Pretty cameras

[naql]

I think the Rollei 35 is pretty little camera.

I love the look of the Zorki 6 too. Almost as much as my M2.

 

[John Robertson]

No 1

No2

No3

No4

Sadly I don't own No2, I wish I did though!!!!!
I also have a new condition Purma Plus, in box with instructions which I have owned and used for over 50yrs.

I also had a beautiful Braun Super Paxette outfit with three Schneider lenses. It was stolen from my room in Hotel Barrault in Paris in
1964, I'm sure it was the owners son as he was furious when I would not sell him the camera!! I hope it brought him
terminal luck!!!

 

[FrozenInTime]

mabelsound, that CASCA has some amazing technology pre-dating the M3 : I'd never heard of it before, but found an interesting introduction here http://www.cameraquest.com/casca.htm

My nominations are :

Olympus OM1-n black
Minox AX black

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Ilford advocate, yeah!! Forgot that one. Didn't they also make the Witness?

 

[aizan]

usable:
alpa tc
arca swiss f-classic
contax ii/iia
deardorff 8x10
ebony rw810
fujifilm gf670 professional
hasselblad 500cm, late
konica hexar rf
leica mp
linhof kardan gt 8x10
linhof technika 2000/3000
linhof technikardan 45s
nikon f, plain prism
nikon sp 2005
olympus e-1
olympus om-3
olympus pen f
olympus pen s/w/etc.
pentax spotmatic
r.h. phillips compact ii 8x10
ricoh grd ii
rollei 35
rolleiflex 2.8e2
rolleiflex 3.5f type 2
rolleiflex 6008i/6001hg
toho fc-810
voigtlander r2a/r3a, early

unusable:
exakta varex vx, version 5
leica ii
maison parmentier 8x10
voigtlander vitessa n
zeiss ikon baby box tengor 54/18
zeiss ikon box tengor 54/2
zeiss ikon kolibri
zeiss ikon super nettel
zeiss ikon tenax ii

i think i'm forgetting something...

 

[Paul T.]

Much as I love the Om1, it's too practical to be pretty.

my vote: VOigtlander Vitessa. Beautiful, but just a bit feisty and impractical.

http://www.cameraquest.com/voitvitl.htm

 

[CK Dexter Haven]

That Purma is wacky-gorgeous.

• Leica MP
• Contax RX
• Contax G2
• Nikon F6
• Hasselblad 203FE
• Rolleiflex 2.8F
• Contax 645AF
• Photax Blindé
• Robot Royal 36

Here's a relevant thread, with pix:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/cameraporn/discuss/72057594140446655/

I'm surprised someone said Pentax. I've always detested Pentax design. Even at their best, it's utilitarian and never beautiful. But, i guess that's why you can walk into a room with a hundred people in it, and no two people are wearing the same shoes....

 

[John Robertson]

Ilford advocate, yeah!! Forgot that one. Didn't they also make the Witness?

Oh YES another beauty, well out of my price range!!!!
I have actually used one, handles as good as it looks!!!

 

[gdi]

No 1

I need that one!

 

[sepiareverb]

Nobody has mentioned the white M8- I quite like that one.

 

[Keith]

I've never afforded one, but for looks......Linhof Technicas are my favourites, I hear they perform well too!
Dave.

Can't agree more ... the first time I saw a pic of a Linhof Technica my jaw hit the floor. There was one for sale in the classifieds a while ago and I spent a lot of time staring at it!

The trouble with 'pretty' cameras is they often become shelf queens ... I owned this IIIG for three years and put one roll of film through it before selling it.

 

[John Robertson]

PS Looks-wise, though, the Purma Plus is a bit of a beagle, and it's truly horrid to use...[/QUOTE]

Not when you are an impoverished kid in the 50's, with a passion for photography, I took thousands of shots with mine, even did a wedding with it!!!
It still looks and works like new !!

 

[bmattock]

I'm breaking the rules a bit; this is a Pentax digital that was never released.

http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/bodies/prototypes/K10D_AP50.html

But man, it was beautiful!

 

[John Robertson]

Nobody has mentioned the white M8- I quite like that one.

that is white paint, the Advocate is Vitreous enamel, which stays white!

 

[bmattock]

Toshiba PDR-M4 digital camera. Sadly, only 2.4 mp, but it was nice-looking!

 

[John Robertson]

I'm breaking the rules a bit; this is a Pentax digital that was never released.

http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/bodies/prototypes/K10D_AP50.html

But man, it was beautiful!

Pentax also showed one very like the Yalluflex a few years ago, but never made it!!

 

[johannielscom]

There can be only one!

There can be only one!

The Leica M5 in black chrome.

If the M9 would ever be looking like that, I would sell a kidney after all😱


Or else, as a runner up:

The Vivitar 35ES, because the front panel and the paint job make me think of my Black M3

 

[Pickett Wilson]

The EOS 1's are pretty nice. I had a friend that always refered to my EOS 1's as looking like "soap on a rope."

 

[kbg32]

Keith,

That lllG is beautiful!

-Keith

 

[charjohncarter]

How about pretty lenses: