BRONICA RF645 FOR SALE MANUAL
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The wide angle lens is a 45mm f4.O five element equal to 28mm in 35mm. The normal lens is a 65mm f4.O six element resolving in excess of 1OO l.p.m.

BRONICA RF645 FOR SALE MANUAL

The Bronica RF645 can be used as full manual operation camera, and aperature priority or program. The lenses I dare say are as sharp as a Summicron, even wide open. It is quiet and the rangefinder is as accurate. Nothing really is like a Leica, but the Bronica RF645 comes closest. Medium format rangefinder cameras are often described like a giant Leica. The Bronica RF645 is a precision medium format rangefinder that handles like a Leica M-2. If you like shooting medium format film but don't want to give up modern operating and metering features, and you don't like lugging around a large, heavy beast, this is your camera! Read full review The 65mm lens is very sharp with outstanding color and contrast. I have only the 65mm 'general purpose' lens for mine, but after shooting with it a while now I don't foresee a need to for the 45mm or 100mm lenses. The quiet shutter, combined with a silent lever-type film advance, make for very unobtrusive street shooting, something not all that easy to do with most MF cameras. In the Auto modes the camera's brain controls exposure in 1/12 stop (!) increments, allowing very precise control for color slides. The leaf shuttter is very quiet, and is automatically (electronically) re-cocked after every exposure. After only a couple of outings I was very comfortable with the controls, which are well marked and sensibly placed. It's simple, uncluttered, and everything you need (and nothing you don't) is exactly where your fingers expect to find it: Exposure Compensation, Auto-exposure lock, film speed, etc. I pay attention most often to depth of field, and as a result I use the Aperture Priority mode most often.Д«est of all, compared to many other MF cameras, the control layout is just about perfect. The center-weighted metering seems to be very accurate.The three operating modes available (Programmed, Aperture Priority, and Manual) are perfect for my vacation/landscape/street shooting needs. It feels every bit as stout and solid as my D200. There is a lot of plastic on this camera, but it doesn't feel 'plasticy' in the hands.

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Focusing is easy and the rangefinder patch is both large and bright. The RF645's viewfinder display is large and extremely bright (the brightest I've seen on a rangefinder camera), and provides all the important exposure info I need at a glance, along with parallax-adjusted bright frame lines. I also love my old Zeiss 6ењ† folder, but I dislike not having built-in accurate metering, it's viewfinder and rangefinder is cramped and slower to focus with than the 645, and it is limited to 11 shots per roll compared to the Bronica's 16 (or 32 if you want to shoot 220). Most MF's take wonderful photos, but not if they're sitting at home in the case. Try that with most modern MF's! As a result, this camera goes with me many more times to many more places than my large and very heavy SQ-Am did. Although not light camera by any means, the RF645 is far lighter and more compact than my SQ-Am, and to my surprise I found I can comfortably carry it all day on a neck strap. What I most like is the way the RF645 'feels' in my hands-much like a heavier version of my Nikon F100, and the payback for humping the extra weight is a negative that's nearly three times the size of 35mm. In fact, as most of us know, many compositions work far better with portrait framing, but with most cameras you have to turn the camera 90В° to go vertical, and many (most!) cameras' controls are poorly designed and clumsy when vertically handheld. However, I've since found that it's no big deal. Like nearly all 6x4.5 cameras, native composition is portrait mode vice landscape, and I was hesitant at first to buy the camera because of that, wasn't sure I would take to it after so many years of 35mm film.

I've only owned my RF645 for a couple of months, but I have thoroughly enjoying shooting with it.

Bronica RF645 6x4.5 Film Rangefinder Camera

Bronica rf645 for sale