Interesting, you can't afford a Hass wide but you take the expensive Bronica
zoom into consideration? With the SQ-A you can always go back to 645 with a
645 film back, with some scenes the square format will fit better and
cropping from 645 just reducing the quality. But honestly say I shot mostly
6x4.5 with my SQ-A in the pass, on the other hand I found the SQ50mm benefit
from cutting the image to 6x4.5 due to lower image quality at the edges wide
open.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: <jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I could afford a second hand hassy body but the wides even second hand are
> just too much for me to even dream about
>
> I have recently brought the 6x4.5 bronica etrsi, what attracted me was
> the low second hand prices in KEH for the gear,
> the 100-220 zoom ( I don't use telephoto enough to justify the weight or
> expense of carying round lots of long primes when I can cary around lots
> of prime wides...
> the wide angle lenses go down to 25mm in 35mm equivelent
> reasonably light with interchangable film backs.
> shutter speed selectable down to 8 seconds
> pe lenses have half stops on the appatures and most are 62mm thread
> 105 pe macro goes down to 1:1 (rare for a medium format macro lens)
>
> the only things I don't like are
> 1. the mirror lock up egonomics are clunky and not easy to unlock up the
> mirror without taking a shoot
> 2. the aeIII finder only has a memory lock for only 1 minute
> 3. its not got otf metering
> 4. aeIII display is not a simplt and intuitive as the om3/4 series
>
> I could not see much advantage to going 6x6 since I would need to crop
> anyway to get to a normal aspect ratio but would get less shots on a roll
> compared to a 4.5x6 and pay the price interms of weight and lens cost. The
> 100-220 is also not available for the sq series.
>
> my 0.02 pounds worth
> James
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