What Gear Do You Crave?

[Strangeluv]

How am I gonna get both a film and digi Hassy along with an M9 and a Nocti for $10.000?

 

[seifadiaz]

Summicron DR will be good for now.
then a rigid, collapsible, and current version.

 

[wdeskiew]

Leica M9 plus couple of Carl Zeiss lenses. I'm using Contax G1 but one day I would like to switch to digital - for convenience. Ideally I would like to see a digital full frame Contax G.

 

[selloutboy]

I voted for Leica Film Body and Lens

I'd probably use the $10K on a Black .72 Leica MP ($4,595) and my dream Lens the 35/1.4 summilux aspherical ($4,995).
Which totals $9,590

I'd use those to document the streets of my hometown and my favorite place 😀 (Ortigas Center, Pasig City Philippines 😛)

But if I just want to have fun, different models of the Leica III series 😀

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Depleted uranium Leica

Chris

 

[Chris101]

Depleted uranium Leica

Chris

That's a massive craving Chris!

 

[Phil_F_NM]

It's DUL edition.
That would be pretty heavy, rather toxic (having your face pressed up against the body all the time & sweat from hands, etc...) and if you got it up to a high enough velocity, pyrophorric! Would make a good bludgeon on the end of a hefty strap. Make sure to get one of those Early Thorium Summicrons for it too! 😀

In my opinion, I'd use a Tungsten/Molybdenum alloy for the top, bottom plates and the body casting. It would then be more durable than a standard issue Nikon F2...
Hmmm... Tungsten camera body. (the tools to make it would cost far more than the stamping, cutting, drilling and the material itself!)

Depleted uranium Leica

Chris

 

[davidtth]

M9 for me, the balance will goes to lens

i found a mint-ish condition of Nikon F3P, put it into my wish list too

 

[surfer dude]

World peace.

 

[Doug]

Phil, that would likely cost more than $10k... 🙁:angel:

I'll go for a Pentax 645D with English language menus and manual.

 

[narsuitus]

To understand this craving we have to go back to the time when I was working for a newspaper and used three manual focus lenses (35mm f/2, 85mm f/1.8, and 180mm f/2.8) on a chrome Nikon SLR to cover 80% of my assignments. I also carried a 35mm chrome Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SLR with a 50mm f/1.4 manual focus Takumar lens as a backup.

I eventually sold the Pentax and the 50 when I bought a second chrome Nikon body and a 50mm f/1.4 manual focus Nikon lens. Much later, I replaced the manual focus lens with an auto focus 50mm f/1.4 Nikon lens and added a small 35mm Nikon autofocus black body SLR. This new equipment can easily do the job the Pentax was doing. Plus, I even have a 35mm rangefinder that can do the job better than the Pentax or the Nikon.

As you can see, I do not really need a 35mm chrome Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SLR with a 50mm f/1.4 lens, but for some unknown reason, I still crave one.

 

[raid]

Since we are just dreaming here, I'd say a Hasselblad Super Wide.

This is also my wish. I checked Hasselblad, thinking of the SWC.
Edit: add a digital back. It is free .... in this thread.

 

[Jamie Pillers]

Whatever it is that'll end the GAS... or at least moderate it for a few years!

 

[akremer]

the only craving i have is for hundreds of rolls of Portra 400nc.

 

[Don Parsons]

oh don't get me started....

 

[smiling gecko]

wow!!!

wow!!!

wow!!! what a super neat thread this is.

got started on my own wish list and that started to get fairly long and...

then thought, why not take that $10K and spread it around this thread to buy the most gear possible for the most people? share now, crave later...

breathe, relax and enjoy.

 

[John Robertson]

I crave time.

Could not agree more!!
However, if lottery comes up this would be my choice. I already have two simpler Focas!😎

 

[jamesdfloyd]

An M9...35mm summilux... Guess I'll have to pony up some extra money...

J.D.

 

[PatrickONeill]

a brick or two of provia 100F & processing,... and a scanner to scan it all =p

 

[ramosa]

Elmarit 90mm 6-bit coded in mint condition.