By the way, I always used the pistol side grip. Get one of those if you can. Otherwise, the camera is very awkward to hold and shoot.
Jeffery On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:49 AM, Thibouille wrote: > Thanks to all of you. Very helpful. > I'm eager to receive the camera and process the films. > > Le mercredi 8 décembre 2010, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> a écrit : >> I had the C330 for a bit way back in the 1970s. >> >> There is a 'top of frame' indicator needle. As you focus closer, it >> drops to show where the top of the frame for a given focusing distance >> would be. So you focus and frame, then raise the camera vertically to >> put the top edge of the frame along the indicator line. The shift is >> only large when you're working in the very close range, for a normal >> to wide lens. With the tele lenses it becomes a bit more significant >> ... best to frame a little loose. Plenty of negative to work with so >> shoot loose and crop ... :-) >> >> Mamiya made a gizmo for the tripod that worked with the indicator too. >> The indicator had a scale of numbers, IIRC, and you could easily raise >> the camera with gizmo to the number once you achieved proper focus. >> >> For me, the C330 was always a tripod camera. Held with pistol grip and >> porroflex viewfinder, it was a large and heavy beast to tote around. >> For any hand-held work, I far preferred a Rolleiflex TLR (which had a >> more sophisticated parallax compensation built into the viewfinder >> system albeit for a fixed lens with a more limited close focusing >> range). >> >> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Jeffery Smith <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> As I recall, the C330 deals with parallax by having a needle enter the >>> viewfinder field, cropping part of the field that would be cropped due to >>> parallax. Not very sophisticated, but it worked. >>> >>> Jeffery >>> >>> >>> On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:25 AM, P N Stenquist wrote: >>> >>>> I had Mamiyaflex C2 and a C220. I always wanted the C330, which has some >>>> sort of parallax correction, so the upper lens shows you the frame for the >>>> lower lens. Shot with the TLR for many years and made quite a bit of money >>>> with it. I used just the 80mm lens for most of that time, but later added >>>> the 250mm. It takes a while to get used to seeing things reversed in the >>>> viewinder. That was especially difficult shooting pans of race cars, >>>> because they came through my viewfinder from the wrong end! But it was a >>>> great camera, and the lenses were excellent for the time. >>>> Paul >>>> On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Thibouille wrote: >>>> >>>>> Got myself (not arrived yet) a Mamiya C330 TLR (with 80/2.8) for a >>>>> couple reasons: >>>>> >>>>> * I want to do film >>>>> * Medium format >>>>> * 6x4,5 is bigger than 35mm but if going MF, just do it completely. >>>>> 6x4,5 is somewhat small IMO >>>>> * The challenge of using a TLR, waist level finder (although prism is >>>>> available as well) >>>>> * The challenge of square format, 6x6 >>>>> * Interchangeable lenses on a TLR (quite rare) >>>>> * Mechanical beast, easier to repair than electronic ones if it needs to. >>>>> >>>>> Now, I know Darren have one, he wrote so a couple weeks ago. >>>>> Darren and others, what could you advise as for usage of such cameras? >>>>> Like usage with or without tripod, what kind of subjects, 120 film >>>>> handling etc. >>>>> >>>>> Thank you much. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs >>>>> ---------------------- >>>>> Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, >>>>> DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... >>>>> Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 >>>>> Programing: Delphi 2009 >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>>> follow the directions. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Godfrey >> godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs > ---------------------- > Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, > DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... > Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 > Programing: Delphi 2009 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
