Your favorite 120 Format?

Slixtiesix · Sep 16, 2015

Okay, you´re right, should have added multiple choices from the beginning.

Ian Grant · Sep 16, 2015

Impossible choice, I like and use 6x4.5, 6x6, 6x9 and 6x17. These days though I use 6x6 the most.

Ian

MDR · Sep 16, 2015

Ian is right many user equally like and use different formats for me it's 6x4,5; 6x6; 6x9 & 6x12

LarryP · Sep 16, 2015

have trouble which way to answer I really love 6x7 having used it in the past but shoot 645 now due to costs sometimes i break out my 6x6 perkeo but not really a square person. have to add I really do like my 645 but something about a 6x7 slide on a light table lol

Gimenosaiz · Sep 16, 2015

Ian Grant said:
Impossible choice, I like and use 6x4.5, 6x6, 6x9 and 6x17. These days though I use 6x6 the most.

Ian

Agree !! ;-)

Slixtiesix · Sep 16, 2015

Please take part in this little survey and tell us which of the various formats you prefer. Multiple answers are possible, but please try to concentrate on the formats you are using the most.

darkosaric · Sep 16, 2015

Include also 4x4 - in old Diana camera I have this and use it often.

Rick A · Sep 16, 2015

darkosaric said:
Include also 4x4 - in old Diana camera I have this and use it often.

Doesn't 4x4 use 127 film, not 120.

ic-racer · Sep 16, 2015

I use 6x6 the most because it is the most convenient and easiest to shoot. However, my favorite is 6x9. It is harder to shoot because the camera is much bigger and harder to use; for example no lockout on the darkslide and shutter, etc.

LMNOP · Sep 16, 2015

I am shocked at the popularity of 6x6!

baachitraka · Sep 16, 2015

6x6 all the time.

Richard S. (rich815) · Sep 16, 2015

Favorite 120 format? You mean like 6x6? Then: 6x6.

DWThomas · Sep 16, 2015

In the abstract I can see some interest in a 6x7 or 6x8 format, but as an owner of three 6x6 and two 6x9 format macchina fotografica I'll go with those. At 74 I am trying to temper my GAS attacks at least a little!

ambaker · Sep 16, 2015

I'd go with 6x7. I have 6x9, 6x6, and 645. I like them all, but the 6x7 is the one I seem to enjoy the most. But then again, it may be the camera, more than the format. The 645 is a Mamiya 644 super. The 6x6 is a Hasselblad, the 6x7 a Pentax 67, and the 6x9 a Mamiya 23 Press.

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narsuitus · Sep 16, 2015

I shoot small format (35mm), medium format, and large format (4x5 and 8x10 inch) film.

If I were forced to use only one format for the rest of my life, it would be medium format because it is a good compromise between large and small formats.

I use and have used 6x6, 6x7, and 6x9 medium format aspect ratios. I do not have a favorite.

My first medium format camera was 6x6. I love not having to worry about portrait or landscape orientation when I use this square aspect ratio.

I love using the 6x9 for landscape photos. Plus, it is identical to the 35mm aspect ratio.

The 6x7 is a good general purpose aspect ratio.

The 6x8 is also a good general purpose aspect ratio. Plus it is identical to the micro 4/3, 4/3, and 645 aspect ratio.

If I were forbidden from shooting small format and large format and forced to shoot only one medium format aspect ratio, I would select 645.

If I were allowed to continue shooting small format and large format film but were forced to shoot only one medium format aspect ratio, I would select 6x7 or 6x8 because they are a good compromise between the 6x6 and 6x9 that I shoot now and a good compromise between small and large format film.

It was a very hard decision but I voted for 6x7.

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fotch · Sep 16, 2015

6x9 is my favorite format however, do to the cameras I have, and what they can do, I would say 6x6 has the most advantages for me.

destroya · Sep 16, 2015

I shoot 645, 66 and 67. But I love enlarging 6x7, just seems to be so sweet and I love my pentax 67ii. For me its the perfect portable landscape camera

BrianShaw · Sep 16, 2015

While I shoot 6x6 and 6x7 it is of little relevance since I feel free to crop whichever format to whatever the image dictates.

Old-N-Feeble · Sep 16, 2015

I voted 6x9 and 6x12 because I like longer formats most of the time, but long panoramic is less versatile for most images, IMO.

k.hendrik · Sep 16, 2015

DWThomas said:
At 74 I am trying to temper my GAS attacks at least a little!

Let my wife read this several times; I'm not the oldest fart with GAS SL66se and RZ67 (thinking about LF)

David A. Goldfarb · Sep 16, 2015

Posts from the deleted poll moved to this thread.

Old-N-Feeble · Sep 16, 2015

Well, then I voted once for 6x9 and twice for 6x12. That's okay because I do like 6x12 a little better.

MFstooges · Sep 16, 2015

I am surprised 6X7 gets more vote than 6X9. I drool over the later and have to constantly talk myself out of buying 6X9 gear.

Vaughn · Sep 16, 2015

darkosaric said:
Include also 4x4 - in old Diana camera I have this and use it often.

My old Diana (original style) uses 120...I never thought of it as 4x4! I just figured about 1.75" square. Close enough! And in my brain the go-to numbers for my Rolleicord's negs are 2 1/4 square. And I am likely to stay that way as the cameras I work with most are in inches (4x5,5x7,4x10,8x10 and 11x14).

On 120 film I have used 4x4, 6x6, 6x7, 6x8, 6x9 -- with most of the 6x7 using a rollback adapter on my 4x5. But I started photography with 6x6 and learned to love the square. Actually I took a used Kodak Instamatic 304 as my first camera on a trip -- a year in NZ as a college student (1975). One would think that particular photographic experience would have turned me off of little square negatives!

Sirius Glass · Sep 16, 2015

LMNOP said:
I am shocked at the popularity of 6x6!

baachitraka said:
6x6 all the time.

Richard S. (rich815) said:
Favorite 120 format? You mean like 6x6? Then: 6x6.

6x6 is the only 120 film format, the rest just wish they were as good and as popular.

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