Post Bronica Photos... Any format. I just want to see Bronica photos

gary2881 said:
Its called Emigrant Lake after the emigrants to Oregon who were part of the Appelgate party of 1846. There wasn't a lake there, then, but the party traveled through there on the way to the Willamette Valley. My great, great, grandmother was a member of that party, a widow traveling with 5 of her 8 children.
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I figured that the name probably came from something like that. The lake is man made, but is fed by Emigrant Creek, which comes down out of the Siskiyou mountains near Pilot Rock.
 
Snake petroglyph-Tent Rocks, NM

Snake petroglyph-Tent Rocks, NM

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Bronica SQA, 40mm or 50mm, I can't remember.
 
Thinh, beautiul image!

Colton, great picture again... and I'm looking to the bokeh a long time... but I don't know if I like it... ¿?¿? I would like to see a portrait with this lens...
 
Shab said:
Colton, great picture again... and I'm looking to the bokeh a long time... but I don't know if I like it... ¿?¿? I would like to see a portrait with this lens...
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Thanks Xabier.
I'll try getting a decent portrait with it.

Here's another from my new ETRSi.


Oriental Rugs par Daiku San, on ipernity

Zenza Bronica ETRSi
Zenzanon MC 50/2.8
Kodak Ektar 100​
 
Rationale for pricing on the 35mm pano backs for Bronica

Rationale for pricing on the 35mm pano backs for Bronica

I see the hesitancy from posters for avoiding the 135W 35mm pano backs for both the Bronica SQ-A, SQ-B and ETR bodies.

Prices seem high... but they do come up on eBay more often than one may think.. albeit at around $300.

I looked for such a back for a long time, and passed up many based on price. However, I wanted to shoot some 35mm pano.

So, I took a look at options... WOW... the Bronica backs are cheap by comparison.

The two camera's that come most readily into the discussion are the Hasselblad Xpan and it's manufacturer's own Fujifilm TX-1 (built and branded for Hasselblad).

Sold prices listed for many of these two range from $1200 to $3000. Athough these shoot 24x65mm, the price makes any Bronica 135W back I have found, paltry by comparison.

Another option is the very hard to find 24X65mm 35mm pano film back for the Hasselblad 6x6 CM. There is currently one on eBay running at $1200. Again, pricey.

So, even though the pano is 10mm shorter for the Bronica backs, I suspect another plus is that shots are through medium format glass, using the center portion of the lens.

Once, I made those distinctions, I revisited the Bronica 135W pano listings on eBay, and within 30 days, I picked up two (one SQ and one ETR) backs, BOTH for $425 shipped (NOT EACH, both). I have the SQ back and it looks unused, with manual. The ETR back is on it's way and should be here Monday.

So, I am anxious to get out and try these out. While the ETR back is regarded as fiddly, nothing can be fiddlier than loading any film in the inserts of many Medium Format camera's, and particularly into an FSU Kiev (early edition).

I now feel the prices for the Bronica backs are somewhat a "steal" compared to the hasselblad/Fuji options.

There may be other options (doesn't Holga have a 135 pano camera?) but these were all I needed to loosen my wallet strings.

Worst case scenario, I like one and sell the other for over half my outlay. Huh?

I'm thinking the SQ will be better on the loading, and better on the portion of glass used for a lens optimal for 6X6. The one for the SQ also has exposure comp setting control for the electronics on the SQ. Not so the ETR.. but that's minor.
 
kuzano said:
I see the hesitancy from posters for avoiding the 135W 35mm pano backs for both the Bronica SQ-A, SQ-B and ETR bodies.

Prices seem high... but they do come up on eBay more often than one may think.. albeit at around $300.

I looked for such a back for a long time, and passed up many based on price. However, I wanted to shoot some 35mm pano.

So, I took a look at options... WOW... the Bronica backs are cheap by comparison.

The two camera's that come most readily into the discussion are the Hasselblad Xpan and it's manufacturer's own Fujifilm TX-1 (built and branded for Hasselblad).

Sold prices listed for many of these two range from $1200 to $3000. Athough these shoot 24x65mm, the price makes any Bronica 135W back I have found, paltry by comparison.

Another option is the very hard to find 24X65mm 35mm pano film back for the Hasselblad 6x6 CM. There is currently one on eBay running at $1200. Again, pricey.

So, even though the pano is 10mm shorter for the Bronica backs, I suspect another plus is that shots are through medium format glass, using the center portion of the lens.

Once, I made those distinctions, I revisited the Bronica 135W pano listings on eBay, and within 30 days, I picked up two (one SQ and one ETR) backs, BOTH for $425 shipped (NOT EACH, both). I have the SQ back and it looks unused, with manual. The ETR back is on it's way and should be here Monday.

So, I am anxious to get out and try these out. While the ETR back is regarded as fiddly, nothing can be fiddlier than loading any film in the inserts of many Medium Format camera's, and particularly into an FSU Kiev (early edition).

I now feel the prices for the Bronica backs are somewhat a "steal" compared to the hasselblad/Fuji options.

There may be other options (doesn't Holga have a 135 pano camera?) but these were all I needed to loosen my wallet strings.

Worst case scenario, I like one and sell the other for over half my outlay. Huh?

I'm thinking the SQ will be better on the loading, and better on the portion of glass used for a lens optimal for 6X6. The one for the SQ also has exposure comp setting control for the electronics on the SQ. Not so the ETR.. but that's minor.
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The Bronica 135 panorama backs are definitely a bargain when compared to the Xpan and TX-1. Granted, they are a fair bit smaller though.

I ended up buying a 135W back for my ETRSi off Ebay for $140. It should arrive Saturday. I also bought a Zenzanon MC 40/4 which should pair nicely with the 135W back.
 
^ Have both the 40 and 50 for the ETRS and the 50 sits in the bag most of the time.The extra width of the 40 makes it my wider angle of choice ( and the 50 is the PE model),but
who cares,it's that extra coverage that hooked me. Hope you enjoy yours as much.
Peter
 
Moto-Uno said:
^ Have both the 40 and 50 for the ETRS and the 50 sits in the bag most of the time.The extra width of the 40 makes it my wider angle of choice ( and the 50 is the PE model),but
who cares,it's that extra coverage that hooked me. Hope you enjoy yours as much.
Peter
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Well, now you have me looking for the 40mm lens.

I sat down with a dummy roll of 35mm film and both of my new 135W backs (SQ and ETRS) to test a side by side comparison on loading them.

The slightly larger room to work with on the 135 W back for the SQ made it only slightly easier to load than the one for the ETRS. But, i found neither of them as fiddy or difficult to load as I anticipated from comments read before.

I did prove one thing to myself in addition. The frame count mechanism on both rely on the connection to the camera body to function correctly. A plunger from the camera resets the mechanism in the back when winding forward on the camera. On both backs, I marked the frames as I used the transport and film count and they were both very exact on a consistent space between frames. Very well done mechanism and certainly not flimsy in any regard.

Happy camper, me!
 
Wouldn't you just KNOW IT!!!!

Wouldn't you just KNOW IT!!!!

I've been blathering on about the two 135 W pano backs for my Bronica's, wanting to get in motions a get some pics to actually post on this site in 24x54 Pano.

Then a couple of days ago, I find this Fiickr page with instructions on how to rig up a Bronica 220 back to shoot 24X58 pano on 135 Film. Then I find another that talks about how to do the same with 220 back for the GS-1 which is 6X7, using the 220 backs.

We all know the 220 backs are selling for a song because the 220 films have all but disappeared. So, it turns out you can buy a 220 back WITH dark slide for about $50 and the work to shoot 35mm film in it is simply labor, including a mask on the focus screen for the panoramic format.

It also turns out that if you do that with the GS-1 220 film back on the GS-1 camera the pano frame format on 135 film is 24X68 mm, or a bunch longer than the Hasselblad X-Pan.

Just my luck, considering I just bought both ETR and SQ 135W.

Oh well, I guess, I will get the GS-1 back since I much prefer the idea of the longer pano, AND I don't like square all that much. Would rather have the 6X7 format in the bigger camera.

In any event, I simply have to get out and do some shooting. I found a 40 for the ETRS, and will be looking for a wide angle for the GS-1.

I know there is a 65 for the GS-1, but does anyone know what equates to a 40mm for the 645 format, but on the 6X7 GS-1 camera, and if a lens exists.

Here is the link to the Flickr page that shows how to use 35mm film in the 220 SQ back. I presume the process would be the same to get the 24X68 frame size in the GS-1.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/86265840@N05/sets/72157631972143051/
 
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