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A plea for tolerance... Yesterday we decided to have a barbecue on the beach and rather than expose my M6 to sand, I took my most unloved camera, nicknamed "the Blob", being a Canon Eos 600. Brought to us by the same brilliant designer-team that gave the world the Maginot Line, the KGB headquarters and the Suzuki WagonR, it is an unfortunate and heavy mish-mash of ugly planes, wrong angles and akward dimensions, all finished of in striking olive-grayish black-brown, last used on the Soviet T34 tank and dull blackish-grey rubber. The lens is the Canon 1.8/50, which is easily confused with a can of tar.
But actually, the ergonomics are brilliant, it handles great and is indestructible and the lens is one of the best 50 mm's on the market. An ideal camera to have in adverse conditions using program exposure that never fails and spot-on AF. I'm sure there are more of us who have these "hate'em but use'em" camera's
 
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To be perfectly honest, I don't much like the Bessa-R. I know it's jolly good, but I don't fell any emotional involvement. Somehow it's like the photographic conterpart to a cheap transistor radio - it does the job, but...

I'm just a bad person.

Ian
 
This will probably get me flamed, but I'm not in love with my QL17 GIII. When I pin it down, it's the little details, maybe just on mine like the rewind not being particularly smooth, or the switching of it's manual settings. Petty I know. I prefer the heft of my Yashica Electro. I'll give it one more chance, though with a red filter it might be the perfect dramatic sky-taking camera.
 
Bottom-feeder Canons like the IIIA and IVSB. Love the small size, especially when paired with a 35mm or compact 50mm lens like the 50/1.8. Absolutely hate loading the damn things, but otherwise well layed-out, easy to use, extremely reliable and built like tanks.
 
Currently my Contax G1. I bought one for a song from a local student, and it just did not work for me. I'll get around to selling it when I am back in California...I'll stick with Leicas, Konicas, Bessas and Ikons...(not that I have them all, but M mount works much better for me...so does the Hexar AF.)
 
My Leica IIIf for the same reason as rover. Well not quite. I really do love it* but it's the least used. It needs a service as well - the RF is so faint as to be unusable. I just use hyperfocus and hope for the best.

*La Thanatos bought it for my fortieth birthday unbidden so I have to love it 😉
 
I hated my first SLR, the Nikon N4004/F401, and I much malign it ever since. Truth to be told it was well specified; but for some reason it just failed to inspire me.
 
tetrisattack said:
EOS 300D.

Nowadays, I break it out for all the photography I don't really care about. 🙂
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You know, it is terrible, that is exactly what I am going to buy a DSLR for. Not that you don't care about it, but some times, family stuff, an automatic camera is the way to go.

Just a terribly appropriate statement in my mind.
 
rover said:
You know, it is terrible, that is exactly what I am going to buy a DSLR for. Not that you don't care about it, but some times, family stuff, an automatic camera is the way to go.

Just a terribly appropriate statement in my mind.
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It's the awful truth: there are some things not worth committing to a piece of film. 🙂

I use my DSLR like a polaroid in the studio. Now that it's paid for itself, it makes a truly exceptional way of previewing and refining what I want to record to a sheet of film.

One of these days I might use it to make a good camera and coffee picture. 😉
 
anandi said:
This will probably get me flamed, but I'm not in love with my QL17 GIII. When I pin it down, it's the little details, maybe just on mine like the rewind not being particularly smooth, or the switching of it's manual settings.
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My feelings, exactly! I'm also not convinced that the optics are great. I've been told that mine might be the exception, but it's just not that great. The only thing that keeps me happy is that I only paid $9 for it.
 
my eos 20D.
it makes me feel so removed from the photographic process...albiet it is a very high quality DSLR

or my Tenax, cosidering the shutter fires only about 70% of the time that I press the shutter button.
 
My RTS. It's big, it's bulky, and something's wrong with the shutter at 1/125th, but it's my go-to body for rainy days, abandoned buildings, and other nasty conditions. It's light meter is dead on, and in a pinch I could use it to beat away a pack of wild dogs. It's my favorite body for the worst work. I secretly think that it likes the abuse.

Jonathan
 
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