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arphillios

PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:41 pm


Aside from the venerable Holga, as anyone here gotten into any medium format film photography?

I've been looking at MF cameras lately, thinking about buying one. My friend has an old Zeiss Super Ikonta BX (her grandparents) that we are planning on loading up and using, but its viewfinder is broken which kind of makes things hard.

I'm thinking about getting either a Moskva (Russian Zeiss copy) or a Kiev (either an 88 or a 6C). Either that or a Yashica TLR... But I haven't had much luck lately.

Any suggestions as to a good not-horrendously-expensive (sorry Rolleiflex / Mamiya 645 / Hassleblad) Medium Format cams? : ]
PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:01 pm


I have the Mamiya 645 AFD II, and it does beautiful work. But it's big, bulky, and just not what I'm looking for. So after school it's going to be sold. But I do recommend trying out MF film photography. It's fun, and 120 transparency positives are cool to look at. Sadly though, I cannot help you on your quest to find a MF camera, since I'm going to be doing digital and 35mm after college, so MF isn't something I'm looking at.

Saknika

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Mopsicle

PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:07 pm


http://www.bhphotovideo.com/

They sometimes have medium format cameras for sale. I used one of their large format cameras and it was a lot of fun. That site has good deals and their used equipment is always in good condition.
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