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Subject: [OM] Re: Film users: Questions on Bronica SQ-A camera / other 6x6 cameras???
From: jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:28:38 +0100 (BST)
>
> Interesting, you can't afford a Hass wide but you take the expensive
> Bronica
> zoom into consideration? With the SQ-A you can always go back to 645 with
> a
> 645 film back, with some scenes the square format will fit better and
> cropping from 645 just reducing the quality. But honestly say I shot
> mostly
> 6x4.5 with my SQ-A in the pass, on the other hand I found the SQ50mm
> benefit
> from cutting the image to 6x4.5 due to lower image quality at the edges
> wide
> open.
>

The bronica 100-220 from keh in EX condition is not that much! including
shipping and vat and duty worked out at 511 pounds. (111 pounds of that
being vat and duty)
I don't think I could buy much in the way of second hand zeiss wides for
that!
The advantage I can see to the square format is that you effectively have
some shift built in so that you don't have to angle the camera up or down
to much. But the downsides are weight, extra cost and less shoots on a
roll. Ideally I would have gone for 6x7 but the weight, bulk, no 1:1 macro
and lack of telephoto zoom put me off.

James




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