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May 12 2010 02:56pm
Well, I finally received my Mamiya RB67 last night and I've barely been able to keep my hands off of it.

I've been screwing around and figuring out everything about it I can, I can now disassemble the entire camera down to the base components.

A few things..

Good lord this beast is heavy, about 7 pounds.
Grrr.. I double-exposed a photograph.
GRRRR... I did it again.
Now my arm is killing me.

The seller was extremely nice and sent along a Weston Master II exposure meter, that bit wasn't too hard to get used to using.

I have one question so far. The seller recommended that I triple expose, I would assume he meant take a photograph with the recommended shutter speed and then two more photographs with one step lower and one step higher. Right?

If anyone else has any information that would be helpful to me I would really appreciate it if you could fill me in. :D

Here it is, everything seems to be working great, the bellows seem to have no wholes in them and overall aside from a few nicks and the focusing screen being extremely dirty when it arrived it is in great shape.







This post was edited by kratos on May 12 2010 03:09pm
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May 12 2010 03:05pm
Wow, congratulations! What a beast :D
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May 12 2010 03:12pm
Nice. Could crack some skulls with that monster.

Do the bellows act as a tilt shift lens?
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May 12 2010 03:16pm
Quote (Veilside @ May 12 2010 04:12pm)
Nice. Could crack some skulls with that monster.

Do the bellows act as a tilt shift lens?


Sadly, no. I wasn't aware that your average medium format would do that? I thought it was mostly just on large formats and tilt-shift lenses.

This post was edited by kratos on May 12 2010 03:19pm
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May 12 2010 03:21pm
Your average one doesn't. Have to buy a whole different body for 'blads (though it looks awesome).



Not mine, I don't own one, just a cool photo.
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May 12 2010 03:24pm
Quote (Veilside @ May 12 2010 04:21pm)
Your average one doesn't. Have to buy a whole different body for 'blads (though it looks awesome).

http://www.fotografiewimvanvelzen.nl/images/hasselblad-flex2.jpg

Not mine, I don't own one, just a cool photo.


What the hell? Where does the camera body and back go?! :blink:
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May 12 2010 03:27pm
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What the hell? Where does the camera body and back go?!  :blink:


The flexible part is the body, I believe with the flexbody you need to mount the viewfinder first, then remove it and mount the back. Could be wrong. The only photos I can find online either have a viewfinder, or a film back attached, never both.


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May 12 2010 04:47pm
Congrats man, it's a beast and you will have a lot of fun :)

The triple exposure thing is just bracketing... I mentioned that in a pm a couple days ago :P
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May 12 2010 05:01pm
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Congrats man, it's a beast and you will have a lot of fun :)

The triple exposure thing is just bracketing... I mentioned that in a pm a couple days ago :P


Yep, I just was making sure I didn't do anything really stupid.
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May 12 2010 05:40pm
Quote (Veilside @ May 12 2010 04:27pm)
The flexible part is the body, I believe with the flexbody you need to mount the viewfinder first, then remove it and mount the back. Could be wrong. The only photos I can find online either have a viewfinder, or a film back attached, never both.

http://c0170361.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/28343_15517_9048f7e076_p.jpg


You could also use just a digital back, assuming that medium format digital backs have a live view.
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