While I occasionally rented lenses - mostly the 50mm/3.5 in Vistek's rental inventory - I rarely needed more than the 80m/2.8 that came with the package I originally bought. It was the machine at the heart of my studio system. I would never have considered the cost of the optional motor drive, as the quick wind grip was all I needed to advance film quickly when a shoot picked up speed. It lived most of its life on a tripod, locked off and plugged into my Profoto strobe kit and a shutter release cable. Most of all, fully accessorized with bellows and prism, it looked like a serious piece of gear, which went a long way with with impressing dubious clients. The bellows style lens hood might have looked like overkill, but it had the great advantage of a slot for stacking filters, and I slowly built up a collection to help correct for colour shifts in cross-processing.
I doubt if I would have felt as confident with my still life work without the Bronica's Polaroid back, or the prism I bought to make it function like a true SLR. It worked beautifully, though, and while renting extra lenses could occasionally be a problem, I came to rely on it as I began experimenting with cross processing and refining my lighting. All of my lenses are of the original series.The Bronica was known as the "poor man's Hasselblad" and as a favorite of wedding photographers, and the one I acquired had seen some hard use. Later on Bronica introduced an improved line and called it the PS series. The original lenses for the SQ are called the S series. This new placement of the dial is especially helpful when using the prism VF because it renders the dial on the original back almost completely inaccessible.įor photos taken with this camera look here.
ZENZA BRONICA SQ A ISO
But when the SQ-Ai was released it came with an improved back that has the ISO dial on the back where it is easily accessible, and it also includes an EV comp dial. The original SQ back had the ISO dial on the top, like you can see in the photo of the 645 back below. Zenza Bronica SQ + 80mm f2.8 Zenzanon-PS + SQ 6圆 120 Roll Film Back + Speed Grip S + Waist Level Finder Regular price 939,00 EUR. And speaking of film backs, there are a couple of different designs.
You can also shoot 6×4.5 photos with this body if you use the appropriate film back. I mostly use this one handheld, and absolutely love taking square photos probably largely under the influence of my Dad, who shot 6×6 almost exclusively from 1956 to 1963 and left behind a treasure of well preserved and well organized black and white negatives. It’s bigger than the ETR but not all that much different in practical use. The first model of this line, the SQ, was released in 1980. The bulkiness of the rb made that problem worse. One thing I couldnt stand about both the rb67 and the yashica was the waistlevel finder. My first experience with medium format was a yashicamat 124, and I enjoyed shooting in 6圆 quite a bit. This is the SQ-A, the second of five versions of the 6×6 camera that takes square photos and was released in 1982. Recently Ive been considering selling my RB67 and getting a Bronica SQ. After many years and many models of modular medium format SLR cameras based on focal plane shutters, the last three SLR models made by Bronica were all based on lens shutters, with several versions of each one.