...what is the 35mm equivalent for the 90mm and 65mm standard lenses?
From everything I've heard about their reliability, they're quite good cameras. Don't have a specific recommendation for repair people. The 90mm would be the equivalent of a 45-50mm on 35mm film. The 65 would be then more like a 28-30mm.
I'd want something equivalent to about a 35mm if I could only have one.
The counter is quite funny. On most other cameras no one talks about wearing or such in similar terms, and this thing just makes it aware for the model. It's quite simple mechanically and being 6x9 I doubt that many cameras have been battered as much as some 35mm's.There's a counter on the bottom that counts number of rolls. But I've read it a) rolls back to 0 when it reaches 1,000 and b) it can be altered. So not sure that really helps in terms of measuring wear.
How is the reliability and functionality of the Fuji 6x9 Rangefinder? Does anyone still work on these cameras, or does Fuji still support them?
When Fuji announced they were going to stop making and supporting the 6x9 and 6x7 medium format rangefinders I owned, I put the following two repair sites in my files. These two sites were known to do a good job repairing Fuji rangefinders.
Ken that's cool tool you got there, what's that? and what's the GATE?For a 90mm lens on a 6x9 format camera the equivalent 135 format focal length lens is 38.6mm:
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And for a 65mm lens on a 6x9 format camera the equivalent 135 format focal length lens is 27.9mm:
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Ken
I WOULD GUESS THAT THE 35-MM EQUIVILENT FOCAL LENGTHS ARE 55 AND 35 mm but I can't recommend these cameras.I had one and really wanted it to work out because of having a portable MF camera;the built qualoty is letting them down;too much squeeky plastic and I had light leaks in the back.I ended up with a MAMIYA6 and am a lot happier with that.How is the reliability and functionality of the Fuji 6x9 Rangefinder? Does anyone still work on these cameras, or does Fuji still support them? Also, what is the 35mm equivalent for the 90mm and 65mm standard lenses?
KEH has them around $500 in BGN condition and I'm thinking of grabbing one.
Ken that's cool tool you got there, what's that? and what's the GATE?
The GATE column indicates whether the film gate dimension used in the calculation for that line is a Nominal value (60x60mm for a 6x6 format), or the true Actual value (56x56mm for 6x6). That tiny difference can make a substantial difference in the results.
Another example might be 4x5 sheet film, which is not actually 4-inches by 5-inches in size to begin with, and is even less once the actual image area is masked off by the film holder.
The tool itself is a personal creation by and for myself. It's been around since 2009 and was originally designed to create flash-to-subject distance tables that could be printed and stuck on my various cameras. Back then I had an old no-name electronic flash that had lost its calculator dial and I needed a replacement table. Later when I began using flashbulbs on a Graflex, it was perfect for those as well.
Since that time the tool has turned into sort of a Swiss Army knife of strange features, each of which I needed at some point in time and could not find another source for answers, and so got tossed into the eclectic mix.
Here's the main help screen for a better idea of what it (currently) does. It's an old-school Windows command line utility because it was originally intended just for me to get quick answers to my own questions. Although as such it does seem like a philosophically complementary fit for old-school analog photography in general...
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The earlier use in this thread for converting 6x9 focal lengths to equivalent 135 focal lengths was achieved by invoking the /efl option shown above, together with the /h option for data highlighting.
I had an earlier downloadable version of this utility in the Articles section of the old APUG, just for anyone who might like to play around with it. I think a small handful of members here might have looked at it. But there was quite a bit more interest from outside of APUG, since the articles themselves showed up in Google searches.
The above screen shows a much newer version than that older one. I was going to wait for Sean to get around to reworking the new Resources section (the Articles replacement forum), then upload this newer version there.
Ken
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