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I must admit that I'm a sucker for pretty much any medium format SLR. Too bad I don't have the spare change to buy one.
What Medium Format Cameras Are Members Here Using?
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Welcome!
I must admit that I'm a sucker for pretty much any medium format SLR. Too bad I don't have the spare change to buy one.
I certainly would never have bought one for myself.
Thank you, I just wish I had time to use all these like they deserve
TheFlyingCamera
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I still use my film medium format SLRs (and other medium format cameras) but I recently acquired a medium format digital - a Fuji GFX 50S-ii with the 45-100 zoom lens. One thing it does extremely well is night-time/low light exposures.
anything with a CMOS sensor will far exceed the sensitivity you get from even the fastest film, but trying to make film work in low light can be a fun challenge.
That's been my challenge with my Mamiya. I took some shots in a very dark bar with Portra 800 pushed to 3200, and they still barely came out. Next time I try this I'll bring some sort of auxiliary light, still dark but enough light for film. A flash would be too easy and not get the look. I was playing with my phone to see how much it could produce from the screen, and also my iPad. Not enough really. I then tried my wife's therapeutic light box and it was like daylight, so too much. It would have to be unobtrusive and with very warm light. I'm sure I'm not the first person to try this and likely it is in the books somewhere. I'm just a beginner at this. This was the one that came out OK, a little grainy but not bad considering how little light there was.
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Hi, all of your equipment is great! The Fuji GS690 series is great, but I think the Mamiya RZ67 you recently acquired is great. It should be used on a tripod, but it produces great results for still life and portrait photography. I have fond memories of shooting portraits a long time ago with a dedicated motor drive that was loud 
GX680 are amazing and the lenses are superb, but the weight and size were too much for me
Rolleiflex 3.5 MX-EVS Series 1 - I'd have preferred a Series 2 with its easier decoupling of the aperture and shutter speed controls but this one was very reasonably priced.
Hasselblad 500C/M - I have enough bodies, finders, backs, screens, lenses, etc. to assemble two functioning cameras.
I use the Rolleiflex hand held most of the time but I do have a very lightweight Series 0 Gitzo tripod that I occasionally use with it when I am shooting an ISO 100 or slower film in challenging light. I use the Hasselblad(s) on a heavier Series 2 Gitzo tripod exclusively.
Hasselblad 500C/M - I have enough bodies, finders, backs, screens, lenses, etc. to assemble two functioning cameras.
I use the Rolleiflex hand held most of the time but I do have a very lightweight Series 0 Gitzo tripod that I occasionally use with it when I am shooting an ISO 100 or slower film in challenging light. I use the Hasselblad(s) on a heavier Series 2 Gitzo tripod exclusively.
Mamiya RB67 ProS
Mamiya RB67 Pro
Mamiya M645 1000S
Mamiya M645
Bronica ETRSi (probably my fav everyday medium format camera... belongs to a mate but usually on permaloan)
Kodak No. 1A Folding (current restoration project)
Would like to acquire a Fuji GL690 eventually as a, ahem, more portable 120-film option. A GX680 would be awesome too, to play around with tilt/shift movements but with rollfilm convenience.
Mamiya RB67 Pro
Mamiya M645 1000S
Mamiya M645
Bronica ETRSi (probably my fav everyday medium format camera... belongs to a mate but usually on permaloan)
Kodak No. 1A Folding (current restoration project)
Would like to acquire a Fuji GL690 eventually as a, ahem, more portable 120-film option. A GX680 would be awesome too, to play around with tilt/shift movements but with rollfilm convenience.
I use the GX inside and the two rangefinders outside, mostly prospecting. Although I have used the GX out of the back of the Jeep a couple of times. Carrying it is about the same weight and bulk as carrying an 8x10 field camera.
And yes, the lenses are fantastic.
I'm surprised more people don't use them.
I tried yet another "medium format" camera today, a Fujifilm Instax 210. The picture size is basically medium format except of course it is a print. I hoped that the print would have some detail to scan but there really wasn't much. But I did make some tourists happy today when I gave them my test shot of Downtown Manhattan from Brooklyn Bridge Park. The young crowd knows nothing about Polaroid and instant photography except for the very few that have Instax cameras. Instant photography to them is their phone. I have so much expired Instax wide film I should go around and hand out photos.
Not the long ago (maybe even still now) Instax camera were all the rage among teens and tweens. I was in a camera store and a mother and her young daughter were buying a dozen or so for a birthday party. They're basically toys.
My daughter has an Instax, a Leica branded one no less, and uses it at parties and bars. Not exactly a toy, but made to have fun with them. And that Fuji I have is as big as my Fujifilm GA645zi, which isn't exactly a toy. I have them next to each other at the moment. I'm thinking the Instax could be a good ice-breaker to relax people so I can use the real camera.
A 4x5 Speed Graphic with a LomoGraflok might be even better...
Lately having fun with a Mamiya Press Super 23. Mostly using the 100mm and the 65mm on 6x9.
I had to look that up, but maybe. It might be a little intimidating though.
My Fuji Instax and my Fuji GA645zi look about the same.
Depends how old your prospective subjects are. People my age will remember press cameras in movies and on TV, at least. Younger folks might or might not have seen movies old enough (or set long enough ago) to find a Speed interesting instead of intimidating. OTOH, with a suitable frame mask in the viewfinder and RF calibrated to the mounted lens, it's probably the best combination of fast-working camera, top quality lens, and instant print that you can find today (given pack film for the 100 series Polaroids is too expensive to consider and many years expired).
I have just bought a Rolleicord V.
I just checked the actuation count on my Fuji GA645zi since I saw how to do that in a YT video. 100! That's a brand new camera as they come from the factory that way. The manual even says that they sometimes will have 200 brand new just from testing. My guess is my brother bought the camera brand new and then didn't use it, just like so many other things.
Good for you! I regret selling mine.
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Well after a few years of letting go of much of my medium format gear, I'm slowly trying to buy some of it back, of course at todays prices. I do have a Holga 120, and a Pentax 645 original I've had for a couple years now. I just put some money down on a Pentax 67II body, from the same store I sold it too 3 years ago. Funny thing is its been through a few owners since, but Im getting back the same serial numbered camera I sold them. It had some issues they noticed with it since I gave it to them, causing the new owners to not keep the camera. Im buying it back for a few reasons, which I wont go into here. I'd also like to get another Fuji GW690 camera. And one day a Fuji 6x17.
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