A friend of mine -- a VERY good professional photographer, photojournalist and all-around terrific person, despite the fact he's a Nikon shooter 
-- moved away, and his last evening in town we decided to get together. He wanted to show me a beautiful little Kodak Signet 35 that his father had given him, and as we were playing with it he reached down and handed me a box and an Igloo cooler, saying "here, these are for you -- I'll never use it, so have fun."
Opening the box, this is what greeted me (forgive the crappy cell phone pictures):
I figured out that the 220 back works perfectly as a 120 back, just flip a little plastic piece upside down and load 120. It counts up to 16 and stops.
And the cooler? Well, here's what was in the cooler:
78 rolls of film, the oldest having expired in December 2016, most current. All kinds of negative film, no transparency but that's fine since I don't shoot that stuff anyway.
The funny thing is that I have never really seen a need in my collection for 645, and now I've got one. My medium format stuff is, with this one exception, old, no-meter stuff, so using this seems incredibly fast for me even with manual focus. And that 120 macro, DANG what a macro! I ran two rolls of film through it already and they're really beautiful.
So off to shoot... and shoot... and shoot...
But before I go, does anyone have any words of wisdom regarding this beastie? I really don't know that much about it, just treat it like any other SLR. It seems pretty idiot-proof but then I can be a real idiot sometimes.
-- moved away, and his last evening in town we decided to get together. He wanted to show me a beautiful little Kodak Signet 35 that his father had given him, and as we were playing with it he reached down and handed me a box and an Igloo cooler, saying "here, these are for you -- I'll never use it, so have fun." Opening the box, this is what greeted me (forgive the crappy cell phone pictures):
I figured out that the 220 back works perfectly as a 120 back, just flip a little plastic piece upside down and load 120. It counts up to 16 and stops.
And the cooler? Well, here's what was in the cooler:
78 rolls of film, the oldest having expired in December 2016, most current. All kinds of negative film, no transparency but that's fine since I don't shoot that stuff anyway.
The funny thing is that I have never really seen a need in my collection for 645, and now I've got one. My medium format stuff is, with this one exception, old, no-meter stuff, so using this seems incredibly fast for me even with manual focus. And that 120 macro, DANG what a macro! I ran two rolls of film through it already and they're really beautiful.
So off to shoot... and shoot... and shoot...
But before I go, does anyone have any words of wisdom regarding this beastie? I really don't know that much about it, just treat it like any other SLR. It seems pretty idiot-proof but then I can be a real idiot sometimes.
