What is your favorite film camera and your favorite digital camera that you cannot bring yourself to buy for whatever reason (i.e. too expensive, too fragile, no use for it, etc.)? Also, what is the reason...
Swift1
Veteran
Lomo LC-A 120.
Absolutely love the images from it, love the concept, don't actually mind the price, but I tested one (thanks Stephen Gandy) and it dropped 2-3 frames per roll which I can't live with.
Also Leica M4... only because I can't afford one
Absolutely love the images from it, love the concept, don't actually mind the price, but I tested one (thanks Stephen Gandy) and it dropped 2-3 frames per roll which I can't live with.
Also Leica M4... only because I can't afford one
jordan.dickinson
Jordan Dickinson
Digital: Fuji GFX 50R
Would love to buy one, but I know I just won't use it to it's potential. Additionally, it is extremely expensive. I loved my M9 for about a year, and then got rid of it. It'd most likely be the same with the Fuji.
Film:Contax 645 + 80mm
Too darn expensive, but a beautiful system with amazing results!
Would love to buy one, but I know I just won't use it to it's potential. Additionally, it is extremely expensive. I loved my M9 for about a year, and then got rid of it. It'd most likely be the same with the Fuji.
Film:Contax 645 + 80mm
Too darn expensive, but a beautiful system with amazing results!
o-Tom-atic
Member
Leica M6. Too expensive!
anindyo
Member
Ilford Witness. Beautiful form, but toooo expensive...
Fujifilm X-Pro. Sometimes want 'rangefinder' with autofocus capability, but already have M8.
Fujifilm X-Pro. Sometimes want 'rangefinder' with autofocus capability, but already have M8.
Mute-on
Well-known
Leica Q. Handled one in store. Even tried out the hand grip and half case for handling. Preferred the hand grip. Just too expensive for me by a factor of at least 3
For film, almost all of the now hysterically collectible compacts, despite many of them being unrepairable. Nikon 28ti and 35ti, Contax T2 and T3, Fuji Natura, Leica Minilux and others. Now frequently selling at four figure sums, far too expensive for the actual capabilities and long term reliability of the cameras. If not for this, I would have them all!
For film, almost all of the now hysterically collectible compacts, despite many of them being unrepairable. Nikon 28ti and 35ti, Contax T2 and T3, Fuji Natura, Leica Minilux and others. Now frequently selling at four figure sums, far too expensive for the actual capabilities and long term reliability of the cameras. If not for this, I would have them all!
Contarama
Well-known
Leica M film and digital because of the cost of glass for them. Maybe some day.
aizan
Veteran
Nikon SP 2005 black paint, because I don’t really need it and there are limited lens options.
Olympus E-1, because it’s too outdated.
Olympus E-1, because it’s too outdated.
jpressman
Well-known
Leica Q for me too. Tried it and almost bought it a couple of times but just too expensive. Great IQ, handling, responsiveness, fast focus. I still think about it from time to time...
Konica Hexar RF. Had one, loved it, sold it. Just not doing film anymore so wouldn't buy it.
Konica Hexar RF. Had one, loved it, sold it. Just not doing film anymore so wouldn't buy it.
Papercut
Well-known
Hasselblad SWC. Brilliant camera, fantastic image quality. But, just too expensive and I just never seem to use my medium format cameras enough to justify them. Never found a good scanning option -- in terms of quality, cost, and ease of use -- for MF negs, so I tend to not shoot MF cameras much and so I talk myself out of buying another one.
RichC
Well-known
Film: the Jaeger-LeCoultre Compass.
Digital: Epson R-D1
Both are superlative feats of engineering. Both are hopelessly fragile and and impractical. Both are hopelessly obsolete. And I want them.
I actually owned the Epson R-D1 and had a well-known website on it - now donated to RFF's owner: here.
Digital: Epson R-D1
Both are superlative feats of engineering. Both are hopelessly fragile and and impractical. Both are hopelessly obsolete. And I want them.
I actually owned the Epson R-D1 and had a well-known website on it - now donated to RFF's owner: here.
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B-9
Devin Bro
Leica Monochrome,
Way out of my league, ever, and I couldn’t afford a new summicron. The day I could is the day I start donating to charity.
Stay Humble.
Way out of my league, ever, and I couldn’t afford a new summicron. The day I could is the day I start donating to charity.
Stay Humble.
lamefrog
Well-known
Nikon F6. Just because its such a great camera and the last of a breed and I'd like to buy a new camera for once (rather than used). But there's no good rationale for me to buy one , I already have 3 Nikon F2 bodies that are perfect for my needs. So I really can't justify the expense for the body and the AF lens I'd have to buy with it . Also: Leica M-A for similar reasons .
nickthetasmaniac
Veteran
Plaubel Makina 67 - too expensive
Pentax 67 - too big
Pentax 67 - too big
raid
Dad Photographer
Leica M11. It will be too expensive.
maigo
Well-known
Your favorite camera that you do not want to buy?
Mamiya 7ii...
but I have the consolation prizes - two of Koni-Omega Rapid-M and thousands of dollars for film.
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Mamiya 7ii...
but I have the consolation prizes - two of Koni-Omega Rapid-M and thousands of dollars for film.
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JeffS7444
Well-known
Leica M9-P Hermés:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAfSfnykXfo
Until I saw this video, I never realized that a cloth-covered cardboard box could be such an object of desire!
Minolta TC1: Think I'd enjoy it but at current prices maybe not so much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAfSfnykXfo
Until I saw this video, I never realized that a cloth-covered cardboard box could be such an object of desire!
Minolta TC1: Think I'd enjoy it but at current prices maybe not so much.
Uncle Brian
Member
I guess a Leica M as I seem to prefer rangefinder cameras. I have never seen one so I'm just a little scared of trying one out and finding that I hate the thing ... not likely but it would be the end of a dream. No camera stores locally any more so no chance of a chance encounter.
farlymac
PF McFarland
For a long time mine was anything Leica. Too expensive, if you got a use one it immediately had to be sent to DAG (or so most of the pundits here said so), and there was way too much snob appeal.
After messing around with various versions of Leica type cameras, I finally jumped at a deal on an R7 with the 28mm lens. I was now hopelessly hooked.
I've just about run through most any other brand of camera, so there aren't many more out there I would not buy. Okay, maybe a Linhof Technica. It's one of those cameras one could lust after because they are so technically beautiful, but man do they have some issues, such as having to change a focus cam when you change lenses. You'd need something like a filter wallet to hold all the cams, that is if you could find the ones you need now days.
So there it is. Linhof Technica. I wanted one, but not anymore.
PF
After messing around with various versions of Leica type cameras, I finally jumped at a deal on an R7 with the 28mm lens. I was now hopelessly hooked.
I've just about run through most any other brand of camera, so there aren't many more out there I would not buy. Okay, maybe a Linhof Technica. It's one of those cameras one could lust after because they are so technically beautiful, but man do they have some issues, such as having to change a focus cam when you change lenses. You'd need something like a filter wallet to hold all the cams, that is if you could find the ones you need now days.
So there it is. Linhof Technica. I wanted one, but not anymore.
PF
davidnewtonguitars
Family Snaps
1949 MG-TC in red, with brown leather.
I maybe could afford one if I financed it, and then sold it after a year or so, but they are so impractical, delicate, and I couldn't get it out but a couple of times a month. Also I don't have a garage to keep it in.
Leicas are way more practical, and much more affordable. With a Leica you can have what is considered "the best" and find out that while they are nice, it really isn't a big deal.
I maybe could afford one if I financed it, and then sold it after a year or so, but they are so impractical, delicate, and I couldn't get it out but a couple of times a month. Also I don't have a garage to keep it in.
Leicas are way more practical, and much more affordable. With a Leica you can have what is considered "the best" and find out that while they are nice, it really isn't a big deal.