Your Alltime Favorite Camera

[mike_gillespie]

M-3, Contarex, for 35mm, and Voigtlander Bessa II with Heliar for MF-Have never seen sharper images from any other camera.

[donald_ingram1]

It's interesting to see how few digital cameras are mentioned in peoples lists.

For me it's:

 

Minox AXs : perfect in-pocket manual camera

 

Leica M6 : best practical all rounder

 

Hassy 501 : image quality 80mm lens on 6x6 has just the right angle of view

 

Leica 'O' series : small body and great lens

 

Ricoh GR1s : travel and party compact.

[stephen syrotiak]

M8.. Who'da thunk it!

 

Shooting since 1944... From 8x10 view to M6. Small, light, and flexible can't be beat.

[johannes_knightworth]

I like my Nikon F4 actually, very durable, no potsy little LCD screens, everything within reach, big and heavy though but I have enjoyed using it for years now. Mostly I use it with manual focus primes, but when needed you have autofocus .....

[Jim_Tardio]

Nikon FM and now the Nikon FM3a...wish they made a digital version.

[ed lake]

Nikon SP, then Nikon F

[david k.]

Linhof Master Technika with 120mm Super Symmar HM, a classic example of precision and performance.

[harvey_trautenberg1]

My favorite is my P&S the Hasselblad SWC - one lens - one finder - one format

[david_l3]

Leica M4

 

Nikon F2AS

 

Toyo 45A field

[Brad_]

Itek 70 degree reciprocating panoramic camera

[peter_n1664876959]

M7 0.85 mag.

[terry_rory]

(1) Contax 139Q with Carl Zeiss 50mm Planar f/1.4

 

 

(2) Minolta X-700 with MD Rokkor 45mm f/2

[stephen_w.]

Hasselblad SWC

 

Leica M7

 

Leica M4

[nels]

Of the ones I have actually used since I started taking an active and growing interest in this hobby called photography from Feb. 2004 with my first digital camera (the Leica Digilux 2), it has to be the Canon 5D - for intuitive ergonomics, responsiveness, tactile feel of the body and its controls in my hands, flexibility of using a wide variety of lenses to suit a given situation, and image quality.

 

Like any DSLR user, sure I wish the 5D was smaller, lighter, and quieter like my current favorite shirt-pocket-cam Pana FX-30, but reality is such a bitch.

[frank_nesbitt]

Have to give it to my 1955 Contaflex I. No meter, no instant return mirror, only 1/500 speed

and f/2.8 its max aperature. But no batteries, either and the sharpest, hardest, most

contrasty Zeiss Tessar lens I've had the pleasure of using. Or so it seems from the distance

of many years.

 

Real reason, though, is sentiment. It was my very first "good" camera, one I took my most

successful pictures with, one I became identified with by friends and subjects.

 

That's hard to beat.

[christoph_hammann]

A tie between my Ebony SV 45 U2 and my Leica MP: they are *so* different that each provides

a different kind of enjoyment in use. And I've cursed each one for it's few faults.

[terry_m1]

The Leica R8, passionately!

[tim_stephens]

Leica M4 & 35 3rd gen 'cron;

Contax II & CZJ f2/50 sonnar;

Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta IV;

Hassleblad 500cm & 80 Planar;

[john_spiers]

Rollei 35 Classic.

[miroslav_vodehnal]

M6 Classic + Summicron C

[chansonbleu]

Its a tie between the Olympus OM3T and the Cannon T90. The R8 would be second.

[squareframe]

is it true Michael Reichmann posted to this thread and it brought down the server?

[alastair_anderson]

Voigtlander Perkeo II

It's smaller than an M3, beautifully engineered (admittedly it fall short of a Leica in this regard), and the picture quality approaches that of a Rollieflex or Hasselblad.

[gary_gumanow]

Tough question... I love them all for so many diffferent reasons.

 

MF: Mamiya m645 for the composition

 

Leica M6 TTL for the fast action stuff.

 

Not a fair question!

[nickperzik]

i was in a bad financial spot about a year ago and ended up selling most of my cameras

and lenses. i had an n90s, an f3hp, 2 fm2's, a bunch of fast nikkor primes and an m6 with

a 35 summicron. i loved all of that stuff. but when i had to choose what to keep and what

to sell, it was an easy choice. i kept the m6. hands down the best camera i've ever owned.