Anyone shooting medium format film cameras on here? Or somebody who did back in the day? It seems to be an old voodoo subject and I know nothing about it but when I go into all these vintage camera stores here they are loaded with MF goodies and the eye candy in those glass cases starts to tempt.
As an example I saw today a Pentax 645 with a couple of lenses for 300 quid. Lemon Sha in Ginza is just stuffed full of MF and 35mm of every variety. Especially Leica's and 'blads. Awesome to kick about in for half an hour and apart from usually daydreaming about romantically wandering around Tokyo with a Contax RTS and some Contax Zeiss lenses, I always walk away thinking film would be a pain in the arse really.
I did briefly shoot 35mm film when I first started years ago but that wasn't very long before the digital era so I have little film experience.
In some ways I like the idea of MF film just because I'm a sad geek that gets way too much pleasure out of old anachronistic toys but would this be just a really hard, expensive, frustrating and pointless whim?
Talk me out of it eh?
As an example I saw today a Pentax 645 with a couple of lenses for 300 quid. Lemon Sha in Ginza is just stuffed full of MF and 35mm of every variety. Especially Leica's and 'blads. Awesome to kick about in for half an hour and apart from usually daydreaming about romantically wandering around Tokyo with a Contax RTS and some Contax Zeiss lenses, I always walk away thinking film would be a pain in the arse really.
I did briefly shoot 35mm film when I first started years ago but that wasn't very long before the digital era so I have little film experience.
In some ways I like the idea of MF film just because I'm a sad geek that gets way too much pleasure out of old anachronistic toys but would this be just a really hard, expensive, frustrating and pointless whim?
Talk me out of it eh?