What colour is your camera?

What is your preferred camera body colour?

  • BLACK?

    Votes: 25 71.4%

  • SILVER? (in all tints and hues)

    Votes: 7 20.0%

  • ANOTHER COLOUR? (we'll need photos!)

    Votes: 4 11.4%
  • Total voters
    35
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This arises from the thread about OM bodies and I'm going to try to add a poll but here's the question:thinking::

Do you have a colour preference for your film camera bodies: is it

1. BLACK?:shrug:
2. SILVER (in all its many hues and tints)?:thumbs:
3. ANOTHER :cuckoo:COLOUR? (Do please tell and show us a photo):rules:
 
That's a tough one, I really like the style of the 70's/80's olympus cameras; the trip and om range. But equally there is something timeless about black and sturdy.
 
Black for the most part, though I currently have 2 Black and 2 Silver! I have kept the black top and bottom plates from a Minolta XD11 so if and when I get another I can worry about condition not colour and make it black myself!
 
Mostly black but some black and silver :) I like the 70/80s silver cameras like the silver OMs and my Canon AE1, but I'm not a massive fan of the more modern stuff in silver if I'm completely honest :)

the colour of a camera probably wouldn't be a dealbreaker for me unless it was something really garish, those limited edition Hasselblads in gold etc just aren't for me :P I remember seeing a special edition F5 though which was an army olive green, hubba hubba :D
 
Always black for me, matches the dark side perfectly.
 
Oil finished mahogany... and brass.

Evidence as requested:
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(it's not quite finished yet).


Steve.
 
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I don't have a preference although some colour does add a certain elegance to some cameras.

Mahogany, partly covered in black leatherette with brass fiiting s & red bellows does look particulary nice:

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There again, cameras that come in green, brown, yellow, blue, red, black , silver and grey all have a place :D

If "the rules" of having to post pics of them all, then fair enough but you're going to have to wait a while as I won't be around for a week :lol:
 
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Not proper film but have 2 polaroid sx-70's , one is black body with yellow leather, the other is silver body with fake grass :) (yes I'm a bit odd)
 
andy1868 said:
I like the 70/80s silver cameras like the silver OMs
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There were lots of black OM models, my OM10 body is black (as was my my old OM2SP and OM4).

If I can I'd always go for black.
 
tikkathreebarrel said:
Go on, allow yourself the luxury of expounding a little... especially with photos:clap:
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Some cameras just look absolutely classic (and were only released) in one colour, which means any other colour makes them seem a bit odd. Try and imagine a Rolleiflex in any other colour than the black leatherette! (there was a special gold snakeskin version released, and it's hideous).

I tend to veer towards black though. All my Nikon bodies are black, certainly.
 
^^^ Ow!

Er, usually black where I can get them, though my OM-2 is silver. TBH, I'm not that bothered.
 
No, it's Zeiss cap on a Cosina (or possibly this case a Kiron, can't quite tell from this angle) lens. A 28 2.8 or 24 2.8, both very good lenses but not a hint of anything German about them. They also come in Vivitar and Miranda guise too.
 
The boring answer is that it's a zeiss Jena cap on a zeiss Jena lens.
 
Both my SLRs are black. I bought the F2 new in Hong Kong, and most shops kept more of the black bodies in stock. The FM was second hand, and just happened to be black. I don't have any strong preference.

From what I remember, most SLRs were silver until well into the 60s or early 70s? At some point, the manufacturers introduced black and people started associating it with 'professional'. I don't know if this was a marketing strategy, or just a perception, but I think they were slightly more expensive?
 
For SLR cameras I prefer silver-steel and leather, not plastic grips, but I'm open to different colours of leather.
 
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