The WORST Cameras of all time..

A second-generation or so Minolta digital. The software was awful, too many confusing menus, mediocre results even for the time, cost a small fortune, and was barely worth $10.00 a year.
 
I see no one has mentioned the Pentina - a lens shuttered left hand wind left hand release SLR from Pentacon.

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AlexBG said:
Leica minlux, view finder is so bad that it really did make it useless for me and my eyesight is very good. Was gutted.
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Oh man... I loved that camera! I never knew the VF was bad until the internet told me. AND I used it along side an M6! I think it was because I also used toy cameras and old 126 cameras that I didn't care.
 
Papercut said:
Came here to post this, so +1. I had one of these. I think somewhere I even still have a print or two from it. Grainy and smudge-y even at 3x4 size. Miracle that it didn't sour me on photography for life.
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+1 Worst camera format IMHO. Even 110 was better. Format was pretty impractical, bad image quality and camera was a nightmare to hold.
 
If the best camera is the one you actually have with you, then the worst camera must be the one that sits home all the time. Even if it's called Leica MP.
 
Mamiya 645 Super, various problems, went back to Mamiya six times in one year. I was so tired of it I melted the camera in an environmental chamber.
 
The Retina- Sir Edmund Hillary used a 1935 Retina 118 camera for his 1953 Mt Everest expedition. It was Knob wind and manually cocked shutter, no cocking rack to strip. I have ~20 Kodak Retinas, most bought very cheap- in working condition. Several at shows for under $35. The Cocking Rack is the weak link, I've replaced 1 in a IIC.

Worst camera: Kodak Instant Print cameras. Made obsolete due to patent infringement.
EK-4 and EK-6, Zoom Circle instead of a Rangefinder. How much did that save?
EK-8, any delivered before yanking the film?

Polavision Instant Movie camera and film. Took so long to get to market, replaced by Videotape. Super-expensive film.
 
I had a Canon AF35ML, with the f1.9 lens, for a bit... I don't think a single photo was ever sharp, even though the optics were clean the lens just made everything look like it had plastic optics. I threw it away when I popped up the flash and a series of loud snaps and clicks emanated from the battery compartment. Not interested in dealing with that old flash capacitor!
 
konicaman said:
Construction - all Topcon SLRs (anyone remember those?), would make lots of weird noises and usually fall apart at some point. Their lenses were ok though.
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Interesting. My Topcon camera has always performed flawlessly.
Many would describe Konicas the same way you describe Topcon.

Chris
 
wwfloyd said:
I'm hesitant to mention these -- being such horrible plastic things with sound-alike names to major camera brands... but, they annoy me SO much... the Olympia, Cannon, Nokina atrocities, with potato masher flashes, that show up regularly on thrift store shelves.

Someone bought those things! Imagine the embarrassment at realizing they've been taken.

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/%22Olympia%22_camera
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My brother bought the Olympia version...after he passed I was going through his stuff and found it...I threw it away and a few months later while visiting my parent's house I saw that my dad pulled it out if the recycle bin and its in the garage...still in the original box...
I see them at garage sales and thrift stores...seriously, who buys these pieces of junk...
 
I have had very bad luck with Olympus Mju ii Stylus Epic cameras. Great in theory, with a stellar lens, but a focussing nightmare. I got a mint black one and the battery door broke for no reason at all. Another one was so bad at nailing focus that it ruined a complete film at a friend's wedding. I bought mine before all the hype, and certainly wouldn't pay what they are currently fetching. Now the Original Mju I Stylus infinity is a different thing entirely. I have 2 great examples and they punch well above their weight. Just goes to show that sometimes the new improved version is far from all that it is cracked up to be.
 
Not sure if anybody has mentioned the Rollei XF35. But how disappointing is it to use that terrible rangefinder connected to a 40mm f2.3 Sonnar? And also one of the worst battery covers of all time. I just wish they put another 6 months into development of that thing.
 
The Topcon Super D won over its competition (including the Nikon F) for the US Navy and Air Force contracts and performed well in service.

My Topcon R II works well - its 35/2.8 Topcor lens produces nice sharp and contrasty images. The only fault is that its shutter speed dial is very small and the higher speeds are crowded very close together.
 
Had a Sony Nex 5 which loved giving off orange skin tones no matter what. Then the Nex 7 appeared, but Hasselblad wrapped it in leather and wood and wanted 5K for a 1.2K camera...hideous....externally and the software/menu.
 
iPhone 6 Plus with Moment anamorphic lens and app. It crashes all the time, volume buttons don't work reliably as the shutter button, sometimes it doesn't save photos, and the autofocus and autoexposure are slow to adjust. I need a new phone.

Or could someone give me an XPan for Christmas?
 
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