What Medium Format Cameras Are Members Here Using?

[ags2mikon]

@abruzzi Same here. I have too darn many 35mm cameras and I just can't bring myself to sell them. My MF cameras do see the tripod now and again but mostly are hand held. I use my Horseman cameras a lot and if the time ever came to only have one system left that would be it. I have been playing with handheld 4x5 a little and it is interesting. But tripod is best. I have used tripods with my 4x5 press cameras but used the rangefinder/viewfinder and got good results.

 

[abruzzi]

@abruzzi Same here. I have too darn many 35mm cameras and I just can't bring myself to sell them. My MF cameras do see the tripod now and again but mostly are hand held. I use my Horseman cameras a lot and if the time ever came to only have one system left that would be it. I have been playing with handheld 4x5 a little and it is interesting. But tripod is best. I have used tripods with my 4x5 press cameras but used the rangefinder/viewfinder and got good results.

My travel camera is usually a Bronica SQ-A or an ETRSi. The SQ-A a bit larger/heavier than the ETRSi but square means I can crop landscape or portrait and I can stick with the lighter WLF. I have a great setup for the ETRSi with a prism and a pistol grip, but it involves carrying the camera upside down, and my current ETRSi body doesn't seem to like that, so I need to do some more testing (I hate the side grip for the ETRSi because it makes the camera too bulky.)

 

[frost242]

Using the Rolleifix, the Rolleiflex felt secure on the tripod. On a trip to Japan two years ago, I did have issues with the back of the Rolleicord flexing while carrying it on the tripod and had some light leaks.

For your Rolleicord, you may get the old-style Panorama head. Expect the very early models, this head usually fits the older and newer anchors on the Rolleiflex and are a good Rolleifix alternative.

 

[Jarno]

Fujifilm and Fujica GW690 (III) and GSW690 (I), and DIY camera with a large format lens on the front and a graflok back (with 6x9 and 6x12 horseman backs).

 

[Vaughn]

For your Rolleicord, you may get the old-style Panorama head. Expect the very early models, this head usually fits the older and newer anchors on the Rolleiflex and are a good Rolleifix alternative.

I am not familiar with that particular head. I was using a quick release with the Rolleicord which acted as a pivot point on the camera back…making one of the few design weaknesses of a TLR worse ( most TLR cameras are designed to attach a tripod to its flexible camera back/bottom rather than its chassis.)

I did limit the time I walked around with the Rolleiflex on the tripod this trip, even with the Rolleifix, but a camera out and ready to use does seem to get used more.

I still have the 8 rolls of 120 to develop from my recent Japan visit… still working on the 4x5s.

 

[ChrisGalway]

I routinely shoot stereo with my Ikonta 523/16 by stepping slightly to the left to take the second shot. I have three of them, and might someday make a mount for two of them to be used with a tripod. A really under rated camera - coated Tessar in a Synchro Compur, with zone focusing.

Yes, that's a really nice camera and I've thought about mounting a pair of them "bottom to bottom" but haven't the mechanical skills or means to do that. Do you make colour stereo slides ... or B&W stereo prints?

 

[Dave Lusby]

I have a very old stereo viewer that used 3X3 prints mounted on card stock. I contact print the 6X6 negatives, cut out the adjacent images, and view them on the stereo viewer. The spacing is perfect but the images are small.