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May 10, 2015 07:34:19   #
jeryh Loc: Oxfordshire UK
 
No doubt on that score- my worst camera was undoubtedly the Leica R8- I still shudder when i think of it ! If it worked at all, it would only do so for maybe three frames; talk about a lemon ! Bought new, with a motor wind, went back to solms, nothing wrong said they, went back to Leica, still couldn't find anything, came back to Leica UK who could not get it to work !!! Sold in disgust.

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May 10, 2015 08:14:37   #
Dale40203 Loc: Louisville, KY
 
bobmcculloch wrote:
. . . bought a used Nikkormat, perfect condition, worked perfectly, lousy to hold and use, one roll of film, sold it for what it cost me, good riddence, that was my most disliked camera ever. Bob.

I agree on the Nikkormat. I could never get used to the front mounted shutter speed selector ring. It did have 1/125 second flash synch, though. Bought it as a "buddy" for my FTN.

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May 10, 2015 08:20:20   #
bkellyusa Loc: Nashville, TN
 
I never hated any camera because I've known all my life that my problems was not the equipment but rather my inability to understand how to take a decent photograph or at least do it predictably. If I took 10 pictures 7 of them sucked. However I knew people who could take good pictures rather easily with cameras no better than the one I owned.

Incredibly the thing that finally woke me up was the camera on my Samsung S5 cell. I hadn't really fooled with taking pictures in years but when I saw how nice the pictures turned out on my cell phone I was hooked. At the same time I started questioning people who I know who were professional photographers or very talented amateurs about the whole subject of getting the pictures you want. Once I started seeing that with work and some training I could do better I bought a SONY NEX 5T. It was my first reasonably sophisticated camera. It took me six months just to learn how to operate it but with that camera and lots of education I started to understand what I was doing and once I had that part down I was off and running. I am still learning but I know I will eventually get better and better. Nowadays I am sure that I could get some decent pictures out of about a half dozen cameras I let rot in my closet.

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May 10, 2015 08:56:42   #
GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan
 
I'm a photographer and don't "hate" anything about it! Any "problems" I've ever had, have been treated as a challenge and worked out. Therefore I never really had a camera I hated.

If you want to talk about the most challenging, then it would have to be my early dslr in comparison to analog cameras. That is only because I had a hard time understanding the new menu and definitions used within it.

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May 10, 2015 08:56:42   #
GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan
 
Sorry about the double post.

*Cell phones have confusing menus also.

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May 10, 2015 09:32:25   #
jsharp Loc: Ballwin MO.
 
Mine was a Zenith-B, a Russian built tank of a camera, all manual and no through lens metering. but it was a great first camera to learn with using all the Pentax screw mount lenses that I could buy cheaply. Still longed for a Canon or Nikon.

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May 10, 2015 09:40:19   #
Blasthoff Loc: Life halved NY and IN
 
pith wrote:
Back in the early eighties I had a pair of Nikon F3's both new, and both gave me trouble. I loved the way they looked, and my experience was not typical of the F3, but I became less than fond of mine. That's why I wish to this day that I had bought the Pentax LX instead, but I didn't. :-D ;) pith


I wonder, having owned numerous Nikon film cameras the last being an F3, which I only acquired about 12 years ago. My own experience was that an F3 took some learning that I was not prepared for. I found you had to "live" with the camera for a time to appreciate it, which is exactly what a pro photographer friend had told me about his experience back in the '80's. It was the one time I bought a camera simply because I always marveled at how it felt in hand. I never stopped enjoying the "feel" of the film transport and shutter, top notch.

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May 10, 2015 09:50:12   #
niptate
 
Pentacon 6. You needed a masters degree just to be able to load the film. And even when I did get the film loaded, there was likely going to be some overlap of frames.

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May 10, 2015 10:03:23   #
rick Loc: Cape Cod, MA
 
My first Camera was a Pentax MX which I loved and I have been fortunate to have worked my way through a fair number of Nikons and have loved every one of them. The camera that has given me the least satisfaction is my Canon SX50. It is obviously a good camera but I just am not comfortable with it and I have not learned to take good pictures with it. I am selling and moving on to a Nikon P900 to go with the others in my Nikon collection.

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May 10, 2015 10:10:15   #
GrandmaG Loc: Flat Rock, MI
 
NormanHarley wrote:
I have been enjoying the 'most beautiful camera' thread here and it got me thinking about my first camera. A total lemon. In the late 60's I had saved up my paper route money and bought a Praktica. The shutter never worked right, everything was overexposed and after a month the camera store gave me a full refund after seeing me in there week after week. One of the employees had taken a liking to me and he told me about a used Nikon F that had come back from Vietnam and was pretty banged up. The prism was broken and a local camera repair man had it in his shop fixing it up and put a beat up FTn head from another abused camera on it. Cosmetically, my F was UGLY! But it worked perfectly and came with a 50mm f/2 lens. I went from a beautiful, shiny new Praktica that never worked right to a travel worn, pieced together old workhorse. I consider that Nikon F as my first real camera, I only got a few properly exposed pictures with that Praktica.
I have been enjoying the 'most beautiful camera' t... (show quote)


By far, the worst camera I ever bought (and the only one I returned) was the Panasonic Lumix FZ200. In fact, I posted a thread about it. The "Pro" salesman couldn't get good shots with it, either. Even my first little Kodak box camera took better pictures! And it only cost me $1 and some cereal box tops. There was no flash, it only took B & W film, but the pictures were great. In fact, I still have them! Fifty years old and the pics have withstood the test of time!!!

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May 10, 2015 10:25:54   #
Lou37 Loc: Long Island, N.Y.
 
Unfortunately, the most problematic cameras I have ever owned were the Digital Canon Point and shoot cameras. I am a big man and it seemed that just about every time I turned one of these cameras on I had a finger which touched the lens as it extended. I always got a lens error message with the Canons (about 7 of them). I finally gave up on them and continued with my Nikons which do not give me any problems. To indicate how well built the Canons are, in two instances the cameras were still under warranty and Canon would not even bother to repair them, they replaced them instead. It is a rather sad thing for me to say as I started with Canon when I became a serious photographer, but switched to Nikon when the auto focus cameras were introduced and found that Canon had changed the lens mount which meant using adapters which in my opoinion was not the way to go.

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May 10, 2015 10:49:20   #
ecar Loc: Oregon, USA
 
Marilyng wrote:
I had a terrible time trying to zoom & take photos with the Canon SX50.I guess it just had to be me because so many people love that camera.My photos just never seemed sharp enough for me so I sold it!


I sold mine too. The pic's were ok, but not up to alot of others I could have purchased that didn't have the killer zoom, and it was the zoom that I bought it for.

The zoom was a little hard to use standing up without leaning onto something or having a tripod or other support, even with the stabilization button. And the camera was a little larger than I'd thought. But your right, it is a very popular camera that alot of folks like!

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May 10, 2015 11:14:39   #
ecommons
 
I have and still own several cameras. As to hated, I can't say I hated any of them, but many have their quirks.

My first camera was an Argus C3. Argus's answer to "If you put a lens on it , even a brick will take good pictures. I still have it and it still works.

A friend with the Soviet Consulate in Athens gave me a Zorki 4 as a gift. I used it extensively and got great pictures (I now on two. Both are still working after 45 plus years. Leica lenses work fine with this as well as my Nikor from an old S2. (These were better than the Jupiter or Industyrial lenses that came with these cameras, but the Jupiter was an excellent lens in itself.My Minolta Autocord (I still have it, but it doesn't work.)

My first SLR was a Pentax (not Spotmatic) I later upgraded to a Minolta SRT 101, then a Nikkormat FTN and later a Nikon FTN, then Nikon F2 and a Nikon FG.

I then went to digital. First an Olympus EV 500 (got me into digital w/ two lenses for less than $800. Finally graduated to Nikon D 7000.

I can't say I ever "Hated" any of these, but there were and arte some things I dislike or don't care for. But, there's no such thing as the "Perfect" camera

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May 10, 2015 11:35:38   #
MontanaTrace
 
jethro779 wrote:
This kind of remark is not very nice. Why didn't you just keep your fingers off the keyboard.


We do have a few that post comments that are unpleasant. Some think they are being funny. He was probably the one doing the drinking and was probably upset because he set his camera on the roof of his car and drove off. I did that once. Hic!

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May 10, 2015 11:38:13   #
JoeDigipix
 
Along with the Kodak Disk camera was the Kodak Hawkeye Instamatic Pocket Camera that seemed to encourage poor camera handling technique, producing blurred pix.

Been fortunate with my pro cameras with a used Pentax Spotmatic at age 18.My Dad said, "Son, you know all the pros use Nikon"!

Purchased in 1971 a Canon F1 1st Edition, while in Vietnam at the the PX. I was a faithful Canon guy until 3 yrs ago until I discovered the Panasonic GH3 and now GH4.

I do listen to my Dad, but not on cameras, he's a snob with his Nikon! He'll be 90 this June :-)

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