What Is Your Dream Camera?

No brainer for me
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I am so in. 10*8, 3 lenses, (a long, a middle and a short) and the biggest luxuries of all, time and travel.
 
Gandhi said:
I'm still on the verge of diverting to film for my landscape stuff.

And it's gonna be 10x8 or 5x4 I think on my wish list.

So if I could have any camera it would be a 10x8, a nice variety of lenses, a tanking great tripod.

The rest of the 10's of thousands of pounds that everybody else would be spending on gear I'd be spending on film, travel expenses and hiring a sherpa to schlep the whole caboodle round the planet whilst I'm off on my jollies.

Seriously though, if you had 20k to spend would you not rather have a relatively cheap camera a good selection of glass and then take a year off actually enjoying it and taking shed loads of photographs or spend 20k on a full D3/1dsmkIII system and then not have the money to get out and about and use the damn thing?


No brainer for me ;)
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10x8 is wonderful, but it cost about a fiver including processing every time you press the shutter release, so you need to get it right first time.
 
I've already pretty much got my dream camera system :$
Well did have till i had to send my 1D off for repair.
 
I'd keep it simple, ultra wide angle (10-20), 17-55 or thereabouts and a 55-300 (I'm slowly getting there). Lenses as good quality as is available, and as Gandhi says spend the rest of my money and time enjoying the places I'd go travelling! Not too fussed about the body, not a huge one like the 1D's, but a 'good' smaller one (D300?).

Thinking about it the selection I want doesn't look very impressive on the camera, so I'd have to have a 400mm prime just to look like I know what I'm doing :P
 
One that does everything that my camera and selection of lens does but with only 1 lens and no loss of quality...........dream on.
I just hate changing lens's.
 
I always thought I wanted a 5D or a 1D but I'm finding that the 40D I have is fullfilling everything I want. And I actualy like the multiplying effect of the smaller sensor. So I think I'm happy for now.
 
Eau Rouge said:
I fully agree that all the technology in the world won't make you take better pictures. I don't agree though that to take better pictures, or to learn how to take better pictures, means you need to skip the technology. What you have realised is that the technology is neutral, it's not required, but also it's being there doesn't stop you taking better pictures.

Once you understand how to use the technology it can help you take pictures, but whether those pictures are any good or not is as much up to the photographer today with the latest DSLR as it would be with a 30's manual Leica.

My ideal camera, a digital medium format system, but since they costs in the tens of thousands, it really will have to be a dream...
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I agree with most of what you say, the point I was trying to to make is people who are beginners are buying very sophisticated hi-tech cameras when they have no understanding of the of the basics of photography, its like someone trying to use an electronic calculator when they don't know what addition subtraction, and division is, anyone can take recognizable correctly exposed , sharp, pictures of people and objects with modern cameras, but you become a photographer when you know it's limitations, and when the technology lets you down you understand why.
 
Ben Myerson said:
My dream isn't for any camera, I been through the idea many years ago that " if only I had a better camera I'd take better pictures ", I just hope to one day be a good enough photographer to justify the cameras I own.
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On further reflection I do have a dream, not for cameras , and lenses but for a caddy to lug about what I have already
, they have them for golf, and my gear weighs more than golf clubs.
 
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