I had one back in the 70's. It's a big camera, a bit harder to handle than a Rollei TLR because of the size of the body and the location of the focusing knobs. I would opt for a tripod. It's pretty hard to do any sort of street photography with a TLR viewfinder. You'll need a light meter (which are getting harder to find these days).
Jeffery On Dec 8, 2010, at 4:19 AM, Thibouille wrote: > Got myself (not arrived yet) a Mamiya C330 TLR (with 80/2.8) for a > couple reasons: > > * I want to do film > * Medium format > * 6x4,5 is bigger than 35mm but if going MF, just do it completely. > 6x4,5 is somewhat small IMO > * The challenge of using a TLR, waist level finder (although prism is > available as well) > * The challenge of square format, 6x6 > * Interchangeable lenses on a TLR (quite rare) > * Mechanical beast, easier to repair than electronic ones if it needs to. > > Now, I know Darren have one, he wrote so a couple weeks ago. > Darren and others, what could you advise as for usage of such cameras? > Like usage with or without tripod, what kind of subjects, 120 film handling > etc. > > Thank you much. > > -- > Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs > ---------------------- > Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, > DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... > Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 > Programing: Delphi 2009 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
