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May 15, 2024
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Feb 07, 2013
The epitome of refined, elegant craftsmanship.
This is it. It is medium format photography boiled down to essential perfection. Works nearly as well today as when it was forst released - and there are folks around today who can bring it back to virtually brand new.
I bought it because other medium format cameras are larger, more fragile, more complicated. There is no place to put a battery in this camera. You have to have a clue as to what you're doing - you have to focus and determine exposure. You have to think, not leave the essence of the craft up to mediocre electronics.
And it feels so right in the hand.
No one will be buying Canon 5D Mk IIIs in 50 years.
But, because camera companies push all the latest stuff, in spite of the denigration of quality (hey, it's a business model, I understand), these old dinosaurs sell for pennies on the dollar of their original price, yet time doen't diminish their value.
I got one cause it's an amazing deal which eases vision into art. I'm not impressed with featuritis - it is stunningly basic and very nearly perfect.
Jan 06, 2012
Built like a tank, and as heavy, great, modular, manual, 6x7 format camera
1 of 1 found this helpful I bought this camera (actually, I bought the body only) to replace my first used RB67 Pro S, which was a bit more beat up and had some slight mechanical issues.
The RB67 is a very manually operated and mechanical camera (you can't put a battery in it anywhere). I had originally bought a used Pro S on which some of the interlocking mechanisms stuck, so sometimes the shutter wouldn't release without a nudge here or there. This Pro SD body was sold as "new," which really meant barely used and had a much nicer appearance. And so far, works flawlessly.
There are lots of web resources about this camera and other medium format cameras.
My decision to go with a medium format film camera is based on image quality. I develop and scan my b and w film myself (started about 40 years ago). The digital photography explosion has made lots of great film cameras available for next to nothing. I like the look of film derived images over digital, and with medium format film, you can get detail and clarity that you can't touch with digital cameras that cost less than $30,000.
Digital is about convenience, film is about quality.
My decision to go with an RB67 are:
Availability of great, great lenses for a song. Check out Keh.com.
I like the rectangular format - Hasselblads are smaller and lighter, but the maximum dimension is 6/7ths that of the RB (and more expensive). "RB" stands for "rotating back." You twist the back to change from horizontal and vertical formats, not the whole camera.
I'm more comfortable with an SLR over a rangefinder - it is closer to wysiwyg - esp. the ability to stop down and get a fair visual idea of the depth of field.
Flash synch on all shutter speeds - the leaf shutter is in the lens. Shutter speed and aperture rings on the lens are set with parallel detents - you can move both together with one hand - effectively maintaining the same exposure while varying aperture and speed - easier to do than explain, but a really cool feature.
Bellow focussing that easily focuses 1:1.
The clumsy/mildly annoying things:
Weighs a ton. There are a couple different angle bracket hand grips (which you really need to use an on camera flash), but it is a less that optimal "street" camera. I use a tripod 90% of the time. No built in light meter (there is a prism finder that has one built in, but I think they're CDS based - really old and not very accurate) - you will need a light meter. I use the waist level finder almost exclusively (the prism finder weighs as much as a lens). All waist level finders have the disconcerting action of moving the image right as you left. You'll get used to it.
Also, the RB67 requires you to advance the film and cock the shutter (and reset the mirror) with two different levers. Again, you get used to it. And, you have to remember to take out the dark slide before you shoot.
Film backs: All of the 3 backs I bought needed to have the foam seals re-done. There are kits online and it is a tedious, but not difficult job to do. I recently found out that the back is a standard "Graflex" back, so, although I haven't done it yet, I can use an older 6x9 back to get a little more image in the longer dimension. I also recently got, but haven't used yet, a Polaroid back (Fuji still makes "Polaroid" film). And they make motorized backs, too, but a big part of the whole film thing is slowing down and thinking about what you're doing, not about doing it in a hurry.
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