- BRONICA RF645 VS FUJI GS645S MANUAL
- BRONICA RF645 VS FUJI GS645S FULL
- BRONICA RF645 VS FUJI GS645S TRIAL
- BRONICA RF645 VS FUJI GS645S ISO
This is one lens you don’t need to use a clear protective filter on. Added to the already recessed front element of the normal lens, this affords optimal protection both from stay light and from knocks and bumps. It actually flares inwardsinstead of out. The lens hood is one of the cleverest I’ve seen. The film wind lever, leica Leica, is ratcheted – it can be advanced in a single motion or in several smaller motions. Lens changing is single-action – no separate film-protection curtain to remember as on the Mamiyas. Here are just a few of the nicer features of the RF645 that I noted and approved of:
BRONICA RF645 VS FUJI GS645S ISO
The controls on the camera back are particularly nice – everything you need within easy reach of the thumb ( AE lock and a nifty, handy lever for exposure compensation), with locks only where you need them ( on the ISO setting, for instance). Bronica endowed the camera with just about every feature I want in a camera, from aperture-preferred AE to exposure compensation, but they didn’t load down the cameras with fanciness and fripperies that I’d rather not pay for – no laser beams or whirring micromotors or miniature fireworks displays in the finder. I was immediately impressed with both the feature-pack and the control layout.
The Bronica has a sizeable handgrip that felt good to me, one that leaves the hand in a comfortable position relative to virtually all the meaningful controls. Just for yuks, I hoisted a full-dress Canon EOS-1vwith the he-man booster pack alternately with the Bronica, and the 35mm Canon was both larger and heavier than the rangefinder. It’s not heavy – about the same weight as a Nikon F100( the RF645 is 810g and the normal lens 300g). The RF645 is reasonably small and it’s certainly well-balanced. Michaelwasn’t pleased with this vertical orientation, since he says 75% of his shooting is horizontal. Even when I shoot with 6圆cm square format, I tend to crop to a vertical 645-sized frame much of the time. I really liked the old GS645S’svertical format orientation back when I used that camera. Like the Fuji, the Bronica’s viewfinder is “turned on end” relative to what 35mm shooters are accustomed to.
BRONICA RF645 VS FUJI GS645S MANUAL
Īnother camera I wrote about for the now-defunct Camera & Darkroomwas the Fuji GS645s, a plastic, manual rangefinder 645 I’m sure many of you are familiar with. So now you’re aware of all my many prejudices. ( for roughly the same angle of view on 6×7 as the RF645’s 65mm normal lens, a lens of 80mm focal length is needed). I like the fact that the 645 negative is still small, allowing the use of shorter lenses with better d.o.f. I even like the aspect ratio (shape) of the neg. It’s also practical – sixteen 645 negs fit on to a single proof sheet, yet are generally large enough to “ read” as contacts. The 645 format tilts the balance a bit more towards fine printmaking, without much cost in the field. As a shooter of only medium-level skills but a darkroom whiz, I’ve always chosen to go with 35mm – it gives me the advantage where I most need it, and I enjoy ( and am up to) the challenge of struggling with the small negatives in the darkroom. My philosophy has always been that the smaller the negative is, the easier the camera is to handle in the field the larger the negative is, the easier ( or perhaps I should just say the more rewarding) it is to make the print in the darkroom. Īs a black-and-white negative film shooter, I like everything about 645. Wow–I’ve never actually been able to pigeonhole my style of photography so briefly before. Michael shoots landscape, while I’m more of a people-and-passing-scene type of photographer.
I think our different reactions have to do with shooting style. I like them – they’re great cameras – but my own reactions tilted just as decisively, and just as quickly, towards the Bronica.
BRONICA RF645 VS FUJI GS645S FULL
I can understand that – I wrote a full review of the Mamiya 6for the old Camera & Darkroom, briefly owned a Mamiya 6, and am very familiar with the Mamiya 7. My friend Michael Reichmannposted a comparison of the Bronica RF645and Mamiya 7on his excellent website The Luminous landscapethat tilted decisively towards the Mamiya. I left my Leicahanging hostage from the salesguy’s neck and took their RF645outdoors for a stroll.
BRONICA RF645 VS FUJI GS645S TRIAL
I only gave it a quick trial – they had one on display at Reimer’sin Milwaukee. This article is based on a posting to the Rangefinder ListĬompletely on-topic for once, I’d like to post a brief report of the new Bronica RF645compact rangefinder that I shot with yesterday. All technical illustrations © Tamron Corporation
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