Feel obligated to keep this going,( as an aside, a few photos of YOUR favorite 120 format might give others a reason to
reconsider their favs ). Peter
reconsider their favs ). Peter
Your favorite 120 Format?
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I like 6x6 best, since I can put them (E6) in Gepe holders (with anti-newton glass) and gape in awe on a small light box with a big magnifying glass, and the strongest reading glasses that I can fine. I also like 6x7 (I'm trying to convert a Plaubel Proshift to 6x7), but the Gepe holders for them cost roughly twice as much, while only having 2% more viewing area. And though I hardly ever use it, I have a medium format slide projector that can handle 6x6 and 645, but not 6x7.
I also have a lot of 645's under Gepe glass, but they aren't quite as awesome.
A great slide under Gepe glass is like a little gem.
I also have a lot of 645's under Gepe glass, but they aren't quite as awesome.
A great slide under Gepe glass is like a little gem.
^ Prove it . (You know I was going to say something) . More pictures to prove your points please ! Peter
Ah, Quebec city, brings back good memories
I'm torn between 6x6 and 6x7. I like the 4x5 ratio of the 67 but I love the challenge of the square.
I just started using a C330S again, now my second time owning it. The bellows is a killer as I've started working closer and closer lately.
I just started using a C330S again, now my second time owning it. The bellows is a killer as I've started working closer and closer lately.
I shoot 645 for economy. Fuji slide film with a GA645i. Lovely colors and tones. Also pin-sharp B&W negatives, more like small engravings. When my stash of 120 has been used up,I'll sell the Fuji. No further need for it then. My films should last me another few years, 'tho.
I shoot 6x6 for nostalgia. I bought my first quality camera, a Rolleiflex E2, in 1966, and I still use it, along with two Rolleiflex Ts fitted with 16 exposure kits, but that's 645 (or 456, to be mathematically precise), not 6x6. My usual disclaimer applies here: I'm contradictory, very well, so I'm contradictory!
Somewhere in the house is a 6x7 Fuji, or maybe it's a 6x8. I mislaid it ages ago, I know it's around, but I just can't find it. When I do, I'll load it up and shoot one or two rolls with it, just to say I did. Then it will also be flogged. I don't use it, and I want someone else to.
I also have a Zeiss Nettar 6x9. The last model they made, mid 1950s I think. Lovely panorama shots. The problem is that I no longer do much bushwalking, so it sits mostly on a shelf at home now. I will never,ever sell it, tho. Nor the two 6x6 Nettars and the magnificent Voigtlander Perkeo I kit I bought for a song two years ago from its original owner who was going into nursing care and wanted his beloved camera used. It fits into a pocket and is easily carried even with a few films, a lens hood and a yellow-green or orange filter. At most it gets used two times a year (my comment about bushwalking also applies here), but it does get used,as I promised my elderly friend, who has passed on, that I would.
There are probably one or two other MF cameras lying around at home. One of these days I must do a stocktake...
I think this thread has been done to death and seems symptomatic of the overall decline in postings we have seen in the last few years. It may be that most of us have been around too long and no longer have anything relevant to say, or perhaps more so, we have said everything relevant to our era already, photography has moved on and find ourselves left behind, playing with our 120 roll film toys and bemoaning the absurd price of 120 roll films, at least in Australia.
In the '60s when 120 was king I was a photojournalist and wanted to do this for my entire life. Five decades down the track, I am a retired interior design architect with a passion for photographing colonial architecture which I am now doing before all the old European buildings in most of Asia are bulldozed or I disappear into the universe, whichever comes first.
I still sell work. Recently after some years of using a Fuji GS645W and B&W film as my backup camera, I did some careful analysis and reluctantly sold off the GS,after realising that every image I had sold to publishers and other clients in the past five years had been taken with a Nikon D700.
Writing on the wall, folks. But we do love our 120...
Some nice photos in this thread, BTW. I for one would find it much more satisfying if posters would provide information about the photos, especially where they were taken.
I shoot 6x6 for nostalgia. I bought my first quality camera, a Rolleiflex E2, in 1966, and I still use it, along with two Rolleiflex Ts fitted with 16 exposure kits, but that's 645 (or 456, to be mathematically precise), not 6x6. My usual disclaimer applies here: I'm contradictory, very well, so I'm contradictory!
Somewhere in the house is a 6x7 Fuji, or maybe it's a 6x8. I mislaid it ages ago, I know it's around, but I just can't find it. When I do, I'll load it up and shoot one or two rolls with it, just to say I did. Then it will also be flogged. I don't use it, and I want someone else to.
I also have a Zeiss Nettar 6x9. The last model they made, mid 1950s I think. Lovely panorama shots. The problem is that I no longer do much bushwalking, so it sits mostly on a shelf at home now. I will never,ever sell it, tho. Nor the two 6x6 Nettars and the magnificent Voigtlander Perkeo I kit I bought for a song two years ago from its original owner who was going into nursing care and wanted his beloved camera used. It fits into a pocket and is easily carried even with a few films, a lens hood and a yellow-green or orange filter. At most it gets used two times a year (my comment about bushwalking also applies here), but it does get used,as I promised my elderly friend, who has passed on, that I would.
There are probably one or two other MF cameras lying around at home. One of these days I must do a stocktake...
I think this thread has been done to death and seems symptomatic of the overall decline in postings we have seen in the last few years. It may be that most of us have been around too long and no longer have anything relevant to say, or perhaps more so, we have said everything relevant to our era already, photography has moved on and find ourselves left behind, playing with our 120 roll film toys and bemoaning the absurd price of 120 roll films, at least in Australia.
In the '60s when 120 was king I was a photojournalist and wanted to do this for my entire life. Five decades down the track, I am a retired interior design architect with a passion for photographing colonial architecture which I am now doing before all the old European buildings in most of Asia are bulldozed or I disappear into the universe, whichever comes first.
I still sell work. Recently after some years of using a Fuji GS645W and B&W film as my backup camera, I did some careful analysis and reluctantly sold off the GS,after realising that every image I had sold to publishers and other clients in the past five years had been taken with a Nikon D700.
Writing on the wall, folks. But we do love our 120...
Some nice photos in this thread, BTW. I for one would find it much more satisfying if posters would provide information about the photos, especially where they were taken.
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^Happy to disagree with many of your remarks , but as requested ( see I do read ) the above pic was from the Mekong delta in southern
Vietnam with a Bronica Etrs and 50mm lens on Fuji 400 E-6 film , mid October 2016. Peter
Vietnam with a Bronica Etrs and 50mm lens on Fuji 400 E-6 film , mid October 2016. Peter
My vote for the best city in North America. (Sorry. I guess that's a different poll.)
A few more pictures of one of my favourite cities would get me viewing them. ( oops , did I already mention more pictures ?) Peter
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As the new year starts, I like to move that to the top again.
Sometimes a square format is just -- right.
Queen Mary, Long Beach, California. Yashica Mat 124G, Fujichrome 100
Yes, I could have cropped it into a rectangle, but I would have lost most of the pretty blue sky and some of the rock detail in the foreground. So I just left it square.
Fishing boats, Morro Bay, California. And another. I couldn't crop this one. Same camera, Tri-X 400:
Queen Mary, Long Beach, California. Yashica Mat 124G, Fujichrome 100
Yes, I could have cropped it into a rectangle, but I would have lost most of the pretty blue sky and some of the rock detail in the foreground. So I just left it square.
Fishing boats, Morro Bay, California. And another. I couldn't crop this one. Same camera, Tri-X 400:
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Beautiful shot of the Queen Mary! I´m a fan of these old vessels myself ;-)
^ Sorry about not knowing the process for inserting comments ( or forgot it ! ). But this was with my Mamiya 7 on
Fuji 160 colour negative film. More pictures please . Peter
Fuji 160 colour negative film. More pictures please . Peter
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Time to bring that topic to the top again.
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After half a year, I think it´s time to bring it back to the top.
I shoot 645 but would love to switch to 6x7, so have ticked that option.
Even through I own a Hassy I'm still trying to find my way with 6x6. I stand 5'5 so I'm not crazy about the waist level finder. 6x7 seems natural for me especially with the Pentax 67II but I haven't given up on the blad. I just need to find an adequate viewfinder for it. I think I'm going to get rid of 135 altogether, and focus on medium format, since all I really want to shoot is seascape/landscape, but I'm still trying to decide on the right medium format.
Mostly use 6x6, and 645 is a close second, but sometimes use 6x12.
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I compose mostly in 6x7 because I use an RB67. I often crop to other aspect ratios when needed. I use the typical crops of 3:2, 7:5 and 1:1, in addition to 5:4. Sometimes 2:1 when the subject works with it.
Get the 45 degree PME and you will be happy you did. No more shooting from our crotch. No more left right reversal. And the light meter is accurate.
My favorite is the 6x6 but shoot 6x9 often.
6x6,6x7,6x9. 6x6 is most portable SLR lots to choose from. 6x7 RZ awesome studio and hefty walk around camera. 6x9 Fuji rangefinders are awesome, reasonable to carry and my favorite all around camera. I had a 6x12 back very cool. If Fuji had made a 6x12 rangefinder I would have one.
Well, Fuji did make this beaut:
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