Worst camera designs

[desertratt]

The Speed Graphic was a wonderful camera for its day and purpose (mostly news photography). And you could smash the heck out of any perp who tried to "smash your camera." It could be used as a closeup copy camera, had a huge negative which you could blow up from here to the moon if you got it in focus and your exposure was okay. There was a time when people KNEW you were a news photog if you carried one. Of course it was big, akward and slow but some people took 'em to the battlefield.

[lxdude]

The Speed Graphic was a wonderful camera for its day and purpose (mostly news photography). And you could smash the heck out of any perp who tried to "smash your camera." It could be used as a closeup copy camera, had a huge negative which you could blow up from here to the moon if you got it in focus and your exposure was okay. There was a time when people KNEW you were a news photog if you carried one. Of course it was big, akward and slow but some people took 'em to the battlefield.

For example, Joe Rosenthal, who took the picture of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima.

[ezwriter]

Dont konw if this is mentioned but my Nikon FE wont click the shutter unless
the wind lever is partway out. So it sticks u in the eye when u look thru viewfinder.
Did they not use this camera first???

[LJSLATER]

Dont konw if this is mentioned but my Nikon FE wont click the shutter unless
the wind lever is partway out. So it sticks u in the eye when u look thru viewfinder.
Did they not use this camera first???

If you attach a motor drive, you don't have to extend the lever. But if you DO extend the lever and trip the shutter using the motor drive, the stupid thing will jam.

[MattKing]

Dont konw if this is mentioned but my Nikon FE wont click the shutter unless
the wind lever is partway out. So it sticks u in the eye when u look thru viewfinder.
Did they not use this camera first???

Apparently all Nikon designers are pirates with just one working eye - the right one .

I understand what you mean, as I too use my left eye for viewing.

[benjiboy]

This must be one of the most butt ugly but interesting cameras ever made , and I used to have to sell them to the public to make a living about twenty years ago, http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Konica_AiBORG, Darth Vader lives

[Steve Smith]

I think Ben has found the winner!


Steve.

[E. von Hoegh]

Dont konw if this is mentioned but my Nikon FE wont click the shutter unless
the wind lever is partway out. So it sticks u in the eye when u look thru viewfinder.
Did they not use this camera first???

Nikon's last proper camera was the F2.

[benjiboy]

I think Ben has found the winner!


Steve.

If any of my former customers are reading this, I apologise for selling one of these to you, but at the time I had a mortgage and two teenage sons at university, one in the U.K and one in America and I needed the money

[DBP]

I am still on the look-out for a Yashica Samurai (cheap) - however my friends would most likely push me into oncoming traffic if I showed up with one around my neck.

I think I have one around here somewhere if anyone is interested. RH version, though.