yoong, i am sure you meant 12,500 iso and not 125,000

was it hunger or delusion that made you stop?

what makes you think that bigger camera will scare people off?

so sorry hiroboroi as i actually lol when i was reading your story. though i find it funny here, i am sure it was terrifying for you at that moment. i am one of those photographers who use the large format though i do not use a dark cloth and stick my head into it nor i run across the road and get hit by a metrobus.

there was once when i was at an open space car park nearby pudu plaza. i noticed that i can see a nice view of the city from the car park. asked the boy who manage the space and he said ok not problem. so i took my camera out and start setting it up and stuffs. took me 15 to 20 minutes to set up my camera actually.

approximately 20 minutes later, a dude who has a conan the barbarian size came up to me and asked why am i taking photographs. i told him that i am taking photographs as a hobby and i teach photography and i see this beautiful view of the city from here and stuffs.

he started screaming like a WWE champion saying how i trespass the area as this space is a private owned space and i am not allowed to be here. he even told me that he will get his buddies (whom i assume have the same body size as his) to come together and beat the sh*t out of me.

he even said that since i trespassed, he can decapitate me and hang my head in the tree and nobody will know anything about it and if they do, the law couldn't do anything because i trespass.

prior his arrival, i managed to take a photo. so i thought since i have my photo, there is no point in arguing with him. i just said my sorry and how i didn't realise it's a private owned stuffs and smile and act dumb and stuffs (show bambi eyes).

he kept on shouting and kept on saying he can smash my face onto the ground and everything. 5 minutes later, he asked me how long more do i need. i told him i need 5 more minutes. i guess i wanted to shoot another same shot as insurance before i leave.

he left me alone. after i have shot my 2nd photo, i packed up and leave. before i leave the ground, he walked up to me and said sorry for being rude to me and i have to understand his situation as the land belongs to the government and how if the government see someone here he will lose his job and stuff.

i said my last sorry and i left the place.

i got my photos. and my head is still on my body. phew!

on bold: OMG! then how do you know if there was a roll in your FM 2 or not leh?

can i ask questions?
why do you use 5 different type of films?
what type of films are they?

thanks

rx330, ermm... most of the medium format cameras do not have a built in light meter... means they do not have an iso setting as well

eh, i think i must have missed that. hahaa didnt really realise about that.
but then again, i guess i personally don't find it a need to have an iso dial on a body that do not have a light meter coz the iso setting will be in the hand held meter.

besides, i use only iso 100 films so yeah...

eh, you know arr... i come to realise that i enjoy using my largeformat more than any other cameras that i have used before. this is partly because of the slow set up and everything. i like it. i mean the slow set up.

mamiya 6 is damn expensive weii

RB67 is at least 2 times the size of a hassy.
well, maybe not but it's huge. and heavy.
and the mirror slap is a bit clumsy

woah this mamiya looks clumsy leh... as big as a large format. it can even fit a large format film...

i think you can convert it seeing that it comes with a mamiya cut film holder. hahaa consider selling that to me if you do not want it ya.

but one of the joy/fun, in my case necessity of using a large format is the ability to tilt and shift the camera. can the giant do it?

moving the film plane or the lens plane

it was a press camera. not meant to be movable (i think)

because it was used by the press photographers. press as in newspaper press photographer.
these were the days before leica came out with their super small camera that accepts movie film (35mm format)

no D3s at that time. no 60 focusing points. lol

press the shutter release down at least one inch... what kind of camera is that?

This post has been edited by ifer: Nov 3 2011, 08:36 AM

rape...

rx330,
get a nikon film camera hehee
a camera that was manufactured in the same year that you were born.
that will be super cool

eh F90 / N90 is a camera built in the 90s.
how old are you?