cary_chin1 Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Leicaflex SL: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_linn Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 My opinion: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_drawbridge Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Certainly one the most handsome, in my opinion, the Exakta Varex VXIIa 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Smith Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Contarex Special 4 Robin Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Some people think Brutalist architecture is beautiful. In the same way, this Thornton-Pickard appeals because it strips the SLR principle to its basics, and everything is on display. Combined winder and speed selector for the focal-plane shutter, combined mirror-lift and shutter trigger. Even the lens cover does double duty as a lens shade. Function defining form, with no pretence at conventional beauty. At the other extreme we have the sleek streamlining and simplicity of an early Pentax SV - Ergonomically near-perfect - for a right-handed person - and If you excuse the later addition of the not-quite so streamlined, but optically excellent Chinon lens. Beauty can take many forms. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cary_chin1 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Leicaflex Standard, many feel this camera is ugly, but to me it is a very pretty camera. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_ante Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 The most beautiful SLR with the cleanest, uncluttered lines is a Leicaflex SL. The toughest, most rugged, best built...Nikon F (although I had a friend who defended himself against a mugger in Central Park by using his Leicaflex as a mace, camera undamaged). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
q.g._de_bakker Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Hasselblad 500 C, 'chrome' C 80 mm Planar, folding viewfinder with struts. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurencecochrane Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Not saying Mamiya c33 are particularly beautiful but this is mine 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Bryant Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Hasselblad 500 C, 'chrome' C 80 mm Planar, folding viewfinder with struts. My main camera for 30 years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_drawbridge Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 From the Great Chrome Age 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCL Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Not saying Mamiya c33 are particularly beautiful but this is mine[ATTACH=full]1431236[/ATTACH] Not a SLR (title of this thread) but an absolutely gorgeous TLR:D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurencecochrane Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Not a SLR (title of this thread) but an absolutely gorgeous TLR:D I know NOT SLR only realised late last night OOOOOOOOPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cary_chin1 Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Nikon F: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Helmke Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 I don’t have a picture handy but hands down the Nikon F2 with an MD-2. By the way Robert I had to use mine to defend against a mugger in New Orleans once. It didn’t break either and I was able to photograph him bleeding and unconscious with the same camera. Rick H 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart_pratt Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 I always thought this was rather pretty 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royall_berndt Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Nikon F3, hands down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce_z._li2 Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 My nominations purely based on looks: 1) Miranda Sensorex for SLR Miranda Sensorex with 50/1.4 by Zheng, on Flickr 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 aw heck. Here's my recovered Exakta in red goat 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck_foreman1 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 When I replied back in 2007.. I noted the RTS as a contender..but likely too modern for the post!! I see that'S changed Thanks Stuart Pratt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
q.g._de_bakker Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Yikes! That hurt my eyes, JDMvW. Another entry: Sinar Norma. With Bino reflex finder attached, it is a SLR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 I think that my Retina Reflex is a beautiful camera. Unfortunately it is non-operational. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xícara de Café Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 (edited) My favourites are the Nikon F and F2 with the prism head or the F with that big block-headed F light meter, either black or chrome. Real brutalist beauty. I have none of these so unfortunately no photos to post. Also like the Leicaflex Standard, as posted above. Edited July 9, 2022 by Xícara de Café Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCL Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 People either love the design or hate it...in any case one Hell of a camera. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_drawbridge Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 As SCL said regarding the Leica R8: People either love the design or hate it... Personally, I think it's a magnificent design, and it's one camera I still lust after. On a more humble note, the Praktica BC-series were handsome cameras, and I particularly like the BC-1 with it's soft-touch body panels. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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