I had the C330 for a bit way back in the 1970s. There is a 'top of frame' indicator needle. As you focus closer, it drops to show where the top of the frame for a given focusing distance would be. So you focus and frame, then raise the camera vertically to put the top edge of the frame along the indicator line. The shift is only large when you're working in the very close range, for a normal to wide lens. With the tele lenses it becomes a bit more significant ... best to frame a little loose. Plenty of negative to work with so shoot loose and crop ... :-)
Mamiya made a gizmo for the tripod that worked with the indicator too. The indicator had a scale of numbers, IIRC, and you could easily raise the camera with gizmo to the number once you achieved proper focus. For me, the C330 was always a tripod camera. Held with pistol grip and porroflex viewfinder, it was a large and heavy beast to tote around. For any hand-held work, I far preferred a Rolleiflex TLR (which had a more sophisticated parallax compensation built into the viewfinder system albeit for a fixed lens with a more limited close focusing range). On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > As I recall, the C330 deals with parallax by having a needle enter the > viewfinder field, cropping part of the field that would be cropped due to > parallax. Not very sophisticated, but it worked. > > Jeffery > > > On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:25 AM, P N Stenquist wrote: > >> I had Mamiyaflex C2 and a C220. I always wanted the C330, which has some >> sort of parallax correction, so the upper lens shows you the frame for the >> lower lens. Shot with the TLR for many years and made quite a bit of money >> with it. I used just the 80mm lens for most of that time, but later added >> the 250mm. It takes a while to get used to seeing things reversed in the >> viewinder. That was especially difficult shooting pans of race cars, because >> they came through my viewfinder from the wrong end! But it was a great >> camera, and the lenses were excellent for the time. >> Paul >> On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Thibouille wrote: >> >>> Got myself (not arrived yet) a Mamiya C330 TLR (with 80/2.8) for a >>> couple reasons: >>> >>> * I want to do film >>> * Medium format >>> * 6x4,5 is bigger than 35mm but if going MF, just do it completely. >>> 6x4,5 is somewhat small IMO >>> * The challenge of using a TLR, waist level finder (although prism is >>> available as well) >>> * The challenge of square format, 6x6 >>> * Interchangeable lenses on a TLR (quite rare) >>> * Mechanical beast, easier to repair than electronic ones if it needs to. >>> >>> Now, I know Darren have one, he wrote so a couple weeks ago. >>> Darren and others, what could you advise as for usage of such cameras? >>> Like usage with or without tripod, what kind of subjects, 120 film handling >>> etc. >>> >>> Thank you much. >>> >>> -- >>> Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs >>> ---------------------- >>> Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, >>> DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... >>> Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 >>> Programing: Delphi 2009 >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
