riz Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>Can we categorize cameras as <em>cult </em>cameras?</p> <p>If so, then which may fall under this head?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maury_cohen Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>Holga?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_h.1 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cult+cameras</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riz Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>Maury. Yeah :)</p> <p>John. LOL. You are a great man :)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelChang Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>That's a good question. </p> <p>What causes a camera (or anything) to acquire cult status, anyway? Rarity? Original cost? Quality? Or simply because enough people think it's neat and want it? </p> <p>I can think of many things with cult status which have no intrinsic value; its so called collectability (and transaction price) artificially inflated by a frenzy of irrational desire to own it, until a time comes when no one wants it any more. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richterjw Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>Dare I say...Leicas (while ducking being shelter).</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridinhome Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>Hexar AF (before I get slammed, I own one).</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_levine Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>Nikon F and the Nikkormats.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starvy Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>TLR cameras, perhaps one of the Rollei models?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkka Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>To my ear cult means some sort of faithful following that may be somewhat beyond reason. Holga and Lomo fit that bill. Leica as well. Maybe Hasselblad and Rolleiflex TLR. Canon and Nikon start to achieve that status in many people's minds as well, thinking of them as beyond perfect and above any comparison even if reason says otherwise. But for most people, all these, and other cameras, are just tools. Nothing to do with any cult, so one has to be careful not to generalise.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_sunley Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>Pretty much every film camera prior to the 1970's has become a cult camera to some degree, from biggies like the F down to some of the Kodak Brownies.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luis_g Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>RF film Leicas, except the M5.</p> <p>OM-1, OM-1n, OM-2, OM2n, OM-3 OM-4 (+ ti Models).</p> <p>Olympus XA</p> <p>Nikon F</p> <p>Nikon 35 ti, 28 ti</p> <p>Rollei TLR 3.5</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>Rollei 35 might qualify.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie_cheung Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>X100 at the moment and maybe the GXR.</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>Robert Monaghan's "Cult Classics" site from ye olden web 1.0 days of yore was documenting that stuff in the late 1990s. The original site is defunct but may be cached somewhere, maybe on the Internet Archives. Photo.net's <a href="../classic-cameras-forum/">Classic Manual Cameras</a> forum is pretty much a love poem to that aspect of photography.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerwb Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 <p>I guess I'll have to start wearing hooded robes and burning incense, as I own Leicas, Rolleiflexes and Nikon F's. Not because of any trendiness, but because the damn thimgs just keep working.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fate_faith_change_chains Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 <p><em>Cult</em> :</p> <ul> <li> a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing</li> <li> a person or thing that is popular or fashionable</li> </ul> <p>What about the iPhone ?!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_waller Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 <p>If I understand your question correctly then I would nominate Holga, Lomo, Lubitel and Diana.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerrySiegel Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 <blockquote> <p>Hexar AF (before I get slammed, I own one).</p> </blockquote> <p>Me too, Kayam. If you don't know the 'secret sauce' recipe for that camera ,you can't even operate it and the manual is lost in the mountains of Kashmir and was not intelligible anyhow.... Now that's what I call "cult." The fraternal handshake- grip- equivalent kind of camera. Or more definitively, is Hexar AF an <strong>"occult </strong>camera<strong>." </strong></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maciek_stankiewicz Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 <p>Leica M, Minolta XE and SRT series, Nikon F, Rolleiflex, Pentax K1000, Yashica Electro 35, Canon Canonet GIII, Minolta Hi-Matic 7s, Voigtlander Vito B, Kodak Retina, Olympus SP, Olympus XA, Olympus Stylus Epic, Argus C3, to name a few...<br /> <strong>John, that was very funny indeed! You hit the nail with this one :)</strong></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_stephens Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 <p>The above is a good list. I would add the Yashica T3 "Eagle Eye", and the Yashica T4 Super D All Weather. These are P&S cameras with Zeiss lenses. I have them both and they take very nice photos. Right up there with my Nikon 35Ti.</p> <p>I think "cultishness" develops around cameras that are "more than they should be" or "more than one would expect." Often they are lower-end models that have the luck of just the right design elements to make them superb. The Canon QL17 falls in that category with the Yashica Electro 35. If I were a starving artist or student or something, I could live easily with either of those basic rangefinders and not be losing a thing technically. </p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_a11664881497 Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 <p>Contax IIa, Yashica T4, Leica M2, M3, M4 or M6, Leica R6 or 6.2 or Olympus Trip. Pick one.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_gardiner Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 <p>The Kenya B14 between 1963-1973 (before they dropped the chrome snap up VF).</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_macpherson Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 <p>Nah you're all wrong. A true 'cult' camera requires the adherents of the cult to drape large black robes over themselves - so I guess that would include that A. Adams guy and few others, probably freemasons too if the truth be told :-)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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