dreilly
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One particular photographic tool that I have never used is a medium format SLR. TLRs a plenty (love them), a few folders, including a Makina 67 I tried from KEH last week (it didn't work out, see the 120 RF forum for that humdrum saga), but never one of the bigguns.
I was looking at Contax 645s...an 80mm f2 lens! But kinda expensive and complex and electronic. Then somehow I ran across a photo or thread about the Norita 66.
Now, 6x6 is my honey. Love the square. I have a medium format slide projector for 66. The native lens on the Norita 66 is an 80mm f2. Few MF lenses are that fast.
I shoot m43 (and APS-C off and on), both of which is kind of like putting yourself on a shallow depth of field diet. Seems to me that's one of the reasons to go back to full frame or larger formats, having the ability to really separate subject and background. And of course the delicious experience of seeing a 6x6 slide projected....
So I started looking at Norita 66s. I learned that they were first designed built and sold by a company called Rittreck, which then sold the design and jigs and everything to another company, which sold them at Norita 66s and Graflex Norita 66s and also Warner 6x6s. All these cameras are black on brass, but the Rittreck was chrome.
So, I have to admit, I have a thing for old chrome cameras. I just think they're classy. Modern chrome paint, meh, looks fake to me, but genuine chromed brass. Rittreck 66s are pretty rare, and in high demand because they have mirror lock up and later iterations did not.
But I emailed Ross Yerkes, who I read is the go-to guy for Norita repairs (and religious tracts in the box with your camera), and he had a Rittreck and matching 80/2 for sale. Camera should be here in a few days.
Very excited! Will obviously post some camera porn and first shots too.
Now I just have to order a meter and some MF film.
Here's an old ad, from Flickr user Koni Kowa, licensed under creative commons:
Flickr: "This image or video is currently unavailable."
I was looking at Contax 645s...an 80mm f2 lens! But kinda expensive and complex and electronic. Then somehow I ran across a photo or thread about the Norita 66.
Now, 6x6 is my honey. Love the square. I have a medium format slide projector for 66. The native lens on the Norita 66 is an 80mm f2. Few MF lenses are that fast.
I shoot m43 (and APS-C off and on), both of which is kind of like putting yourself on a shallow depth of field diet. Seems to me that's one of the reasons to go back to full frame or larger formats, having the ability to really separate subject and background. And of course the delicious experience of seeing a 6x6 slide projected....
So I started looking at Norita 66s. I learned that they were first designed built and sold by a company called Rittreck, which then sold the design and jigs and everything to another company, which sold them at Norita 66s and Graflex Norita 66s and also Warner 6x6s. All these cameras are black on brass, but the Rittreck was chrome.
So, I have to admit, I have a thing for old chrome cameras. I just think they're classy. Modern chrome paint, meh, looks fake to me, but genuine chromed brass. Rittreck 66s are pretty rare, and in high demand because they have mirror lock up and later iterations did not.
But I emailed Ross Yerkes, who I read is the go-to guy for Norita repairs (and religious tracts in the box with your camera), and he had a Rittreck and matching 80/2 for sale. Camera should be here in a few days.
Very excited! Will obviously post some camera porn and first shots too.
Now I just have to order a meter and some MF film.
Here's an old ad, from Flickr user Koni Kowa, licensed under creative commons:
Flickr: "This image or video is currently unavailable."
