Is there anyone shooting 6X7 anymore?

[Dougg]

Tom that's a great falls shot... 🙂

I like 6x7 too; here's one from the recent Mothers Day.

 

[Finder]

I like 6x6 - Mamiya 6 and 6MF. Very nice travel camera. One of the best medium-format systems I have ever used.

For the last five years, I having been also having fun with a nice portable 6x12. I have never seen 400 speed print so nice. It burns film though. Pity it can't take 220.

 

[ghost]

don't forget those shooting 6x9!

 

[Kim Coxon]

Yup, I don't do 6x7 but I still use the 6x9 Ensign folder.

Kim

don't forget those shooting 6x9!

 

[clarence]

For the last five years, I having been also having fun with a nice portable 6x12. I have never seen 400 speed print so nice. It burns film though. Pity it can't take 220.

May I know what panoramic camera that is?

Clarence

 

[Finder]

May I know what panoramic camera that is?

Clarence

The Horseman SW612. Not the Pro version with shifts, which is quite a bit larger.

 

[wlewisiii]

This discussion and these images remind me that I really ought to get an RH10 (6x7) or RH12 (6x6) roll film back for my Speed Graphic. That old RF coupled 127/4.7 would probably shine on the smaller format... 😱

William

 

[FrankFitz]

I constantly shoot 6x7 and panoramic on my Mamiya 7. Best camera available and hope ir does not go out of production. Also looking for a 50mm lens which in the UK will cost about £800 ($US1200).

Frank

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

I have a RH-10 6x7 back for my Crown Graphic 4x5 that I shoot occasionally, but mostly I shoot 4x5 with the Crown, if ya got the sq footage may as well use it.

I have a Koni-Omega Rapid 200 that is being refurbished by Greg Weber as we speak. That will be my main 6x7 camera (loud Ker-chunk and all!!!).

Wayne

 

[jdos2]

Just shot the 4th on Polaroid, in the Mamiya Universal.

I still shoot 6x7, just not as much. Beautiful stuff.

 

[jrong]

I still have my Mamiya 7II although I don't use it much. Excellent camera though, especially for its portability, but I can't reconcile using rangefinders with landscape photography, and I find the 6x7 format really difficult to work (compositionally). Much happier with 6x6 here.

So yes, my difficulties with visualising compositions with 6x7 are what prevents me from using it more, I think.

 

[jean-marc B.]

My brother does with a speed graphic, you can see some pictures in my website.

 

[StuartR]

Yes, I am using 6x7 right now here in Iceland with the Mamiya 7II. I love the film size, and when the camera gets the exposure right (the meter in the M7II, or at least my M7II, is a dog), the slides are superb. For black and white the tonality is amazing, and of course the wide angle lenses are out of this world. The 43mm lens is really amazing. One nice thing about the M7II lenses is that, like Leica, their lenses are totally usable wide-open. Here is one wide open with the 80mm

Here's one of the 43mm on Macophoto 820 Ir

 

[rogue_designer]

I still shoot 6x7 and 6x9 regularly with my horseman VHR. Not quite as portable as the Mamiya RF's - but plenty hand-holdable. I love those big negs. Almost as much as my 4x5s.

 

[rovnguy]

I've always enjoyed working with the larger MF negatives, but I feel limited with the square format of my Yashica 124G, and I'm not real comfortable with the focus procedure. Then today, out of nowhere, a person I only slightly know comes up to me and gives me his Koni-Omega Press 2 camera. To my surprise I find that it has a rangefinder and shoots in a rectangular (6x7) format. And it is so heavy... my wife rapidly tired from holding it while I finished shooting... a good thing! So now I'll be looking for information on every aspect of this beauty.

 

[jano]

Stuart: WOW. Simply WOW.

 

[remrf]

I have a 6x7 and a 6x9 roll film back for my 4x5" cameras. I can't say that I use them much. I've been using my Mamiya 645 for most of my 120 format shooting.

 

[smthopr]

I shoot mostly with my fuji GW690 and GSW690. It's not 6x7, but it's two bigger!

Here's one for StuartR from my GW690

 

[StuartR]

Thanks Jano!
That's a superb shot Bruce!

 

[smthopr]

Stuart,

I posted the shot only because I thought it was the same location as your little ID photo. Now I'm not so sure....

Mine was at San Simeon in central california. Where was yours?


The buildings had a remarkable similarity and thanks for your kind words.