What Medium Format Cameras Are Members Here Using?

[villagephotog]

In chronological order of acquisition:

Mamiya Universal, bought to see if I'd actually have any fun shooting film again.
Mamiya C220, bought after I seemed to be having fun shooting film again but wanted something more portable.
Bronica GS-1, bought to see what an SLR would do to the film-shooting fun quotient after discovering some discontents with the rangefinder system.

I ended up with fairly classic three-lens setups (wide, normal, short tele) for all three systems. It seems to be shaking out that I will let go of the Universal; I haven't used it since I got the Bronica, so it seems that an SLR works better for me (along with the TLR).

 

[Paul Howell]

Mamiya Press, and Universal
Yashica D and 124G
Mamiya 6 (50s fixed lens version)
Kodak Tourist
Busch Press 2 1/4 X 3 1/4
Graphic Speed without a focal plane shutter 2 1/4X 31/4
Kowa 66 and Super 66

I use the Mamiyas the most followed by the Kowas. I also like the Mamiya, it's a folder and easy to carry. The Tourist is very good for landscapes, the lens is sharp, and another folder. I use to use the Yashics quite a bit, make a fair amount of money when shooting book covers and author shots for covers. Getting ready to use the Busch and Graphic with sheet film once it cools down and start hiking again.

 

[logan2z]

Hasselblad 500C/M.

Ditto.

 

[sterioma]

Hasselblad 501 c/m
Rolleicord Vb
Holga 120N

 

[ic-racer]

Yashica 124G
Rolleiflex 2.8F
Rolliecord IV
Horseman VH-R
Rollei 6008i
Rollei 6008AF
Rollei Hy6

 

[mrosenlof]

the only medium format camera I have used this year is the Hasselblad 501cm. I have others. I need to sell some of the others, but not all.

 

[Anaxagore]

Agfa 4-Mark box
Rollei 2.8C
Agfa Automatic 66
Rollei 6008AF
Rollei Hy6

 

[Helge]

You guys do realize that this is a burglars shopping list if they can track your address (probably not too hard)?

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

You guys do realize that this is a burglars shopping list if they can track your address (probably not too hard)?

Oh brother...really??

 

[Cholentpot]

You guys do realize that this is a burglars shopping list if they can track your address (probably not too hard)?

If they're breaking in and go for the cameras that's alright.

If they're breaking in and I'm home? Tally Ho!

 

[Philippe-Georges]

After a few years with the Rolleiflex TLR came the Hasselblad in 1981, but started with an AGFA Billy II 47 years ago.

 

[Philippe-Georges]

You guys do realize that this is a burglars shopping list if they can track your address (probably not too hard)?

They don't break in nowadays, the bloody bastards just rob the parcels in the postoffice...

 

[Vaughn]

I have various MF equipment. What I have been using is a Rolleicord. Light, simple and of high quality. And I am very use to it and the 'flexes.

Edit to add -- I usually make platinum prints from them. A shadow self-portrait onto a western juniper on top of Shell Mountain. Elevation 6700 feet, Yolla Bolly - Middle Eel Wilderness Area, CA. Late afternoon.

 

[logan2z]

You guys do realize that this is a burglars shopping list if they can track your address (probably not too hard)?

I don't think too many burglars are sophisticated enough to track down your address from a post on an internet forum. And even if they could, I'm sure an old, dusty, obsolete film camera would be the last thing they'd bother trying to steal I think we're safe.

 

[DWThomas]

Dave. I used the 124G camera back in my high school days, when I was taking photography classes. Its THE camera that got me first into (and the first one I used in) medium format. I see you like the 6x6 format.

Hehe, when I was in high school (late 1950s) it probably would have been more like the Yashica A or something! I do like the 6x6 format and have gotten some very pleasing square images. I sometimes speculate that 6x7 might be my ideal format, but given the current collection, how little I shoot, and what some of the more legendary 6x7s cost, I've managed to restrain my GAS.

 

[grahamp]

Fuji 645s
Mamiya 6
Zeiss 6x6 folder
YashicaMat
Mamiya C330 and C220

Plus 6x9 and 6x12 roll film holders for use on the various 4x5 cameras.

 

[Ian Grant]

In the UK:

Rolleiflex Automat K4a MX Opton Tessar
Rolleiflex 3.5 E2 Xenotar (near mint so I tend to use the Automat)
MPP Microcord MkII Ross Xpres
Mamiya 645 1000S
Home made 6x7 View camera
Gaoersi 617 with 75mm f8 Super Angulon and Hoya Center ND filter

I have numerous other 120 and one 620 folders, a few ZeissIkons, pre WW2 SLR;s etc, but rarely use them,


In Turkey:

Yashicamat 124, - over the past 15 years the MF camera I've used the most by a very long way, bought here from a member in Israel.


In the past I used a Mamiya C33 and C3 great cameras I used the 80mm and 55mm Sekor lenses, but they were stolen in the early 198-'s and replaced my Mamiya 645s.

Ian

 

[Donald Qualls]

Within the past year, I've used:

Kodak Reflex II
Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta B 532/16
Mamiya 6 (folder, dual format red window version)
Daiichi Zenobia
Wirgin Auta
Voigtlander Rollfilmkamera (vtg. 1927)
Ansco Shur-Shot Jr.
RB67 (50, 90, and 250 lenses plus 2x teleconverter)

That's about half the ones I own, though most of the rest are old Kodaks ranging from 1930s to 1960s vintage, and get less use because 620.

 

[Besk]

Agfa Record III,
Mamiya Universal & Press,
Rolleiflex 3.5 Whiteface,
Miniature Crown Graphic,
Horseman 980
Among others...

 

[choiliefan]

Most of these are complete and usable:
Bronica S2A
Graflex XL, Speed and Century Graphic, Jr Graflex, Kodak/Graflex #0
Pentax 67
Rolleiflex 2.8F, Old Standard, 'Cord Vb, 'Cord Art-Deco and 127 Baby
Kodak Medalist II
Misc Zeiss-Ikon folders including Super-Ikontas A & B
Zeiss Ikoflex 1 and Ikoflex "coffee-can"
Voigtlander Superb, Virtus and Perkeo
Goerz Tenax misc
Some, I've not used in years.

 

[Helge]

I don't think too many burglars are sophisticated enough to track down your address from a post on an internet forum. And even if they could, I'm sure an old, dusty, obsolete film camera would be the last thing they'd bother trying to steal I think we're safe.

It’s easier than you’d think.
Especially if you use your real name or part of your name and have town or state marked as location.
Cameras are small and hard to track, unless you happen to have the serial number visible in an add or clear recognizable paint damage.

Not to fan a flame or give any idiots ideas, but some of the collections described here would be in the $8000 region on the used marked. Some probably more.
Not something a slightly knowledgeable burglar would pass up if they though they had a chance.
Remember this is on here for years and years. Probably decades.

 

[removed account4]

arax60 (thanks dan!)
rolleicord (oldish and kind of junky)
agfa sureshot that was my dad's when he was a kid (duct tape currently holding film advance knob on the cardboard body)

 

[narsuitus]

The medium format cameras that I currently use:

a) Ansco Standard Speedex 90mm f/4.5 120 folder (6x6cm)

b) Ansco Viking 105mm f/6.3 120 folder (6x9cm)

c) Fuji GSW690 III rangefinder with fixed 65mm f/5.6 lens (6x9cm)

d) Fuji GW670 III rangefinder with fixed 90mm f/3.5 lens (6x7cm)

e) Mamiya RB67 SLR camera body with waist-level finder (6x7cm)

f) Mamiya RB67 Pro S SLR camera body with eye-level prism finder (6x7cm)

g) Holga 120 Panoramic Camera with 90mm f/8 lens 1/100sec shutter (6x12cm)

h) Holga 120WPC pinhole (6x9cm)

i) Zero Image pinhole (6x9)

Once, I owned the Mamiya C3, C22, and C220 medium format cameras for shooting weddings. The C220 was my personal favorite. However, when it came time to replace my worn wedding cameras, Mamiya had stopped producing them. Therefore, I decided to replace them with Fuji rangefinder cameras because they were still in production at the time. Regretfully, shortly after I bought them, Fuji stopped producing them.

 

[Dali]

_ Mamiya C330 (6 x 6) bought used 35 years ago. Heavy but reliable.
_ A couple of Lubitel (6 x 6). Once adjusted, they never let me down. Very light to carry, tricky to focus but images can be very good for such out of favor cameras.
_ FPP Debonair (6 x 4.5). Holga-esque results: You never know exactly what you get before you hold the print.

 

[Dan Daniel]

> Minolta Autocord
> Crown Graphic 6x9 (shooting 6x7) w/ 80mm Xenotar and 47mm Ilex Acugon
> Voigtlander Baby Bessa 46 w/Heliar

Taken a while to get to the basics, but I think this will work for the near future.