While it is true that you can find some really terrific lenses that meet this criterion and are cheaper than medium format options, they typically embody the shortcomings of vintage lenses without always offering other qualities to make up for those deficiencies. As you may know, I am a big fan of employing vintage, manual focus lenses on my Sony a7R II - so much so that I still find myself shooting these lenses about half of the time. That is to say, when film gear was cheap, it was difficult to say "no" to a new lens or anything else when you see a piece of gear show up at the local shop or on KEH.Įven if the above situation does not apply to you, you may still be happy to hear that medium format lenses are still in many cases less expensive than their new, manual focus counterparts intended for full frame cameras. Of all the photographers who are currently or have previously been heavily invested in film gear, this is a pretty normal situation. And please keep in mind, I have many 645 lenses at this point (a total of eight to be precise). It has been my thought that anything less would waste the image circle of my 645 lenses. For a while, I thought for sure that when the day comes that my Mamiya 645 stops working and is beyond a simple and expensive repair, I will pick up a medium format digital camera – likely a camera from the Fujifilm GFX lineup. Otherwise, I intend to stick with and expand my digital lineup. Though I have been working through selling/giving away most of it, I intend to keep at least two 35mm cameras (my Nikon FA that I fell in love with after reviewing it and my Nikon F2 that I trust will still be working for decades to come), one medium format camera (my trusty Mamiya 645 Pro-TL), and one large format camera ( Intrepid 4x5 Black Edition). If you are like me, you have held on to some of your film photography gear.
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