Pretty cameras

[crawdiddy]

Kodak 'Bullet' camera
Kodak 'Hawkeye Brownie'

The Bullet is a very nice looking camera. To me it looks like the love child of a Kodak Medalist and Bantam Special.

 

[steamer]

In no particular order though the Vitessa may just edge out the others

Contax IIa
Contax G2
Contax T2
Voigtlander Vitessa A3

 

[PMCC]

Vitessa A5: the last and for me the prettiest version of this model.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

The appeal of certain kinds of design varies with the times...like for instance I just recently found myself coveting a Pentax Super Program...which a few months ago I thought was merely a cheesy elaboration upon the ME. Pretty soon I will be wearing a white fedora and listening, as I once did, to Duran Duran records.

bmattock, I am not sure I like that Pentax prototype. I've seen it before and spent a long time trying to decide if it was cool or not. I've kind of come around to disliking it--the Spotties were perfect, and it's a little creepy to see the grip grafted on.

One of the reasons I love the new Pentax is that it basically looks like the never-produced MZ-1, a former would-be LX replacement. Not that the LX does, or ever did, need replacing.

I would love it if the K-7 had come with a shutter speed knob.

 

[NickTrop]

From a pure looks stand-point, the prettiest camera I own is the Yashica Electro CC. Very UN-Electro-like from an aesthetic stand point. Some of the posted cameras here look amazin'.

 

[FrankS]

a classic Contax ll

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

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

Really? A TLR?

 

[maddoc]

Pretty and usable ... Rolleiflex 3.5F and 2.8F. The Hasselblad 500 C/M doesn't look to bad either. For 135 film I like the Leica IIIf (unfortunately not very usable when wearing eye-glasses) and the Leica M series.

 

[Vics]

For looks alone...

For looks alone...

I love the looks of black Leica M cameras of any ilk with shorl lenses, Rollei TLRs, and Hasselblads. The black Leica just looks like the perfect "Pro" camera. I used to (in the '60s) see the PJs using Leicas with Strobonars at the high-society parties I was playing at (guitar). The Rolleis just have the art deco look that no other camera really has. The Hassy is just a beautiful (looking) design. I've never owned any of the above except for the Rollei (I have two.) I also have an M3, which is lovely to look at.
Vic

 

[KoNickon]

Best looking:

Hexar RF
OM-2
Canon EF
Bronica S2A (chrome!)
XA

All the above are highly usable.

A lovely camera that's a bit fiddly:

Zeiss Contessa (folder)

 

[Keith]

And of course ... hard to go past one of these. Some of the pics Jonmanjiro has put in the RFF classifieds really shouldn't have been allowed! 😛

 

[delible]

I think that these two half-frame VF cameras -Canon Demi and Olympus Pen EE-D are pretty good looking.

 

[rbiemer]

Some nice looking cameras in this thread.
I like my Zorki 3m and I think the Canon Demi is a looker as well.
However, for seriously pretty cameras:
This woman's got the goods!


Well, some one had to link to it.
Rob

 

[gdi]

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

I keep going back to that camera, I assume it is quite rare, but how expensive? If anyone has a lead on finding a nice Advocate please PM!

 

[elshaneo]

Well my friends, my most beautiful camera is the Leica IIIf RD ST. I will never sell it ;-)

 

[Muggins]

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 !!

Wow - you aren't kidding! Do you have any of the accesories for it and, if so, does it hang together as a system camera? I've always been intrigued by the extras, as Purma seem to have taken it quite seriously, and I guess it was probably the cheapest way of getting something with a shutter that went up to 1/500?

But that's very off topic...

Adrian

 

[petronius]

This is a bad GAS-thread!
I like the forms of the Konica Off-Road; the absolute beautiful original Olympus Pen (wish I had one); another pretty one is the Canon Dial.

 

[Traut]

I don't have one anymore but I remember the first time I saw a Bronica S in the early 1960's. A very cool, original concept. The Hassy 1600 was not as cool looking IMO.

 

[Platon]

Canon's VT serie and Nikon F black with standard eye-level prism.

 

[D.O'K.]

For good looks alone:

Rangefinder--Contax lla;
Fixed lens viewfinder--original model Rollei 35;
SLR--OM1;
MF--Rolleiflex T in grey livery;
5x4 and up--more or less anything in wood and brass...

Regards,
D.