Understood, thanks. 2010/12/9 Jeffery Smith <[email protected]>: > 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. >
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