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

[finarphin]

M3

M3

Queen Elizabeth's M3 (at least I think it's an M3). Wait, I actually have an M3 -- but it doesn't look as nice as hers.

 

[Chuck Albertson]

Rommel's Leica.

 

[ww2photog]

Where do I start, Capa's Contax from DDay, Joe Rosenthals Speed Graphic, Fox Talbots, mousetrap cameras, Daguerres Camera, Mathew Brady's or Alexander Gardners Wet Plate cameras, Steiglist RB Graflex, Weston's or Ansels 8x10, HBC Leica, Brassai Voigtlander Bergheil, James Deans Rolleiflex, one of the Lunar Hassleblads, the list goes on and on

 

[ferider]

Sven Hedin, Albert Schweizer's or Konrad Adenauer's Leicas would be cool.

Ahh yes, and DDD's Nikkor 5cm/1.5.

To help you pick:

 

[Texsport]

I know for a fact he's not going to part with his set-up, so I saved up a lot of pennies and bought my own 😀 😀

Me too!

Texsport

 

[Daryl J.]

Galen Rowell's Nikon. Photography would have been put away forever had his work not been shown me.

David Bowie's Hassey for the cool factor.

 

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

Did DB actually use a Hassy much? Some time ago I have seen a photo of him holding a Tele Rolleiflex but know nothing about it. It might have been on a film set for all I know—definitely a Tele, though.

 

[_goodtimez]

Anything from Ralph Gibson.

Here is Ralph's camera. I almost bought it a few years ago, wrote to him personally to double check and he confirmed that was his M3.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/8487951@N05/albums/72157633189237784

 

[p.giannakis]

Ken Rockwell's Trip 35.....

http://www.kenrockwell.com/olympus/trip-35.htm

 

[dave lackey]

Jeez,

This is an old thread that I had no answer to share until I recently discovered that I most like to use those cameras I have that were once owned/used/given to me by friends. There are memories there that are cues each time I see or pick up the cameras/lenses.

Good mojo!

So, to each of you, it is your camera I enjoy the most!😛

 

[noisycheese]

This is probably an obvious choice, but mine would be one of Henri Cartier-Bresson's M Leicas - not that one would ever come up for sale or that I would be able to afford it if one did, mind you...

 

[ReeRay]

Anything Fan Ho owned - hoping just a miniscule amount of vision passed through to me.

 

[Sym101]

Any of Seal's cameras. (He's a huge Leica fan)😀

 

[Darthfeeble]

Ansel Adams' 8 X 10. I'm sure it would perform as well for me.

 

[Bingley]

Ansel Adams' Hasselblad

 

[skucera]

I'd like to have Erwin Rommel's Leica II.

His son said he took pictures of Australian soldiers charging Afrika Korps positions in the desert, pictures of Dunkirk, pictures of the trenches in WWI, and all sorts of other pictures. None of these photos have ever been found.

Scott

 

[sepiareverb]

His son said he took pictures of Australian soldiers charging Afrika Korps positions in the desert, pictures of Dunkirk, pictures of the trenches in WWI, and all sorts of other pictures. None of these photos have ever been found.

Scott

Perhaps he had trouble loading it.

 

[Ong]

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

You beat me to it.
Well I'll have to say either DDD's Barnack or Nikon F

 

[giganova]

The camera Joseph Nicéphore Niépce used to take the first known photograph! I guess it wouldn't be the best camera for street photography, though 😀

 

[barnwulf]

I would like to have Edward Weston's 8X10 camera since he's one of the first photographers that I learned about in the late 1950's. - jim