alw Posted January 16, 2009 Share #1 Posted January 16, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Does anyone else here have a passion for medium-format photography? I just happened to get my hands on a Mamiya C330 with 105mm & 135mm lenses. I love the build quality of the machine and am really looking forward to seeing the first pictures. As a bonus I also got a roll of Orwo film from DDR that has expired in 9/1967! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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klaush Posted January 16, 2009 Share #2 Posted January 16, 2009 Hello Alw, congratulations to your C330 and lenses. Yes, that is a heavy weight medium format camera. I used a C33 in the early seventies, with a 65mm lens that was rather crisp. Especially congratulations to your ORWO (NP20, NP15, NP27). Best one was NP15 and the NP20 wasn´t bad either. I developed my last Orwos about ten year ago. Of course you shouldn´t have too extensive expectations on that old film, but it could be fun. So go on and enjoy it. Klaush Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alw Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share #3 Posted January 16, 2009 Oh, I´m not going to use the film! I wonder if the camera is too heavy for lugging around during my forthcoming trip to Paris... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwig Gretch Posted January 16, 2009 Share #4 Posted January 16, 2009 Oh, I´m not going to use the film! I wonder if the camera is too heavy for lugging around during my forthcoming trip to Paris... nah!....does wonders for the biceps!, and the circulation! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antistatic Posted January 16, 2009 Share #5 Posted January 16, 2009 I've also just started with the medium format thing with my uncle's Rolleiflex 2.8f. It is great fun. A different style to Leica shooting!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gesper Posted January 17, 2009 Share #6 Posted January 17, 2009 I too got hooked after I found a 1951 Zeiss Ikoflex TLR at a rummage sale for $25 (smaller and lighter than the C330). I liked the large negatives so much that I bought two Mamiya Press Universals (6x9 format) on eBay. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
echorec Posted January 17, 2009 Share #7 Posted January 17, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am too revisiting the MF world. I will keep on using my (film) Leicas of course but the MF is fun too. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/74318-mamiya-c330/?do=findComment&comment=780729'>More sharing options...
echorec Posted January 17, 2009 Share #8 Posted January 17, 2009 Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/74318-mamiya-c330/?do=findComment&comment=780737'>More sharing options...
antistatic Posted January 17, 2009 Share #9 Posted January 17, 2009 Gunnar, that last one is a winner. (The children are pretty cute too) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted January 17, 2009 Share #10 Posted January 17, 2009 Hi Alw, and compliments ! I have always had a passion for MF : have a Rolleiflex 3,5f and my father's Super Ikonta 6x9... Planar+Tessar is a nice duo... ; 6x9 is a fantastic big format, but the "real" MF shooting for me, is with a waist level finder: you enjoy what really means to COMPOSE an image, and the square format helps to make enlargements in which you feel free to chose the h/v proportions you find "right" for the scene you framed (I have very few enlargements plainly square). The Mamiyas 330/220 were cameras I considered seriously years ago, for I always felt the desire to have more than a single focal, and none of the people who used them expressed to me less than good satisfaction; just to chat, I vagued for a pair of years around 3 alternatives : - Mamiyas - Rolleiflex wide + tele (3 bodies to carry... ... and the wide is rare and costly) - SLR (too costly, for I knew that my real target would have ended to be Hasselblad... ) ... and I ended to make an error: found a good priced Linhof 70 set 65+100+180 with the 6x7 Rollex: a fascinating item, which proved to be completely unpractical for my attitudes, and finally traded in (for some Leitz glass, of course...) I am sure you enjoy a lot your C330. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyoung Posted January 17, 2009 Share #11 Posted January 17, 2009 Hello Alw, congratulations to your C330 and lenses. Yes, that is a heavy weight medium format camera. I used a C33 in the early seventies, with a 65mm lens that was rather crisp. Especially congratulations to your ORWO (NP20, NP15, NP27). Best one was NP15 and the NP20 wasn´t bad either. I developed my last Orwos about ten year ago. Of course you shouldn´t have too extensive expectations on that old film, but it could be fun. So go on and enjoy it. Klaush I too used the C330 &C33 in the 70s and 80s, and we had some for the students to use as well. It was a competent workhorse, I must say I never came across a 65mm which I would describe as 'crisp' , the 55mm was much better in my experience. Both need collimating to a particular body to be sure of focus. Gerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phovsho Posted January 17, 2009 Share #12 Posted January 17, 2009 I'm excited about the release of the new Bessa III 667, expected in march... Voigtlaender - Bessa III M Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted January 17, 2009 Share #13 Posted January 17, 2009 I'm excited about the release of the new Bessa III 667, expected in march... Voigtlaender - Bessa III M If the Voigtlander lens is anything like the ones I have for my Leicas, that should be a fantastic camera! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattLain Posted January 17, 2009 Share #14 Posted January 17, 2009 I like the look of voigtlander's new 6x7 too. reminds of the old plaubel makinas a little bit. I'll soon be investing in a mamiya 7 and 65mm though, which will hopefully work well as a colour machine next to my bw leica work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hodimeyer Posted January 17, 2009 Share #15 Posted January 17, 2009 I bought a used Mamiya C33 Professional body together with 135mm new lens in 1990 (really don´t remember the exact year). It is a excellent piece of handcraft! Last time I used it with AGFA colour negativ film in 2004/2005 ?!? When I found the negatives, I will do a scan with my HP5370 flatbed scanner an post it immediately! In the late ´90 I developed 6x6 films (B&W) for myself. Again - if I will find some old negatives - I will do a scan for you :-) Anyway: If you have the chance to buy such a thing - do it :-) Regards Horst Dieter Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/74318-mamiya-c330/?do=findComment&comment=781429'>More sharing options...
Guest Bernd Banken Posted January 17, 2009 Share #16 Posted January 17, 2009 I like the look of voigtlander's new 6x7 too. reminds of the old plaubel makinas a little bit. I'll soon be investing in a mamiya 7 and 65mm though, which will hopefully work well as a colour machine next to my bw leica work. After the first roll my Mamiya 7II has the typical RF behavior: the two overlapping parts of the focussing sqare are a bit out of alignment..... The service knows this problems and will glue for fixing after alignment. Beside this the camera is easy to use, light and the lenses are superb. My dream lens is the 43mm, a real Zeiss-shocker..... Bernd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
klaush Posted January 17, 2009 Share #17 Posted January 17, 2009 Gerry: "I must say I never came across a 65mm which I would describe as 'crisp' , the 55mm was much better " I never had another lens to compare, so you might be right. But for me the 65mm seemed fine. Horst Dieter: That´s exact the camera I used in the seventies. Couldn´t find negatives, but found some negs taken by Makina 67. One here: Klaush Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/74318-mamiya-c330/?do=findComment&comment=781441'>More sharing options...
alw Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share #18 Posted January 17, 2009 I hope I don´t get banned for making this a Mamiya forum. Anyway, the camera & lenses are now bought and next I´m putting some film through it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gesper Posted January 17, 2009 Share #19 Posted January 17, 2009 These were taken this summer on Tri-X with a 1951 Zeis Ikoflex TLR (6x6 format) and a 1970 Mamiya Press Universal rangefinder (6x9 format). [ATTACH]122898[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]122899[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hodimeyer Posted January 17, 2009 Share #20 Posted January 17, 2009 @klaush: fine ! I think you´re using a wideangel lens? my 135er is more like a portrait lens - and thats the way I used it. so sorry that I´ve no 6x6 filmscanner - the results with flatbed scanner are bad - see picture below. anyway: Its a complete different feeling using the c33 compared with M6. but I like it :-) next days perhaps I will shoot another film with the c33 - test, wether it still works :-) greetings from hh, horst dieter Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/74318-mamiya-c330/?do=findComment&comment=781560'>More sharing options...
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