Is it common for folks to only use a single lens with these? The 80mm 2.8 seems to be the most common.
How involved is film loading? One of the few drawbacks to my Yashicamat besides the not-that-fast fixed lens, is that film loading is a bit fiddly and impossible to do quickly.
Is it common for folks to only use a single lens with these? The 80mm 2.8 seems to be the most common.
Now you can carry it around for a day taking picture, and understand why I affectionately call my c-330 with 80 or 65 or most certainly when mounted with the 180 and handle combo 'the brick'.
I've never owned a C33 but I avoided them following the advice of Ivor Matanle in his excellent book 'Classic cameras' who said "The rudimentary shutter-cocking mechanism of the C33 is inclined to be troublesome - a problem overcome in later models..."
There seems to be a few C33 supporters on here, so maybe it isn't that much of a problem, but he does make the point that the none cocking and none leaver wind cameras are likely to be the most reliable because they are simpler. Also, I suspect, because they may have had a lot less use. The C220 was more likely to have been an amateur's camera, a C330 might have had thousands of films put through it by a Wedding photographer...
Personally I have never had much trouble with either my C220 or C330f. Both seem very rugged. My trouble is that after long periods of storage - the shutters in the lenses get sticky....
I bought a C33 second hand about thirty years ago which was old even then, but before using it seriously I had it CLA'd at the time and it's s still working like a dream, I don't use it much these days because I have two C330 F bodys that are much lighter in weight ....
You get a truss for your hernia with every oneThe C330f is much lighter than a C33?
I didn't know that. Since the C330f is hardly a lightweight, the C33 must be a real beast!
One thing I really like about the Mamiya TLRs is that I can get camera body a wide angle, standard and telephoto lenses in a very small bag that's about a 9" cube in size, I can't think of any other M/F system you could do that with.The C33 body runs to about 1800 grams, the C330 to around 1400 grams, while the C330s came down to around 1300 grams. I say 'around' because it depends on the finder hood and if there is a strap attached.
See http://grahampatterson.home.comcast.net/~grahampatterson/grahamp/mfaq/m_faq-11.html#Heading141 if you are really curious.
A three lens C33 outfit weighs a little less than a CF 'blad, and a bit more than a Bronica SQA. The TLR bodies are heavy, but the lens pairs are actually lighter because there is no focusing mount.
Graham
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