Please describe a never made film camera you'd love to buy new right now...

[wafflecakee]

a yashica t4 but for 120, 6x6

 

[shadowfox]

I want a camera that looks like Ricoh GR1...
with built-in manually switchable focal length: 24mm, 35mm, and 70mm.
(Not a zoom!)

Size-wise, it can be bigger than a GR1, but the lens has to have a high-resolution like the GR1.

Suggested model name: U1 (Unicorn One).

 

[Markus B]

Leica M6 with self-timer, and without the red dot, or a M2 with on board light meter ;–)

 

[De_Corday]

^ +89347203847557435 (also with a digital back door replacement but that's for another thread)

(agreed! my kingdom for a digital f3.)

 

[Swift1]

I want a 35mm AF film SLR that utilizes Sony's live view technology from the Alpha 350.

 

[zuiko85]

A brand new Olympus Pen FV with updated focusing screen, and improvements in the prism/mirror/prism viewing system to give a 2 stop brighter view.

New Zuiko primes with focal lengths of 16mm f4, 20mm f2.8, 25mm f2, 38mm f2, 80mm f2

 

[Sym101]

Black paint Leica M7 which can still function at ALL shutter speeds without batteries.

 

[Particular]

I can't answer this question in case I decide to build it myself. I could tell you, but I would have to kill you...




ps. Not an actual threat.

 

[De_Corday]

I can't answer this question in case I decide to build it myself. I could tell you, but I would have to kill you...




ps. Not an actual threat.

You could probably just sell it to us 😉

 

[Particular]

Alright, I'll play;
A Robot like wind up clockwork shutter body with a rangefinder and M-mount. Four frames per second or faster, like the original Robots.

 

[Particular]

I want a 35mm AF film SLR that utilizes Sony's live view technology from the Alpha 350.

With built in wifi, it could post a 'preview' to instagram or flickr whenever you hit the shutter. I think that would be a hit.

 

[tsiklonaut]

Not a rangefinder, but Pentax 67 mark III, with world's only medium format ultrafast SMC 105mm f1.4 lens (humongous in size though) + SMC 165mm f1.8 portrait bokeh monsters and ultrawide SMC 41mm f4.5 aspheric ED glass 🙂

That'd do it. Take my every last penny just to get one, the only camera setup I'd consider buying brand new now even if it'd mean silly money. 😉

Second option - rangefinder: Fuji GSW690 mark IV rangefinder, with high-end bright Fujinon Super-EBC 90mm f2.8 lens and built-in metering + Aperture-priority mode. A tiny battery only for the meter and A-mode operation - the rest fully mechanical without the need of any electronics.

From what's currently made - tech-wise the Nikon F6 is the true champion despite it's out for a long time, a SLR as well. And Voigtländer Bessa III / Fuji 670 is a noteworthy contender in MF rangefinder field. Haven't seen anything revolutionary in 35mm rangefinder field so can't exacly extrapolate what to expect or anything at all.

 

[Lucadomi]

Rolleiflex with interchangeable lenses. 50mm super angulon, 135 Sonnar, 75/80 Planar or Xenotar and maybe some more.
That coulld be interesting.

 

[citizen99]

An ultra-simple, fixed lens, mechanical leaf shutter 35mm film camera with 28mm lens. A 'stretched body' version of e.g. the original Olympus PEN or Petri HALF, obviously with a wide angle 'pancake' lens, would do nicely 🙂 . (Functionally, my FED-2 with Orion-15 does the job for me, but I prefer the quietness of a leaf shutter, and I don't really need a rangefinder with 28mm).

Oh, there's the Kowa SW, but that is so rare as to be hardly obtainable, at least in the UK 🙁.

 

[marko.oja]

Funnily enough, pretty much the same camera Frozenintime wanted. A 24x24 square camera that can use Leica lenses.

 

[DominikDUK]

A portable camera with RF and interchangeable lenses for aerial mapping film (image size 230mm x 230mm) in short a LF camera for LF-Rollfilm with RF and lightweight.

 

[Sparrow]

... why has no one said an Oly mjuII without the default flash?

 

[silent1]

Ricoh GR1v with the Contax T3's 35mm lens and the Hexar AF's viewfinder and silent mode.

 

[Keith]

The perfect 35mm film camera was made some time ago ... the Nikon F6.

And in MF ... the 67ii Pentax has no peers IMO.

 

[analogish]

A new Voigtländer Bessa R with Canon bayonet mount for the Canon 50mm f/0.95 lens and 1/2000 shutter speed. That would be a nice and modern replacement for the Canon 7/7s.

At the JCII camera museum in Tokyo I saw so many Voigtländer Bessa variations that I have never heard or seen of. So if Voigtländer did a Bessa with Contax mount, why can't they do a Bessa with Canon bayonet mount in a small batch? I would be in heaven!