I speak Hasselblad. I never got an RB67 because I hater rolling a camera on its side for a portrait shot and I do not want to have to wear a truss just to carry a camera around. :P
It would be better to spend money for a good working 120 back than suffer and loose photographs limping along with a 220 back. I personally find that 220 backs make great bookends, door stops and wheel chocks.
Box speed ISO 100. Anything else blows out the high lights or is too dark. There is not a lot of range of exposure with slide film.
Film speed, formally called ASA.
The software over sharpening of film and digital images has led to unobtainable sharpness that some now think is normal yet beyond what is optically obtainable.
If your retirement experience follows others and mine, once you retire you will be so busy that you will wonder how you ever got anything done when you were working.
I take mine to Samy's Camera on Fairfax in Los Angeles. Once you put it in the mail, in the US, the distance does not matter.
Los Angeles Store & Rentals
431 S. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Telephone: 323-938-2420
Fax: 323-937-2919 | E-Mail...
When I politely asked for a hand inspection in France, the response was belligerent and rude. When I complained, even the inspector's coworkers and supervisor agreed that the inspector had stepped into it and was up to his ears but I still did not get a hand inspection.
The light leak is on the top of all the photographs, so look for the leak on the bottom of the camera. Remember the lens flips the image upside down and right to left.
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