Today my 135 favourite camera is a Nikon F801s because it autofocuses and can also use digital lenses up to Nikon s Nikkor AF-D range, so I don’t have to bring with me two sets of lenses, one for digital and one for analog. Although I was taking photos since forever, I never used a medium format camera, and never heard about a camera maker called Zenza Bronica. One day a friend of mine who was clearing his shop offered me to buy a medium format Zenza Bronica ETRS.
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My Bronica ETRS, Zenzanon 105mm F/3.5 and ILFORD HP5 PLUS.But it still was nothing more than a rare habit, as the new sensors of digital machines were unbeatable for quality and speed and post-production increased dramatically the range of people who could model. I once again bought a Paterson tank, some liquids, and rediscovered the beauty of developing.
However after a while, the analog itching started again, I took the F2 out of a drawer, sent it for complete CLA (Clean / Lubricate / Adjust) which ultimately only led to a fixin of some rusty metal contacts in the metered prism, while the shutter, after not being used for ten years, was dead correct at all speed range. Then digital slowly kicked in, and for almost ten years I didn’t use the F2 while moving to digital, learning a different way of shooting, working my way through Photoshop.īeing a portrait photographer, digital and photoshop are definitely the easiest, fastest, efficient ways to go. For more than 20 years that was my - almost always - single film and camera combination: Nikon F2, HP5 PUS, ILFOSOL (with rare chances given to Kodak EKTACHROME, especially for traveling and landscape photos).
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