
Take it to a wedding and you’ll experience a shutter so quiet that you’ll wonder if the camera actually fired or not. 100mm (which turns out to be a nice portrait lens, but well get to that). The Mamiya 7 II was used by photographers from all backgrounds: photojournalists, landscape photographers, portrait shooters, studio photographers, and many more. The RF645, the first all-new Bronica since the medium-format manufacturers. It can only be bested by the newest Leica and Schneider lenses. This camera has an incredibly good selection of prime lenses that all offer some of the best image quality that you’ll get when it comes to the medium format camera world. Of all the ones made, the 7 II was the best and is still made today. Mamiya 645 (with adapted Zeiss 80mm f2) + Fuji 400H photo by Casey Jane. Mamiya made a couple of film rangefinders. Bronica RF645 + Kodak Portra 400 photo by Joel Laine. The Bronica RF645 and 65mm f/4 Zenzanon is great for environmental portraits which. Still, it’s one of the better medium format rangefinders that you can find. While I love super shallow bokeh, it is somewhat overplayed in my opinion. The camera won lots and lots of awards but never really took off because of when it was released back in the year 2000. This camera shoots in the 645 format–which is the smallest medium format option you can get but also the simplest to work with. The 67 format was originally designed for landscape photographers but there are lots of shooters that use it for portraits and so much more. Japan Camera Hunter states that their wider angle lenses command more of a price, and overall the system pretty much holds its own value. The Bronica RF 645 is a very compact and lightweight camera with a picture. Their SLR cameras were wonderful and the RF645 is the rangefinder camera that is often overlooked. the Bronica RF645 in combination with the Zenzanon RF65mm f/4 standard lens. I had owned a Fuji previously that was also in that orientation so for me, it was / isn't an issue really. The company was owned by Tamron and so you already know that they had a great command of lenses. The Bronica shoots 120 or 220, is in the 6X4.5 format, and held normally shoots in portrait orientation, which is, for some people, difficult or at least annoying. Indeed, most folks talk about the SLR cameras because they’re cheap but there are lots and lots of film rangefinders that would possibly make you put down your digital camera and keep it in a box somewhere to gather dust once you see the incredible quality that these cameras are capable of.īronica has a very decorated history. But those who want this also know how incredibly good lots of the medium format film rangefinder cameras are. While this isn’t available yet in a digital edition, lots of photographers want it. There is almost nothing better than having the benefit of a small rangefinder camera body and the large negative area of medium format film.
