photon38

Isn't it obvious, the perfect camera would only have one button, labeled N T I B.
It would automatically make up for all my ignorance and produce fully photo shopped pictures everyone, from the greenest beginner to the most experienced and cynical professional exclaim: Now That Is Beautiful.
Well, you did ask😂😂

Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, Colorado

My perfect camera is the one I'm holding in my hands.

MarkSki

Sounds like the Olympus PEN.

canon Lee

Frankly its not the camera, but the photographer that makes creative good shots. But I would love if they added to the 7D WiFi, to export to a large iPAD. I use CamRanger and control my camera wirelessly, up to 150' away!

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

A Fuji full frame mirrorless....

IBM

What a strange thing, this thing called a human is , The talk that goes on here is crazy it really is , there is a lot of products out there that
Nearly every house hold has , and uses every day , and in the long it cost as much as a $10000 camera or more , Yet NO One EVEN TALKS About them . It must be because there so simple to operate , that they don't feel as much pride in conkering the workings of it .maybe
We could change that and bring it to light , we could call it the .?? You figuer that out . It's the coffee brewer , there is more makes of them on the shelves and more outlet's than cameras will ever have , and you never hear a word , in my hay day I drank 8,9,10 , cups a day for
60 years down to two cups a day now, I can see it now , my deluxe zoom boom brewer is better than your , no mess express , I can see it
Getting out of hand , videos of all kinds of pots doing there thing , and testers spotting off on which one is the best , it would be as crazy for coffee pots as it is for Cameras now , and they all only do one thing , take pictures, make coffee, cook waffles, open cans ,catch mice,

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

So Ansel Adams had the perfect camera for black and white -- and color (look for his fabulous color photos). But, then again, maybe it was the photographer, with his eye, technical skill, and post-processing (then in a darkroom) that produced such perfection. I've seen some fine pictures taken with a rudimentary pinhole camera. As one of the earlier responders indicated, we need to define perfection. One of the most imperfect pictures ever taken was one of the most powerful: Robert Capa's D-Day photo all messed up in development, etc.

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

dragonfist Loc: Stafford, N.Y.

I may be blind to perfection but Ansel Adams work really never aroused my apparent limited sensibilities. I would much rather peruse the work of Henri Cartier Bresson any day in the week. It probably is the fact that I appreciate the subject matter better. I love to study the human condition. What Bresson could do with that Leica was the work of a master. I'm not saying Adams was not a master of his chosen subject matter; it just doesn't appeal to me.

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

Difference of perception, taste, interests, and concerns makes the world go round. When it comes to people I'm a fan of Dorothea Lange and Robert Capa.

IBM

His work is mostly about developing , he was a genues when it came to that , those Desert pic jumped of the page moonlight some thing or other , if any one had his negatives, they still couldn't produce what he did , it was all in the burning and dodging under the enlarger light
He had it all written on paper what and how many seconds on each thing and in what section it was in , and they still could not get it quite like he could , his wife made a living doing his negatives when he died still not as good , but people bought them

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

Moonlight over Hernandez, New Mexico. My fav. Back in the 80s they had a gallery here that carried his signed & numbered prints. They had one for $13,000. Oh how I wished for it.

10MPlayer Loc: California

It would have the light sensitivity of a cat, the dynamic range of the human eye or better, the optics of a bald eagle, weigh less than a smart phone and cost less than a good used car. Eventually the sensitivity and dynamic range issues may be achievable. The other stuff, probably not.

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

Since every photographer has his or her own standards, the makers will have no problem continuing to sell cameras.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Fuji comes really close!
Love my X-E2.
Would like to have my X100s back as well.
They got the ergonomics and menu set-up right.
The lenses are fantastic.
Fuji is also great about updating firmware.
Now if they could just make flash work as well as my Nikon. Cactus radio tranceivers are getting an update that will accommodate ttl and HSS and be able to intermix brands.