Just For Fun, What Famous (or not) Person's Camera Would You Like To Own?

[gb hill]

Inspired by comments in the Mary Ellen Mark camera thread, Who, dead or living, camera would you love to own for yourself?

I'll go first since I started this.😀 I'd love to have one of Jim Marshall's M4's. I read that he usually carried an M4 so that is my answer. To own a camera owned by Jim Marshall would be awesome.

It was a hard choice between Jim & Winogrand.

 

[Keith]

Anything that Jane Bown touched or owned would do me fine. 🙂

 

[gb hill]

Anything that Jane Bown touched or owned would do me fine. 🙂

Excellent choice Keith. I love her work.

 

[daveleo]

Marie Cosindas' polaroid.

 

[Timmyjoe]

One of Avedon's Rollei TLR's

 

[rodinal]

Diane Arbus' Rolleiflex !

 

[farlymac]

The camera Graham Nash is holding on the cover of the "Songs For Beginners" album.

PF

 

[smiling gecko]

avedon's 8x10 deardorff and the 360mm symmar (or whatever lens it was) he used for 'in the american west'...

...and robert doisneau's rolleiflex - if i could have a second choice.

laugh more, smile more.
smiling gecko, aka "hey you, with that old wooden camera!"

 

[colyn]

Since I am not a collector...none...

People automatically assign value to anything owned by a celeb and all of my cameras get used for what they are intended for...

 

[rodinal]

People automatically assign value to anything owned by a celeb and all of my cameras get used for what they are intended for...

Nothing wrong with that.
I would love to own one of Johan Sebastian Bach's quill pens, not because I think that using it I will compose marvelous music, but because the marvelous music he wrote with it.

 

[muser53]

David Douglas Duncan's Leica...
http://http://blog.chasejarvis.com/...r-camera-plus-the-images-that-made-it-famous/

 

[Jay Decker]

... I would love to own one of Johan Sebastian Bach's quill pens, not because I think that using it I will compose marvelous music, but because the marvelous music he wrote with it.

it is not the celebrity of the owner, but the emotional association with the artifact that was used by a master to create work of greatness

 

[jim_jm]

One of Robert Capa's Contax cameras used to shoot the D-Day landings.

 

[Jan Pedersen]

Jay mention emotional association and I will take that as a lead.
Philip Jones Griffiths, any one of his many cameras.

 

[nightfly]

Winogrand's M4:

https://www.cameraquest.com/LeicaM4G.htm

 

[back alley]

bill pierce...

 

[Huss]

The Dood's Widelux.

 

[Dpingr1]

Jimmy Stewart's Exakta VX from "Rear Window."

 

[FrankS]

Josef Koudelka's digital Leica.

 

[Keith]

Come to think of it I wouldn't mind a Hasselblad from the moon landing ..... 🙂