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Frank Sereno <fserenonospam@nospamsbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Robert Bonomi wrote:
>> In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906181502010.19370@sghcrg.sghcrg.pbz>,
>> barbie gee  <booger@nosespam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Cydrome Leader wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anybody have a working Mamiya 645 Pro for sale?
>>>> The version of the Pro doesn't really matter.
>>> This is a camera?
>>> digital or what?
>> 
>> It's a "medium format" film camera, intended for the professional photographer.
>> the negative is about 3x the size of full-frame 35mm.
>> 
> 
> So what are this camera's main uses?  Would it be for portraits? 

you can use it for portraits- or anything that doesn't have a subject 
that's moving all over really fast.

it uses 120/220 film, and the image size is 6cm by 4.5cm tall, so it's 
fairly large and the pictures can contain lots of detail, more than 35mm 
and more than most anything digital.

There are diferent viewfinders for these types of cameras. I have one that 
uses a waist level viewfinder, where you look down into a pop up box on 
the camera. Everything is backwards through this finder. focus is manual.

There are viewfinders where you look through the back, like a typical 
camera. Some of these include a light meter so you can set exposure.

Anyways, medium format stuff is fun, and makes you think before you take 
the photos as it's process to setup before you take the picture anways.

The side effect of thinking before you take a picture vs. taking 100 
photos is that the end, you get more photos that don't suck.