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  • Thank you! Snowdonia is a spectacular place.

    Well first time using it..'look through wlvf, need to move left, no right wait that's right, tilt a little, no the other way, press shutter, doesn't work, check dark slide is out, check lock is off, try again, nothing, give camera a shake and recompose poorly, shutter goes off.

    Times after initial learning curve, love it! I don't shoot a lot of black and white as I fear I'll miss out on shots that I think would look better in colour mid-roll. With the Bronica, just whip the back off and pop another on - ace! I think I bought it as a 'only for special occasions' camera but I've been wandering round town with it just using it for anything ha. Guess I better start looking at developing at home and saving some money..

  • This. Ive borrowed a friends M645 and using a wlvf is extremely difficult coming from 35mm slrs. Going to shoot a few more rolls through it to see if I can get used to it

  • See above.
    To add one more thing: in my opinion those types of cameras need more discipline / force you to slow down because of the left-right confusion. Especially levelling things and getting lines parallel to image boarders etc.
    I once gave my mum my Mamiya, asking her to take a picture of me, and she got so confused and was moving around like crazy.. it made me sort-of sea-sick just looking at her, it was ridiculous!
    : D

    If you get the hang of it you're rewarded though in my opinion:
    with medium format waist level finder cameras I get a much clearer idea of the whole frame than even with the nicest SLRs.

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