rudolf
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What is your favorite 120 format?
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Roger Hicks
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Not all 6x7s are created equal. The long dimension typically varies from 68-72mm. I like 56x72 but not 56x68. Sure, it's only 4mm, but it makes the pics look stubby.
Of course there's also the Alpa 44x66mm format for use with the 38mm Biogon...
Cheers,
R.
Of course there's also the Alpa 44x66mm format for use with the 38mm Biogon...
Cheers,
R.
Solinar
Analog Preferred
6x6 at eye-level with my Super Isolette and Super Speedex are my most used medium format cameras, mainly because there is no need to reorient the camera.
That said, I still prefer the 6x9 format. There is more real estate to print from.
That said, I still prefer the 6x9 format. There is more real estate to print from.
Stuart John
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6x6 for me...
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Big advantage of 6x6: it's cheap and common, with a huge range of cameras from box cameras to Hasselblads, Rollei SL66s, and the like.
Other advantages.... Um.... It's good for reflexes without prisms.
Disadvantages: Unless you print square pics, the cropped neg is the same size as 645, the least popular option.
Cheers,
R.
Other advantages.... Um.... It's good for reflexes without prisms.
Disadvantages: Unless you print square pics, the cropped neg is the same size as 645, the least popular option.
Cheers,
R.
antstricker
Newbie
I enjoy 6x6 not only because of the format, but I enjoy composing on a waist level screen. I like not feeling like I am looking through or feeling like I am "inside" the camera - the image on the waist level finder almost feels like a miniature photograph in itself - I find this aids composition.
jonnyp
Newbie
I am a square as well. I love the waist level finder, such a freedom after SLR view finders. 🙂 Mamiya c33 and heavy old tripod.
Canyongazer
Canyongazer
6x9 for me. I like the 2:3 aspect ratio with both 120 and 35mm.
6x6, unless you print square, is effectively a 6:4.5. Once in a while it's advantageous to be shooting a horizontal and vertical simultaneously, but rarely.
Nevertheless, of the 120 cameras I have owned --- Fuji 645, Rollieflex TLR, Mamiya C330, Hasselblad 500C, Mamiya RB67 and Fuji GSW69 and despite my "6x9 vote", my favorite was the 6x7 format Mamiya 7ll with 50, 80 and 150.
Small, light body relative to negative size, superb lenses.
6x6, unless you print square, is effectively a 6:4.5. Once in a while it's advantageous to be shooting a horizontal and vertical simultaneously, but rarely.
Nevertheless, of the 120 cameras I have owned --- Fuji 645, Rollieflex TLR, Mamiya C330, Hasselblad 500C, Mamiya RB67 and Fuji GSW69 and despite my "6x9 vote", my favorite was the 6x7 format Mamiya 7ll with 50, 80 and 150.
Small, light body relative to negative size, superb lenses.
celluloidprop
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Far and away, 6x6. I seem to see in square easiest of all - my tendency toward imbalanced composition works with the format.
al1966
Feed Your Head
I have been enjoying the square format a lot recently so thats what I voted. It could be for a lot of us that it harks back to all those LP records we had many years ago? That 12" sure was a good size. I always fancied a 35mm based camera that shot in the square, has one ever been made? Anyhow 6x6 is a great format to work in but in 6 months I could be saying any of the others if that is working for me at the time.
imokruok
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+1 for square format. I compose the best in square, but the cameras...I wish there were other options. I don't shoot enough to justify a Hassy, and the TLRs are a bit cumbersome. I would love it if Fuji had made those GA645-series cameras in 6x6. So that's what I'm shooting medium format with right now - a GA645zi, and wishing it was a 6x6.
andredossantos
Well-known
Imokruok: Seems you need a Mamiya 6!
imokruok
Well-known
I would love one!! But it falls into the same category as the Hassy - not enough shooting to justify the price. The 645zi has the same roll of Portra 160 that I put in 10 days ago... oh well.
filmfan
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I like 6x45 because the cameras are generally smaller and you get more shots per roll. I like the aspect ratio of 6x7 a lot as well, but the cameras are huge and you only get like 10 frames.. I have a Rolleiflex but never really liked 6x6.
Mablo
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If I'd need to choose just one I'd say 6x7.
gliderbee
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How much do you get at 6x4.5: 15 or 16 ?
My Fuji gives me 15, which is "logical" (1/4th smaller, so 1/4th more pictures, when compared to 6x6). Which camera gives you 16 pictures ?
I voted 6x6, but I like them all ...
Stefan.
My Fuji gives me 15, which is "logical" (1/4th smaller, so 1/4th more pictures, when compared to 6x6). Which camera gives you 16 pictures ?
I voted 6x6, but I like them all ...
Stefan.
Fotohuis
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Some Bronica cameras give you 16x 6x4,5cm negatives. Mamiya 645 (pro) 15 negatives 6x4,5cm too.
Roger Hicks
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RObert Budding
D'oh!
Hard to imagine that people on this site would restrict themselves to just one format . . .
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