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A square format negates landscape v portrait camera handling.
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These are pretty large exposures, enabling great detail, and either enlarging or cropping capacity.
#BRONICA SQ 80MM PHOTOS FULL#
That’s about four times the area of a 35mm film, or full frame digital sensor. The Bronica SQ-A, with a 120 film back, exposes a 6cm by 6cm square image onto each film frame. Having recently entered medium format film photography using a £3 Lomo Lubitel 166B TLR camera, I desired something better, but couldn’t justify the cost of buying a Hasselblad. That is what attracted me to the Bronica SQA. Performance of a Hasselblad is considered to be superior to a Bronica, but “not necessarily THAT superior for all types of photography. However a used ‘Blad of similar spec and vintage is likely to cost you between £750 and £1,750. They are sometimes nicknamed “the poor man’s Hasselblad”.
#BRONICA SQ 80MM PHOTOS PROFESSIONAL#
These system cameras were popular tools used by professional studios and wedding photographers during the 1980s and 1990s, so plenty come along for sale, although some may have been well used. Buy it now prices for a similar system on Ebay, range from GBP £200 to £500, so I’d say I got a good buy. The largest sum that I have ever paid for a camera, but it was a good price for a private purchase. My Bronica SQ-A came fitted with a Zenzanon 80mm f/2.8 PS lens, standard focusing screen, waist level viewer (with magnifier), no grip, and with a 120 film back including dark slide. It is a modular system camera, with interchangeable lenses, focusing screens, prism or waist level finders, film backs, and an optional grip. The camera has a leaf shutter, located in the lens. The mirror does not return to viewing position, until the film is cranked on. The former, as it indeed is a single lens reflex, with a reflex mirror that moves out of the way – either lockup preset, or automatically before the shutter opens. The Bronica SQ-A is both a medium format film SLR camera, and a modular system camera. I’ve owned a Zenza Bronica SQ-A camera for a little over two months, and fancied writing an early appraisal (not too sure if I have the experience to call it a user review). – rectangular, smaller, but allowing more exposures per film roll. The Bronica ETR series on the other hand, were masked to produce smaller six by four cm exposures. As part of the Bronica SQ series, it could use 120, 220, or Polaroid film with full six by six cm square exposures. The SQ-A camera was built by Zenza Bronica in Japan between 19.