Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If they made a 24x24mm format 35mm camera who knows how much more film would have been shot? Why not make a square format digital camera? Or one with that format in the options? I'd buy one! Its great to never have to turn your camera on its side. On 7/21/14 5:17 AM, "Chris Crawford" <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > Thanks, Richard. I am still shooting the Mamiya 6! I used it with the 50mm > lens and Ilford Delta 3200 film at EI-1600 for this photo. That let me > handhold the shot; it was early evening and this is in the shade because > of the trees. The exposure was 1/30 at f11. > > The Mamiya 6 is wonderful. I have always loved 6x6; the square format > works for my work well (though I did crop this photo a bit on the sides), > but other 6x6 cameras I have used were not really handholdable. I had a > Mamiya C330f when I was younger, and shot my art school graduation project > on it: > > http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-results.php?category=60 > > Loved the image quality, and the fact that the camera and lenses were > inexpensive, but it was too heavy for me to hold, and using it on a tripod > was a pain because of the waist level finder (I know they made a prism, > but I didn't have one...was a poor student then). I had to sell it after > college because I needed money. Later, I was able to get a Hasselblad. > Same problems, except I did have a prism for it, but the lenses were very > heavy. Sold it and got the Mamiya 6 a year and a half ago. > > Wish I'd just begun with the Mamiya 6, it is perfect. I had not shot a > single frame of 35mm film since getting it, until last week when I shot a > roll to use for a developing demonstration for someone who paid me to > teach her to develop film. The student (who is actually a high school art > teacher) shoots only 35, so I used it for my lesson. -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/