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I got most of my machine for naught. If I sell and want to buy again some day I won't be able to justify the cost.
If someone wishes to pay me far too much money for one of my cameras, who am I to deny them?
Thanks Wilt! Which flash do you use the SCA386 with?
And do you find the bellows hood heavy/too heavy?
Do you like the rotating finder?
You guys do realize that this is a burglars shopping list if they can track your address (probably not too hard)?
Darn, I was planning on breaking in to steal your gearI took my RZ with 2 backs, the 50, 110 and 180 lenses with me to Mexico City and did "street" photography with it.
For all you know, I have a perpetually slightly underfed tiger in my house... or even just a testy Cane Corso...Darn, I was planning on breaking in to steal your gear..who would have thought you took it with you
This is a bit off topic but I go to a local gym and most there are doing the bodybuilding type training, whereas I go in and do a few reps of compound movements for strength, along with 'farmer's walks' - i.e carrying a pair of heavy dumbbells. Deadlifting helps with carrying heavy camera gear etc.
MY new machine is a Chamonix 4x5 view camera. As it is, film often stays in my cameras for months until I get around to shoot until the end. If I have numerous cameras in each format, I'd never finish any film.Nor am I, but I like to try different kinds of machines out. And why sell?
I've given myself the discipline/requirement that if a roll goes in the camera, the camera doesn't get put away until the roll is finished. Kind of like the old thing about if you draw a sword, you don't put it away until it has drawn blood. But in the case of the camera, it's a lot less harmful. Over this past Labor Day weekend, the Rolleis and Lomos burned through 22 rolls of film in three days. 10 rolls of FP4+, 12 rolls of Tri-X. It's highly beneficial to your end results to shoot more - you miss 100% of the shots you do not take. And it also encourages you to look at a scene different ways and photograph it from multiple angles, so you're not sticking with the easy, cliche shot of something.MY new machine is a Chamonix 4x5 view camera. As it is, film often stays in my cameras for months until I get around to shoot until the end. If I have numerous cameras in each format, I'd never finish any film.
Why would I shoot shots that have no value to me just to finish the roll? If quantity provided better shots, then digital photographers shooting thousands of shots in a day would have a wonderful portfolio. Well, that isn;t true. Most of their shots are just duplicates of stinky other shots. "missing" bad shots is not missing anything. The whole point of shooting medium format or large format for me is to slow down and get some decent pictures, the fewer turns out to be the better.I've given myself the discipline/requirement that if a roll goes in the camera, the camera doesn't get put away until the roll is finished. Kind of like the old thing about if you draw a sword, you don't put it away until it has drawn blood. But in the case of the camera, it's a lot less harmful. Over this past Labor Day weekend, the Rolleis and Lomos burned through 22 rolls of film in three days. 10 rolls of FP4+, 12 rolls of Tri-X. It's highly beneficial to your end results to shoot more - you miss 100% of the shots you do not take. And it also encourages you to look at a scene different ways and photograph it from multiple angles, so you're not sticking with the easy, cliche shot of something.
MY new machine is a Chamonix 4x5 view camera. As it is, film often stays in my cameras for months until I get around to shoot until the end. If I have numerous cameras in each format, I'd never finish any film.
Hasselblad501c and Mamiya6. The Hasselblad being my favorite in the studio and the other for travel.I did an inventory of all the cameras I have or will have available to me soon. I counted 23 cameras in total, which includes 5 digital cameras. My favorite format is the middle of the road format- medium format that uses 120 film.
The medium format cameras I have are:
Holga 120
Yashica A
Fuji GW690
Fuji GSW690
Pentax 645N
Pentax 67II
Franka 6x9 Folder
Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/2 6x9 Folder
and my recent purchase of a Mamiya RZ67 Pro.
My two favorites out of this list are both of the Pentax units, with the Fuji GW690 a third. Reason the Fuji is third is because the lens is fixed focal length, and it doesn't have a light meter of some sort. Other then that its a great camera.
What are you guys using and which is your favorite?
Makes sense. Plus why start off a day with two frames left on a roll of 120? ("What iso film is in here? Dang, can't remember...) Take a self-portrait where one is working for the last frame, try something new, push oneself with that last couple of frames. At least it will be cheap entertainment.I've given myself the discipline/requirement that if a roll goes in the camera, the camera doesn't get put away until the roll is finished...
I'm not saying to spray-n-pray. I'm saying take the first shot, the obvious one that comes to mind when you see something. Then engage your curiosity and creativity and take another look at it, and a third, and a fourth... don't just stop at the obvious. Because you may, upon further examination of the second, third, etc shots, decide that an alternate angle was the better one. Or conversely, you look at your contact sheet of the single frames of each subject you took and realize that A: you left something in you didn't see at the time but really don't want now, or B: there was the beginning of an idea in the one frame but it is incomplete/poorly executed, and had you moved a few inches/feet/yards to the side or stood up or got down lower, you would have had something far more interesting, but now you're a four hour drive away/six hour flight, and re-shooting is going to be a royal pain to say the least. That's why.Why would I shoot shots that have no value to me just to finish the roll? If quantity provided better shots, then digital photographers shooting thousands of shots in a day would have a wonderful portfolio. Well, that isn;t true. Most of their shots are just duplicates of stinky other shots. "missing" bad shots is not missing anything. The whole point of shooting medium format or large format for me is to slow down and get some decent pictures, the fewer turns out to be the better.
Fellig had a car and a Police RadioOkay, an RB67 is heavy. On the other hand, so's a Speed Graphic. Weejee was a little guy, around five feet five, and he smoked cigars regularly.
Fine, you win... if you don't like my method, don't do it. I'm suggesting shooting more frames as part of an artistic discipline to improve your image-making. I don't know about you, but I want to make better photographs. All the time. I find that pushing myself to take more photos, and not just sticking with my initial instinct of the shot, helps me in that goal. Even if I shot an entire roll of the same subject, and then only used one frame from that roll as the final shot I print, I don't consider the other 11 frames wasted. I can look at them, see what I didn't like about them, and apply that the next time I want to photograph something. If that's not your goal, then don't even try what I'm recommending. But by the same token, don't bitch about how long it takes to finish a roll.people shoot differently. I don't understand why one method is better than the other. I'm often out just to get a sunset shot. So there;s only one shot I want to get and go home. Maybe I'll stay for two or three. But then there are shots left on the roll.
Fellig had a car and a Police Radio
What's interesting is that I bracket my shots when shooting 6x7 format so I;m really shooting three shots for each scene. Even then, I often don't finish the ten-shot roll. It's actually interesting. When the developed film arrives, I'm often surprised because I don't remember what I shot it was so long ago. Delays occur lately as well because I started shooting 4x5. So I finish a roll even less often. If I shot with 6 cameras, I'd wind up being like Vivien Maier who had thousands of rolls never developed.Fine, you win... if you don't like my method, don't do it. I'm suggesting shooting more frames as part of an artistic discipline to improve your image-making. I don't know about you, but I want to make better photographs. All the time. I find that pushing myself to take more photos, and not just sticking with my initial instinct of the shot, helps me in that goal. Even if I shot an entire roll of the same subject, and then only used one frame from that roll as the final shot I print, I don't consider the other 11 frames wasted. I can look at them, see what I didn't like about them, and apply that the next time I want to photograph something. If that's not your goal, then don't even try what I'm recommending. But by the same token, don't bitch about how long it takes to finish a roll.
New member here! ...
New member here!
I really love the medium format but only have a couple cameras. I tend to attach myself to one or two!
Mamiya M645 1000S (with waist finder!)
Holga 120FN (tons of fun)
Diana (with flash I use between a few different cams)
Gotta be honest though.. I probably used the Diana once.
New member here!
I really love the medium format but only have a couple cameras. I tend to attach myself to one or two!
Mamiya M645 1000S (with waist finder!)
Holga 120FN (tons of fun)
Diana (with flash I use between a few different cams)
Gotta be honest though.. I probably used the Diana once.
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