Stephanie Brim
Mental Experimental.
I may have a TLR already picked out. I think I'll go for the American Ciro-Flex. Not only does it take pretty good images from what I've seen on the web, they're cheap. Cheap is what I need right now with a baby on the way. 
murrayatuptown
Established
Do something radical and cheap.
Pinhole, anamorph with a cylinder, make a box camera from foamcore, etc.
You get a totally different outlook on DOF, sharpness, time lapse, multiple exposure, multiple aperture, etc, etc.
Then go back to a manufactured camera with an altered experience. I did a 2-3 year pinhole hermitage, left 4x5 Graflexes etc on the shelf. I'm back to lens & RF stuff now, excited about glass too, but picked up a sense of perspective from pinhole I never had as an 'appliance' camera operator (I don't call myself a photographer yet).
Visit f295.org to see what others are doing.
Pinhole, anamorph with a cylinder, make a box camera from foamcore, etc.
You get a totally different outlook on DOF, sharpness, time lapse, multiple exposure, multiple aperture, etc, etc.
Then go back to a manufactured camera with an altered experience. I did a 2-3 year pinhole hermitage, left 4x5 Graflexes etc on the shelf. I'm back to lens & RF stuff now, excited about glass too, but picked up a sense of perspective from pinhole I never had as an 'appliance' camera operator (I don't call myself a photographer yet).
Visit f295.org to see what others are doing.
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
Yashicamats are overpriced for what they're worth IMHO.
If you want different, and you think you need a radical change to revive your lust for photography, then a TLR is not different enough. I think a new camera is not the answer for you, and I think that this discussion is getting really repetitive and that I and others have told you this a number of times. This alone should be a warning sign for you that what we are discussing here is a symptom and not the malady. I also think you are suffering from GTSS, gear talk suffocation syndrome. You hang around in forums such as this one too much, and your brain has built up a detrimental connection between photography and gear. It works a bit like an addiction. I think many of us have experienced this some way or the other.
There are a number of cures for that. Some people sell all their cameras except one. Some people do something radical and completely different, like a year of pinhole photography. Some people stop reading internet fora about photography. Some people decidedly start to use bad cameras and crappy lenses, so that if they produce a good picture they know it's due to them and not their gear, and that helps them to concentrate on pictures. Some people start using digital, because the instant feedback makes it easier to judge themselves as photographers. But something most of them do is limit their exposure to gear. Gear is the problem, not the solution.
Why don't you just give all your cameras except one to a trustworthy person to keep them for half a year and not give any of them to you no matter how much you plead? It helps if the one you keep is not the best camera you own.
If you want different, and you think you need a radical change to revive your lust for photography, then a TLR is not different enough. I think a new camera is not the answer for you, and I think that this discussion is getting really repetitive and that I and others have told you this a number of times. This alone should be a warning sign for you that what we are discussing here is a symptom and not the malady. I also think you are suffering from GTSS, gear talk suffocation syndrome. You hang around in forums such as this one too much, and your brain has built up a detrimental connection between photography and gear. It works a bit like an addiction. I think many of us have experienced this some way or the other.
There are a number of cures for that. Some people sell all their cameras except one. Some people do something radical and completely different, like a year of pinhole photography. Some people stop reading internet fora about photography. Some people decidedly start to use bad cameras and crappy lenses, so that if they produce a good picture they know it's due to them and not their gear, and that helps them to concentrate on pictures. Some people start using digital, because the instant feedback makes it easier to judge themselves as photographers. But something most of them do is limit their exposure to gear. Gear is the problem, not the solution.
Why don't you just give all your cameras except one to a trustworthy person to keep them for half a year and not give any of them to you no matter how much you plead? It helps if the one you keep is not the best camera you own.
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