Furthermore, a built in ND filter…

I guess a lightweight, fully weather sealed 10-400mm 1.2 lens would be nice

All James wants is the perfect camera.

For a “not a photography trip” you got some beautiful photos.😊

My friend dropped a Nikon DSLR in a river and didn’t notice for several minutes as he’d turned his back on it (it was on a tripod). After spending a week in the airing cupboard it was fine 😁

Dream camera is not Camra?

If you want a camera with an internal battery. I.e “you don’t want to source an obscure battery, just usb charging.” Your camera will last only as long as your internal battery. And any replacement will be either more costly or impossible.

My dream camera is a Leica Q3 with 95% discount

I always enjoy your videos. Thank you for continuing to share them.

Thanks James…and enjoyed discussion and Cornwall!

Great video. Amazing shots.

You never miss!!

Whenever people talk about their dream cameras it always feels to me like they are speccing up a smartphone. Walled gardens, and short lifespans, feel almost inevitable once things like airdrop are added. Which features will still work in 10 years? Personally, I've been hoping that someone picks up where Ricoh left off with the GXR line. A modular camera system that can be extensively customised. Your dream camera is probably more realistic.

It's always good to dream. Carry on. 👍🥂

The X-t5 has two customisable dials in addition to the iso, shutter speed and aperture dials, so it’s very flexible.

My perfect dream camera would be my GX85, but with PDAF, that sony multi-angle type of screen shown in the video (but GX85 display) and my canon 6D battery life (up to 2000+ photos with one charge). A bump in resolution would be nice. And, of course, FF if somehow we could keep the size and weight of m43 lenses (it has to be pocketable at least like the GX85 is with the 14mm, the 20mm and the 12-32mm).

Combo range-finder style meets regular LCD / viewfinder...try setting the X-T5 (and other Fujifilm cameras at least) into Sports Finder mode (need to be in mechanical shutter mode). Will result in a 1.29 crop, but gives you a "rangefinder" type visual where you can see things outside of frame. Cheers

Great info. Nice photos. Loved the presentation. Always fun on your channel. My English step-family loves Cornwall as well. As does "Doc Martin."

Those are actually pretty reasonable features!

The Xpro3 is my dream camera. I got it recently and have been manual focusing and have been loving my photos more than how they look with AF. Maybe it's the nerd it me that loves being hands on, but it is so much fun to use. Though it isn't perfect, it has everything i personally want. I hope if they make another they put in the 40MP censor thats in the new 100VI and the swivel backscreen from the HS-2 and that would be a perfect camera to me

I have recently switched to a Lumix S5 (first generation) and I love that camera to bits. What I would keep from it: - HW: IBIS, grip, buttons, dual-card, viewfinder, sensor (FF) - SW: button configuration (you can assign any function to all but 2 buttons...), menu, color science, mobile app (although a bit glitchy, better than most of the other options) What I would change: - lens mount: only 1 3rd party (sigma) and the lenses and accessories are a bit more expensive than for other mounts (same lens is usually 5-10% more expensive) - frame rate for raw (20 instead of 8) - small bump in MP: ~40 instead of current 24. It's getting really annoying to process large images in lightroom, so not to big

My Dream Camera's I own. Nikon 1 V1. Olympus E-520. Why so old do you ask? Well all this technology takes away from the Soul of Photography. Having half of the stuff produced influence by some AI or another. Thats just my opinion.

Thanks!

Just got my old fuji xe1 out, now i realise just how good it is. Especially with the upgrades to modern software.

That tractor photo just made me smile!

I LOVE Designing Concepts, not visually doing it yet but I did some back in Nokia's good days for phone, did one for Black Berry too, for Sony Ericsson's too. And just 3 days ago I did sketch my dream Sony Rx100 'X' because entire of last month I spent search Rx100 VII, a used one but could not find in city where I live. And so my concept designing gears start spinning to research if a new camera of that type is still needed, turned out yes, and so what would make it appealing to a large audiences, so on. I have many other concepts, for the cameras too.

Love your video's 👍

Good morning ☀️

I’ve found my XT5 is my dream camera, button layout that’s perfect for me, the dials on top don’t need changing at all, it’s got a good grip but I do agree with you that LUMIX do make body’s that really fit your hands, the Fujifilm is a very close second for me. 👍🏻

I pretty much agree with your camera part choice. One more very important part: software/UI. In this case, Canon for sure.

The viewfinder is what got me to buy the X-Pro 3. I do have some gripes about the camera (like the rear display self-destructing 🙃) but it’s just such a lovely experience to use the thing.

Thanks James for filling 12mins of my currently dull life as I reach the end of week 2 of 6 week's of no mobility after falling off my bike, shattered collar bone & fractured pelvis. See you next week.

To be honest my perfect camera, is my Canon 5D Classic. It’s so simple to use. Mine about 20 years old and I use a 24-105mm EF L lens. Which is probably 24 years old. It’s solid, takes great images and costs less than £500!

James this was interesting and thanks for the content. I would really like to know more about this Eggelston thing you have going?

I agree with you and to have a dream camera made up of everything you love about other brands. For me the leaf shutter, switchable EVF/OVF AND customisation of the x100v/fuji cameras but build quality of the Nikon Zf and full frame. Not too worried about number of pixels but must have the ability to pixel shift for the odd occasion. Not sure what mount I’d have and agree Sony has a huge amount of options when it comes to lenses however I also like the larger mount on the Z! Dreams are good for the soul not the wallet 😂

James, your office lighting set up for this video is gorgeous. Any chance you could do a quick tutorial on how to replicate? Love the videos!

I bought my Dream camera a year ago, the Nikon D4. My newer Dream camera would be a Z9, but I don't have $10k plus to blow on it and lenses.

My dream Camera are a Sony A7CRII with a much better EVF with 9.5+ mega dots and 1.2x magnification, mechanic first curtain shutter that also close when changing Lenses, a very good joystick, 8+ IBIS, a compact, slim backside monitor screen that NOT flip out, only tilt up and down ! The sensor must be Sony 93 megapixels, did I forget something ? Oh, and no video functions !!! Dials for shutter and ISO, NO compensation dial ! Warning signal when APSC is turned on.

I love that you mention Nikon. Every single youtuber i watch leaves them out lol. Great dream camera though James

rather than going with USB-C (which means your camera becomes electric waste as soon as the battery is dead), I would prefer all cameras to go to a standard battery format like 18650s. No more sourcing obscure batteries, replaceable and with better battery technology coming, you can just keep the same format. Much like my canon 6D came with a different battery type than my 90d, but they're still compatible. same with internal storage, additionally, yeah, but solid state storage has a limited lifetime. I love how I could just put some AA batteries into the 30 year old nikon F-401 my aunt left me and it worked just like new

you gotta put it out in the universe for it to come true

That's Gorran Haven if I'm not mistaken. Spent most summers there in the 1950s - idyllic. There used to be a fleet of small fishing boats and not much tourist tat. Changed a bit since.

I was thinking Leica M11, as others have mentioned, or the SL3 (no optical viewfinder or internal memory, but glorious EVF plus unlabeled dials and buttons), but then it dawned on me: Perfectly solid build quality, excellent viewfinder, great lens selection: Nikon F5. Cut out all the craziness that has taken over during the digital age.

Ring on your index finger- you’re now a real KZfaq photographer.

Love/hate the X-T5 … so many good things everyone points out. I lost a day to underexposure, following an inadvertent twist of the exposure compensation dial shooting autoISO wide open with motion-stopping shutter speed. Or I could have just looked at the dial and thought about what I was doing, which is actually the whole point of the X-T5. Front & rear dials highly customizable. Grip not quite deep enough without (readily available) accessory. Had to disable one button I coudn’t learn not to press inadvertently, plenty of physical controls left in all the right places. Would be nice to have Quick Menu access to bracketing options, in addition to physical dial to turn on Bracketing. I want to bracket focus or film sim about equally often. Maybe could put them in different Quick Menus-have to check on that.

Love that rope strap, is it a particular brand?

I want a viewfinder that can flip up to allow for top down viewing and then flips back in to be like a fairly standard viewfinder, I want this in addition to my flippy tilty any direction screen. I'd also like to see something where you have your controls attached to the sensor body with a rotating rosette mount like a smaller version of the c300's control grip... and a grip for both sides that are optional so I can run it from either side or both... and when using both it should give me servo zoom control.

Add QD attachment points instead of the little camera strap loops.

I am the satisfied owner of a A7Riv, but the screen from your camera certainly looks like a real upgrade. You didn't mention the price of your dream camera, but for me it would have to cost under £500.

What software would you like the most, for menu layout etc.

The iphone 16 with the dedicated, multi function shutter button is looking like a perfect daily camera. It’s bloody boring but hey..

I have 5 Sonys never had a problem with water on the hot shoe. I KEEP THE HOT SHOE COVER THAT COMES WITH THE CAMERA ON IT UNLESS HAVE AN ACCESSORY ATTACHED JAMES!! 😊

My dream camera would a Hasselblad x2d with a rangefinder system. Basically a digital version of my Mamiya 7

Nice, I prefer mounting an EF lens on a Canon over the FE mount. The EF I can mount by touch and the FE I always have to take the lens off to see why it did not properly align the first time trying to mount it.

From a fellow LEFTY here in the USA, how about a left handed camera? As leftys, we have to adapt to a right handed world in every other aspect of life. Although, I have become quite ambidextrous over the years. And a universal lens mount would be so cool!! I mean it's a dream camera, right? Doesn't have to be rational.

GPS, with location data that works on all map applications. Definitely an area phones have a jump on dedicated cameras.

Since I never use the hot shoe on the a7Rv for anything, and have suffered hugely as a result of the waterI issue you mentioned, I have resorted to taping it over with black duct tape.

I always find it amusing that camera reviewers (all of them, not just you James) are able to judge the construction quality of a camera just by holding it in their hand. Must be a superpower.

Love your channel James! I have one question and it's probably a dumb one but here goes. Your videos seems sharper than the still images you display. Why is that?

my dream camera is an X-Pro 4 with the OVF of the X-Pro 2 and everything else updated to Fujis newest stuff.

I've always wondered why these $3k-$6k cameras don't have internal recording! Like add in a nice 256gb and 2 sd card slots. Or maybe like a new USB4, USBC mini thumb drive so you could write at crazy speeds and then plug right into your phone, ipad, or laptop.

I'd like a camera pretty much the same as my Lumix S1R, but maybe 25% smaller and lighter. The 3 way tilt is my favourite implementation of a back panel; the EVF is large and high resolution, which is vital for all the manual focus glass I use; 47ish megapixels is a great file size for cropping without going absolutely bonkers; and it's beautifully comfortable in hand. The size and weight are usually fine, but are sometimes tricky for travelling or longer walks.

Ability to save & load named collections of settings to & from flash memory card. (e.g. Leica S2) Thanks for the photos of Cornwall.

I've must haave walked that headland around Goran to Meva (and out of Goran the other way), a dozen times. Absolutely love the place. Goran is quite possibly my favourite place on the planet (Granada in Andalusia might be a close second). People intending to visit should probably be aware that my mini-schnauzer actually owns the beach there, so, sorry about that, but it's hers.

Couldn’t agree more however what if you could make and have anything not what is currently available like go extreme richo size with a 12mm to 500mm f1.2 with a flip screen and so on. What are the things most important you?

The hot shoe, design a little plastics shoe with a seal under it so it acts acts as a weather proofing seal.

For the most part (with obv exceptions) it seems similar to the Nikon Zf. It would just involve dealing with SnapBridge instead of Airdrop

My dream camera will be a olympus pen f ii with 24/30something mp sensor with om1 focusing speeds, weather sealing and 2 sdcard slot and mic + headphone jack

X-T5 with customisable dials? Sounds like the X-H2. Same sensor, better EVF and customisable dials with PASM. Wish it had the sony screen though

Mine would be a full frame version of the XT5 now I've gone into the medium format area and I love it. I loved my Fuji GFX 50 S Mark two, and I still have my FujifilmXT5, but I almost wish there was a camera in between there is the GFX 50 R but it doesn't have stabilisation and that is a really nice thing to have once you've had it so my dream camera would be a Fuji film full frame camera with 45 megapixels and stabilisation because that's what I wanted to do, I was initially with Nikon. But I decided to dabble in Fujifilm and I liked the colours.. Also love the way the Fujifilm cameras felt in my hands just the ergonomics they suited me. I don't mind saying this I actually have a little bit of dyslexia. So for me the operational system of a camera is actually really important to my workflow. It has to jail with my brain, it's not a disability it's kind of just a thing really my son has it as well and I'm fine but what's really important is how the camera operates in my hands and just the dials suit me to a tea. I just wish there was a full frame version of the XT5 but there isn't so I went for the GFX 50s ii and I do love that camera. Actually I really do. I've taken some amazing images with it and medium format is a whole new ball game and it is just beautiful the images out of it adjust so down sexy, so darn beautiful that you can't go back once you've had a GFX you don't wanna go back!! I would also like my camera to have a voice command search system for something in the menus. You can simply talk at it will go to the menu that you are looking for. Seriously 100 dollar or £50 smart phones have this feature??? One cheap guys and not enough you know these James, but you shouldn't charge your camera with a USB-C, even though it is optional .. creates significant heat in the camera. I totally agree about 10 TB internal storage. I don't understand storage is really really small. You can get a 2 TB SD card now that is tiny. Marked is much better because then you can just see what setting you're on. Otherwise what's the point of having the dials? I don't get it if you can't see it then you just using the electronic viewfinder to work out what your settings are that doesn't make any sense at all. It's much better to actually be able to look down on the camera and see what setting it is, that is so much better and honestly, you'll love the XT5 just a low light performances a bit meh

Have cameras and lenses - just in search of becoming my own dream photographer... 😊

The hot shoe cover comes with the camera. The official Sony ones have Multi-Interface Shoe logo on them. Also, the hotshoe cover you're holding IS a Sony one. You can tell because it has a sticky-outie bit on the front. If you bought used it probably didn't come with one because most people ditch theirs. It's the first thing I buy with a used camera. Also I just think it looks nice. I get very uncomfortable when I see Sony shooters with uncovered hotshoes. So, I'm constantly uncomfortable.

Here in the first 5 mins of being uploaded is wild.

Sony needs to add optical viewfinder to successor to the a7cr and work a little quality of body and on button placement and you will have your camera :D

You may like the X-H2 or H2s then. It has 7 custom modes. I use 3 for photo and 4 for video modes. You can do it on the X-T5 as well but it's in the menu and not a knob. But man I love that Sony tilty flippy screen. Fuji needs that. Certainly agree about build quality. My Z8 is so much better built than any camera I've owned.

There are cameras I’d like to spend some time with like the Nikon zf, that little square hassleblad and a few others both film and digital. My dream camera has a couple side notes is it for day to day or is it for serious work? I can work with what I have and if I were to upgrade there’s plenty on the market to chose from so I guess my dream camera is more a day to day, I’d have to build it up though. I like the body of the canon m6 but I’d like it a touch bigger to work on the rf mount. I’d like it to have an evf built in and I’d give up the flash to have it. I like the dials from Fuji x100 series, Full frame ideally and weather sealed with the tilty screen from just about any canon. In my mind it’ll fit in a bigger pocket with the more pancake primes in the rf mount like the 16 or 24. I think that would compete with Ricoh and Fuji for street cameras and if the price isn’t crazy would bring so many people in from using a phone over the r100.

Nikon has been close to perfection for me. Quality built and quality image. There a bit of learning curve to new comers but is very intuitive after you learn it. For mount I actually would pick Nikon Z mount. Sony lenses can be used on Nikon Z mirrors less cameras

My dream camera doesn't exist. It's basically a mix of the top features and performance in a small, light, vintage looking and highly ergonomic body. We're getting there! A few more years and small cameras won't have so many compromises as we are already seeing a glimpse these days.

I would be satisfied if Sony could use the godd*amn gyro dato to autostraighten the horizon in lightroom. That would safe me so much time.

The Canon RP has the ability to be charged with USB-C to a battery bank or a normal cigarette lighter type power adapter for your car. That's a good thing, though, because it plows through batteries like a kid with a bag of candy.

We're down in Cornwall later this year. Anywhere you'd recommend visiting for walking and scenery?... some photography too, if I must. 😉 Oh, my dream camera is my eye. Sling an implant in that which captures what I see as I see it and that'll do. Eezy peezy!

Yes genius idea. A new camera where 3 dials on top and all buttons are unmarked as they are all customisable.

I have seen someone using a nikon rubber hotshoe cover on an A7RV and he was saying that it fixed the water issue (looked like Nikon-BS-3-Accessory-Shoe-Cover)

what charging brick was in the video

My dream camera is a Canon 1dx ii body, with a Sony A6700 sensor, Canon AE-1 dials, an OVF, USB-C, duel SD card, and Nikon Z mount

Choosing Sony FE mount is a rather weird one (especially it being no-brainer choice) - Nikon Z mount has the shortest flange distance, therefore besides numerous native and 3rd party glass, you can use lenses of almost any mount (Sony E, Leica M, Fuji X, Canon EF, Contax G, Nikon F etc., you choose), yes, with AF as well. So in terms of the possibilities, actually the Z-mount would give the largest amount and variety of glass to put on the cam(e)ra. 😁

How about GPS and anti-theft technology?

mount should be the nikon z. there's an adapter to sony e (seriously)

Several of the major brand camera batteries are two 18500 cells in a proprietary case. I'd love a camera that ditches the case and just takes 18500s, which are inexpensive and (relatively) easy to source. I also want to be able to assign minimum shutter speed for aperture priority, in third-stops, to a dial. Sony is up to four dials. Why can't one of them be that?

I like the show. It worries me that if you go to an ice cream shop the decision process would force a catatonic state on you.

Focus system?

Ooooh noice! I recently did a vid about how getting a GFX 100R with OVF/EVF would be great too. Love the hybrid evf. I wish Fuji would get daring like when they first released the Fuji X100 again...

Pretty sensible requirements lol 😂

It's available right now!! From Unicorn Cameras.

Not defending the annoying hotshot message, but that thing should have a cover on it if you go out in rain or snow. I think that is a weak point on at least some cameras when it comes to water. Does Sony cameras not provide one with their cameras? Fuji does and I thought it was standard for all brands.

My dream camera would be something like the Lumix GM5, but with a flippy screen, 4k 10bit recording and IBIS... but that's just me... ;)

As a backpacker photographer, lighter is better for me. Would be nice to see cameras use more carbon fibre in their designs. It's frustrating for example that the Nikon Z8 is significantly heavier and larger than the Nikon Z7. Smaller full frame cameras please!

The closest "real" camera built by Apple you could get is the Leica M designer by Jony Ive. I know it's not technically by Apple but it's close. My favorite designer try is the M9 Titanium by Walter da'Silva.

Haha... I never knew the obscure message on my Sony relates to damp hot shoe... Cheers!

I had to laugh at the 10TB internal memory would be great.