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jamesmking · 09-16-2005

I just did this myself (a few months ago),
I went the bronica etrsi 6x4.5
route for several reasons,
the lenses and bodies are fairly cheap, the shutter control electronics is in the body so each lens does not need calibrating seperately and the body has shutter speeds from 1/500th down to 8 seconds.
the aeIII prism does down to 32 seconds (I do a lot of night photography) and has spot metering.
the etrsi is a 6xz4.5 camera with 15 shoots on a 120 roll and fairly light weight with interchangable film backs.

09-16-2005	#3 (permalink)
jamesmking Alpaca Posts: 1 CamelKarma: 11 Gallery \| Blog	Re: How do I make an inexpensive start in medium format? I just did this myself (a few months ago), I went the bronica etrsi 6x4.5 route for several reasons, the lenses and bodies are fairly cheap, the shutter control electronics is in the body so each lens does not need calibrating seperately and the body has shutter speeds from 1/500th down to 8 seconds. the aeIII prism does down to 32 seconds (I do a lot of night photography) and has spot metering. the etrsi is a 6xz4.5 camera with 15 shoots on a 120 roll and fairly light weight with interchangable film backs.