Film The Resurrection Shuffle

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Bill Palmer
I have been musing lately about which film camera or cameras I would like to see brought back to life in digital form.

If you assume that the X2 is Leica's reincarnation of the old Leica I II and III, that accounts for the top of my list, a digital version of my Leica II, albeit I would like it in interchangeable lens form with a reworking of the old 5cm Elmar...

More practical (and more affordable, I suspect, would be a digital Olympus XA; what a camera that could be, particularly in full-frame form.

What would you like to see?
 
hmm well i'd rather see the E-P2 rebuilt as a film camera but then i'm funny that way ... are ashton gardner and dyke still going i wonder?
 
hmm well i'd rather see the E-P2 rebuilt as a film camera but then i'm funny that way ... are ashton gardner and dyke still going i wonder?

edit oh heavens i just googled them and ashton and gardner both died in 2001
 
There's a bunch. For the life of me, I can't figure out why we haven't seen a digital TLR camera (other than that silly little Minox toy Rollei). I want to see a Kodak Brownie priced for the masses. And then something like a real Rollei and if it needs to be priced a bit on the luxurious side, then so be it. But it should look exactly like a real one.

And as long as I'm dreaming, I'd love to see the return of the folding MF camera (thanks Paul for putting that foolish notion in my head).
 
Bill,

Back when I shot film, I had a Canonet QL17 fixed lens rangefinder. I'd love to have that in digital form, with really simple controls.

BTW, a while back I sent you a private message but got no reply. Did it get through?
 
There's a bunch. For the life of me, I can't figure out why we haven't seen a digital TLR camera (other than that silly little Minox toy Rollei). I want to see a Kodak Brownie priced for the masses. And then something like a real Rollei and if it needs to be priced a bit on the luxurious side, then so be it. But it should look exactly like a real one.

And as long as I'm dreaming, I'd love to see the return of the folding MF camera (thanks Paul for putting that foolish notion in my head).

This. I would love a TLR with a MF sensor. Heck there's enough real estate in there to stick one in!
 
A Rolleiflex or TLR type camera and a Folder like the more recent Bessa III.. though there really are no digital reasons for a bellows [hm other than macro :D] and all that boxy room in a TLR though Boid has a point, MF guts room.
 
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