The Stuff You Didn't Like

Ilford Advocate, great looks, British!!, good wide angle lens, simple controls, what's not to like?
The shutter that fails and won't re-cock and allows the film to wind on and on and on BUT all this only after taking a vertical shot!!
If you ever look at my Flickr you will see probably, I'm not sad enough to count, that 50% of my 35mm is shot vertical, no idea why, so when I pick this beauty up and I've had her 30+ years now although I know what will happen my arms instinctively go for the vertical shot and too late!!
A known fault, but not often remarked upon, particularly as most are collected for their looks or the seller doesn't want to admit it, or perhap never shoots verticals?


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Silvermax/Beutler for those who MUST know.
 
o The m4/3 system in general
o The Nikkor 85/2 LTM lens (too heavy)
o The Nikkor 24/2 AIS F mount lens (very susceptible to ghosting and lateral CA was high)
o All fast Nikkor G, F mount primes (the high amount of longitudinal CA ruined the OOF rendering).
 
D.O'K. said:
Minox 35 cameras. For me, the good lenses didn't compensate sufficiently for their fiddly controls and cheap plasticy feel.

The two examples I had--different models, at different times--also tended to overexpose.

Regards,
D.
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I agree about the Minox 35 - I was underwhelmed by this camera
 
At the risk of having hell rained on me, I think the Minolta Autocord is a little overrated. It's a nice camera, but not at the prices it seems to command today. For one thing it has reliability problems - especially the weird focusing cam mechanism.
 
David, the trick is to buy an Autocord where the original buyer snapped off the focus lever early and put it back in a box. Buy it cheap, have a more robust lever installed with a CLA and you're back in to bargain territory. 😉

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Hexar AF and Olympus Stylus Epic. Evidently I either compose in ways or shoot too wide open for these cameras to get the focus where I want it. I suppose it saved me the expense of exploring other autofocus cameras like I have with other sorts.

Rollei 35S. Another focus issue but this time mine. I couldn't resist using this camera wide open and missed too many shots. Some are much better at this estimation than I am and I'm sure with enough practice I could have gotten there but it wasn't worth the frustration at the time.

Yashica 35CC. Great camera, fast handling, only part I disliked in the end was the bokeh. I found myself preferring other cameras for this reason alone and parted with it.
 
nickthetasmaniac said:
Minolta SRT101. It was the first non-Pentax SLR I used, after growing up with my parent's Spotmatic SP and K1000, and later my own MX and LX bodies, and it just felt... weird.

Fujifilm X100 mkI. I'd like to have a go at one of the later editions, but the first model, with early firmware, was by far the most frustrating camera I've used.
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David Murphy said:
At the risk of having hell rained on me, I think the Minolta Autocord is a little overrated. It's a nice camera, but not at the prices it seems to command today. For one thing it has reliability problems - especially the weird focusing cam mechanism.
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Are you guys smoking crack?! 😱

I was reading through this thread, enjoying myself, until I found this egregious lack of appreciation for two of my very favorite cameras! 😕

Oh well, send any unwanted SR-Ts and Autocords to me and I will give them a good home. We must do this, however, before Nokton48 gets wind of any SR-Ts changing hands. :angel:

- Murray
 
Great tip on the Autocord Brian.

The 35S is certainly a squirrely camera in many ways, but the Sonnar makes it worth the hassle

Brian Legge said:
David, the trick is to buy an Autocord where the original buyer snapped off the focus lever early and put it back in a box. Buy it cheap, have a more robust lever installed with a CLA and you're back in to bargain territory. 😉

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Hexar AF and Olympus Stylus Epic. Evidently I either compose in ways or shoot too wide open for these cameras to get the focus where I want it. I suppose it saved me the expense of exploring other autofocus cameras like I have with other sorts.

Rollei 35S. Another focus issue but this time mine. I couldn't resist using this camera wide open and missed too many shots. Some are much better at this estimation than I am and I'm sure with enough practice I could have gotten there but it wasn't worth the frustration at the time.

Yashica 35CC. Great camera, fast handling, only part I disliked in the end was the bokeh. I found myself preferring other cameras for this reason alone and parted with it.
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I had a Mamiya GS645 (the nonfolding one with the "crash bar" protecting the lens. The RF patch was so small and dim it made using the camera exasperating.

I'll speak out in support of David that the Autocord's ergonomics make it not all it's cracked up to be for me (I'm thinking of the focusing lever and the wind crank, with its folding tip).

Finally, I'm sure to be ducking when I say this, but the Nikon F3 was a disappointment. I didn't care for the metering pattern, and why in the world is the on/off switch this small lever that's a chore to budge?
 
KoNickon said:
I had a Mamiya GS645 (the nonfolding one with the "crash bar" protecting the lens. The RF patch was so small and dim it made using the camera exasperating.

I'll speak out in support of David that the Autocord's ergonomics make it not all it's cracked up to be for me (I'm thinking of the focusing lever and the wind crank, with its folding tip).

Finally, I'm sure to be ducking when I say this, but the Nikon F3 was a disappointment. I didn't care for the metering pattern, and why in the world is the on/off switch this small lever that's a chore to budge?
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You must mean Fuji, I have a sweet spot for them.

Most annoying to me, the lens shade and overall handling of the GW 690.
I have the 670 III version and would not miss it for the world.
 
I just bought an Autocord CDS III a month ago and must say it's a sweet camera.

Even though it will cost me a couple of hundred to get it in tip top shape again.
 
David Murphy said:
At the risk of having hell rained on me, I think the Minolta Autocord is a little overrated. It's a nice camera, but not at the prices it seems to command today. For one thing it has reliability problems - especially the weird focusing cam mechanism.
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Agree.

I went for the Ricoh Diacord series (way more robust focusing mechanism) and never looked back.

Back on topic, I don't care much about Mamiya RB67, but I love the MUP.
 
Bronica S2A...I've seen shotguns that made less noise than the S2A's shutter. Lenses were sharp, but the noise and the weight of the thing.....
 
Konica Hexar RF- impossible to keep RF aligned. Spent most of its life at Konica repair.

Konica Hexar AF - least accurate frame lines ever, much worse than the infamous Leica M6

Minolta CLE- a pain to use in Manual, useless averaging meter, crappy plastic battery cover that would open and spill the batteries
 
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