The best camera you never liked?

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The one you bought and everyone else seemed to like but for what ever reason you just didn't like.
Me I think was the EP-1 and EP-3.
 
The Olympus E-1. When I first got into the 4/3 format, I went with a Panasonic L1, a great camera, by the way. A friend of mine kept talking about the the E-1, so I bought one. I sold it a few months later. A couple of years later, thinking that maybe I did not give the camera a fair shake, I bought another one. Same thing. I just did not like the camera. I sold it just a few months later, too.

I now shoot a m4/3 system and I am also shooting an Epson RD-1 and could not be happier.
 
Contax Aria, and I don't think it was just because it failed to wind on a film in a photogenic location hundreds of miles from home.
 
Olympuses in general never did get to me, dunno why. Many here seem to swear by them but they just don't do it for me. The old OM's with the ASA dial where others have a shutter speed dial are just so illogical to me.

Oh, and never got on with Exakta's either, unless it was the Exacta 66:cool:

Finally, I had a Nikon F70/N70 and hated it. The LCD-driven menu system on that film camera was totally confusing.
 
Canonet QL-17.

I gave it a good honest try. But couldn't get the results I was looking for. I did like the shutter though. Very quiet and in the cold it worked flawlessly.
 
Rolleiflex SL66

I shoot Rollei TLRs exclusively in 120 format. I really wanted this camera, it sounded really sweet and so I bought it from keh.com not too long ago and i didn't like it. It was too loud and bulky (well ofcourse most cameras compared to the Rolleiflex TLRs are). I don't like SLRs, in general. I think I'm very picky with cameras.
 
Alpa 6c. I really wanted to like it, but ergonomically it wasn't a good fit.

I'll also second the Leica M6. Didn't think it was quality workmanship.
 
Fuji X100. Thought I had died and gone to heaven when this was announced. Just didn't work with me. Taught me I don't need a viewfinder for digital and I really don't get on with digicams with buttons on both sides of the back screen. Expensive lesson.
 
johannielscom said:
Olympuses in general never did get to me, dunno why. Many here seem to swear by them but they just don't do it for me. The old OM's with the ASA dial where others have a shutter speed dial are just so illogical to me.
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Me too. Much as I acknowledge the cleverness of the OM2n with its metering, compactness and lightness, I don't really like it, and I find the body is too shallow to hold comfortably. The Leica equivalent for me, strangely perhaps, is the Nikon F3.
 
Nikon F. I could never quite get into mine, and prefer the feel and usability of the F3. It looks nice on a shelf, however.
 
All Nikons I owned.
Turning lenses left to mount and very limited choices
to adapt foreign glass is for others, not for me.
 
Nikkormat FT3. I REALLY wanted to like this as I dreamed of the then-new FM, but could only afford a used FT3. HATED the shutter speed dial around the lens mount. I regretted the "upgrade" from my Minolta SRT200 almost immediately.

I really wanted to like the Sony NEX7 as well, and used it with fantastic results for about a year. Great as the images were, I always felt like I was using a computer instead of a camera.

Now I use a Leica M Monochrom and for the first time since that old Minolta SRT in 1976 I really feel comfortable with my gear.
 
It has to be the Nikon S3-2000... Lovely camera, great quality, but I just couldn't like using it. So it was swapped off in part for an M9.

I have used quite a lot of cameras I chose not to buy, and in retrospect the ones I liked least but were still excellent gear had been designed around waist-level viewing.
 
I have not liked any Nikon I have ever used. At best I accept their quality. Just haven't found one that is right for me.
 
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