Advice in buying a medium format RF camera

timo832000 · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 544 Location: Germany / Cologne

Dear my friends,

I need your advice again. Since I have played a bit with my vintage Pentax ME I actually fell in love with the good old analog photography.

So I decited to get my self a (vintage) medium format camera.
Main usage will be landscape and nature fotography. Important are a low weight, a small well made body, a good wide angle lens and a small price tag.

I think a rangefinder camera will be the thing to buy, but maybe there are also some small and good reflex cameras which would fulfill my requirements.

Which would you recommend?

Timo

DigiChromeEd · Joined: 29 Dec 2009 Posts: 3460 Location: Northern Ireland

A Mamiya 7 mkII, but they are not cheap! Wink

timo832000 · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 544 Location: Germany / Cologne

toooooooo expensive Wink

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

Folders are cheap and good , or buy MF SLR also can be cheap and good. Koni OMEGA inexpensive and excellent MF RF camera.
Mamiya Press inexpensive and if you find a wide angle lens that is stunning , but not inexpensive.

berraneck · Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 7:25 pm Post subject:

folders are great because of their size, but doesn´t have wideangle lens - ussualy 75-80mm for 6x6 or 100-105mm for 6x9

i think one of smallest wideangle medium format RF is Fuji GA645 line or GS645

http://www.antiquecameras.net/fuji645cameras.html

http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Fuji_GS645_Professional_series