jeudi 9 décembre 2004

Cameras I've Clicked With Mamiya C330 Twin Lens Reflex After my fleeting and forgettable experience with a Nikon D70 the recently voted "Best Consumer Digital SLR" by magazines across Europe I've been thinking about the pleasures of using a proper camera... and the old Mamiya Twin Lens Reflex models immediately sprung to mind. Even in this digital age the name Mamiya is synonymous with medium format... since 1940 the company has produced cameras in all the popular film sizes including several quite innovative 35mm models... and it currently lists medium-format modular systems in 6x4.5 and 6x7 cms with a near 645-sized medium-format digital camera announced recently at Photokina. Gone is the modular 6x9 Press and both 6x6 Twin-Lens Reflex cameras... more is the pity! Mamiya TLRs were unique in their class in that they took interchangeable pairs of matched lenses and were designed for use at chest or waist-level with a less convenient eye-level viewing option. This gave 6x6 users the ability to view the entire image area as a flat surface rather than at eye-level as with 35mm cameras. Also the much larger projected view was detached from the reality of the subject because it was laterally reversed... Update 17 June 2007 : This article has been re-formatted and can now be read on my new expanded web site 20/20 Visions 9:08:24 PM    comment []