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I probably have more Stephen Shore books than anything else. In an ideal world, I'd scoop up William Eggleston's multi-book editions of The Democratic Forest, Los Alamos Revisited, and Chromes.
Book Update
Happy to report that in the previous book sale with Yale University Press, you (the collective "you") bought 416 copies of Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography, 148 copies of Lee Friedlander's Family in the Picture and 139 copies of his In the Picture. A question for you, just because I'm ...
I've owned my Mamiya 7 since 2008. It's the only camera I've kept for that long and haven't had second thoughts about at any point. It's just dead simple and make amazing photographs with the tack sharp leaf shutter lenses.
As excited as I am about the new Fujifilm GFX-50s, I still dream of a 'digital Mamiya 7'. Maybe Fuji will simply make a larger X-Pro2?
The future is unclear but, I know that I'll continue to get this camera CLA'd and rangefinder adjusted as long as possible to keep it going.
Unboxing
Okay, it's not a new camera. But you know, getting an old toy out of the closet is almost like getting a new one. Hence the little unboxing joke. In keeping with the "revenge" of analog (the book arrived, too—old-fashioned paper) and my thoughts in passing about film yesterday, I got...
I dream of a 'digital Mamiya 7'... leaf shutter lenses and all. For me, it's about the rangefinder experience and the lenses. I don't actually like lugging it around often, changing film after 10 shots is a pain, and it seems a it fragile. I've dropped it twice... that's two rangefinder adjustments I've had to pay for.
Will Fuji give us something similar in experience? I hope so. I don't expect it to be cheap. But, I do expect it to be smaller than a Mamiya 7 or a Texas Leica for that matter.
This is really a photographers dream though. I don't think many of us even as working professionals need this. I think were past needs here. Photography is as much about the interaction with the camera as it is the end resulting image. Some might argue that but, as the years have gone on, the more I value the shooting experience as much as image quality.
C'mon Fuji... throw us a bone.
Will Fujifilm Produce a Medium Format Camera?
One of my favorite, but also one of the most frustrating, film cameras I ever owned was the Fuji GS645s, a mostly plastic 645 with a fixed 60mm ƒ/4 lens. The 645 format was nominally 60x45mm on 120 and 220 medium-format film—the actual image size of 645 was somewhat smaller, usually around 56mm ...
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