Your Gear holy grail/silver bullet?

A monochrome sensor w/ Fuji control layout of an xp1 or a foveon csc camera. I am not sure that either will ever happen.

Leica mm would be nice.. 😛

Gary
 
@ Ny Dan

That was a poster of Mc Curry's exhibition behind a window of the Theatre de la Photographie et de l'Image in Nice, where it was hosted. My wife was a bit tired after the visit, so we sat on a nearby bench, and I had a few frames left to finish in my Bronica RF - that's the best one.
 
I've never really had a Holy Grail piece of equipment but I did help a friend get his. In June of 2013, I ran across this item and bought it. The camera was 95%. The New York Motor was fine but the covering was cracking in many places. I bought it and a few days later I sold it to my friend for what I had paid. This friend was the person who I had designated as the liquidator of my cameras if anything should happen to me. Six weeks ago he was killed in a bicycle accident. Now, it appears that the camera is coming back to me.
 

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Equipment wise it's probably a Contax G w 28, 45 and 90, I can't bring myself to get one though, I keep telling myself that if I'm going to spend that amount it should be on the digital stuff that I use.

That doesn't make the desire go away though haha.
 
Pentax LX Titanium. I have the "plain black" version of this kit 🙂
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I've never really had a Holy Grail piece of equipment but I did help a friend get his. In June of 2013, I ran across this item and bought it. The camera was 95%. The New York Motor was fine but the covering was cracking in many places. I bought it and a few days later I sold it to my friend for what I had paid. This friend was the person who I had designated as the liquidator of my cameras if anything should happen to me. Six weeks ago he was killed in a bicycle accident. Now, it appears that the camera is coming back to me.

Sorry for your loss, rybolt...
 
A modicum of talent, an "eye" if you will. At 65 probably a bit too late to attain to such a goal.

Silver bullet's? I've bought a bunch of them so by now I must be an expert and so what do you think of that?

It's never too late. Keep working at it but above all keep enjoying it.
 
"Talent."

Best answer yet, Harry!
Sadly, it can't be ordered from B&H.

So true.

I've owned a lot of premium photo gear and still own more than I'll ever use. The only thing I will add is a 40mm for my CL. Other than that I have everything I want.

I'm trying to sell my home and move to southern Arizona and retire from my commercial work to work exclusive on art and documentary projects. Selling my home is what I want. Time is the silver bullet.
 
Gearwise, there is many things I would like to try. But, like others have said, time & energy to shoot would be the top of the list. I keep considering a return to shooting film only but costs, time, & energy seem to hold me back.
 
I wasn't looking for it when it found me - my Rolleiflex 2.8E. I bought it off ebay a few years after offloading my Hasselblad kit because I still had 80+ rolls of FP4+ sitting around in my basement that needed to get used. I viewed it as a runner-up to the Hasselblad, albeit a classic one. Putting a couple rolls through it at the time of purchase set an initial lukewarm bias toward it, so it sat for a while, unloved. Then I decided to give it a CLA and get it back into good working order and put some more film through it - if I still didn't love it, I could always sell it and get my money back out. Well, the second time was the charm and now I'm so in love with the camera that I have two of them.

It doesn't do everything, but everything it does do, it does superbly. It complements my vision and gets out of my way when making images. I can't ask for anything more than that.
 
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