How many LF shooters work also with MF?

Hi all

 

Many LF shooters work also in MF is thies correct?

Good news for all Rolleiflexs fans. Rollei makes a wide angle

Rolleiflex again as in the past and they plan also to create a new

Telelens Rolleiflex. Thies was just stated in a german fotomag.

So not everything goes only digital!

I like it!

I use an old Rollei 6008 for portrait and close up work.

I have a Rolleiflex F2,8 that sees some use, but less and less since I discovered Azo paper. If I could enlarge with Azo, (which I hear MIGHT be possible in the future) then the Rolleiflex would definatly see more action.

 

I have the Mamiya 7 with an 80mm and 65mm lens, but it's going upü for sale soon.

I work in a number of different formats, medium among them. There are times when it is simply impossible to use a view camera. I've made photographs in pouring rain and high wind in which it was difficult to even keep an MF camera from blowing away on its tripod. I wouldn't have been able to unfold a view camera under those circumstances, let alone make photographs. There are also times when, after a day of trekking with 40 lbs. of LF gear, I want to "relax" a bit and just hang a TLR around my neck and explore the late day light without being overloaded with equipment. Different siuations require different approaches sometimes. When making my Civil War portfolio, I needed SLR functionality to capture action scenes. I didn't have a Graflex 4x5 SLR then, so I brought both my 4x5 view for static, staged scenes and an MF SLR with mirror lock-up for the action scenes. http://www.razeichner.com/civilwar/index.htm

I have an old Bronica S2A that I like. I got it a few years ago in mint condition, so I'm not worried about having to finding parts. While probably not as good as modern day optics, I'm pleasantly surprised by the excellent results that I get with the lenses which go with this camera.

 

For color, there's no comparison to 4x5. (Except 8x10!). But, for B&W, I tend to gravitate towards roll film, either on the 4x5 or on my S2A. I usually print on 8x10 paper.

Personally I use Bronica SQA's and at work RB's but I do prefer my Linhof III for personal shooting both B/W and color.

I use MF quite a lot--whenever I need to be more spontaneous, for snapshots, location scouting, when it would be impractical to carry a larger camera, or when wind conditions would make it too difficult to work with 8x10".

 

I use 35mm for long tele work and any time I might need 35mm slides.

In addition to 4x5 and 5x7, I use medium format quite a bit. I have an old Linhof baby technika IV that gives me the movements I am used to for LF in a smaller (though not much lighter!) package and with the convenience of rollfilm.

 

Ron Gratz

Armin,

 

due to the very high price of 4x5 color films in France, I use b&w 4x5, and 6x9 (centimeters!)color slide or print films in a linhof back.

I also frequently use an old mamiya rb pro, and,from time to time, a small digital canon.

 

this range of cameras and sizes allow me to adapt my photography to circumstances, location, and mood.

it seems to me that many photographers behave this way, like artits who use watercolors, pencils, oil, or any means thats fits their creating desire.

regards to all

Armin, I use a Rolleiflex T whenever the situation calls for it. The Rollei and Verichrome Pan are my favorite MF combination(until I run out of Verichrome Pan!) -----------------cheers!

I use a Yashica 12 TLR, and occasionally one of my Agfa folders.

Often I like to go way wide, and my Brooks-Plaubel Veriwide 100 with the SA 47mm is marvelous. Some days I just don't want to be bothered with the whole LF rigamarole.

 

CXC

I use MF for color work which is usually job type work for others where I have specific goals and wants of a customer. I use all of the LF for my own personal work in B/W. The MF is an old Mamiya Universal that allows 6X7 or 6X9. Had a nice compliment just last friday too. A lady that works in 4X5 was viewing 14 20X30's from Velvia that are on display right now at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City Nevada and asked if they had been done with an 8X10. In fact they were done with the 6X9cm. Tells me the info is getting there just fine in mf. Why not carry that through to the B&W's? Grain, tonality, contact prints for pt/pd are just a few of the reasons discussed here often enough.

I use the format that works best for me, depending on time, distance to hike, and conditions. In an idea world, I'd shoot 4x5 for everything. Much of the time, though, I use my Fuji GX680III as my "all purpose" camera (landscape, flower portraits, semi-macro, beginning to dabble in architecture, etc); I love the camera and it gives me the movements that I want for everything except the most extreme instances. I also shoot 617 panoramic, and have done a lot of 645 although I haven't used it much since acquiring the 680.

 

Regards,

Danny

www.dannyburk.com

i use a hasselblad "swc" for touring, i find that it is a very good "lf" substitute and when it is leveled will produce a distortion free, paralax corrected image, by croping the bottom off of the negs i get great results. sometimes (for me) "lf" is such hard and intense work lf that on holidays and things i prefer mf.

I use frequently the Master Technika handheld with the rangefinder (Linhof be blessed) and 120 rollfilm in 6x9 format.

Otherwise, I use a 2,8 TLR Rollie for "everydays photography". IMHO, the TLR has a kind of "contemplative philosophy",very close from large format. Not as aggressive as a reflex for street photography.

Rollei is making a wide TLR again? What's the info? Are they

going to export it soon?

 

I shoot a 6x6 Rollei and occasionally a 6x9 Graphic. The 4x5 is

for sale so I can get an 8x10. 4x5 seems to small nowdays.

Me!

I do most of my work with a 4x5, but I also use a Pentax 67 and a Fuji GX680III. The Fuji GX680III is great for fireworks. It and the 250 mm lens are the perfect match.

 

...Wade...

I shoot either 8 x 10 or Noblex, the rotating camera from Dresden. It's the only that works, though mine burnt out last months on the first day of a commission in Yorkshire, and I had to take the train to London to buy the only one in the city. After the 8 x 10, it seems extraordinarily easy to use -- though this is also because I cut my photographic teeth on an old Kodak Panoram (which required repairmen in NY, Rome and London and which had more bad days than good. I think it's good to change tools, though in moderation. It takes, in my experience, a long time to "inhabit" your camera, and to know what it can do and see.

I actually currently shoot about 90% of my work on medium format. My system

consists of two RB67 bodies, a few backs, 65mm, 127mm, and 250mm KL

lenses, polaroid back, etc. I find that with this I can shoot just about everything

I need to, with the exception of stuff shot in really low light (yeah Leica for that)

or things that simply require movements. For just about all of my applications,

a 6x7cm neg shot on Fuji NPS with Mamiya glass gives me more than

enough sharpness and resolution. Which isn't to say that I'll be getting rid of

my LF stuff anytime....not by a long shot, only that I find the mix of convenience

and quality with shooting color neg on medium format to be a great formula

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As mentioned previously, the Fuji GX680III is a really nice camera for taking fireworks. The following is an example:

 

http://www.northwest-landscapes.com/html/misc/fireworks2.html

 

It gets expensive quickly when using large format cameras for firework shots.

 

...Wade...

I feel I don't really qualify to answer since I use MF (mainly Pentax 67) for about 75 % of the time and small format for 20 % of the time. LF is only the remaining 5 %, so I don't really consider myself LF shooter...

 

I use it when it suits the situation better than MF, that is, when I need the tilts and shifts, or just want the big transparency. Otherwise I would always use MF instead.

I shoot MF with a view camera ... the best of both worlds, perhaps?