What camera in your collection do you hate to love (or love to hate)

As much as l love the XA, l really hate the way that flare makes the meter reading etc difficult in certain lighting conditions
 
My screwmount Leica. Beautiful piece of jewelry, I love how it feels in my hands and I like the Elmar but the separate rangefinderforum/viewfinder drives me nuts...
 
Contax T2. Lovely glass, hate that I can't force it to shoot at f/2.8 and that the lens is so close to the right hand grip.

Kiev 6C. Feels like it's going to fail every time I move something on it, total crap prism finder and ground glass, but Sonnar 180/2.8 makes hauling it around for every frame that the camera body lasts for worth it.
 
For me it's my Olympus mjuII. All of my other cameras are completely mechanical with, at best, a built-in light meter and that's the type of camera I prefer to shoot with. The mjuII is just so small and light and weatherproof that I can't help but take it with me everywhere. However, I hate that I have no control over exposure, the AF is hit or miss, I keep having to manually turn the flash off every time I turn the camera on, and it's subject to some funky light leaks if shooting, even remotely, into the sun. That said, it has captured some of my favorite shots simply because it was the only camera I had with me.
 
Leica M8 and M9. Was psyched to have them because I was into Leica M at the time, and for the most part they worked okay if kind of beta-quality.

But when it came time to sell them, never have I seen such jittery buyers who were convinced that something costly was broken. Leica themselves didn't help matters by using after-sales service as final quality control. Want stuff that just works right out of the box? Buy a Canon.

As for whether I'd buy another digital M camera: I don't know (but not a CCD model)
 
Mark A. Fisher said:
My choice as well, hands down.

I'm in the process of putting mine up for sale for the same reason. Astonishing negatives with resultant gorgeous prints from a cantankerous beast. Every time I think I'll sell it I just look at the output, and put the camera back in its bag...
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I really wish someone would figure out a way to adapt those lenses to anothe medium format camera. The lenses are what are astonishing.
 
It's gotta be M6. Sure, the beast is beautiful to look at, and when you attach Leica ASPh lens, the image is so sharp, you can shave with it. But the finicky lightmeter and trying to change film in the cold weather drive me nuts...
 
My D4 because although it's a bus it performs like a sports car ... unbelievably good camera!
 
My Nikon F80 and F90X. Produce stunning results, I can use them with all the FX lenses that I bought for my D700, and every function is automated so I can just shoot away.

Which is why I love to hate them, I may as well shoot the D700. That can shoot hundreds more frames and I don't have to send the results off to process. I derive no mechanical satisfaction from the operation as I do with my Leicas, or making that exposure decision that I do with any of my manual film cameras and they are all too clinical. A bad exposure is a learning opportunity, a perfect exposure on the Nikons teaches me nothing.

Great camera technology, but not for me. I felt the same about my F5 many moons ago!
 
I really hate to really love my Polaroid Land Camera 250. I've got less than 50 packs of FP-3000, and the little of it that's still possible to buy online is damn expensive..
 
Argus C3 Matchmatic. If you don't know why, you've never uused one.

Worst of all, no-one does new leather for the Matchmatic. On this side of the pond, these things are like hens teeth!

ADrian
 
Muggins said:
Argus C3 Matchmatic. If you don't know why, you've never uused one.

Worst of all, no-one does new leather for the Matchmatic. On this side of the pond, these things are like hens teeth!

ADrian
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Oh. Around here Argus C3s used to be common as tumbleweeds in a Western movie. I have a few of them, and I don't think I've ever paid for one.

And new coverings for the C3? Really, no one makes them? I would have thought....
 
I love the results I get from my Mamiya RB67. The ergonomics are great and the lenses are a miracle in sharpness!

Two things I have a beef with: the back only tilts 90º and it would be real nice if it could do 180º so that I don't have to do the math and hang the camera sideways from the ballhead. And the other is the weight of even just the camera and a single lens, let alone a three-lens kit!
Currently I'm awaiting new bicycle tires and as a result, evenings with good light pass by as I sit idly by, since I have architecture miles away that I want to shoot...
 
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