What's the most important part of your camera?

[benedictjames]

For me, if I don't have a finder I can live with, the camera simply ceases to become a camera. Doesn't matter what lens is on front, or the name on it, if the finder sucks, so does my photography!

Through the finder is how I ... well ... 'find' my pictures, as opposed to looking around me with the camera away from my eye first, then framing and shooting. It's the way I've always been with a camera, seeing and interacting with the world I live in through the viewfinder - always.

This is the main reason I got interested in RFs - their bright non-blackout finders, and on mine anyway, no flashing lights! Also their easier MF (I hate autofocus!). My favourite finder is that on my Olympus Auto Eye RF - a nice brightline frame and a dial that shows the aperture on the bottom - perfect! I like a constant reference to what aperture I'm at without having to take the camera away from my eye, and little or nothing else in there to distract me. Could be a BIT brighter, but it's just about perfect.

What's the most important part of your camera ... and why?

 

[tripod]

The most important part is the brain and eyes of the person holding it.

 

[benedictjames]

OMG 😱, are some of you guys (ref. to leicasniper here) just standing by waiting to pounce with a comment withing seconds of a poll hitting the list? I literally just uploaded it, refreshed the page right then and ... BINGO ... we have an insanely instant reply! It was so quick, you scared the bejesus out of me thinking the reply came BEFORE I submitted the thread!
BTW, I'm with ya on the feeling ... sometimes. But I'd like people's experiences with this one out of curiosity, as it's a question I just asked myself recently.

 

[Pablito]

The name on the front under the tape?????

 

[bmattock]

The lens cap.

 

[back alley]

i have always enjoyed a well turned rewind crank!

 

[bmattock]

i have always enjoyed a well turned rewind crank!

Oh, definitely. And a supple leather case, rrrrrr!

 

[benedictjames]

Well this has become a right larf and a harf 😀
Was kinda predictable tho, I guess! Hardeehardeehar ...

 

[crawdiddy]

What, no tripod socket option?

 

[benedictjames]

Dang! I knew I should have put the tripod socket option in :bang:
... and the light seals of course. Where's interslice when you need him?!

 

[projectbluebird]

For me, the film. I have some favorites that I use in most formats.
Less talking, more shooting.

 

[Keith]

The co-relation between functionality and the price paid has to have the correct balance ... my M8 failed miserably here! 😛

 

[shimokita]

The lens / optics have the biggest impact for a given setup, so I must go for that reply...

 

[ChrisN]

Agree the finder. There are plenty of good to excellent lenses available. But if I can't see clearly what I am rying to capture I can't bond with the camera. I love my M4, OM2n and and LX for this reason especially, and others.

 

[pvdhaar]

For me, the most important aspect isn't on the list.. it's the fondling factor, I've no other word for it. If a camera just feels right, it'll be the one that I can just grab and use intuitively. Even if the finder isn't perfect or the lens has some things against it, I make my best pictures with a camera that handles intuitively.

 

[iamzip]

The part right behind the viewfinder...

 

[usagisakana]

light. without it there would be no point to a camera

 

[George Bonanno]

mojo...

mojo...

I'd have to say it's "the mojo" happening in front of my camera.

 

[Bobfrance]

The nut at the back of the camera.

 

[Sparrow]

The nut at the back of the camera.

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