In a press release on their German website, Epson are announcing, among
a number of other things, that the'll be presenting the notorious F-3200
MF film scanner at this year's Photokina in Cologne.
As a reminder, this model has been on their Japanese website for quite

I'm after a replacement for one of the rods that holds the back on a
Mamiya Super 23. If anyone knows where I can get one or maybe has a
parts body and would be willing to sell one please let me know. I could
also use a replacement for one of the locking dials for the rods as one ...

Hi, Has any body else noticed the high amount of successful bidders on
medium format items on ebay who have little or no feedback history?
I started noticing I was being outbid by people with very little or no
feedback. I went to the search area on ebay, and did a search on ...

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My sides hurt.

I suspect the older zoom meter I'm using is overly
responsive to green. Is it quite usuall for meters to
favor some color more than others?                Dan

 I asked you many times about MF equipment, differences in quality
and so on.  Now, maybe, I'm able to afford s budget equipment.
I'm using a complete Nikon system (F90X + D100 + some lenses) and a
small Contax equipment.  I have a Nikon LS40 IV scanner too.

i've been a 35mm user for some 15yrs now, but i'm keen to get into mf
for the simple reason i want to get better quality from my
transparencies, which i will then have scanned onto a pc. i'm not
entirely sure if i want to jump all the way up to 6x7, however will i

I am building a 6x17 camera and would like to be able to use it as a a
rangefinder for faster stuff as well as using a focus screen for slower
work, (I may be a little ambitious in this respect, but hey ;-)).
Could anyone recommend the better of the Rangefinders that were

I have got a Zeiss Ikonta 521/2 camera as a gift.  The problem is, I
do not know how to use a manual camera like this one.  Does anyone
know of a good resource for learning how to make use of this fantastic
looking camera?  German may be okay, but English would be far better.

On to full-time LF!  However, now MF hardware seems so _portable_ and small
that I'm likely to throw a SWC in the pack for snapshots. :)

I'm posting here because I know somebody here can help. I have a
Septon lens that does not focus at infinity (more like 17 feet). The
front element group screws off and I suspect that the screws
underneath in the housing are replacements that are too proud and it

I've just bought some filters for my Mamiya C220 80mm lens, only to find
they are too large. All the info I've read on the web said this lens took a
46mm filter with a 48mm clip on lens hood. A ruler across the lens measures
40mm. Is the correct size 40.5mm? If so, its time to go ...

In the past, 35mm shooters had the advantage of very fine (slow) film
stocks to help close the "quality gap" with MF. These films stocks made it
worthwhile to some users to pay a premium for top quality and high $ 35mm
optics (Leica, nikon, zeiss, canon..), since the very fine ...

I've an old Yashicamat 124G that doesn't get a lot of use, when it does its
used for landscape work and is always tripod mounted. The standard lens is
its limiting factor for me. Whenever I've needed to use it with coloured
filters for B&W work, or with a polariser for colour, I've ...

Someone has posted the Mamiya 7's price at Tokyo. But that's the price
around year 2000. Since then the Yen and Dollar's currency exchange
value has changed quite a lot.
Can someone care to update it to reflect the 2004's market price in