Vote for the 'coolest' currently available camera! (yes ... frivilous I know!)

[Bill58]

The new Panasonic DMC-LX-3 is what I got my sights on. Finally, a low light 24mm streetshooter digital!

 

[steamer]

I'm in for the Panasonic DMC-LX-3.

 

[swoop]

Leica M7 a la carte in .85x and Black Paint.

By far the most awesome.

 

[dhpc]

Cool: Yashica Lynx 14E

 

[photo4ls]

Coolest rangefinder camera

Coolest rangefinder camera

I would have to go w/the Ikon

 

[italy74]

Hi Keith
despite I'd really like to have a D3 for weddings, I voted a Zeiss Ikon

 

[KoNickon]

The ZI is awfully nice, but doesn't break new ground. The R4 is really a great idea, so I voted for it. Any digital camera (M8 included) has too short a product life to really be worth talking about, in my view.

 

[mh2000]

had a M7 been on the list, it would have been a harder choice, but I voted for the Zeiss... though in truth, unless I suddenly won the Lotto I don't think I'll be buying either one. (OTOH, I think my IIIc is actually "cooler" than either... even if it is kind of a pain in the arse).

 

[Frank Petronio]

This is clearly the coolest camera in current production:

http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d438/d925/f934.cfm

It even has wings.

Although coming down to earth I think I will eventually get a Nikon D700 and the new AFS 50/1.4G lens. I like the idea of shooting at such high ISOs.

I'm of the opinion that there are no pocket digicams worth a fart, they're all crappy with tiny controls and bogus features. The best one yet has been my 5-yr old's Fisher Price -- simple and bombproof.

For out-of-production cameras I like usable and semi-affordable ones, so exotic Alpas and such are off my list. But in order of size, I like the Leica IIIc w a Summitar or Elmar; an M3DS w a Summilux; a Rolleiflex 2.8E2 Planar/no meter; a Noblex 612UX; a 4x5 Linhof Technika IV with a modern cammed 150mm APO Symmar; an 8x10 Sinar Norma w a 14" Commercial Ektar.

I've actually owned them all, just not at the same time. And even if I did collect them all, then I'd also want a great darkroom full of Durst and a workstation with twin huge monitors, a Creo scanner, and the honking 44" inkjet, an addition on the house or a studio next door.... That is the part that sucks!

 

[Lani Kai]

Fujifilm Klasse S, anyone?

 

[Debusti Paolo]

I agree with swoop,but I'd like to add a new nocti,and a 21/1.4 asph. is it cool enough??

 

[Roger Hicks]

Alpa.

Anything in black paint, with the brass peeping through in the right places -- preferaby owned from new. (I have Nikon F, Leica MP and Olympus Pen W in this category, only the MP from new.)

Gandolfi Precision 5x7 on whole-plate chassis.

(The above are not in any particular order).

Cheers,

R.

 

[shiro_kuro]

FujiFilm Klasse W or the S

 

[parsec1]

Those are soooo old school. I vote for the Canon G9 which is not on the list.

/T

Yeah a friend took her G9 into the Artic Circle. She said that her G9 was very very 'cool'.

 

[whitecat]

I'll have to add the Zeiss Ikon has the best viewfinder I have seen period. Beats my M7 viewfinder hands down.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

the Artic Circle

In the USA would that be the 'semi-trailer circle'?

 

[Carlsen Highway]

Contax IIa's are very cool.
The one I have doesnt even speak to my SLR's, and they get all silent but fidgety when its in the room.
And they are still available; I know, I just bought one.

 

[Bully]

Without a doupt the Leica MP, as many said.

But again it is/was a poll where this marvelous camera was not invited.

When you do such a poll you have to give us a chance to vote for every single camera until the twelve options are full.

a disappointed Bully

 

[colker]

Leica M8. if it only was 15mp and had no noise at 800 asa.

 

[nobbylon]

Nikon D700, class of it's own!