Worst camera you ever owned?

Worst camera you ever owned?

  • A Rangefinder

    Votes: 30 23.8%

  • A film SLR

    Votes: 27 21.4%

  • A digital SLR

    Votes: 19 15.1%

  • A Medium Format Rangefinder

    Votes: 2 1.6%

  • A Medium Format SLR

    Votes: 5 4.0%

  • A Large Format Camera

    Votes: 3 2.4%

  • Something else

    Votes: 40 31.7%
  • Total voters
    126
  • Poll closed .
I don't think 'worst' necessarily has to mean a camera you haven't kept!

Just because something's cantankerous and difficult to use doesn't mean to say I won't use it. My Ikon is probably the best rangefinder I own but the facts are it's not had a lot of film through it ... really not much more than my Fed 2 and Kiev ll bless their treacherous little hearts! :D
 
Leica MP ... the camera was significantly longer in service at Leica than in my hands for taking photos .... After they finally got it right I sold the camera, the love for "Mechanical Perfection" was gone ... :rolleyes:
 
Nikon N70. Quiet shutter, almost silent film advance, light weight, dead-on exposure, a nice big bright finder, and a user interface so baroque and horrible that I think of the camera mainly as a puzzle that allows you to take a photograph each time you solve it.
 
maddoc said:
Leica MP ... the camera was significantly longer in service at Leica than in my hands for taking photos .... After they finally got it right I sold the camera, the love for "Mechanical Perfection" was gone ... :rolleyes:
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Sorry to hear. :bang:
 
Everybody rags on the Commie cameras, but some of the absolute worst cameras and lens I have ever owned came out of South Korea and Japan, A samsung P&S I owned for about a week had such a crappy lens on it- I sent it back after one roll!!!! THE LENS WAS ABSOLUTE JUNK!!. That goes for a few off -brand copies of japanese lens, all of Korea make. All these "supposed photographic tools" were of late 80's to mid-90's vintage. The same goes for some very cheap kit lens I have own from Nikon and Canon, the optics weren't too bad, but the construction was complete junk!!!! " Most" or the Commie cameras and lens I have owned have performed much better and continue to perform well, where all the Korea junk is now a fading bad nightmare! and the same goes for the Japanese @#$%^&* - Kievman
 
Coca Cola Summer Fun camera. I still own it, it's awesome as it's one of the few cameras I give to kids to use and they love it.
 
My vote for the T-70

My vote for the T-70

It was otherwise OK, but easily the loudest film SLR I ever owned. Try taking candid shots in a closed environment with it, and you'll lnow what I mean... :eek:
 
Probably Contax T, very fiddly, and I didn't rate the lens much. The range finder patch is almost invisible, and then I discovered that sometimes the shutter did not fire. Not to say there aren't good examples of this camera, but I was not interested in finding one. I much, much prefer my Rollei 35SE.

Also Lumix L1, massive brick, dim finder. Looks nice from the front, but like every other DSLR from the back. I sort of the see the appeal, but it weighs as much as my drinks cabinet and results are as bad as other DSLRs of that vintage.
 
haempe said:
Agreed. The Exa is some kind of reinventing a SLR without the advantages of a SLR... :D
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yes, it's like a mutated cross-breed of all negative attributes a camera can have. it's a royal pain to use, it doesn't look good, you never know if there's anything coming out at all and it doesn't even have any significant collector's value. :D
 
Alpa 6C -- ergonomically weird.

Bronica S2a - nice lenses, but the body mechanics (esp. the film advance) was unreliable.

Leica M6 - not a well-made example. Had more than a few screws loosen, and a couple of plastic items fell off. Mind you, I could have just gotten a bad one!
 
Neare said:
Seriously? I've actually never heard anyone who didn't get along with the 38mm sonnar.
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Indeed, I just found it a touch soft compared to my other compact, a Fujifilm Klasse. Obviously the Contax is old, and the Klasse is new, so maybe that's to be expected.

Maybe it had taken a knock or something, but I found the lens a little lacking for me, blown out of the water for sharpness by my brother's Olympus Trip.
 
Kodak Retinette IIA. Well made enough, but the picture quality was very bad. Extremely soft corners. Scale focusing, and it's the same size as my Zeiss Contaflex, which has an awesome f/2.8 Tessar and is an SLR, so no reason to keep the Retinette. It now sits in pieces in my parts bin. Even my 1947 Kodak Flash Bantam makes better photos.
 
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