I have suprised myself by breaking the winding crank on my Mamiya C330f TLR. It will require fixing: Reatha at film soup said it took about $300 to fix her Medium format Hassleblad. I can get a c330s — which is the last version of the body, and the best, for around that. However, I do have some photos because I was using the Ricoh as backup…. and the rest of the trip will be electronic — I bit the bullet and got a micro 4/3 kit in the post christmas sale.
Which is a pity. A comment on the photos. These jpg are taken directly from shotwell’s rendering of the raw photos using the ricoh 12 MP sensor. I think they are a bit underexposed: however, this is a quick way of working o when you are in the field.
Onto small sensors. The Ricoh does not have one — it has an APS-C sensor (just like a small DSLR) in it albeit of an older generation, and I think fixed lenses. I debated between taking it or the (Far more flexible in harsh daylight Nikon 1 kit: the one inch sensor Nikon it now has more megapixels than the micro 4/3. And the kit is very light. However, the micro 4/3 world now has very good lenses… in particular there are the Voightlander ultrafast lenses. Which can wait.
The trouble is that my ideal kit for travel is pretty much what I carried for the c330: a wide angle prime, a normal prime, and a short telephoto. I can do the same thing with two zoom lenses provided one goes wide angle. I have a two prime one telephoto system for tne Nikon one — but I have destroyed one of those bodies as well. The reason I took the c330 with me is that (a) it is not fragile (I thought) and (b) you can get replacements for it and … I thought, being mechanical, it would be easy to fix. I was wrong.
Perhaps when I travel next, I should just take a small sensor lens set. But the TLR and tripod produce such good shots…. And I miss the beast.
Pretty dark images; can you not boost the light levels in post-processing?
Pity about your camera breaking, of course; that bites.
Yes, I can and the OOC jpg do that as well… the processed 16 bit photos are HUGE, so you got the smallest files (the OOC jpgs are three times larger).
And it shows the problems with using shotwell