If your camera was a car, what would it be?

[3rdtrick]

Some interesting thoughts here. Like most of you, I have several cameras but right now I have my Polaroid 110 Pathfinder (yes, the one with the Kalart rangefinder) that has been converted to packfilm. I would like to think of it as a 1955 Nomad because it was built in 1955 and was the top of the line in Polaroid. Like the camera, the Nomad would be updated with a nice 350, automatic, disc brakes etc.

 

[Roger Hicks]

How about Morgan -- http://www.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=...RUUs78LqO10wXpt4HIDA&ved=0CDAQ9QEwAA&dur=6851 -- and a Morgan Plus 4? One has an ash frame, the other mahogany...

Or a P4 ("Auntie") Rover -- http://encarsglobe.com/rover-p4.html -- and a IIIf: understated traditional values. The second one (Forest and Sage greens) is the same colour as mine was.

Cheers,

R.

 

[MatthewThompson]

Contax G2 would be a Honda NSX. Overpriced, technically an underachiever but brilliant in its own way.

Fuji GA645 would be something along the lines of an FJ-80 Land Cruiser.

 

[Penny Lane]

I don't know if the two really compare, but I used to have a Verona Red 1976 BMW 02-series and my M4 gives me the same type of feel: it may be ragged, but it just works. Very well.

It's just that feel of genuinely well thought out engineering in a neat & tidy little package - a feel that stands up to almost idiotic kinds of wear & tear.

There's a big difference between my much missed little Bimmer (not a Beemer/Beamer!) and the M4 in that the M4 is rather a lot more likely to have found its last owner (at least during my lifespan 😛) Fortunately, my father still has his Amazonas Green 1974 BMW 1602 so I still get to drive one every so often...


BMW 1602 by bimmer1502, on Flickr

Derk

 

[johannielscom]

Leica II from 1932 to me is a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia...