For Sale: Bronica SQ-A (with 80mm and 150mm)

does anyone think that £40 for an eos 5 35mm camera (the one with eye following focus) is a good price?

if it has a 50mm 1.8 of the same vintage with a metal bayonet mount then it's worth it.
if it has some kind of f3.5-5.6 slow zoom with it then it's worth peanuts

My 500CM's are still going since 1988.
No problem.

got that sorted already, though they may not be legal:

Excellent, it looks like a machete.

I've got two in my room right now. lethal.

"As much as I love Hasselblads, I could never justify buying one, because I only use film these days for personal work."

but the v-series hasselblads are arctually a good system to use with digital backs.

problem with digital back - they tend to be cropped (like DSLR with it's APS-C sized sensor), even thought it's slighty larger than full-frame digital SLR, it's still cropped.

film still cheaper, shoot 12 rolls of decent shot, hop down to Marchmont Street snappy snap, 1 days process + CD only, about £8, and bob your uncle.

that's a problem if you shoot really wide, it's not an issue for me as i have a 40mm and i don't use it that often and can always hire a 38swc (never needed to though).

those cropped dslr's are a like squinting into microscope, i know lots of people like them but i think they are horrible things to use.

price changed from £300 to £270, a better reasonable offer, you're paying for a film camera that still superior to digital camera even the Nikon D3.

that's a problem if you shoot really wide, it's not an issue for me as i have a 40mm and i don't use it that often and can always hire a 38swc (never needed to though).

those cropped dslr's are a like squinting into microscope, i know lots of people like them but i think they are horrible things to use.

for the price you paid for, a Canon 5D would've been a much better option, since it's a full-frame DSLR that finally match the 35mm counterpart while medium format digital has yet to scratch the surface for film.

£200 to hire a digital 39 megapixels back for a day? £2 for a Kodak Portra 160VC, £8 to developed and CD, or get it developed only for £5, and then get it professionally scanned at a much higher resolution for like, £15 at Metro Imaging or any other pro place, work out cheaper in the end.

you can see why I brought a Bronica medium format SLR than a Nikon D200 or Canon 20D back then, especially when it's half the price of the DSLR (£470 paid for the Bronica).

for the price you paid for, a Canon 5D would've been a much better option, since it's a full-frame DSLR that finally match the 35mm counterpart while medium format digital has yet to scratch the surface for film.

paid for what?
i already own a 5D (about to be replaced with 1dsIII). i don't own my own back (yet) as i can hire at advantageous rates. it's not always about the cost of the equipment though it's about what's right for the job and where the images are being printed, whatever is right for the job i'll use.
the days of squinting at polaroids and waiting for labs to dev film are over. myself and my clients want to see it on screen immediately.
film is nice if you have the time and are under no pressure but in the commercial world it's a rarity

if somebody wants to try film then medium format is a good place to start as they probably already own some kind of 35mm digital.

Considering how much the Canon can be fetch for, it's not that much nowadays (£900ish).

it's a better price to pay if cilent wanted digital immeditally instead of waiting for quality shot and such.

Considering how much the Canon can be fetch for, it's not that much nowadays (£900ish).

it's a better price to pay if cilent wanted digital immeditally instead of waiting for quality shot and such.

This is all cock!
Medium format, dslr, cost , quality.
I have just shot a press ad on a G9.
What camera are you replacing the Bronica with?
Its a digital camera.

g9 is a cool camera, but way far from the quality of a digital back combined with hasselblad or even from a d200... the sensor is small and quite noisy (the tones in the sky and low lights are always a bit fuzzy), and the lens is not bad but nothing amazing..I have one as well but I use it mainly for non work pictures, it's great to be a compact but that's it. The only great feature is the flash sync at 1/2500..

"The mechanical Hasselblad cameras are also painfully unreliable."

i have to disagree with that statement. the fc2000 cameras and lenses they released in the early 80's were very unreliable and quietly dropped a few years later.
but the 500 series cameras are probably the most reliable medium format system out there. that's an opinion based on using them for the last 10 years as a photographer not an 'enthusiast'

in that time i have had one roll film back serviced as it was feeling a bit tight and slightly out of registration, i haven't had anything else serviced in that time, this stuff just works.

Whilst 500's tend not to fail completely, they frequently jam. I've never seen the reset screw in one of these in mint condition!

If you were aiming that 'enthusiast' at me, you missed btw.

Compared to what?

RZ lenses for starters...

This is all cock!
Medium format, dslr, cost , quality.
I have just shot a press ad on a G9.
What camera are you replacing the Bronica with?
Its a digital camera.

I don't have any digital, I just couldn't afford one.

of course you can shoot certain thing with the G9, but ONLY certain thing, since due to the uber tiny sensor, there's only so much you can do (like narrow depth of field, high ISO shot, etc.)

i think it time for another bump.

interesting thread.

dude

fashion street

there is a place called eye culture

dev/scan for about 3.50

boom

also whole film/blah/digital blah

just use what you like

i shoot everything on 35mm, shot loads of ads on it.

These guys do V cheap Process and Contacts...
Worth knowing about.... :
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that is a pretty good deal for 120, 5 Quid dev and scan

they're all very good deal, sadly none of them want to buy my Bronny.

I already have a contax 645. No square for me!

Its time to freecycle it.

Hello my name is Rachael, and I was looking at the Bronica SQ-A (with 80mm and 150mm)
and I would love to have it. I'm a student and i'm looking for a new camera, and I would really enjoy having a medium format camera. So please let me know, thank you so much!

And if you've still got the camera and would like to contact Rachael then let me know as I have her email address here somewhere.