{"id":219,"date":"2008-06-04T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T08:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arransalerno.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2022-02-21T06:42:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:42:48","slug":"rb67-very-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/rb67-very-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"RB67 = Very Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s dangerous?
\nWell, the fact that I’m borrowing a Mamiya RB67 from a friend and I might get attached to medium format photography… That’s what’s dangerous.
\nIt’s big and heavy and damn ugly, but when you look through that viewfinder it’s quite wonderful. Then you of course have the 120 film itself which I’ve always been wanting to try out. Nothing comes close to the quality of enlargements and fine detail from medium and large format film.
\nI don’t know why I’m letting myself try this camera out. Its actually pretty stupid. I’ve been interested in the Pentax 67 for a while now, and I need another reason to spend more money like I need a hole in the head (ie. photography has already sucked enough money out of me).
\nSo anyway, this is the camera. An RB67 “Pro-s” made between 1974-1990. It has the 120 film back, 2 lenses; 90mm f\/3.8 and a 150mm f\/4. Oh yeah, and no metered prism on this baby (an expensive optional extra). I’ll give it a go in a couple of weeks. I have about 10 rolls of cheap 120 film I’ll try and burn though, then develop along side my regular 35mm film. Hopefully I get some half decent results.<\/p>\n

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What’s dangerous? Well, the fact that I’m borrowing a Mamiya RB67 from a friend and I might get attached to medium format photography… That’s what’s dangerous. It’s big and heavy and damn ugly, but when you look through that viewfinder it’s quite wonderful. Then you of course have the 120 film itself which I’ve always been wanting to try out. Nothing comes close to the quality of enlargements and fine detail from medium and large format film. I don’t know why I’m letting myself try this camera out. Its actually pretty stupid. I’ve been interested in the Pentax 67 for a while now, and I need another reason to spend more money like I need a hole in the head (ie. photography has already sucked enough money out of me). So anyway, this is the camera. An RB67 “Pro-s” made between 1974-1990. It has the 120 film back, 2 lenses; 90mm f\/3.8 and a 150mm f\/4. Oh yeah, and no metered prism on this baby (an expensive optional extra). I’ll give it a go in a couple of weeks. I have about 10 rolls of cheap 120 film I’ll try and burn though, then develop along side my regular 35mm film. Hopefully I get some half decent results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[44,81,82],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camera","category-random","tag-camera","tag-mamiya-rb67","tag-medium-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}