The Hasselblad 501 was available in colors, from the factory:
http://www.gilghitelman.com/501colors.html

I read a book on product design once that had an entire secition on "the
cult of black" and why black products were more popular.  I know I'd
really prefer if my Sony TiVo and DVD-player were black and I always
loved my all-black Motorola StarTac phone.

Mr. Bill


Tom Pfeiffer wrote:
> Photography is art, so photographers are artists, right? So why should
> everything have to be so utilitarian? It seems to me at least marginally
> reasonable to want to extend that artistic endeavor to the equipment as
> well. Who can browse here:
>
> http://www.cameraleather.com/
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