What Medium Format Cameras Are Members Here Using?

[Pieter12]

I love 120 because on most of my cameras it's just 12 images and I feel I accomplished something when i am done!!!

Me too. It takes me fewer shots to ruin an entire roll of film.

 

[throneking]

Fuji GW690
C330
Leica S3
Hasselbland 500 C/M
Pentax 645Z

 

[Pitotshock]

Hasselbland 500 C/M

Are you trying to say that the Hasselblad's are boring? J/K!

 

[Neil Poulsen]

I use two different system cameras . . .

Mamiya Press Universal.

Arca Swiss Metric 6x9 View Camera

 

[moggi1964]

Mamiya C3 with 80mm and 135mm lenses

Agfa Isolette II with F/3.5 75mm Solinar

 

[Dusty Negative]

Pentax 6x7

Mamiya RB67

I love them both, even though I find I have a higher keeper rate with my Nikon FE. I am stubborn, though.

 

[braxus]

Thinning out my herd just a little, as Im letting go of my Mamiya RZ67 (its for sale if anyone is interested). I just find I enjoy shooting with my Pentax 67 much more and I get more keepers and better shots with the Pentax. I might even get a second Pentax 67 to make up for losing the Mamiya.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Thinning out my herd just a little, as Im letting go of my Mamiya RZ67 (its for sale if anyone is interested). I just find I enjoy shooting with my Pentax 67 much more and I get more keepers and better shots with the Pentax. I might even get a second Pentax 67 to make up for losing the Mamiya.

Sell them all off and buy Hasselblad.

 

[braxus]

Not much into the square format too much Sirius. I find it to constricting for my type of photography, as I like formatting rectangles.

 

[campy51]

Here are my twins.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I am waiting for the surges and variants to stop so that I can start traveling and using my 35mm and MF cameras again.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I'm pining for my Mamiya Six Folder, but it's still in Japan and I can't go over there yet! My brother-in-law keeps sending me pics of himself holding it with a cheeky grin. Bastard.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I'm pining for my Mamiya Six Folder, but it's still in Japan and I can't go over there yet! My brother-in-law keeps sending me pics of himself holding it with a cheeky grin. Bastard.

Watch out. He may keep it for himself.

 

[JerseyDoug]

Rolleiflex 3.5 MX-EVS first version and Hasselblad 500 C/M.

 

[abruzzi]

I recently got a Konica Pearl III, and must say this is the first MF folder I like. I like cameras with geared advance rather than red windows and the advance on the Konica seems to work very well. Its tiny for a MF camera--it fits in my back pocket--and I use it as a quick shot supplement when I'm out with my LF camera. Mine is the version with the EV markings, and inter-locked aperture/shutter ring. I know some people hate that--I've heard the complaint for Retina users, but in the environment I shoot in, its a huge time saver. Measure at the beginning of the roll, and adjust the aperture as I like and shutter follows. Its like aperture priority shootng for mechanical cameras.

The only issue is the bellows, while light tight, are looking pretty beat. So at some point I need to find someone that can replace it for me.

 

[hol571]

Mamiya RB67
Rolleiflex 2.8E

 

[Pieter12]

Not much into the square format too much Sirius. I find it to constricting for my type of photography, as I like formatting rectangles.

You can shoot 6x4.5 with the Hasselblad. Or just crop the image to your rectangular taste--you can get both horizontal and vertical from the same frame.

 

[abruzzi]

While I am working on getting a 6x9 monorail setup and working, I've been having a lot of fun playing around with a Horseman VH. It is basically like a medium format 6x9 Technika. It made me realize something.

When I first started shooting medium format, I really thought I wanted a 6x9 SLR system camera with removable lenses and film holders. I asked at the time, and apparently about the only thing out there was the Plaubel Makiflex which was not only rare, but had a limited set of lenses, and accessories were even harder to find than the cameras. The interesting thing is the Horseman, in its rangefinder VH-R version, is really everything except the SLR portion.

Its a well specced system with lots of available lenses from 65mm to at least 180mm. You can add any non-standard LF style lens if it fits on the 80mm lens board. But with the rangefinder system and lens cams, you could pretty easily handhold this camera and shoot 6x9 in an inexpensive interchangeable lens camera (I got my camera for $150, and the three lenses--65mm, 120mm, 180mm--were under $100 each, and the film holders were $100 each as well)

Its usability is different than a 35mm derived SLR (like the P67) and different than a Hasselblad style SLR (Bronica, Mamiya, and Hasselblad) but once you've spent a little time with a LF camera, it all makes perfect sense, and can be operated reasonably quickly. Maybe the biggest challenge is the lack of interlocks, but if you've shot LF, you're already used to that.

 

[Drew B.]

Fujigs645s
Bronica SQa

 

[keisisqrl]

A 3d printed pinhole camera, and a Voigtlander Perkeo I.

 

[braxus]

You can shoot 6x4.5 with the Hasselblad. Or just crop the image to your rectangular taste--you can get both horizontal and vertical from the same frame.

If the Hasselblad had a 645 back, so it will actually shoot 645, then I might have considered it then. Shooting square when you want a rectangle, seems like such a waste of film shots per roll. I understand shooting square frees you up to crop as you will, but I just dont want to go down that road. Contax 645 also uses Zeiss lenses, so that might have been a better option. Though those cameras are also way out there in price now.

 

[abruzzi]

I thought Hasselblad had two 6x4.5 backs--the A16 which gets you 16 horizontal shots on a roll, and some other one that gets you 12 vertical 6x4.5 images with black borders. They're both less common, but they are out there.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Today I have my folder bag with me -- Moskva 5 (birth year camera), Mamiya 6 folder, and Daiichi Zenobia (thus covering formats 6x9, 6x6, and 6x4.5).

 

[Larry the sailor]

Yashicamat 124 and a Mamiya RB67

 

[Nora Sourouzian]

Well... for my travel in Essen I brought 2 cameras:

The Kiev 88 CM
and the a folder camera Moskva 5 (looking at the date and the world situation it is not a joke, I definitely brought the enemies!!)

So why two? Only because the Moskva is a heavy but small 6x9 with a sharp lens and I had just bought the Kiev and was really looking forward to use it but unfortunately it broke on me, and can't use it!!
I am so sad because somehow I am just in love with this Hasselbladki (now thinking of buying the real Hasselblad 500 C/M)

But I also use
Agfa Isolette 3, which I adore deeply, small light 6x6 folder camera that seems to do all my best pictures somehow!
the Kiev 60 makes amazing pictures but it is like the 88 a hate and love relation! it is with this brick that I started to shoot medium format and got totally hooked!