tamaragranatkina

totally agree! I checked KEH - and there only the body of Bronica SQ-Ai costs $160. So maybe my shop's price isn't that much after all... I feel like I am trying to find a perfect camera, but it does not exist and I have to make compromises :) I really didn't think that MF photography is totally a different world! Silly me..o_O

Wow, thanks a lot for so many replies on such a short time! All this time I was pondering options that i have... and now my dreams about shooting my first 120 roll next week are crashed :D Yeah, I guess you all are right, the price is high indeed and I should not focus solely on that local shop's offer, but rather make a research on local repair shops and find cheaper options on ebay (having then more choice). Honestly, if not the loud mirror sound, I would definitely buy this Bronica S2! I do like how it looks and feels. But I really want to at least have a chance to remain unnoticed when shooting (I just looked some videos about Mamiya C330, also available in that shop haha). If the newest gear is what I think, then I don't really want to buy it, because as I mentioned above, I loose the sense that I am shooting on film with these cameras (e.g. pentax 645)... Or do you mean unused? Could you please explain why exactly folding cameras? They do not attract me at all :) Is that a problem? :)

I also want to try medium format and in my local shop (Berlin) I found Bronica S2, repaired and checked with Nikkor-P 2,8/75mm lenses. The price is 485 Eur, which also includes 1 year warranty. A consultant at the shop (who took care of the camera) recommended not to by from ebay cause often the items are faulty there... They also had Pentax 645 (575 Eur) and Mamiya 645E (445 Eur), but I took a look at them and could not get the feeling of "the real" film camera: too much buttons gave me the feeling that I am using a digital camera. (Am I strange? :D) Anyway... now I am thinking whether I should buy Bronica S2 that they have. Although I would probably prefer Bronica SQ, but I don't know where else could I buy it safely. Do you think the price is worth the camera? What do you think about the camera itself?

Hi guys! I have a question about scanning and I think I can post it here, instead of opening a new thread. I have Epson v500 and I am scanning 35mm. My goal is to have digital images for later potential printing. I thought of the size ~ 11x17inches. Here are parameters that I input: Image type: 48-bit Resolution: here I put 400dpi. Target size: here I put 11''x17'' Output format: TIFF As a result with these settings, I get an image that is 171MB, 6803x4402 pixels, 400dpi. But then I read in forums that you should scan with as much dpi as possible. But when i set, e.g. 600 dpi (and leave all the other parameters as they are in my example), I get a file that is ~650MB and I cannot even open it... :confused: So I guess one should choose 'Original' in target size, then if one chooses e.g. 1200 dpi, the size will be ok, is that right? But here is where I m getting confused! My scanned images seem to look pretty good in terms of quality (at least on the screen). Am I doing it wrong? Are my scans in bad quality? And how to do it right? Please help with advise and some clarification!!!