Photography gear that does cause you GAS.

[johnf04]

For me, it's prewar Contax rangefinders, Kiev rangefinders, East German Contax and Pentacon SLRs, and early (1950s-early 1960s) Japanese SLRs.

 

[38Deardorff]

Hasselblad Xpan, Fuji GW 680 lll,
yes & the Summilux steelrim 35mm

 

[Bill Blackwell]

Photography gear that does cause you GAS ... ​

1. Most any older Leica M film body in prestine condition; and
2. Silver chrome Leica lenses.

 

[agentlossing]

Everything, except what I put in the "never caused you GAS" thread...

 

[inkios]

Everything Leica. Started with m4-p and voigtlander 35 1.4. Added a Zeiss 50 f2. Upgraded my m4-p to an m6 TTL. Then added an m10. Now I’m trying to pickup a 28 elmarit. I think I’ll be good for a while after that.

 

[Ljós]

I'd like to report that the 50mm Canon brightline finder with automatic parallax correction no longer causes me GAS!
I just went ahead and bought it. ;-)
(It's glorious.)

 

[raydm6]

I can’t participate in this thread. I think I’m actually cured. 😊

 

[p.giannakis]

Recently I noticed that I keep thinking of the Yashica Electro 35GTN so I am trying to stay away from that auction site...

 

[das]

Although there are virtually no frontiers left in film photography, I get GAS over stuff that may not be the greatest ever, but is relatively unknown. For instance, did we know that Zeiss Ikon offered a 25mm f/4 designed by Voigtlander for the Icarex system? Carl Zeiss Jena did a limited run of multicoated 50mm f/2.8 Tessars in PB mount during the early 80s. The Schneider Xenon 80mm f/2.8 MF in Exakta 66 / P6 mount may have been one of the best film era standard lenses made for 6x6. Konica had a 60mm f/1.2 in M39 during the 1950s (a sales flop) that no one has really published anything about.

I love all of this kind of stuff.

 

[Harry the K]

Large diameter front lenses.

 

[bbutterfield]

Early black paint/nickel furnishings Barnacks. Yum!

 

[lukx]

A black paint Leica MP with the 0.85 finder, the closest thing to an M3 with a meter. Those pop up rarely, sadly.

The W-Nikkor 3.5cm 1.8, adapted to Leica M via Coiro-Optics.

A nice condition (serviced) Rolleiflex 2.8F. A Pentax 67 (ii) with the 75 shift lens and the 105 2.4. I'd have to sell my great-but-cumbersome Rolleiflex SL66SE and the Mamiya C330 kits for this rearrangement of my medium format lineup. I think I prefer a "classic SLR" form factor combined with a smaller, fixed lens TLR.

Oh and a new apartment with extra space for a darkroom, easy peasy, you can tell I'm a modest guy.

 

[Dogman]

I keep window shopping but nothing really moves me. I might have to actually takes some pictures now. Taking pictures? Wow. What an idea.




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[Leon C]

Recently I noticed that I keep thinking of the Yashica Electro 35GTN so I am trying to stay away from that auction site...

In Black....Yummy.......Sorry 😉

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

I keep window shopping but nothing really moves me. I might have to actually takes some pictures now. Taking pictures? Wow. What an idea.




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A novel concept for sure, @Dogman.

 

[p.giannakis]

In Black....Yummy.......Sorry 😉

You... enabler...

 

[Leon C]

You... enabler...

What moi!




Here's my GT if you want to download the pic to keep you warm at night whilst not browsing the website of addicts....😗

 

[Sanug]

Nowadays: Pentax MX, LX, LX finders. Pentax lenses, especially the small M series. But I also bought the SMC Pentax 2.5/135 and 2.5/200

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Formats smaller than 35mm (including 35mm half-frame)
Formats larger than 120

Chris

 

[Pioneer]

I "desperately" need a Pentax Spotmatic.