The ugliest camera you ever saw.

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I am just curious what you consider the ugliest camera ever? Just for fun. Please post a picture if you can.
 
Everything has already been done, and every answer can be found using google search.

But where's the fun in that?
 
I can think of many, however they tend to be 'ugly' due to their 'form follows function' design, for example the Mamiya 23, or the deliberately manufactured obscene Russian counterfeit gold Leica's, however in my mind, the ugliest camera today that you can buy new has to be the Hasselblad Lunar:

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I think that there are too many obscure cameras to mention.

For what is mainstream, I think that Mamiya cameras are not attractive. There are some cameras by Nikon, Canon, Rolleiflex, Konica, Leica, and etc. but nothing from Mamiya I have ever found attractive.
 
msbarnes said:
For what is mainstream, I think that Mamiya cameras are not attractive. There are some cameras by Nikon, Canon, Rolleiflex, Konica, Leica, and etc. but nothing from Mamiya I have ever found attractive.
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Strange... I used a Mamiya C330 for some time and still miss it. I very much liked it, and I still have a picture of it, which is one of my two favorite photos of my cameras.

The ugliest I owned was this one:

http://www.kameramuseum.de/0-fotokameras/ddr/veb-zeiss/werra1-halb.html

I had one for some time because it was so ugly and funny. You could take off the lens protector, turn it back to front, and screw it in the lens thread to make it a lens shade. Really strange thing. Now you can get them for 5 to 10 Euros on Ebay…
 
Ugly?

Ugly?

Hi, i opened that old thread about ugliest cameras, and found a pair which were cosnidered that way, Arguses c-33 and Autotronic...

But i couldn´t find them to be ugly at all rare, yes but in it´s way very stylish and so i went for searching to start a little non costly collection of argus cameras..thanks for the thread!!!

And to answer your question i find the Hassy, quite ugly...
 
krötenblender said:
Strange... I used a Mamiya C330 for some time and still miss it. I very much liked it, and I still have a picture of it, which is one of my two favorite photos of my cameras.

The ugliest I owned was this one:

http://www.kameramuseum.de/0-fotokameras/ddr/veb-zeiss/werra1-halb.html

I had one for some time because it was so ugly and funny. You could take off the lens protector, turn it back to front, and screw it in the lens thread to make it a lens shade. Really strange thing. Now you can get them for 5 to 10 Euros on Ebay…
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I think that the Werra is beautiful.
 
Just to stirr thing up: maybe not the ugliest, but certainly an ugly camera in my eyes: the Olympus OM-D. I know it has its share of fans, but really? What is it but a wannabe manual focus camera? Why does it have that ugly bump for its EVF? Compared to to the Sony Nex 7 camera it is form over function, while the Sony is function over form.

And that Hassy, it is a bold statement and I like bold statements....
 
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