'Coolest' Medium Format Camera?

[TheFlyingCamera]

Stef- just don't ever try a Rollei if you want to stay in love with the C3. The ONLY benefit of the C3 is the interchangeable lenses.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Stef- just don't ever try a Rollei if you want to stay in love with the C3. The ONLY benefit of the C3 is the interchangeable lenses.

That's what everyone's told me. However, I have yet to find a 'flex for $75.

*grumbles about that other guy*

 

[SpeedGraphicMan]

Rolleiflex
Hasselblad

Baby (mini) Speed Graphic (6x9 sheet or roll film).

Don't neglect the cool Press Cameras, like the Pacemaker Speed Graphic!

 

[Zathras]

Rolleiflex
Hasselblad

Baby (mini) Speed Graphic (6x9 sheet or roll film).

Don't neglect the cool Press Cameras, like the Pacemaker Speed Graphic!

Or the 2x3 Series B RB Graflex!!!

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

That's what everyone's told me. However, I have yet to find a 'flex for $75.

*grumbles about that other guy*

Then don't try one anyone else has you'll suddenly find yourself calculating, "well, if my daughter only eats two meals a day... I can put that sucker on the plastic and pay it off in four months... she's only five, she won't miss the extra inch of height and it will be good for her to learn dieting skills early!"

I found mine for $500 +/-, spent another $450 on the overhaul, and still consider it money well spent. Yeah, it's that good.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

This same rule applies to a Hasselblad. And 8x10.

My first 5x7 contact print is going to blow my mind. I had to stop doing darkroom work for a while right after I got the camera. I've never printed the negatives I shot. These new ones are going to be better, and these will get contact printed. I'm excited.

 

[lxdude]

I consider the coolest medium format cameras to be the Hasselblads that were left on the moon. When they're not in the sunlight, that is.

 

[Endo]

Yashica Mat.

 

[renoheldentenor]

I vote for the 2X3 Baby Century Graphic. It always gets good comments from folks when I bring it out.

 

[EASmithV]

Hassy

 

[ambaker]

Yup!


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[Sirius Glass]

Hasselblad V Series, the rest are a let down after using a Hasselblad.

From back at Post #43, me too!

 

[Henry Carter]

Linhof 2x3 Technika Vb - an excellent hand-holdable 6x9 rangefinder camera with interchangeable lenses, and the ability to use groundglass focusing and lens movements for tripod shouting. It is both a highly portable medium format camera and a scaled-down large format camera in one package (similar to the 4x5 Master Technika Classic), and it is a Linhof...

 

[adelorenzo]

Despite owning what I think are two pretty cool medium format cameras I gotta go with the Hasselblad V series. Some day...

 

[DSLR]

Medium format - Hasselblad, of course.

Large format - Gaoersi Portable Professional 4x5 cameras are pretty cool looking.

 

[Iskra 2]

Of the cameras I currently have, I think the Iskra is the coolest. Proof that our government lied to us when they said that the Russians could not make great stuff. It seems to have the sharpest Tessar pattern lenses of anything I have seen, even web sized scans look incredible.

Interesting design, I have three. One is mint, another is waiting for some cleaning after the son dunked it in the St Croix from a canoe and another is a parts donor. Remarkably all three advance film correctly. Great all season walkabout MF. Regards.

 

[mike c]

Hasselblad

 

[Hikari]

How about one camera that can shoot everything from 6x4.5 to 6x17?

http://photomonkey.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/40/

 

[darinwc]

The Fuji G-series rangefinders have gotta be low on the list. They look cool in the photos, but in person they are oversized plasticy things that look like clown cameras.
The Mamiya Press is also a funky looking thing.

What do you guys think of the Graflex Norita 66? or for that matter the combat graphic?
or the agiflite?
or the original Panon (medium format swing lens)?

..lol i could go on for hours..

Kowa 66?
Graflex XL?
Alpa 6x12! -yeah those are drop dead gorgeous cameras.. buy me one please?

..but yeah, the Hasselblad really does it for me.

 

[darinwc]

Oh dont forget the Fuji GF670 though.
also Bessa 2
Super Ikonta III

And the Bronica 645..

 

[DF]

www.alpa.ch/en/products/cameras/camera-bodies/alpa-12-tc.html

 

[mark]

Probably been said before but I will say it again:
the coolest MF camera is the one you own and have learned to use well.

 

[Neil Poulsen]

Mamiya Press

I think with their name and styling, the Hasselblad ranks at the top.

But, Mamiya Press is also cool. It's reasonable in price, and it's a range finder. It has interchangeable backs and a decent selection of lenses: 50mm, 65mm, 75mm, 100mm, 150mm, and an f5 250mm. There are two others; but, the 90mm and 127mm don't have their own finder, and none of the internal finders have the same field of view.

 

[Helinophoto]

Imo, if you want to be cool around the younger bunch, a TLR beats everything in the cool department, it's so different to anything else that it just stand out.
It doesn't have to be a Rolleiflex 2.8F, even though they are the coolest ever, from a APUG-nerd standpoint. (white face is ultracool if you are a collector, but I digress....)

A seagull, cord' or a yashica TLR will do perfectly well, and if you really want to impress the Lomo-crowd, bring a Chinese You Yi TLR =)

The Soviet counterpart of the Voigtländer Bessa I and II is also a camera that would fit nicely on the "cool wall", the Moskva V, even though quality and ease of use may be a whole different story ^^

 

[JohnArs]

Bronica GS1 and the second place got the Rolleiflex GX !

Cheers Armin