Your Gear holy grail/silver bullet?

[Pherdinand]

seems to be the fuji x100 - i have dropped all other cameras since i got the x100, not using anything else for some 2 years already.

 

[mister_ju]

My holy grail of the moment (because yes, it changes regularly) is the Zeiss Ikon ZM. Honestly, I could afford one now, but not any lenses.... so I wait till I win a lottery or something.

It used to be a panoramic camera, but since I got the G617, I've got it covered, and it let me time to find a new silver bullet 🙂
This one will stay here for a while I think !

 

[danielsterno]

for me, the ending search for: content

 

[Mcary]

More money and time for travel
As far as gear goes have a number of like to have such as full frame digital M, 21 and 90mm lens but no real must haves,

 

[smiling gecko]

11x14 seneca city view camera and ...

11x14 seneca city view camera and ...

hi all,

well, like a few other folks here i have multiple gear (and non-gear) holy grail/silver bullets...

...one of mine would be an 11x14 seneca city view camera and a "portrait" focal length lens to go with it.

another would be a print/negative washer that would accommodate sizes from 11x14 to 20x24.

a non-gear one would be a apprenticeship with clyde butcher.

another non-gear one would be the talent and grace to create more images that add beauty and light and peace to the world.

laugh more, smile more.
i do whenever i walk by a mirror. 🙂
smiling gecko, aka kenneth david, aka "hey you with the old camera"
the photographer by the sea

 

[Paul Jenkin]

There are lots of things I "want" but, whenever I see or think about any of them, I try to remember the old saying about "It's not having what you want that matters as much as wanting what you have".

 

[jkjod]

Gear wise I think for me it would be a MP and a chrome 35 Summilux FLE. I think I'd go with black paint, vulkanit, and panda style levers. 35/50/90 only. I really like the way chrome lenses look on black bodies. These are two things I will most likely never own...so that is about as holy grail as it gets! Also enough Double-X to last me a lifetime 🙂

Non-gear wise of course it would be a budget and time to travel year round and world wide with my wife.

 

[pixelated]

My holy grail would be no holy grail lurking somewhere in the shadows.

 

[rbsinto]

Gear?
May the photo gods spare me down for saying this, but
I pretty much have everything I need to take the photos I like to take.
Yes there are a couple of affectations I'd like to indulge in if they fell out of the sky, (like a black Nikon SP with an S36 motor), but they wouldn't make me any better a photographer, so I don't spend any time mooning for them.
I suppose if there was anything Grail-ish I wish I had, it would be more talent. Or even some talent.

 

[jkjod]

I completely understand and agree that I anything I "want" probably won't make me a better photographer. Ok, not probably - it won't, period. But that doesn't keep me from wanting to shoot with those cameras or lenses. At the end of the day, my photographs will probably look the same and I will have the same amount of talent no matter what I am using. BUT, if it makes me feel a certain way, or the feel and look of a camera/lens combo makes me happy, then I will certainly get more enjoyment out of shooting and photography in general.

 

[FrankS]

Yes, I agree that more gear won't make me a better photographer. That's why we jokingly call it a holy grail/silver bullet.

I too have pretty much all the gear I need to make the photos I want to make.

But a compact (folding) 6x7 medium format wide angle RF camera with built in meter, is going to come in handy! 🙂

 

[OurManInTangier]

I'd love to give the Konica Hexar AF a whirl. Probably not much of a Holy Grail for most but something that still holds a huge amount of curiosity for me.

 

[FrankS]

I'd love to give the Konica Hexar AF a whirl. Probably not much of a Holy Grail for most but something that still holds a huge amount of curiosity for me.

I had one for a while. Great lens. It would have been perfect if the method for manual focussing was a more traditional ring around the lens, as opposed to push button with an LCD readout.

 

[shadowfox]

A working Imacon FlexTight. After all, what good are good-quality MF cameras when there's no way to get the negatives scanned properly?!

There is always the darkroom...

Just teasing! 😀

 

[shadowfox]

In film, my holy-grail is a minion who will develop all my film backlog using my one and only one super simple Rodinal recipe.

In darkroom, my holy-grail is time.

In digital, a Nikon full-frame.

I don't need extra talent or "eye", I don't think I'd be able to live with myself if I had lots of that 😀

 

[OurManInTangier]

I had one for a while. Great lens. It would have been perfect if the method for manual focussing was a more traditional ring around the lens, as opposed to push button with an LCD readout.

🙂

Sometimes you're left to simply wonder what was going through the minds of the designers aren't you? Possibly the least practical way to manually focus a camera you could get - I'd still like to try one...even though I know they're not good at focusing through windows either😀:bang: