What Medium Format Cameras Are Members Here Using?

[redrockcoulee]

My serious cameras

hasselblad. 500 C/M
rolleichord Vb
reality so subtle 66f

others

Holgas, Dianas and various Kodaks

A Holga and the RSS 66f reside in the Hasselblad bag alingbwith a Holga converted to zone plate. The Rolleich ord is i ndependent.

if i include my wife's cameras i can add more Holgas, Dianas and Kodaks, a Zone Zero 2000 and a SWC

we als o have a loaned Fuji GX680 for resso ns unknown

 

[AbesView]

I use a Mamiya RZII Pro with a Mamiya 110mm & 180mm

 

[Andy80F]

Medium format user for many years but currently:
Yashicamat 124G (for those many years)
Horseman 985 with 150mm lens (new last week, still to be used)

 

[maevery]

For medium format, I use the Mamiya Universal Press, seems to not be very commonly used by people these days!

 

[Alex Varas]

Thanks for this info, you've saved me from the anxiety of not owning one.

I wear glasses and the viewfinder shows me pretty well the whole frame without trouble.
Yes, the handling is awkward and the case (lower part with the strap) is very welcome.

 

[Warm Winter]

I've been primarily using a Rolleimagic II for my 120 stuff lately. I have a Seagull that needs to go into service and three 620 cameras and a 620 roll back for a 4x5 camera and I can't bring myself to pay the typical costs of 620 rolls when I can just use 120. Plus some of the 620 ones are antiques and probably best for display use only at this point given their age.
The Rollei hits the sweet spot of "I have film for it" "It works" and "I currently own it" and it's been pleasant to shoot. I've even got some bulbs if I can bring myself to actually go and get a battery and daylight balance color film and not feel like I'm setting money on fire with the bulbs.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Well, I've done it -- with my new ($11, free delivery, made for a 15" screen laptop) bag, I'm able to carry three folders at the same time, and still have room for a light meter, 10-20 rolls of film, grip/flash bracket and flash unit, and filters (if I had any that fit these cameras).

At present, the bag has my recently acquired "White Russian" Moskva 5, in 6x9 mode, my Mamiya Six folder in 6x6 mode, and my Daiichi Zenobia (6x4.5 only). Still weighs less than my RB67 with just the 90 mm lens and waist level finder...

 

[Auer]

This thread needs more pictures.

 

[Slixtiesix]

Agfa Isola
Rolleiflex T
Rolleiflex SL66
Hasselblad 555 ELD

 

[macfred]

This thread needs more pictures...

Agreed !

 

[macfred]

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[naaldvoerder]

What are you guys using and which is your favorite?

Just this one. It is also my favorite.

 

[Pitotshock]

 

[p81]

Hasselblad 500 cm
Hasselblad 503 cx
Mamiya RB67
Mamiya M645 M1000
Rolleicord II
Rolleicord IV
Rolleiflex 622
Yashica Mat (w/o 124) sold
Flexaret VI
Fujica 690 Professionell
Holga Panorama
Holga WPC
Holga

and more and others, Agfa Folders, Diana, Click etc.

Oh my gosh, just saw I collect too much!

 

[macfred]

Queen Mum ...

 

[Brian B Bednarek]

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?

I have a few that I use quite oftn:

Kiev 60
Kiev 88
Yashicamat 124G
Holgas (I have about 4 different models plus the pinhole wide)
DIana (an original from the 70s and a Lomography mewer one)
Mamiya RB67
Lubitel 166U
Lomo LCA120
Lomo Belair 6x12
also a bunch of old 6x9 folders

 

[mshchem]

Hasselblad, Fuji 6x9 rangefinders, RZ67II. Sold my Bronica SQAi kits, 4 bodies etc I loved them, can't keep all of it. I rarely shoot 35mm, 36 exposures is too long and I don't bulk load anymore.

 

[abruzzi]

I rarely shoot 35mm, 36 exposures is too long and I don't bulk load anymore.

I'm 100% with you there. I still shoot 35mm occasionally, becuase if the extreme portability, and a degree of automation that my MF or LF cameras don't have (not so much aperture or shutter priority or focus, but just internal meter linked to the aperture and shutter controls). But I find it can take 6 months to run a 36 exposure roll through a camera, and by then I've completely forgot where the roll started. (also why I have zero interest in 220 film.)

 

[Brian B Bednarek]

I love 120 because on most of my cameras it's just 12 images and I feel I accomplished something when i am done!!!

 

[mshchem]

I love 120 because on most of my cameras it's just 12 images and I feel I accomplished something when i am done!!!

Looks like George Eastman had it about right when Kodak introduced 120 and similar lengths. I do like to shoot Fujichrome in my F5 with auto bracketing. Still get 12 good pics. .

 

[dscottjorgenson]

I shoot both 645 and 6x7 formats using the following cameras:

• Pentax 645NII with all manual-focus lenses (35mm / 45-85mm / 80-160mm / 200mm / 300mm)
• Pentax 67II (55-100mm, 90-180mm, 200mm)

 

[Autonerd]

Late response: I have a Mamiya C330 and RB67 on semi-permanent loan, and a pair of 645 1000s units that are mine, all mine. I prefer the 645s, then the C330, then the building... I mean the RB67.

 

[Philippe-Georges]

I love 120 because on most of my cameras it's just 12 images and I feel I accomplished something when i am done!!!

I finally left 35mm because on a certain point I started to dislike that small format, it was as it had become so 'tiny' that I couldn't handel it anymore.
Don't ask me why...

 

[Sirius Glass]

I had a 6x6 Certo SuperDolly with a Zeiss lens. It could shoot 6x6 or 645 however the numbers for today's films did not line up with the red windows for 645. The lens was amazingly sharp. No range finder, so I had to estimate the distance or use zone focusing. It handled well although that particular model was a little awkward as I recall. All in all a nice camera that took amazing photographs.

 

[warden]

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Wow I'm jealous of that organization. My cameras are in photo junk drawers, and I'm not proud of that. I'm always looking for stuff that isn't where it should be.