Your Gear holy grail/silver bullet?

Monochrom M. The travel down to release on the shutter button on mine is almost the same as my M2, which is perfect. Have to think in monochrome when out with this camera. That has mainly made me a better colour photographer, which is a little perverse. But I've stopped wanting stuff. Haven't bought anything for over 6 months and hope this continues.
 
The M240 and the Pentax 645Z. Can't find it in me to spend so much on quickly depreciating camera bodies, so I've gone for second best options(A7S and 645D).
 
Guess time is the big thing. Got enough camera's but I'd really like to be able to just get into the car when it is nice weather and drive around taking photo's. Yesterday I loaded the G617 and saw lots of opportunities but no time to stop or no place to stop.
 
I've been lucky in the Holy Grail category. They've all been nostalgia things, old film cameras that were neither rare nor expensive but I didn't have the money for when they came out and now people just about can't give them away, and I've been happy when I got them. The last was a 5x7 Agfa-Ansco view camera, and I'm having a great time with it. Before that it was a few Nikon manual focus lenses.

Essentially, I'm having a great time building kits of stuff no one wants. 🙂 This could have gotten expensive, but the real entertainment for me has been being in no hurry at all, browsing Ebay in the evening before bed, looking for sleepers. For instance: mint Nikon 50/1.4 AI for $50, including shipping. Love that lens; use it all the time.
 
My Holy Grail target keeps shifting as I experience different cameras, but I'd have to say it would be a Sinar 4x5 system. That being in the unobtainable realm, I'd settle for filling out my SLR Nikkor lens kit. And maybe an S2 or SP with a set of 35-50-100 lenses.

PF
 
Never been camera gear.
Good pictures are, for me, few and far enough between to give the next one a sort of holy grail status.

The W67 was the only camera I used for a good 12-15 years. Mine has been sitting in the repair dept of Paubel in Frankurt for months while I consider whether the crazy cost to fix it is more than I could sell it for.
 
Thanks all for your responses. It's interesting to see where people are at.

Being newly retired, I have more time. Now I've got to get my lazy ass into the darkroom to develop the first roll through my new holy grail. 🙄
 
I thought in the past that a Hasselblad SWC was my ultimate dream for a camera.
I also thought since the 1970's that a Mercedes Benz 450SL was my dream car.

I got both eventually. After a while, I sold tne car, and while I still have the cameta, it just sits there on a shelf.

Frank, I wish you happiness with your " holy grail" for a while.
 
Hi Raid. We should talk, you and I, about that camera sitting on your shelf! 🙂

I'm getting down to just a few cameras that I want to try but haven't yet. The wide Hasselblad is one of them.
 
Having to go to work less.
More hours of sunlight, or alternatively, more good weather for astrophotography...

After the time change next week the sun will be setting before I even get off work, argh!
 
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