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

[Vince Lupo]

I'll take Daguerre's.

 

[CK Dexter Haven]

Avedon: Rolleiflex or Hassy
Penn: Rolleiflex or Hassy
Steven Meisel or Mario Testino: Pentax 67
Vivian Maier: Rolleiflex
Helmut Newton: Polaroid
Robert Doisneau: Rolleiflex
Bert Stern's "Last Sitting": Hassy or Nikon F.
Arbus: Mamiya TLR

 

[Nokton48]

The Minolta SRT's owned by W. Eugene Smith

 

[Timmyjoe]

Cartier-Bressons black IIIg including his multicoated collapsible Summicron 50mm f/2.

Erik.

OK, that would be sweet.

 

[gb hill]

Outstanding choices by all except maybe that pink Hello Kitty M6TTL. But I'd have to see it.😀

 

[Penceler]

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.

Halsman, any old camera he used is good enough... but I'll take the Hasselbland

 

[ZivcoPhoto]

....one of Eisie's screw mount Leicas

 

[Huss]

Pee Wee Herman's FishEye camera

http://peewee.com/2014/12/11/fisheye-wearable-fish-camera/

 

[Huss]

Any of the Austin Powers cameras

http://camaracoleccion.es/Fotos_Austin_Powers.html

 

[jonmanjiro]

William Eggleston's Shintaro green paint M3.

Hehe that would be a cool camera to own 😀

 

[Rob-F]

bill pierce...

Good choice! Also the one Eisenstadt used for the sailor kissing the nurse.

 

[pyeh]

William Eggleston's Shintaro green M3? I want to be William Eggleston! Wealth, fame, suitcases of M's...

 

[D.O'K.]

John Gay's Rolleiflex (if anyone has it I could...er...offer a swop for a battered Voigtlander folder which allegedly belonged to Cecil Beaton's brother...).

Regards,
D.

 

[John Bragg]

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

Me too Keith. I am a fond lover of the simplicity of Jane's work. Perhaps one of her OM1n cameras and one of her 85mm f2 Zuicko lenses.

 

[sevo]

Well, even Cartier-Bresson's Leica is a Leica, a mass product, and once his DNA has been cleaned off by my use I might as well have another one, in better shape. How about something unique? Maybe Hubble's Telescope? Or the Radcliffe Camera? 😉

 

[Bille]

I´ll take Barnacks protoype.
http://www.gizmag.com/worlds-most-expensive-camera-sells-at-auction/22534/

 

[BlackXList]

I'd have a second one of my 5dmk3 just as backup.

Not famous, not a prestigious choice, but it'd be handy

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Sal DiMarco's Leicas.
Not because I ever get starstruck or any of that BS, but because I'd take care of them to honor the man that helped make the journalism department at Temple university a great program through securing the entirety of the Philadelphia Daily Bulletin news and photo archive as a permanent part of the Paley Library.
I never got the chance to meet Sal as he passed away just before I moved to Philly, but the legacy of his generosity still resonates in the journalism department there. A few of the professors still speak of him very fondly.
In all reality, I'd like to see old cameras get used by folks who want to, instead of being locked away as if they are some precious commodity.

Phil Forrest


Phil Forrest

 

[giganova]

Mary Meyer's Rolleiflex and John Coltraine's saxophone!

 

[Huss]

Brad Pitt's Lomo that he used to shoot Jolie

He used a Leica to shoot Jolie. lomography.com were one of the first to cover the story.