tunalegs
Pretended Artist
I'll add that the Perfex Speed Candid is ugly from every angle.
BW400CN
Bessamatic forever!
At the top of my "Ugly" scale:
Sorry, I wouldn´t call it ugly - just interesting. The Barnacks a on top of my ugly list - a now a lot are going to kill me.
séamuis
Established
I quite like the Instax cameras. especially the newer mini 8. beauty is in he eye of the beholder i guess. looks aside, apart from my polaroid land, these are the funnest cameras ive ever used.
Photo_Smith
Well-known
I think that is the shuttlecraft from the starship enterprise
Lots of ugly cameras, the Hassleblad Lunar is the winner for me, looks like the mock-up was placed too near a fire and melted, the team just decided to build it anyhow.
Myself I think the Nikon D800e is ugly, the designer seems to give it the thumbs up though and says it suits him down to the ground.
mugent
Well-known
The Canon T70 is fairly hideous.
rbiemer
Unabashed Amateur
Yes. pretty ugly but I think I'm going to buy one. I seem to have a soft spot (in my head, I guess.
) for these DIY kit cameras. The Gakkenflex was fun to build and to use. The Knostruktor just needs the right stickers! No apologies necessary, I do get that my taste is not yours nor should be.
As for my vote for ugly cameras, how about this one:
From here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEICA-II-D-...145128484?pt=Film_Cameras&hash=item4ac5bdc624
Rob
Archiver
Veteran
The Hasselblad Lunar isn't so ugly if you think of it as a Roger Dean design. Think of Yes album covers.
biomed
Veteran
TheFlyingCamera
Well-known
The gold plated Leicas aren't so much ugly as they are TACKY. The basic form is still pretty, but the accoutrements scream "too much money, not enough taste".
hamradio
Well-known
Red must be the new silver, for lower end SLRs.
thegman
Veteran
Nikon 1 V2 is pretty grim, which is a shame as I thought the V1 was very nice to look at, understated, almost like a Ricoh GRD.
The Mercury II film camera. It has what looks like boils all over the front and that fan-thing on the top. A friend of mine had one in the late 1950s and as I recall it took half frame portrait-style photos. I never understood how a guy who drove a classic Austin-Healey A100 could have such a camera.
Jim Rice
Member
All of the futuristic blob camera leave me cold. I'm just saying since they didn't ask me about them or anything.
CliveC
Well-known
I agree. It almost put me off buying a T90, but the T90 looks slightly better since it got rid of the hard lines.
Probably looked pretty futuristic in its day though. The 80s were a weird time.
gitarzan
Dave Fultz, Jr.
I thought the kon-omegas rf were ugly. As if they tried to make them cheap looking.
znapper
Well-known
The latest creation from Hasselblad (funnily enough)
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
The latest creation from Hasselblad (funnily enough)
It's hard to describe the 'look' of this camera. Hideous obviously but it goes beyond that for me.
znapper
Well-known
Sure is one of the weirder merges between metal and wood I've seen in a while.
Just doesn't match up (and who the heck would need a wooden grip on a camera that fits in your shirt pocket?).
Weird......
Just doesn't match up (and who the heck would need a wooden grip on a camera that fits in your shirt pocket?).
Weird......
cosmonaut
Well-known
The latest creation from Hasselblad (funnily enough)
Yeah, that's ugly for certain.
cosmonaut
Well-known
I think that is the shuttlecraft from the starship enterprise
Lots of ugly cameras, the Hassleblad Lunar is the winner for me, looks like the mock-up was placed too near a fire and melted, the team just decided to build it anyhow.
Myself I think the Nikon D800e is ugly, the designer seems to give it the thumbs up though and says it suits him down to the ground.
Now that's funny.