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Mumintrol's question proves that he doesn t even know what MF is. Keep on shooting pictures of ducks in the local park.

Indeed it is very obvious that yabokkie wouldn't recognise a medium format camera if it fell on him.

This is a medium format lens, you cannot even begin to compare the amount of glass in it and the associated manufacturing complexity with that of a tiny 4x3 lens.
Go check the prices of other...

I read that they sell reasonably well, they are an interesting alternative to Hasselblads, which you don't see often in the wild either. These are not really walkaround cameras.

Amazing how quickly you make assumptions. This is definitely a price inline with other professional lenses, even rather competitive in the medium format world. And the quality will more than likely...

I think that some of the Chris Otcasek pictures are rather good. I can imagine some of the near abstract ones to look nice on the wall.
Yes, the pictures would have been sharper when taken with an...

While I am an avid digital photographer, a while ago I bought a Horizon Perfekt panoramic film camera. It is quirky yet gives great results. I discovered that vertical panoramas can be seriously...

Yes mr the great marketeer, enlighten us with your brilliant insights.

I tried the V1 in the shop, a rather dark indoor shop. It indeed offered good picture quality. And it was obviously very well made.

In the end I bought an XE-1 though, which is something else...

> I am concerned about the direction Fujifilm is taking ...

I also dearly love my XE-1 with 35mm. I don't use my big Nikon camera anymore, the Fuji is so nice to use with very good output.

In...

There is nothing soft about the pictures I make with the 35mm lens.
I usually put the saturation setting on Velvia. Only rarely I do use RAW as for most light situations the jpg will be very nice.

Hardly a premium brand?

Look up the Hasselblad X-Pan, a cult camera if there ever was one. Still highly sought after, and in fact rebadged Fuji.

Fuji also makes the lenses for the Hasselblad H...

It is a traditional lay-out for people who like traditional controls.
And if you take away the pentaprism because not needed, what you are left is a rangefinderish shape.

Actually the first one has this description on the national geographic site:
"Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft...

Many people here dismiss phones as not being for "serious" photography.

I like to walk around with my "serious" cameras, both digital and medium format film cameras.
However I don't have them...

So we will see the pixels of the phone on the paper?

I am trying to find uses for this, perhaps the only thing I can think of is exposing products & materials during ancient photographic...

I love shooting digital, and I still love shooting film as well, hence I like this kind of niche initiative.
Currently i deliver my films to the local lomography shop, which can handle all kinds...

This afternoon I will try out the Belair with the Russian 90mm lens. I didn't want to try the plastic lens, so I had to wait a bit for the glass lens to arrive. It is not a high end camera in feel,...

Thanks babalu.
So the "viewfinder back" will likely have a ground glass on which the image would be appear (this would be on the place of the normal film plane), and a bit further a smartphone will...

I don't even understand how it is supposed to work.
At the film plane the image is projected on a 56x56mm area.
The phone sensor is a small area in the middle of it.
I don't immediately understand...