Creating your perfect camera ?

[dee]

Following on from the restore / original etc topic -

I created my perfect pre war style Kontax courtesy of a dying Contax III chassis and Kiev 4 compact meter and controls from a period when quality was still the goal of the Soviets .
This looks most balanced , but maybe I have been influenced by SLRs with a bump on top !

I even used a rareish early K4 with plain meter top , when almost all had ridges to prevent the thin metal dinting , sourcing a ' frame ' style meter window ,and removing the self timer [ which was broken anyway ].

I grew up using a Weston selenium meter , and the Kiev meter is a good enough in normal light .

This may not be ' My Perfect Classic Camera ' but it's pretty close ...

I guess it's like a modified classic 30s car , with 50s additions .

Does anyone dream of the perfect combination of features which one camera cannot provide ?

dee

[John Parry]

Dee

Hard as it is to admit this, I don't think I own a camera that I know how to work everything on. And I own quite a few.

And on the modern digitals I'm sure I'll never be able to work my way through the menu - life's too short to stuff mushrooms.

I'm probably a flawed character...

Regards - John

[daveh]

I don't dream of making a camera with a perfect combination of features so much as a perfect computer programme.

Weston Master: my father had a mark II: I wonder what happened to it. Later I bought a mark V.

I always liked the Weston Master.

[mickeyobe]

I had, and still have, what for me was the perfect camera. I used it for 20 years. The Canon T90.

And then along came digital.

Will I ever find the digital equivalent of the T90?

Mickey

[dee]

I guess my Minolta SRTs were , and are the cameras which were most automatic to use - I actually part exchanged an Olympus OM1 for an outdated , but less fiddly SRT 201 !
My Rokkors have now been pressed into service with a 4/3rds Leica Digilux 3 .

[Randy]

I think the SRT is the easiest camera to use.