ThatJoshGuy
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Hello all. First post, so I'll introduce myself. I am not a photographer by any means, but I have a fondness for vintage cameras that I share with my wife. A year or so ago we picked up a Polaroid 250 Land Camera at a yard sale. After a cleanup and working up a battery pack from AAA's we ordered some Fuji FP-100c and fell in love with it, but at the time film was $10 on Amazon. Obviously not the case now, so the camera has been retired.
Recently I was given a Mamiya C33 medium format camera with the 80mm and 180mm lenses. It needed some TLC but we got it working, so we ran a roll of film through it to see if there were any leaks or other issues. To our surprise it works just fine, so now we have a new medium format camera
We'll be attempting to process our own negatives soon.
While a lot of our shots turned out okay (once we purchased a light meter), it is apparent that I am either not using the parallax indicator correctly or it is not functioning as it should. I have the dial set to 80mm, but even at full bellows extension it only indicates that the top centimeter or so will be cropped. Obviously for very close up shots this is not the case:
I realize now that I am not taking into account for the exposure adjustment, so I can fix that - but am I not adjusting for parallax correctly or is the indicator not working correctly? Based on my photos it would seem a lot more was cropped than was indicated when I am right up on an object. Being more than a foot or so away seems fine:
Any tips?
Recently I was given a Mamiya C33 medium format camera with the 80mm and 180mm lenses. It needed some TLC but we got it working, so we ran a roll of film through it to see if there were any leaks or other issues. To our surprise it works just fine, so now we have a new medium format camera

While a lot of our shots turned out okay (once we purchased a light meter), it is apparent that I am either not using the parallax indicator correctly or it is not functioning as it should. I have the dial set to 80mm, but even at full bellows extension it only indicates that the top centimeter or so will be cropped. Obviously for very close up shots this is not the case:

I realize now that I am not taking into account for the exposure adjustment, so I can fix that - but am I not adjusting for parallax correctly or is the indicator not working correctly? Based on my photos it would seem a lot more was cropped than was indicated when I am right up on an object. Being more than a foot or so away seems fine:

Any tips?