> So tonight I ordered up 5 rolls of 120 film Medium format excels at enlargements. I took a photo class with a friend once, I had a Mamiya C330 and he had a Minolta 35mm. We were photographing the same subject matter. I wanted to blow up one corner of a frame, he said it'd be grainy. It was not, he was amazed at how well it enlarged. (This was a darkroom class we were taking.)
Sort of a variant of the old automotive "No replacement for displacement." The Mamiya TLR's lenses are decent, but not spectacular. I have another old folding Zeiss Ikon 120 camera that is really cool, but the lens on it is truly mediocre. You'd get better results from any average 35mm SLR camera. I have a plastic Diana 120 fixed-focus camera that would be even worse than the folder. I've never 'wasted' a roll of film in it, though. I shot a couple of family weddings with the Mamiya, B&W and with a Sunpak 622 potato-masher combust-a-cat flash when necessary. Quantum turbo battery. A real beast of a flash setup. Once I shot a roll of 120 color slide film, just for fun. BIG slides. This was all some time ago. Somewhere I scared up a roll of 120 Kodachrome, but it can no longer be processed. I lost track of the roll of film. The Mamiya TLR is outstanding for IR photography. All metal, with a separate viewfinder lens so you can put a black #87 IR filter on the taking lens and still frame and focus normally. Just have to watch the standard TLR parallax issues, and remember the standard IR focus compensation. I took old-timey portraits of my (now-deceased) parents with the Mamiya, I printed them on 16x20 paper and they got mounted in old oval glass frames my mom had found somewhere. That session there were some straight poses, and some gag, like the 'American Gothic' pose. Good times... -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
