Dream Camera?

[GeneW]

At the lower end of perfection, I'd love to see a restyled Olympus Stylus Epic with manual aperture-priority control and the ability to turn off the flash and not have it return each time you switch on the camera. Such a revised design would be easy to implement, but I doubt we'll ever see it...

Gene

 

[yossarian]

Hey, JohnR, good point about the system. I mentioned some lenses for my dream machine, but took it no further.

You want to start us out here? Maybe Mr. Kobayashi reads these threads....

 

[yossarian]

In a way this thread William started (and thank you for that) covers some of the same territory as the one I have on ergonomics and aesthetics. I will never forget
the first and only time I saw a Nikon F2 Titan. I am not a Nikonophile (or phobe),
but the design was spare, clean, functional, and beautiful in its simplicity. The one
Nikon SLR I'd love to own.

At the same time, in a post just above, I'm crazy about the concept of a revised
Stylus Epic. I've kept key issues of old Modern and Popular Photo, mainly those
covering photokina. One year Bronica showed prototypes of two functioning 35mm
interchangeable lens rangefinders. One had an "Albada" finder with projected frame
lines, the other a "real image" finder. This was either 1976 or 78. Never another
peep. Sort of like the compact Weber 76 which was designed to accept all the lenses
Zeiss had made for the Contarex, since discontinued. Unlike the sleek, svelte OM1,
the Weber was chunky and boxy, not unlike the Rollei SL 26. But, the company lacked the finances to see it through. Sorry, these are sounding like fish stories now.

As we approach PMA I have one goal. To find ONE camera which shows me that some designer at some company "gets it". Brand, format, size, none of that matters.
I'm just looking for signs of intelligent life in the photo universe. No way I'll bet on the outcome.

Fred

 

[amateriat]

At the lower end of perfection, I'd love to see a restyled Olympus Stylus Epic with manual aperture-priority control and the ability to turn off the flash and not have it return each time you switch on the camera. Such a revised design would be easy to implement, but I doubt we'll ever see it...
Gene

Not to put too fine a point on it, but it sounds like you're largely describing my favorite pocket 35, the Ricoh GR1 (in all its incarnations; I have the original version). Yes, you do have to reset the flash every time your power up the thing if you want it left off, but that's a relatively minor issue IMO.


- Barrett

 

[Honu-Hugger]

Full-frame digital backs for Contaxes and Alpa's...the cameras and lenses are fine as they are.

 

[smiling gecko]

...hammertone !!! yesssss!!! i had heard of chrome-to-black being done by someone in japan, but not the hammertone finnish being available outside of leica...yossarian: do you or someone in the rff 'hood have a link to someone who does hammertone? my guess is doing a lens would be pretty time & dollar "pricey"... thanks for the idea.

hasta la vista, adieu, dazvidanya, fino al prossimo tempo, auf wiedersehen, and later y’all
kenneth
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[wlewisiii]

Mr Gecko, try here: http://homepage2.nifty.com/Shintaro/aboutpainting.html

😀

I'm actually glad he won't do the Canon 7 but I do think bad thoughts about a hammertone CL...

William

 

[smiling gecko]

...thanks for link, wlewisiii

one sleepy gecko, signing off

 

[lubitel]

okay, I think I'll plunge into this camera dreaming.

definitely an M7 with a couple of leica lenses (ultimate dream of mine) 😀
an M3
A Hasselblad with 80 mm and a super-wide lens
Mamiya M7

A bessa R (already have it 🙂 ) plus some super wides (dont have that yet 🙁 )

And everything DOUBLE!

Then I'll buy tons of film, a darkroom, quit my job and start shooting and printing.

O, and I'll be giving away a dream camera every month here at RFF!

Okay, back to real life now...

 

[varjag]

My dream design would be something like yossarian's 'commemorative contax', but with non-zooming 1:1 finder, lines for 28-85 (yeah, the eyepiece gonna be huge), removable take up spool (I like those double cassettes), fine-tuned shutter release and ergonomics (grip/thumbrests) for my particular hands, convenient both in landscape/portrait orientation. And black.

Oh, and I'd buy out the 0.9/53 from Arsenal plant museum.

 

[yossarian]

Mr Gecko, try here: http://homepage2.nifty.com/Shintaro/aboutpainting.html

😀

I'm actually glad he won't do the Canon 7 but I do think bad thoughts about a hammertone CL...

William

William, I was daydreaming about my CL in hammertone, so please elucidated. You mean like bad karma? Or would you just need kaopectate?

Fred

 

[RML]

Maybe I could have Huw Finney build me a digital full frame rf camera....

 

[wlewisiii]

William, I was daydreaming about my CL in hammertone, so please elucidated. You mean like bad karma? Or would you just need kaopectate?

Fred

No, like my wallet would mutiny! 😀 I just couldn't afford it and if I did have that much money to spare it would be far better spent on a Canon 28/3.5 & a 40/2 Rokkor.

But I'll admit, it would be pretty.

William

 

[peter_n]

Another bog-standard 0.85 mag M7 would be my choice. 🙂 Won't be getting anything like that for awhile... 🙁