Your favorite camera that you do not want to buy?

[Godfrey]

For me, it might become a much more compelling buy at 2500 USD, and I can wait.

Who knows? While the average asking price for a 907x/CFVII 50c is around $6K, I do see a couple being offered at $3800 to $4500. A $2500-$3000 price for one might just take another year or two.

(My 50th Anniversary Moon edition 907x kit seems to have appreciated a small amount since I bought it. That's heartening but a bit surprising to me... it's not been enough years for a special limited edition classic to gain value, really, but I guess the connection to the Apollo program and First Landing does make a difference.)

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Says it all for me. 😀

 

[Ororaro]

Not that I'd forgotten about it, but I long ago signed off that as much as I had wanted one, I'd never buy one.

You see, I really really wanted that camera and my uncle had one, and a nice brace of lenses. And he knew I wanted one. And then he decided to sell the whole kit, and he never bothered to even ask me if I wanted it, could afford it, etc. I found out some months after the fact ... "Why didn't you at least tell me you were going to sell it?" He just looked away and didn't say anything.

So it all left a nasty memory for me to deal with and I've never again looked at a Rolleiflex SL66 kit. 🙁

That’s really too bad.
I gave A LOT of expensive equipment to my nephew as soon as I heard he was into photography…

 

[WoodallP]

I recently bought a Horseman*; however given the state of the world at the moment I probably won't be buying another three as I do not wan’t to take responsibility for the Apocalypse.

*(A 985 by the way and haven't had a chance to try it yet)

 

[neal3k]

Leica 72, a half-frame camera with only 200 made between 1950 and 1963. I really like half-frame cameras and ltm Leicas, but I won't ever be able to combine those two likes with a Leica 72 as they are extremely expensive.

 

[JeffS7444]

Who knows? While the average asking price for a 907x/CFVII 50c is around $6K, I do see a couple being offered at $3800 to $4500. A $2500-$3000 price for one might just take another year or two.

(My 50th Anniversary Moon edition 907x kit seems to have appreciated a small amount since I bought it. That's heartening but a bit surprising to me... it's not been enough years for a special limited edition classic to gain value, really, but I guess the connection to the Apollo program and First Landing does make a difference.)

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Says it all for me. 😀

Lovely! But I think a standard-issue silver unit would suffice for my purposes. Especially since I have a chrome theme going with camera and lenses.

For moon-mission memorabilia, I once built an Estes Saturn V model rocket. Never flew it, but it sure made an impressive-looking display piece.

 

[Retro-Grouch]

I recently bought a Horseman*; however given the state of the world at the moment I probably won't be buying another three as I do not wan’t to take responsibility for the Apocalypse.

*(A 985 by the way and haven't had a chance to try it yet)

Well, another Horseman 985 owner! We are a small club, and I don't know why. These are phenomenal cameras! I stopped at three: 985, VH, and Convertible. I'm pushing my luck... 😉

 

[xayraa33]

Nikon SP for me, always wanted to own one but never seem to do so in real life, and it has nothing to do with money or affordability.

 

[Archiver]

The looks of a custom Leica M7 with MP style silver chrome top and ruby red or ostrich brown leather really appeals to me, but 1. I just don't shoot film any more, and 2. such a camera would be very eye catching, the opposite of what I want in a walkaround camera. I drool over such things when I see them, but just wouldn't buy one. Same with the gorgeous anthracite MP, I just love how they look, but I wouldn't buy one because it would end up a shelf queen, fondled at home while muttering, 'my precioussss'.

On the digital side, the M-P 240 titanium edition. A complete set was available for AUD $29,000 at a local shop for well over a year, and there was no way that was in my budget, and I don't know if I'd even be game enough to use it.

 

[Retro-Grouch]

On the digital side, the M-P 240 titanium edition. A complete set was available for AUD $29,000 at a local shop for well over a year, and there was no way that was in my budget, and I don't know if I'd even be game enough to use it.

That's always been a bit of an issue for me with Leicas and Hasselblads. Always a little afraid to take them out into the mess and dirt of the real world. I have to remind myself that they're tools, and the value of a tool lies in what it does.

 

[JeffS7444]

"Kwanon" (Canon) would be an amazing find, as none are thought to exist.

 

[santino]

Alright, then TSVVS 😀
Leica II body with Contax mount (the best of both worlds, probably made by Germans for Soviets). Over 1000 pieces are known to exist.

 

[wlewisiii]

Alright, then TSVVS 😀
Leica II body with Contax mount (the best of both worlds, probably made by Germans for Soviets). Over 1000 pieces are known to exist.

Easier to get the same effect by buying a Nikon S2. Better viewfinder too. Of course they did slightly change the mount ... < whistles innocently >

 

[Archiver]

That's always been a bit of an issue for me with Leicas and Hasselblads. Always a little afraid to take them out into the mess and dirt of the real world. I have to remind myself that they're tools, and the value of a tool lies in what it does.

The funny thing about that is my M9 was my most expensive purchase ever at the time, and I have used it everywhere. Over the past 14 years, it has developed a natural brassing effect, with the brass peeping through at random intervals on the edges of the top plate, as well as on the wear surfaces of the shutter surround and shutter speed dial. My reticence to use the titanium M-P 240 would come from knowing very few of them exist, plus the crazy cost. My Contax T3 hardly ever sees use now, because of the cost to replace it, and the relative fragility of the camera.

 

[Mute-on]

Leica LHSA Hammertone MP kit with 35 Summicron and Leicavit. I could have bought one 20 years ago for AUD$8,500. I’ve always wanted one, but I’ll never spend the USD$30,000 to get it now. Just one of the many, many collectibles that I’ve let slip through my fingers in the last 30 years …

 

[stephen_lumsden]

Film: Leica m-a. I should be able to get similar results with my contax ii cameras
Digital: Panasonic g9ii. May be in a few years when prices come down

 

[Archiver]

Leica LHSA Hammertone MP kit with 35 Summicron and Leicavit. I could have bought one 20 years ago for AUD$8,500. I’ve always wanted one, but I’ll never spend the USD$30,000 to get it now. Just one of the many, many collectibles that I’ve let slip through my fingers in the last 30 years …

Yeah, that hammertone MP was a beauty.

In Japan in 2010, there was an anthracite MP with Leicavit at Yodobashi Camera in Osaka. I drooled so much that the shop probably had to mop the floor after I left. I could just have afforded it back then. Not any more. But as I said earlier, it would have just been fondled at home and then put back on a velvet pillow. My first encounter with that camera was in a shop window in Hong Kong, definitely wasn't able to afford it at that time.

F30 - Leica Gear by Archiver, on Flickr

 

[JeffS7444]

Not that I'd forgotten about it, but I long ago signed off that as much as I had wanted one, I'd never buy one.

You see, I really really wanted that camera and my uncle had one, and a nice brace of lenses. And he knew I wanted one. And then he decided to sell the whole kit, and he never bothered to even ask me if I wanted it, could afford it, etc. I found out some months after the fact ... "Why didn't you at least tell me you were going to sell it?" He just looked away and didn't say anything.

So it all left a nasty memory for me to deal with and I've never again looked at a Rolleiflex SL66 kit.

Family (at least mine) could be strange about stuff which could/couldn't remain within the family, and some big items were sold cheaply to strangers, while others were simply trashed, and there was no appealing those decisions!

 

[CP93]

Easily satisfied: I just want an older M6. Too bad I can’t justify the expense.

 

[JohnGellings]

Digital: 1) Fujifilm GFX 50R ... too big, likely too slow, and too expensive, but somehow still like it. 2) Leica CL ... too expensive for APSC and the 35mm 1.4 is way too big, but wow is it beautiful.

Film: Mamiya 6 ... I just don`t think I want to deal with film again, but I`d love to try this camera.

I wrote the blurb above in 2018. It's been maybe 3 years since I´ve been using the GFX-50R. Best purchase I´ve made in a long time. The other two have faded away for me. I can honestly say that I do not have any fantasy cameras anymore. I already put aside $ for a GFX upgrade when I need it too.

 

[Dogman]

We are living in the age of a lot of great cameras that can be had for not too much money even though it's also the age in which photography itself is losing its luster as an art. I never thought I would buy a Nikon Z and yet I recently did just that. And I actually love it. So I don't think I'll say I wouldn't buy any of the currently available cameras (given enough money to afford it).