disapointment/overated kit

[DwF]

That sort of mirrors my experience. I don't dislike the Bessa II, and the photos are really good, but it's just not as good as I'd hoped as a working camera. The Perkeo II and Super Ikonta C are great.

The big Yashicas (Electro GTN & Lynx-14e) and small Canonets are kind of the same. There's nothing to hate, but I find myself ambivalent about them.

02Pilot- I open your link to see Hexar Rhodium....one of my favorite cameras of all was the Hexar AF. I also have an Ikonta B that is really compaxct and fun to shoot with.

 

[scottgee1]

Why I didn't read this thread before? It would have saved me a lot of time buying and selling stuffs. Fun thread to read.

Trung, you are forgiven AND have learned a valuable lesson:

To be 'in the know', it is essential to read ALL threads on RFF EVERY DAY!

If you need to quit your job and ignore your family, so be it.

😉

 

[02Pilot]

02Pilot- I open your link to see Hexar Rhodium....one of my favorite cameras of all was the Hexar AF. I also have an Ikonta B that is really compaxct and fun to shoot with.

I'm hoping to get it out soon for some proper use. With any luck I won't be coming back to this thread to talk about it....😉

 

[DC1030]

Fuji X10, never got sharp pictures out of it, neither RAW nor jpgs were any good. But it really looked good - but image quality - no.

 

[tbhv55]

Fuji X10, never got sharp pictures out of it, neither RAW nor jpgs were any good. But it really looked good - but image quality - no.

My x10 was similar - except that I sometimes got decent images. It turned out to be a problem with the AF. Sent it for repair, but the problem was still there afterwards, so I sold it. 🙁

 

[Chris101]

I use Nikon digital SLRs. I had a D100 - loved it. A D70 with an IR internal filter - my favorite digital camera of all time. A D2x - I just loved this camera, it fit like a bruno magli.

Then I upgraded to the D700. While I still use it, and appreciate it's abilities, I just don't feel it. I can't pinpoint why - size? Balance? Shape? I dunno. I put up with it, but I don't love it.

 

[user237428934]

First Fuji X100 (early version). What an unfinished, unresponsive and unreliable camera that was. The first software update made it slightly better but still nothing to keep.

 

[lcpr]

Fuji X-Pro 1. Not as good for street as I expected/hoped it would be, so it (and the 18mm and 35mm) sat in a drawer for a year or so. However now that I'm shooting 5x4 and more portraiture/fashion it's a great little backup cam - lots of the issues I had with it (slow AF, sluggish operation in general) aren't issues at all in that kind of use.

 

[Merlijn53]

Digital in general. I did my best, but it never convinced me.
Happy back to analog for a year now and not planning to look back.
Regards,
Frank

 

[vitaly66]

Nikon S2, can't understand the fandom for this one, cheezy build quality.

Super Ikonta 532/16, fine camera let down by a too-distant minimum focus.

 

[gb hill]

Yashica Electro GSN. just didn't feel right for me.

 

[Chubberino]

Digital in general. I did my best, but it never convinced me.
Happy back to analog for a year now and not planning to look back.
Regards,
Frank

lollolololol

 

[farlymac]

Of all the camera systems I've tried, I'd have to say Olympus SLRs have disappointed me the most. Nice lenses, but the camera bodies leave something to be desired. With Canon it was hit-or-miss on the bodies, the A1 being the worst of them, despite the fantastic red LED's in the viewfinder. Minolta was okay all around with the exception of the capacitor issue on the X series, but then they are inexpensive, and spares are readily available. My only problem with Yashica is being able to find one in good working condition, rangefinder or SLR.

I'm not going to rant here on FSU gear, as I've come to realize they just never were made to stand up to the usage that most of them get. So when I do acquire an occasional model that doesn't need a complete overhaul, I'm pretty satisfied with it. As long as I don't blast a hole in the shutter.

PF

 

[tbhv55]

First Fuji X100 (early version). What an unfinished, unresponsive and unreliable camera that was. The first software update made it slightly better but still nothing to keep.

If you'd kept it a little longer, you might have enjoyed it! 😛😉 I'll admit that - initially, and even after the first firmware update - I shared your view, but subsequent updates made it much more user-friendly.

The original x100 is not a 'speed king', of course, but the later firmware updates made it responsive enough... so much so, that I still own it, and enjoy using it, almost six years later. And the output is still excellent. 🙂

 

[agoglanian]

I think I was most disappointed by the 50mm Summilux ASPH. It has legendary hype (which I should have known could never match real experience) and it just never quite lived up to it. It's very good of course, but I just never liked it as much as a 50 Summicron or nearly any other 50mm I tried.

 

[Darshan]

I may get flamed for this but here it goes:

The camera that disappointed me the most was Leica M4, sold it after a year or so. Now don't get me wrong, I made some very good photos with it along with CV 35 2.5, collapsible summicron and canon 50 1.4, but I hated holding and using it. It just never felt right in my hands.

I have been enjoying the OM2n since I got it (>5 years). The 50 1.8 that I got with it is the best 50 I have used so far, maybe I just got lucky. I think I prefer the TTL viewing and split screen focusing of SLRs. Also, it just feels right in my hands.

 

[ptpdprinter]

The camera that disappointed me the most was Leica M4, sold it after a year or so. Now don't get me wrong, I made some very good photos with it along with CV 35 2.5, collapsible summicron and canon 50 1.4, but I hated holding and using it. It just never felt right in my hands.

GASP! 😱

 

[Jake Mongey]

Canon 28mm 2.8 LTM - Always wanted one and when one came up at my local camera store I got a job at mcdonalds for a few months as the owner of the camera store let me pay a bit each month (its a small local store and come there multiple times a week.)

Got it a week before I went to amsterdam with college - pretty sharp at f/5.6 - reasonable at f2.8 but the vingetting at anything below f/4 was awful. I ended up shooting with the 35mm frame-lines on my canon 7 as by the time i cropped out the unrecoverable vignetting I had around that field of view.

The photos I took stopped down were real nice but I got it for that 2.8 aperture so I sold it and got a lens and some film backs for my RB67. Might try out the serenar 2.8mm 3.5 as thats supposed to be quite good

 

[Harry Lime]

Leica M Digital

Great cameras and the M9 / 240 / M10 are real M cameras in every way. Unfortunately that includes the very primitive metering system which is very easily fooled and leads to blown highlights etc.

Yes, if you move slowly and check the histogram the camera will produce beautiful results, but for rapid fire shooting under challenging or changing lighting conditions the metering system is just too 'dumb'.

Digital is not forgiving like film to exposure errors and the results are unpleasant. You really need a matrix metering system, but that would be difficult to implement in the M series. The only real way may be to meter off the prism block in the RF unit.

 

[tbhv55]

I think I prefer the TTL viewing and split screen focusing of SLRs

I completely agree on this. Perhaps it's simply because I had split-screen focus on my first cameras around 40 years ago (when it was more-or-less the norm), but I've always preferred this system.