When shooting portraits people often ask which lens to look at! You find your own balance within the square frame. Portraits are a delight to shoot on a square format, landscapes are different. Shooting square images is an acquired taste! If you are used to shooting 35mm then it will transform the way you view a scene and compose an image. The paramender allows the photographer to make a simple adjustment which compensates for parallax and allows correct framing of the image. This needs to be used along with a tripod. The parallax caused by the distance between the focusing lens and the shooting lens is only apparent at closer distances, at which point the bellows are extended further and extra exposure time is required.īig enlargements can be made from the fine grained medium format films.įor close-up shots there is an accessory called a paramender. Focusing is usually difficult without using the pop-up magnifying glass. There are two ways to fire the shutter on the camera, one way to lock it, and you can also use a shutter release cable. There are numerous ways to hold the camera and each person will find a way which is comfortable for them, with or without a grip. On the longer lenses you may sometimes have to do it manually. When the film is wound on the shutter is automatically ‘cocked’ for firing. The mechanical shutters on the Seiko lenses of a Mamiya C330 are pretty much silent, just the short whirring during slow shutter speeds. Now, they are mainly used by film and medium format enthusiasts. They were popular with wedding photographers. The Mamiya C330 is a fairly heavy camera to handle. One of the cameras I work with is the Mamiya C330f so I have used it as the basis for this article. Image © Clayton James CubittĪ few words on the Mamiya C330 for the many connoisseurs of this twin lens reflex medium format film camera. ‘George Pitts and his sacred object’ by Clayton Cubitt. Many thanks for this photo contribution to the Mamiya C330 page by New York City photographer Clayton James Cubitt. It is not the diagonal, it is the width of the longest side is the controlling factor.Photo of Mamiya C3 sent in by Ken from Australia. Therefore the equivalent for a 35mm camera using a 50mm lens is 30mm. so a 45mm W/Angle on both cameras gives a factor of 1.666 The standard focal length on both is 75mm.
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Taking another example the, Bronica ETR series and the Bronica Sq series. You only need to judge that to get approx the standard lens size needed for that particular camera, but as this is already decided for us by the manufacturer, we have no control over this.Ī 35mm wide angle lens used with a Mamiya 645 camera using this formula gives a wide angle result of 21.88mm (22mm for all intents and purposes) equivalent on 35mm cameras It has little to do with diagonals because of the different shape format.
Likewise the 55mm divided into the 80mm gives 1.45 (recurring) so dividing the 50mm by the 1.45 you get 34.48mm equivalent. This gives a result of 40.65mm which is what the equivalent focal length would be needed on 35mm. Now divide the 35mm equivalent standard lens, assumed to be 50mm, by the same factor, i.e. The mathematical formula I was taught when I did my City and Guilds (centuries ago so it seems) to find out the equivalent focal length comparison was the following:-ĭivide the wider angle lens focal length into the standard lens focal length, so the 65mm into the 80mm = 1.23.
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