{"id":30498,"date":"2021-07-03T20:33:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T19:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/?p=30498"},"modified":"2022-04-22T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T20:02:34","slug":"150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/2021\/07\/03\/150\/","title":{"rendered":"150"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve been really happy shooting using an 80mm lens on my medium format cameras. The Yashica Mat 124G has a fixed 80mm (but you can buy extensions\/adapters &#8211; no thanks). The Plaubel Makina has a fixed 80mm (<em>amazing<\/em> glass), and the Bronica SQA is a &#8216;system&#8217; camera which means it has interchangeable everything, including lenses. 80mm on medium format is approximately equivalent to 45mm on a 35mm camera. I like shooting a &#8216;nifty fifty&#8217; on a 35mm SLR but I&#8217;ve always found myself feeling happier using something longer than 50mm on 35mm. I love using a 105mm on my Olys, or the beaten up old 135mm on the FM2. So I bought a 150mm for the Bronica which is equivalent to around 90mm on 35mm. And it is just incredible. The relationship started with a little bit of trepidation because even though the lens was sold in &#8216;excellent condition&#8217;, my experience with analogue photography gear has taught me that it&#8217;s always good to test newly purchased (which means second, third, fourth &#8230; hand) equipment out before going crazy and using it solidly. I didn&#8217;t do that with the &#8216;new&#8217; 150mm and I just used it almost solidly after it arrived. But everything was fine and I needn&#8217;t have worried. This image is the first one that I took with the 150mm on the Bronica. When I developed the roll of film around 2 months after shooting it for the first time (having subsequently used the 150mm a <em>lot<\/em>, including on a lovely holiday in Norfolk), I knew it was going to be the start of something special. Another first was using Kodak TMax 100 and pushing it to 400. Not high contrast but beautiful tonal range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been really happy shooting using an 80mm lens on my medium format cameras. The Yashica Mat 124G has a fixed 80mm (but you can buy extensions\/adapters &#8211; no thanks). The Plaubel Makina has a fixed 80mm (amazing glass), and the Bronica SQA is a &#8216;system&#8217; camera which means it has interchangeable everything, including lenses. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1026,130,1003,1002],"tags":[968,990,193,790,1013,837,662,856,927,816,1010,311],"class_list":["post-30498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brnr","category-photography","category-places-between","category-portfolio","tag-6x6","tag-bronicasqa","tag-bw","tag-film","tag-kodak-tmax-100","tag-medium-format","tag-photoblog","tag-push2","tag-selfdevelop","tag-selfscan","tag-v850","tag-woodland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30498"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31829,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30498\/revisions\/31829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}