What's your 'dream' camera?

The camera you are wanting or saving up for?

...and the lens (lenses) to go with it.

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I recently totally fell in love with a Hasselblad 503cw with a 16mp imacon back (same as PhaseOne P20 )

So one of those with a CW winder a Zeiss 40mm and a Zeiss 120mm and I'll be very happy.
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Anders

'It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice'

That would be the D3. In my dreams, I would be able to get a second one (to replace both of my D2H cameras) and a new 400 f2.8 VR, but I will have to save several more months and scrape and work hard to get a used 400 f2.8 AFS. i shoot almost all sports, so this is the dream camera for me.
If I shot studio, then the Hasselblad would be the thing to die for.
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Chris, Broussard, LA

and probably won't ever be. but the e-3 has turned my head, although i didn't think it would. the m8 is a 'close but no cigar'.

FF's don't appeal because of their awkward bulk---i like a larger camera but not these. some of their features i also don't need. rather go to a digital MF.

I have my dream camera, it only lacks one feature, but it has live preview an APS sensor, histogram, zebra stripes and a fantastic 24mm to 120mm Zeiss lens. If only I could stick a roll of film in it.

My Ricoh GX-100 with full frame sensor and 14-500 F2.8 VR lens!

and still the same size!

Hey I can dream right?

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Ed in Arizona
D200 GX-100
http://arizonadaze.smugmug.com

My choice would be kind of bifurcated.

1. One of those digital Hassleblad thingies (the 39mp flavor) and all the accompanying lenses.

2. (for the wife) A nikon D80 in a d40 size body (or a d40x with the D80 features). That is, small DSLR but with a focusing motor, more AF points, and a less menu driven interface.

39MP medium format sensor, capable of 30 frames per second video with live view, with Zeiss lenses, for under $1000. What else?

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Vlad

1) User-friendly controls (unlike Nikon or Canon)
2) 50 megapixel sensor
3) Detachable cordless 6-inch monitor with fully functional liveview
4) ISO from 6 to 13.000, no noise
5) In-camera HDR mode
6) In-camera HeliconFocus and PTGui modes

Lenses?

I wouldn't mind an extreme wideangle with perfect sharpness in the corners (which just doesn't seem to exist), otherwise the existing ones are OK. Oh, and modular construction would be nice, so that we wouldn't need to buy a new body every time they make one, but just replace the relevant part, like upgrading the PC.

http://lordofthelens.smugmug.com/

--D300 with a D3 sensor and speed.
Roger.

Amateurs worry about sharpness.
Professionals worry about sales.
Photographers worry about light.

I wish there would be Nikon D80 or D300 with Canon mount available... Or maybe Canon 30D with Foveon inside

Olympus E-3.

The Olympus E330 with an underwater housing and flash.
I will use the lenses of my E500.
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Regards,
Zeev

http://public.fotki.com/zeev-simon/
http://picasaweb.google.com/zeev.simon

In my dreams I see a Canon G9 with a wide angle lens.

C'mon Canon, don't you want to share my dreams?

WBirch said:

The camera you are wanting or saving up for?

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Give me an E400 with real mirror lockup and either an electronic shutter, or an independent shutter curtain. As quiet as possible!

And IS please!

I'd also prefer less megapixels and better sensitivity. If it was 6mp and I could fire it up to ISO 3200 I'd be perfectly happy.

WBirch said:

...and the lens (lenses) to go with it.

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An 11mm or 14mm f2.8 - small as possible!

You see, what I really want is a Leica M8, but I can't afford one

David

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Who needs High ISO when you can have Pure Whey?

Hi,

If your dream camera was released right now, I am assuming you'd be able to afford it because it's a dream.. right? So you now have it in your hands.. what are you going to do with it?

If it had a 5mm-1000mm lens, DR of 25 stops, ISO 1-100000, had 99 Megapixels and cost next to nothing.. you'd potentially be able to produce probably the best technical quality in imaging ever. But the problem is.. so would everyone else!

What would you do with it to make your photographs stand out from the masses who would be producing billboard prints from images shot in unlit coal mines?

David

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Who needs High ISO when you can have Pure Whey?

The biggest issues for such a question relate to honesty and imagination.

As a parallel, those who are lucky enough to win big on the lottery sometimes have to battle with those two 'demons'.

Either they lack the imagination to explore the world and their own limitations or they aren't honest about their own character and try to become someone they are not. A recipe for disaster in either case.
The same applies to your question:

If you have no imagination it would not matter if you were equipped with the greatest technological marvel of the age, your pictures would be as bland and dull as dishwater.

If you try to emulate others, rather than find or follow your own style, then you will never produce good, recognisable work.

It has been said on these forums many times and it bears repeating: it is better to make the best of what you have, than to have the best and not use it well.

The screen is like a hole, so it's like I'm looking at the back of the camera but also through the lens. You know, like when you open the back of a film camera? Like that, but 3" diagonal, like a regular camera LCD.

I think there's a viewfinder, probably is, I don't remember.

The mode dial turns really easily. When put in Green mode the camera transforms, like a Transformer, into a suitcase with wheels. Setting the combination lock to 736 829 turns it back into a camera

The storage medium is regular SATA internal hard disks which, bizarrely, fit into the camera without it needing to be bigger than a regular SLR. When I put a drive in, though, the "screen" said "That won't do at all" and I felt really guilty.

Not sure why but the flash I used mounted on the front of the camera, where the lens normally goes. It looked like a normal flash but with the head in the "up" position. Despite this, the camera could still take photos, although irritatingly the flash would always go off. I got really annoyed with this as it kept making it obvious I was taking peoples' pictures in the street, though my geology teacher told me at the time that this was a conscious design decision.

The flash/lens/whatever is green at one end and gradually faded to black at the mount end, like a gradient. The focal length was marked in Tube stations, with Euston Square being the shortest and Tooting Broadway being the longest. I think the aperture is f/2/.

Sorry I can't tell you about the ISO qualities and so forth, I woke up before I got that far. It was a nice, and certainly very interesting, camera to shoot with, though.

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Andy Farrell
http://www.caerphoto.com/
http://flickr.com/photos/caerphoto/

A 5x4 with a zillion mega pixle back Then I would be able to just take one picture and crop into that image Producing hundreds of images from one scene

Also a hot lady would be nice, who keeps saying "Show me this thing you call love, again"
but thats more of a sci-fi space dream
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