What's your dream?

Digital:
- R-D2 with sensor that allow more cropping on the result. Oh, and easier user-accessible rangefinder adjustment panel.
- GXR with other lens mount. They could have made K-mount and m4/3 mount module without much problem with licensing.
- Radical designed digital camera, like how Siemens used to have their Xelibri phones. Let them experiment with other designs. But overly different products wont sell well, so lets write it off.

Film:
The film camera now are fine. They are... what they are. Hoping for more decent and affordable studio that would do both C41 and E6. At least, without dust and water blotches and with more even colour.
Never thought of home developing, not for me.
 
My dream is to take a picture that is meaningful long after I'm gone.

My dream camera is pretty attainable. I'd like to have a Leica IIIc or IIIf with a good lens. I hope to be able to get one in the next year or so.
 
Thanks to Leica my dream camera already exists, the Monochrom. Now all I have to do is sell most of my current kit so that I can afford to buy it.
 
I have my film dream setup, a couple of M4s and the lenses I want, but my digital needs (which are real work-related needs, unlike my film wants) are currently being filled by a Nikon D300 and a bunch of manual focus primes.

What I'd really like to have to replace the nikon is a full frame version of the Sony Nex 7: specifically, a 24Mp or better FF camera that would use all of my Nikon and Leica lenses, with a high-res electronic viewfinder with manual focus peaking, and a good HD movie mode with an audio input for external mics. Really if they just made a FF Nex 7, I'd be done, and I'm just a hair away from buying a Nex 7 as it is, and living with the sensor size.

Alternately, if Leica made the M240 with a switchable EVF/Optical VF like the Fuji X100, I would probably go to very great lengths to manage get one. The fundamental issue, in either case, is wanting to use the lenses I have now, both Nikon and Leica, at eye level, not arm's length, on a FF camera.
 
Bill Pierce said:
What’s your dream camera? I’m pretty satisfied with the cameras I have, but I dream.

For me, my dream camera would be a camera that takes my stockpile of M mount lenses, a collection that started a long, long time ago. For now, I use a Ricoh GXR A12, an affordable APS C sensor camera that accepts M mount lenses. It is unique in having a sensor that deals with the problem of vignetting and loss of resolution in the outer areas of the frame caused by the steep angle of the edge rays from a short focal length rangefinder lens. Of the cameras available, it does, by far, the best job in the image quality department of handling M lenses on a non Leica body.

I love that camera and dreamed of the day that Ricoh might make it even better with a full frame version or the addition of a bright line or built-in eye level finder or a better high ISO or a sensor with more than 12 Mpixels. (There, I’ve said it. I don’t mind focusing manually.) But, with the acquisition of Pentax by Ricoh, my dream camera will probably remain a dream.

So, do you have a dream, a dream camera?
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Bill, I own a GXR-M for my Leica M lenses, and I agree with you about what would be a nice upgrade.

A dream camera, though, would take some more modern, autofocus lenses as well. Maybe the same kind of system as a the Ricoh but with another mount for m4/3 or Fuji X lenses.

Tom
 
Contemplating your question brought me to the surprising realization that I don't really have a dream camera. I've had many dreams over the years, and have actually gotten some of them, but they have had no significant impact on the quality of my work. My hope is to be content and do the best work I can with what I have. A little corny, but true. At least for now.

John
 
Dream camera?
Film
I use it at the moment – a Rolleiflex. I also quite like Nikkormats and my M4-P.

Digital
I would like a Nikon FE2 (with a Copal square shutter from the Nikkormat), manual focus (and be able to use my favourite lens the non AI Nikkor 50mm ƒ2 H) Manual dials with AE override for when I'm lazy.
Just put in a package with a good sensor and no Review LCD, or if it had to have one put it inside the viewfinder.

What I really need is more time to take pictures, with three kids all the spare time seems to be spent doing jobs about the house!
 
To live in a place far from the city where I have the time and drive to wake up before the sun to get out in nature and watch the beauty unfold each morning with the wild things in this world.
 
My dream camera... hmm.
One is a true digital Nikon SP, sans all the superfluous controls.

Another is that film has a resurgence in production, popularity and quality control at about the level from say, 1995, just before digital started to take over. In that case, my dream camera is my Leica M4 or my Nikon SP using the aforementioned film.

Regarding other cream cameras that already exist, I'd like:
Black paint M4
Black paint SP
Pentax Spotmatic F (yes, I can find one for $25)
Pentax LX
Mamiya 6
Mamiya Six
Linhof 612
My old M2 that went to Iraq with me but I sold after getting back to the states.

There are others, of course.

Phil Forrest
 
Noll said:
To live in a place far from the city where I have the time and drive to wake up before the sun to get out in nature and watch the beauty unfold each morning with the wild things in this world.
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Good dream, if off topic--except your eye is the camera you were born with! So maybe not. Move to western Oregon! Lots of dream cameras here, plus all the wild you can stand.
 
An FF NEX9, certainly. I won't pay anything close to $7000 for a digital body and fuji has said that they won't go FF, so Sony is my last hope.
 
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