The Ugly Camera Contest! Post Your Contender Here...

[NickTrop]

There have been some very ugly cameras produced over the years. Post your favorite "only a mother could love", "what was the designer th/(dr)inking" camera here. Another poster recently posted a thread about picking one of these up. Never heard of it... thought I'd take a look. Whoah, Nellie! That is ONE fugly camera. So I vote for the Argus Autronic I (Never owned one, mind you...) This is for fun... Don't go getting upset! I'm sure the camera's feeling won't be hurt 😉

 

[Sonnar Brian]

That camera has a striking resemblance to the Kiev 5.

But they are both beauty queens compared with my Nikon E3, One-Point-Three MEGAPixel full-frame Digital camera from 1997.

TV Screen... All I get is a little slot to show the PCMCIA card is in it.

 

[charjohncarter]

There have been some very ugly cameras produced over the years. Post your favorite "only a mother could love", "what was the designer th/(dr)inking" camera here. Another poster recently posted a thread about picking one of these up. Never heard of it... thought I'd take a look. Whoah, Nellie! That is ONE fugly camera. So I vote for the Argus Autronic I (Never owned one, mind you...) This is for fun... Don't go getting upset! I'm sure the camera's feeling won't be hurt 😉

That's pretty hard to beat Nick, but I'll give it a try:

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I get it. You guys just have something against SELENIUM!

Accurate after 50 years, and still doesn't get any respect!

 

[charjohncarter]

I get it. You guys just have something against SELENIUM!

Accurate after 50 years, and still doesn't get any respect!

No, no, no, I love Selenium:

 

[dexdog]

hard to beat selenium meters for uglifying an otherwise elegant design. I like using selenium meters, but coupled meters are often just damn ugly. BTW, this selenium meter is still spot one, matches my LunaStar F across the spectrum (at least to the limit of sensitivity).

 

[Alpacaman]

This one is pretty ugly. And probably familiar to conspiracy theorists too: http://www.copweb.be/Imperial_Camera.htm

 

[dmr]

LOL, I'm surprised nobody posted a pic of a cell phone camera!

That's about as ugly as you can get. not to mention the totally {insert sophomoric f-bomb portmanteau here} photos they take. 🙂

 

[Alpacaman]

LOL, I'm surprised nobody posted a pic of a cell phone camera!

Like this? Yes, it would seem fairly ugly.

:angel:

 

[dmr]

Like this? Yes, it would seem fairly ugly.

LOL, almost like the one floating around of the old wooden plate camera with the telephone hand crank and hang-up receiver on it. 🙂

 

[NickTrop]

Yecch! I about to throw up! No mass! That Nikon E3 is a beast... blech! Actually, looking back, a lot of the early digitals were unsightly.

 

[charjohncarter]

Yecch! I about to throw up! No mass! That Nikon E3 is a beast... blech! Actually, looking back, a lot of the early digitals were unsightly.

But your is still the best, you win!

 

[Roberto V.]

Simmon Brothers Omega 120 😀 (predecessor of the Koni Omega)

 

[bob338]

no M5s yet?

 

[Alpacaman]

no M5s yet?

The M5 is sexy, thank you very much 😉

 

[bob338]

The M5 is sexy, thank you very much 😉

maybe the Contax IIIA then? the IIA was such a beautiful camera and then they wrecked it with that lousy meter...

 

[GoneSavage]

Great thread! If only my cameras weren't all so pretty 🙄

 

[Keith]

How about this:

 

[biakalt]

lmao, love this thread! please keep em coming 😀

 

[Chris101]

How about this:

Tichy's cameras are very ugly - and beautiful in a unique way.

Has he signed up here yet? Why not? He'd fit right in, I think. 😉