yes im onto the medium format. I had one of these to borrow recently and developed at my friends uni. but didnt have access to a scanner. For all my nikon gear i got :

Mamiya 645 Pro TL

AE Prism Finder FE401,

Power Drive Grip WG401,

Two x 120 Roll Film Backs HA401,

Mamiya Sekor C 80mm f/2.8 lens with Hoya skylight (1B) filter and Mamiya fold-back lens hood,

Mamiya Sekor C 55mm f/2.8 lens with Hoya skylight (1B) filter and Mamiya fold-back lens hood,

Polaroid Back (with Tripod Adaptor N-model 2)

A hp 4200x9600 dpi negative scanner - cheap but does anyone know what kind of scanner i will need to get large prints?

Loads of 120 film + some polariods.

Some chems for developing


As soon as i get it + the film (ordered the film from hong kong :/ ) i will post some samples.

Nice! as long as you're not shooting nikon, you've upgraded.

Orange skin and cold whites.. even in raw it's bad.



Awesome mate

For large scans you will need to get drumroll scans at a lab.

4200 x 9600 = should print roughly 30 inches on the long edge

This post was edited by lithfkn on Apr 14 2011 12:27am

Thats big enough for personal use :P. Anything that turns commercial i could go to a company to scan it at a higher resolution.

Lol i love nikon, i will always be a nikon fanboy. Although now i shoot canon, Its only because I wanted FF cheaply.......

so lemme get this straight. you switched to canon before and now you bought an old film camera in addition right?

Awesome. The two film backs will help a lot, as it means you can switch between them as and when you want.

Might not be the most portable system though, Mamiya 645's are quite notoriously heavy.

got it today. its a beast the battery grip needs 6 aa batteries just to power for 2fps lol it is VERY heavy. yes two backs will allow me to have two types of films and you can switch them half way through the film which i think is handy. still no 120 films, however i did take a few polaroids. will scan when my new scanner arrives.

yea now i have a canon and this film camera.

This post was edited by SUPACALIFRAGILISTICEXPALIDOCIOUS on Apr 14 2011 12:46pm

6 AA's isn't too bad, that's what my Nikon F100 takes, though the body is a damned sight lighter.

Any idea what film you'll want to use?

well i don't know a lot about film so i have ordered several types. A couple of each but 20 rolls of shanghai as it was so cheap ^^

KODAK EKTAR 100 color
SHANGHAI GP3 120 B&W
KODAK EKTACOLOR 160
Kodak Professional Portra 800
FUJI PRO 400H 120 Roll
Ilford HP5 Plus


All just b+w and color nothing else yet i want to try them out and find a preference for certain things.

any advice?

I've got a leaning towards Ilford and Fuji films, with Delta 100 and 400H being particular favourites, but it looks like a good suggestion already.

Kodak Ektar particularly is a really nice film, but it's got about the same exposure latitude as slide film, so you'll need to make sure your exposures are pretty much spot-on. The other films listed are quite a bit more forgiving.