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Your favorite 120 Format

  • 645

    Votes: 81 14.9%
  • 6x6

    Votes: 301 55.5%
  • 6x7

    Votes: 172 31.7%
  • 6x8

    Votes: 15 2.8%
  • 6x9

    Votes: 111 20.5%
  • 6x12

    Votes: 17 3.1%
  • 6x17

    Votes: 18 3.3%

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picmec

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6 x 6 is my favorite format for 120 because it gives you a unique look. 6 x 9 gives me the ordinary 2 by 3 look I already get from my digital images - which I often crop to square format. I recently got the Lomo LC-A 120 and one just can't "crop" or "post" the look of these pictures. Of course it also depends on your subject matter... I also find 6 x 12 very special, but then you need a special subject for this. It is very nice not only for landscapes but also (in vertical orientation) for architectural subjects, where one get's something like one would get with a tilt-shift-lens, but again with a very special look. I'm using the Lomography Belair with their glass lenses, which are kind of sharp even in the corners.
 

graywolf

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Well, i voted 6x6 & 6x9, but that was because 6x7 does not fit well in standard negative file pages. They took 4 strips of 3 6x6 per page, also strips of 4 6x4.5, and strips of 2 6x9; but you needed two sheets for 10 6x7 negatives.

In the past and present I mostly have used 6x6, 6x7, and 6x9 (The 6x7 in Mamiya Universal Press cameras. Had 2 6x7 and 1 6x9 backs for each of the 2 MUP's I have owned + a Polaroid back for each). The 6x9 backs were mostly used for color transparencies --the big slides looked fabulous on the light table. 6x7 were for 8x10 prints. 8x10 prints were the professionals choice because they fit in 8-1/2 x 11 envelops in standard file cabinets. Also shot 6x6 TLR's and folders, and 6x9 press cameras, and folders. I also shoot 4x5. I no longer shoot 35mm as I see no advantage over digital.

Funny thing, I was telling someone just today that we used to print the image on the 8x10 paper with one inch boarders all the way around so the editors had space to mark up the image with instructions for the plate makers.
 
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Up again, hoping for some more votes over the weekend...
 

Sirius Glass

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No, only 130 times so far. :wink:
 

Sirius Glass

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I am so modest that sometimes the crap that comes out of my mouth can make me choke and all I want to do is use mouthwash or hydrogen peroxide!
 

paul ron

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i enjoy both my RB67 and the ETRS equally.

i was once a 6x6 junkie but got weened off the first time i used an RB67, never looked back.
 

Tony-S

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6x7 for me. Bronica GS-1. Also have two 6x6 cameras (Rollieflex SLX, Yashica Mat-124G), 6x4.5 (Bronica RF645) and 6x9 (Mamiya Press). 6x7 was developed as a roll film format version of 4x5 and 8x10 film cameras, which also preserved the aspect ratio of the standard paper sizes of 8x10, 11x14, 16x20 without cropping.

My recollection is that 120 film was introduced for Kodak's Brownie No. 2, which was a 6x9 camera. Anyone else heard this?
 

Wayne

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6x7 was developed as a roll film format version of 4x5 and 8x10 film cameras, which also preserved the aspect ratio of the standard paper sizes of 8x10, 11x14, 16x20 without cropping.

Shouldn't they have made it 5.6 X 7 if they wanted it to be the equivalent of 4x5 and 8x10?
 

ZenziFriend

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Hoping for many more votes to come!

Done...

Like 6x6 most (Bronica SQA), and you dont have to mess around with turning the camera.

Since a few days I also have 6x7 wirh my new super rollex back for the Super technika 23. Had the 6x9 back before but cropped it anyway towards square. And it only works with sqaure because of the turning back of the camera.

The problem 6x7 an archive is now here...
 
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Sirius, if it was up to me you could vote as often as you want, but it would spoil the entire poll, pushing everything apart from 6x6 to mere irrelevance I think ;-)
 

Steve Smith

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Having built a 6x12 camera, my favourite is now 6x12.


Steve.
 

hsteeves

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being a multi-format owner although they have been parked for years as I became a digital abuser, I would have to say the 6x6 has a certain lure but 6x7 is the most used(when I do). I have hundreds of frozen unexposed rolls in my freezers - I hope they are still good. I promised myself that I would shoot more film this year. Of course, I said that last year. And the year before. ad naseum.
 
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Slixtiesix

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You can give your vote to various formats, but only in one run. Once you have your votes sent, the poll is closed for you.
 

Sirius Glass

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Welcome to APUG
 

john_s

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When I moved from 35mm to 120 size film, using a 6x6 camera, I loved (still do) viewing the world in that big beautiful 6x6 viewfinder. But when I make prints, they rarely are optimum exactly square. Other people seem to be able to do it better.
 

Kawaiithulhu

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I just picked up a 6x6 hassy to recondition and have a 6x9 back for my graflex. If I'm going to go medium I either want to box it in or stretch it out, no half measures.
 
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