bought it yet!

 

[photoncatcher]

It's usually the one I have film in. I like to rotate my ladies. Otherwise they fight. Right now it's my Oly 35 RC.

 

[LowriderS10]

Canon AE-1 Program. I know it's not the best, the lightest, the fastest, or the most expensive...but I just love this camera, the way it feels, looks, works, it's all perfect...which is probably why I have 4 of them with a 5th one on its way for my birthday!!

 

[kadath]

I have one leicaflex sl and a 50mm summicron. I don't need or even want anything else, in any format. I know everyone says you should use different formats/camera types for different kinds of pictures, but I'm happy with using the sl for everything.

 

[Hexavalent]

I love my Olympus OM4-T: I does what I want it to do - we have an 'understanding'.
When I'm feeling 'classy' - Leica IIIf is a sweetheart.

 

[Marvin]

Older Minolta SR-T, X700 and Motor Drive 1

Newer Nikon F5, N80, N75

Hard to pick just one!

 

[paulfish4570]

SLR: SP1000, recently revitalized with a CLA, seals and bumper; Super-Takumar 55/2 and Meyer-Optik Oreston 50/1.8.
RF: right now, my Konica SIII with fixed Heaxanon 47/1.9. Man, is that lens sharp ...

 

[blockend]

Nikkormats. All the heavy metal ker-chung without professional excess or prices. Use it as a ships anchor when it dies.

 

[j-dogg]

Nikkormats. All the heavy metal ker-chung without professional excess or prices. Use it as a ships anchor when it dies.

Lol I know right. Put a diesel engine in it, replace the lens with a .50 cal and some tracks and bring democracy to Cuba with it. I have one it takes great pictures but I feel the sudden urge to mount wheels on it and drive it to work or something.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Nikon F-100

 

[totalmotard]

Nikon N80. It's light, fits my hand and it's fun to shoot with.

 

[delac027]

Nikon F3HP! But i would like to get my hands on an FM3a to try out...

 

[C.poulton]

Leica M2. It is well balanced, quiet, reliable, unobtrusive in use, and accepts a wide variety of lenses. My personal favorite.

Ditto - would love an M6 if cost was not an issue though 4

 

[Nikon Collector]

Nikon F2, but then....

Used a F2 for yrs with a Nikkormat FT2 for back up, a few yrs ago I was diagnosed with diabetes, I have diopters in my cameras but my eyesight changes dail;y and sometimes hourly depending on my blood suger. Recently I got an excellent buy on a Nikon F70 with Sigma 28-80 and 80-200 zooms, the F70 has an adjustable diopter as well as autofocus, ran a roll of film through it and I am blown away by the sharpness of the images. Hmmm no F2 is still my fav but the F70 will be getting lots of use.

 

[dynachrome]

Your Favorite 35mm Camera

I must have seen this kind of thread either here or somewhere else in the past. It's the kind of thread which comes back to life after a long time. My favorite 35mm SLR is probably the Canon F-1. There were two sub-versions of the original F-1. The second one has a back with two rollers and that's the one I use more. With an L screen the finder is nearly as bright as the one in an F-1N. In the small RF category my favorite is the Hi-Matic 7SII. For a more full-size fixed lens RF I like tha Konica Auto S1.6.

 

[bushpig]

Konica Auto-Reflex. The original one that let you switch between half-frame and full-frame mid roll. Great camera. Through a nice, sharp Hexanon lens on there, and you have yourself something special.

 

[(AL)]

Having been in the photography business for over 40 years, it has been my privilege to use most of the cameras mentioned in this thread. For me, the Olympus OM-1n and OM-2n are quite useful. They have all the features I want with a small 'foot print'. In reality however, any one of the cameras mentioned in this thread could be my favorite.

 

[xjken99]

My personal favorite is my Canon T70. I purchased it back in '85 when it was state of the art and it was my first serious camera. I know it's not the best of anything but, if I have learned anything over the past twenty five years it was with camera. It still looks and works pefectly and I still use it on a regular basis. I recently picked up another body on e-bay so that I can keep one loaded with B+W.

 

[Les Sarile]

Nikon F3HP! But i would like to get my hands on an FM3a to try out...

You mean like this . . . ;-)