Ugly New Cameras (Page 6): The camera is a tool. Looks are meaningless. It has to fit my hands and do the job.

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Mar 22, 2022 13:42:09 #

dmagett Loc: Albuquerque NM/Sedona AZ

Lukabulla wrote:

I see all these new expensive cameras ..
especially the four thirds etc and notice how
ugly they look ..

Brutal designs , harsh square lines and corners.
Plastic looking ... dont look like high quality cameras at all .

Panasonic , Sony , Fuji .. are the worst .
They look ' cheap and nasty ' but are ' Expensive and nasty '

The DSLR so far have kept with good traditional lines ..

The camera is a tool. Looks are meaningless. It has to fit my hands and do the job.

Mar 22, 2022 14:08:01 #

goldenyears Loc: Lake Osewgo

dmagett wrote:

The camera is a tool. Looks are meaningless.

Exactly! While I enjoyed reading the endless back-and-forth debate, I didn't learn anything about appearance that's going to help me to be a better photographer.

Mar 22, 2022 14:20:36 #

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

But...I remember that my Argus C4 was much easier to handle and use than its boxier predecessor models. And I was just a kid.

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Mar 22, 2022 14:28:50 #

William Kemp Loc: Letts, Iowa

The nice thing about an ugly camera is that you don't have to look at it when you're looking through the viewfinder.

Mar 22, 2022 14:45:53 #

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

A man may be handsome and a woman pretty but "Beauty ain't everything."

Mar 22, 2022 14:49:46 #

SRTfirst

I love the appearance (and handling) of my Fuji X-T2. It’s very SLR 35mm to my eyes and hands.

Mar 22, 2022 16:55:57 #

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Jerry G wrote:

For beautiful cameras you need to go back over half a century.
https://fstoppers.com/originals/what-are-most-beautiful-cameras-all-time-here-are-my-top-10-463733

Ok, I clicked and viewed. Not much beauty in his too ten. Another case if "seeing" that depends on organs oyher than the eyes.

Those ten cameras are significant icons of their genres, some are landmarks. To lay eyes on them is to be moved. But that is not beauty, not visually anyway.

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Mar 22, 2022 16:58:20 #

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revhen wrote:

A man may be handsome and a woman pretty but "Beauty ain't everything."

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Mar 22, 2022 18:03:59 #

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

burkphoto wrote:

I wouldn't buy it because it is ugly (It is.). I would not buy it because BMW has a terrible reliability record.

Yep to me a Jeep Grand Cherokee is beautiful and highly reliable.
To others they hate them.
My 2008 has well over 200k on it but looks brand new and runs like new.
Just change oil and minor maintenance like brakes.

Mar 22, 2022 18:39:13 #

al13

I think my Fuji xt4 is beautiful

Mar 22, 2022 19:26:15 #

ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio

StanMac wrote:

Remember, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t think many of us here buy a camera based on its looks.

Stan

True but in my eyes all of my Nikons are beautiful.

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Mar 22, 2022 19:27:12 #

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al13 wrote:

I think my Fuji xt4 is beautiful

Its certainly every bit as cool as Arch 1776's Jeep Cherokee. Both look like what they actually are, and are quite cleanly styled.

Seems I just stated my parameters for ugly vs beautiful machinery. That is why I found almost no beauty in the earlier link to "10 most beautiful". All those cameras look very purposeful. But they are not cleanly styled. They can evoke "beautiful memories" but visually they are far from beautiful in and of themselves. They are mostly visually clunky. Some might call that "inner beauty".

Visually, I tend to go with Raymond Loewy. Look him up.
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Barely the tip of the Loewy iceberg.