> TLR's are intimidating since I've never even tried to
> use one
Well, while we're OT, I just picked up an old Rolleiflex yesterday to
satisfy my cravings for a decent MF camera; it's very much a user body, but
for CDN$200 I can't really complain. I rattled off a quick roll of test
shots yesterday, printed them up, and, well, wow. _Lots_ of image to go
around -- I can snip out bits of the image at 8x10 and still have it be
obviously very sharp; even magnifying it up to 20x20 scale, there's still no
worries; I get into grain issues before I get to camera resolution issues,
which is a nice change.
Now, it's a TLR, which means the composition and vertical-ness really
leaves something to be desired; I can see it'll take me a while to get the
hang of this backwards + 90-degrees offset viewfinder business, but still..
wow.
Your camera -- as ever, _the_ place to start for MF info is Robert
Monaghan's site:
http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/mf/index.html is the top level, and
http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/mf/mamiyas23.html is the page for this
camera.
Lenses; halve the length for the 35mm equivalent, so the 100mm you have is
the same as a 50mm. As an interesting added bonus of MF/LF -- if you crop
out the middle 36x24mm of the frame you shoot, it's the same as a 100mm lens
on a 35mm camera -- so you get two shots for the price of one, sorta. This
genuinely does work, too; the "20x20" enlargement I did only got printed on
8x10 paper, so I effectively have a zoom lens there, depending on which bits
I print up.
-- dan
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