Give 2 35mm away for a medium format?

[baachitraka]

You may be happy with later Rolleicords or earlier Rolleiflex. They are rather very good in terms of performance.

Example: Rolleicord Vb with removable hood. I personally prefer Rolleicord V with focus knob and winder on right-hand side.

Average CLA cost you around Euro 250, which I personally recommend. If you need good focusing screen put an another Euro 200 to it. With that you will have a very good camera for a decade or two.

The later Rolleicords and earlier Rolleiflex may have Bayonet I, the accessories for it are cheaper compare to other Bayonet.

You may need,

- Lens shade:
- Filters: Yellow and Green.
- Closeup filter: Rolleinar I and II
- Tripod: Rolleifix

Good luck. I was watching a Rolleicord Vb went for around Euro 120 in ebay.de.

 

[wblynch]

If your 36 exp roll is too long and you want to see your pictures sooner, take the camera into the dark bag and snip off the exposed film, load it into the tank and develop it.

You can trim a new leader on the remainder of your film, load it back in the camera and go again.

But you are going to want a small portable film camera for those times...

 

[marciofs]

I don't have much money to spend so I told the guy from the seccond hand camera shop here to let me know when he get a Yashica.

 

[mweintraub]

If your 36 exp roll is too long and you want to see your pictures sooner, take the camera into the dark bag and snip off the exposed film, load it into the tank and develop it.

You can trim a new leader on the remainder of your film, load it back in the camera and go again.

But you are going to want a small portable film camera for those times...

Holy crap. I've never thought of that.

 

[Simonh82]

You mentioned a TLR with a couple of lenses, this sounds like you are pointing towards a Mamiya C series camera. I've got a C220 and C300, they are both great cameras, with some fantastic sharp lenses although I do find them a bit prone to flair if I forget the lens hood. I wouldn't really call them small and light though. I do happily carry them around in a bag all day but they are still a big box and a couple of Kgs of weight.

If size is an issue, I would suggest the C220, rather than the C330. The C220 is appreciably lighter and slightly smaller in the hand than the C330. The benefits of the C330 are really only three that I can think of. The auto shutter cocking makes no real difference, I still cock my C330 by hand as sometimes the 55mm lens misfires whilst cocking so I don't take the chance. The parallax correction is nice but nothing you can't work without, the C220 has fixed guide lines which aren't quite as convenient but are not hard to work with. The only reason I've kept my C330 is the interchangeable focus screens. I do lots of landscapes and I like the grid line focus screen I've got for the C330. If you are doing mainly street, or are better than me at judging a horizontal than me, it isn't necessary.

Having said all of that, have you considered a MF rangefinder like the Mamiya 6 or 7, or Bronica RF645? You get a range or interchangeable lenses (some of the best in the world with the Mamiya 6 and 7). They are significantly smaller and lighter than a TLR, especially something like a C330 and street and travel is often seen as the natural home of the rangefinder camera.

 

[dorff]

Having said all of that, have you considered a MF rangefinder like the Mamiya 6 or 7, or Bronica RF645?

I would hazard the guess that they are out of his price range. I mean, who wouldn't want a Mamiya 7?

 

[mweintraub]

I would hazard the guess that they are out of his price range. I mean, who wouldn't want a Mamiya 7?

I'd probably have two if I could.

 

[Steve Smith]

You listed only 4 cameras and you say too many ? Don't get me started ...

That's what I thought. Only four?!!


Steve.

 

[darkosaric]

That's what I thought. Only four?!!
Steve.

I have only four nikons (F, F3, F801s, F65), only 4 instant cameras (680 SLR, Macro 5 SLR, instax wide, instax mini), ... not even speaking about rangefinders, medium format, point and shoot...

 

[snapguy]

Let us see

Which camera models did I have, and got rid of? Hummm. Rolleiflex. Leica 3f. Leica M2r. Forty years after unloading my Rollei I have a "new" one, a f3.5 from the 1960s. I am not happy my M2r got away from me.
By the way, I used the Rolleiflex and the Yashicamat professionally and both gave very sharp photos. While scanning both (the Rollei ones from the 1960s and the Yashicamat ones from the 1970s), I noticed both camera gave fine, sharp negatives but the Rollei negs were richer and deeper. But the Yashicamat is a first class camera. I have two of them, one with German lenses.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

only keep what you need or love;in my case verything Nikon and Hasselblad.

 

[marciofs]

I listed film cameras. I still have 1 digital camera and 5 pinhole cameras.

But even if I had only these 4 camera I listed I still think it is too many camera.