and another thing about that c330...

[Sirius Glass]

MattKing and wclavey,

Thanks for your recommendations. I just got a call that the C330 is back from the CLA and resealing. So I am going to burn some film and try out the Porroflex and the Chimney.

I figure that 5 rolls of 120 should give me enough practice to make it practical to bring the Nikon 35mm and the C330 on vacation. I need to decide what to take considering ease of use, mass and volume.

Steve

 

[walter23]

Waist level finders only really screw me up when I'm holding the camera out sideways (90 degrees from vertical with the WLF facing me). It takes some mental gymnastics to orient things properly like that

 

[David Brown]

Waist level finders only really screw me up when I'm holding the camera out sideways (90 degrees from vertical with the WLF facing me). It takes some mental gymnastics to orient things properly like that

Why would you do that? :confused:

 

[MattKing]

Why would you do that? :confused:

David:

Maybe he has tried to do this with a 6x4.5 or 6x7 camera.

Matt

 

[David Brown]

David:

Maybe he has tried to do this with a 6x4.5 or 6x7 camera.

Matt

Matt, I'm sure you're on to something. Now, why didn't that occur to me in a thread about 6x6 TLR's? Doh! :rolleyes:

 

[Abbazz]

Why would you do that? :confused:

I sometimes hold my C330s sideways to focus in low light with the split rangefinder focusing screen when the subject has no visible vertical lines. As I don't always put the camera back to upright position before shooting, there are a few "landscape" pictures in my negatives

Cheers,

Sebastien

 

[Maris]

I often run a C330 sideways on a tripod when doing landscape work with the waist level finder. This configuration enables me to set the camera very high (about 1.8 metres) and still see the ground glass. A high camera position is one of the best ways of overcoming messy foregrounds that always challenge depth of field limits.

 

[Jonathan Brewer]

I've had the Rolf-Dieter Baier 45deg non metered prism on my C330S for years, the screws in the base are adjustable, the prism is bright and clear, ez to focus, easy on the eyes, I wouldn't use anything else, it kind of looks like an accessory Mamiya came up with for this camera.

 

[wclavey]

I often run a C330 sideways on a tripod when doing landscape work with the waist level finder. This configuration enables me to set the camera very high (about 1.8 metres) and still see the ground glass. A high camera position is one of the best ways of overcoming messy foregrounds that always challenge depth of field limits.

What a great idea! While my particular style of landscape usually has some foreground object of interest, the longer I live here in Texas and the more I travel west, the more I have been trying to get that "western vista" look to some shots. I will definitely be trying this one!

I have also been working on a project to make an adapter for the cXXX series that lets me put 35mm film in it and keeps it aligned correctly. But unlike some that I have seen, I want film exposed the full 6cm, not masked back to a 35mm frame size. I have some wooden spools that I have been using to make a holder for the 35mm can and I purchased several masks from other cameras that I will try to modify to use as a film guide - - this is a long term project... years in the making! The significance of raising this? I want to use it for long landscapes on the 35mm film and I will have to use the TLR sideways to do it.

 

[k_jupiter]

Matt, I'm sure you're on to something. Now, why didn't that occur to me in a thread about 6x6 TLR's? Doh! :rolleyes:

You laugh... but I am amazed sometimes when I develop a roll from my Z-I Nettar or some other 6x6 folder... Duh! What was I thinking turning the camera?

I don't turn my TLRs very often though. *L*

tim in san jose

 

[David Brown]

The fact of the matter is that I have recently started turning first my Kowa Six and now the Mamiya RB that has replaced the Kowa sideways from front to back (vertically) to shoot straight up at ceilings. Only on a tripod, mind you. A waist-level is perfect for this, too. I was just stumped at turning a 6x6 sideways for a horizontal shot and wasn't thinking about other formats. Mea Culpa.

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