Sorry, Bill ... The 'blad won't cut it for the type of photography we do. Come join Juan and me for a stroll through the city sometime, then you'll understand.
That's not to say that a Med Format camera can't be used on the street - I know Juan's used one as have I (a Bronica), but for fast shooting, where there are times you don't even focus, and you don't stop moving, 35mm reigns. The 'blad and similar cameras are too bulky and too slow for a lot of street work. If I'm not mistaken, the Plaubel 6x7 is not an interchangeable lens camera (The Plaubel Makina is what I'm thinking of) Now, the Mamiya has possibilities, as I've acknowledged before, and it's something I'm looking into. William Robb wrote: > Yes but Shel, all you need is for one to do it as well, or even > nearly as well, as a small format camera. A camera like a > Hasselblad 501CM, used at waist level would be quite > inconspicuous. > My friend with the Hasselblad travels frequenty to Greece, where > he does wonderful street photography. > The Plaubel 6x7 http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/plaubel.htm is > remarkably small, though apparently not as reliable as it could > be. > The Mamiya 6 and 7 are both very compact also. > > Consider also, I could walk into a crowd with a small Leica, and > stand out like a sore thumb, because that kind of photography is > not what I do well. I think most of it is the photographer and > how he works, much more so than the equipment. I bet you could > do what you do with a Mamiya 7, almost all the time. > (I am trying to enable you, BTW) -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ - 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 .
