What's Your "Photographic Unicorn"?

A Rollei 35 with a built in rangefinder and tiny interchangeable lenses. Ideally, they should be equivalent to my Contax mount ones: 21 and 35mm Biogons and 50, 85 and 135 Sonnars. Ok, rf baselength too short for 135mm. Leave that one out and include AP autoexposure.
A modern ZI in Conatx RF would also do, if you find the Rollei fantasy excesive

Edit: In fact, every time I handle my Pentax A110s, I wonder why there isn't a Really tiny interchangeable RF of VF full frame 35
 
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NickTrop said:
... that mythical piece of kit you've heard existed - others have sworn to it; you lust after it like a certain literary figure's obsession with a certain gigantic whale, what to capture - or perhaps even see in captivity but you have your doubts as to their very existance?

What are your photographic unicorns?
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A picture I really like and keep liking year after year?

GLF
 
ChrisPlatt said:
Plaubel Makina 67W with satchel case

Chris
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MMMM yes. I've only ever seen one of these and it was truly beautiful (if gear can be beautiful). But I've learned that 67 is not my favorite size, so alas my unicorn stands, Black G2 kit draped around his lonely little horn.
 
I keep hearing rumors about a single shot (non-scanning) - nearly full frame 4x5 digital capture back.

That would rock my socks.

But I'm not holding my breath - especially since I can't even get a full frame 6x7 digital capture back yet.

And oy - the cost of such a beastie.
 
oftheherd said:
For me, all the glass made for the Fujica ST 901. If I can only have one, then the 75-150mm zoom. You hardly ever see one for sale, and when you do, if in good shape, they tend to go for high prices. All the Fujinon glass was superb! I sure treasure by 50mm (f/1.4), 28mm, 135mm, and 50mm macro.

A 35mm f/1.4 ... Now that could entice me to start looking at the world in 35mm. How big was the filter. Fujica made a concerted effort to have everything in 49mm filters.
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It really is one of those mythical beasts - maybe only an experimental model. I have only ever seen two brief references to it, no real details.
 
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