Studio58 Posted September 21, 2011 Share #21 Posted September 21, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Anyhow, the question asks for the best ever cameras does it ? I will limit it to the best ever cameras I have owned then. 1. Nikon F3 2. Hasselblad 503 CX 3. Canon 1DS These three units were all important in my personal photographic journey. This list criteria is too restrictive and I need to talk about the cameras that are important to me today. My current list is comprised of the 3 cameras I currently own. Canon 1D3, Leica M8, Leica M9. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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davidmhol Posted September 21, 2011 Share #22 Posted September 21, 2011 Pentax ME Super was my first ever camera ... I told the sales guy I was going to be a pro photographer and that is what I became.... Says a a lot for self prophesy and I did love that little camera. I bought one for parts last week from Ebay. On the outside it looks like its been used as a hammer, but the Seiko shutter is pretty robust and works fine, and I think it will be a user once cleaned up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocaburger Posted September 21, 2011 Share #23 Posted September 21, 2011 Anyhow, the question asks for the best ever cameras does it ? I will limit it to the best ever cameras I have owned then. 1. Nikon F3 2. Hasselblad 503 CX 3. Canon 1DS These three units were all important in my personal photographic journey. That's really the crux of it, isn't it. For each of us the greatest camera was the one that got us started being interested in photography. I had a Kodak Brownie Starmite 127 that was a birthday gift from an aunt, but the lens sucked and the fixed-focus fixed-aperture meant that a good percentage of pictures I wanted "didn't come out". Then one day I was rummaging in a storage cupboard in our house and came across this flat, brown leather ever-ready case, and inside was this awesome old camera, Kodak 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 folder called a Vigilant Six Twenty. It was in perfect condition because my father had given up trying to use it because he found things like scale-focusing and setting of f-stops and shutter speeds much too fiddly for the kind of snapshots he wanted to take. It had a decent and relatively fast (f/4.5 compared to the f/11 of my Brownie) Anastigmat lens and shutter speeds from B/T to 1/200, a folding eye-level viewfinder plus a tiny waist-level finder above the lens. That camera and a copy of The Amateur Photographer's Handbook got me started. The camera also taught me how to guesstimate focus, DOF, and exposure (I didn't get a meter until a couple years later), plus that's when I began doing my own darkroom also. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tietje Posted September 21, 2011 Share #24 Posted September 21, 2011 That's really the crux of it, isn't it. For each of us the greatest camera was the one that got us started being interested in photography. Same for me, but in two stages. I had a Halina 126 Instamatic for years, then when I started art college in Liverpool, I was allowed to use my late fathers Ensign Selfix 16/20. It had a 4.5 lens, and 4 shutter speeds. I guessed the distances and used a little illustrated chart that my Dad had drawn and pasted into the lid of its ever-ready case to work-out the exposure. However it was a little outdated even for 1974, and the viewfinder especially was very pokey. So my next birthday I was given the Rolleicord VA. By this stage I had a Weston V meter as well. Its still a great camera and when I look at the slides it has taken the depth of colour and sharpness are still impressive. I still have both the Ensign and the Rollei. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Taylor Posted September 21, 2011 Share #25 Posted September 21, 2011 I'm not surprise, that no one mentioned my first love, the Exakta IIa. Being left handed it was a joy for me to use. Excellent lenses were offered and the fact I wanted then a reflex camera, it had it all. Remember, this was in 1954 before Nikon reflexes were available. Hank Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
myshkine Posted September 21, 2011 Share #26 Posted September 21, 2011 First for me the Olympus OM1n, a beautiful piece of photographic machinery and ergonomic design, splendid lenses, compact, easy to use, the best SLR imho. Then the Minolta SrT101, my first serious camera, a small myth for me. In third place the Leica MP, my object of desire until I decide to get rid of my excellent M6TTL. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted September 21, 2011 Share #27 Posted September 21, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) I don't know what qualities of a camera folks are using to consider it "great." But I'd suspect that Speed Graphics captured more Pulitzer prizes than any other specific camera. (If you add up all of the Nikon film and digital models, Nikon would win.) While there were several models of Speed Graphics they didn't vary too much. Many iconic and "important" images were made with Speed Graphics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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