----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 7:56 PM Subject: Med Format Quandry
> Within the next six months to a year I'd like to begin using a medium > format camera for a long-term project that's been in the back of my mind > for a while. I've somewhat narrowed the choices down to the following > cameras: > > Hasselblad 501 > Mamiya 7 or 7II > Rolleiflex TLR > Pentax 67 and variants > and maybe a Fuji 6x9 I think you will like the Hasselblad lens quality the best. They are superb lenses. I think that in order to best use the square format, you really have to shoot pictures that fit the format. This does mean stepping out of the rectangular format box, and to a great extent, learning how to see again. Of the cameras you have listed, I think of the Hassy, or Pentax as being general purpose cameras, the Mamiya or Rollei as more of a specialty camera, and the Fuji 6x9 as a bastard marriage of an Edsel and a lens. The Rolleis are a lot of fun (don't they have interchangable lenses though?). Have you thought of a Mamiya TLR? The C330 is a great camera, and the lenses are very nice. They made a thing called a ParaMender for correcting paralax error. It is just a device that raises the camera the exact distace between the optical centers of the lenses. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
