Your Top 5 Favorite Cameras Ever!

[bayernfan]

1. Leica M4 (really the only camera i'll ever need)
2. Leica If (so small)
3. Leica M9 (M10 is probably better)
4. Nikon F2-SB (i'm a pre-ai fanboy)
5. Ricoh GXR (the lensors are amazing, the B&W conversions look like film at high ISO)

 

[Chubberino]

No order.

Fuji TX-2
Leica M3
Leica M8
Fuji x100s
Bronica RF645

 

[infrequent]

Since I have not owned even five, relatively straightforward:

Fujifilm x100s
Konica Hexar RF
Konica Hexar AF
Nikon D70s

Think the iPhones will trump all of these for sheer usage since about the 4s onwards but I doubt that was the intent of the OP!

 

[Kent]

It would be interesting to analyse the answers and come up with a "top ten" of all listed cameras. Does anybody have the time to do that? 😉

 

[Ron (Netherlands)]

In the first place it is MF and the most preferred these days:
Rolleiflex 3.5F white face

On second place it is for 35mm the Leica M6

Third, and that is for LF: the ICA Tropica 13 x 18

 

[jsrockit]

Please realize this is EVER not just what you own/use now.

 

[LOOP]

Top 5 cameras

Top 5 cameras

Voigtlander Vitessa L
Contax RTS3 SLR
Sigma DP2s
Contax II rangefinder
Sony@900

 

[Vobluda]

Konica Hexar
Leica M6
Hasselblad Xpan
Sony A7
Minolta AL-F

 

[shimokita]

01) Leica MP
02) Nikon F3P
03) Mamiya RB67
04) Canon 5D Mk II
05) Fujifilm x100t

 

[Axel]

1) Leica M6
2) Rolleiflex 2,8 latest
3) Leica Digilux 2
4) Leica R6
5) Fuji S20Pro

6) ... about hundred also very good cameras

 

[NickTrop]

In no particular order:

Panazonic FZ 2 -- 2 megapixel super zoom that got me back into photography after interest had waned

Vivitar V3800 -- Venerable Cosina-made Pentax K manual "student" camera that's been around forever. Had since circa 1990.

Kiev 60 -- got me into medium format and the darkroom

Yashica Electro GSN -- got me into rangefinders

Fujica Compact Deluxe -- Love its design and the lens

Olympus XZ-1 -- great diminutive travel/street photog camera. Small sensor compact with fast cracking 28-112 lens. You can even coax a little bokeh out of it. An underappreciated gem/genre.

Nikon D5300 -- 24MP no AA filter sensor. $380 I think I paid for a new/refurb. Excellent image quality, high value proposition. Slap their 35/1.8 on it and ya got yourself a pretty high-end imagine device for reasonable dollars.

Oh -- that's 6. Rule breaker that I am.

 

[Monday317]

1. Pentax 6x7, 90mm f/2.8
2. Nikon FM, AIS 105mm f/2.5
3. Zeiss Ercona I 105mm f/3.5 Tessa’s
4. Olympus 35SP 42mm f/1.7 Zuiko
5. Wisner 8 x 10, Nikor f/9 450mm process lens

 

[Deleted member 65559]

Cameras I have used & love
Black paint M2
Black paint M4
Rolleiflex
Nikon F w pentaprism
5x7 Deardorff

 

[biomed]

Minolta SRT101
Mamiya RB67
Nikon F2
Cosina Voigtlander R3/R4
Panasonic GX7

 

[ZivcoPhoto]

M9
M2
IIIF
Nikon D700
Nikon F -plain prism, black

...the ones I have had the most fun with

 

[FalseDigital]

Not in any particular order:

1. Fujifilm GA645zi
2. Contax G2
3. Konica Hexar AF
4. Voigtlander Bessa-R
5. Fujifilm Cardia Tiara Mini (a.k.a. DL Super Mini)

 

[dof]

Fun thread!

• Hasselblad 500/CM
• Leica M6 TTL
• Kodak Brownie Holiday Flash
• Fuji X-T2
• Leica M Monochrom

 

[Doug]

Pentax LX
Pentax 67II
Minolta CLE
Bronica RF645
Leica M-D 262

For now, so far!

 

[F6Roger]

My top 5 cameras ever (so far)

My top 5 cameras ever (so far)

I can only speak from personal experience:

Olympus OM1
Nikon F6
Nikon Df
Nikon D700
Olympus OM2

 

[Niko]

XPan
Leica M3
Mamiya 7
Pentax LX
Olympus XA