A few squares from my Mamiya C330f

[Stephen Baker]

I love my mamiya C330, it's built like a tank, nice bright waist level finder to look through, interchangeable lenses, bellows focusing all of that in a TLR..and also did I say it was a mamiya

Thanks for looking.

Lightweight E type interior, Acros 100/rodinal 1:50



Cappuccino time.. Acros 100 / rodinal 1:50


And this one was a bit of a test shot to see what I could crop from the center with it still being useable and this was a massive crop...olive oil, rodinal 1:100 stand developed 1 hr



And I thought I better include this shot, as it's another favourite camera of mine..Mamiya 645 Pro tl, Acros 100/ rodinal 1:100 stood 1 hr

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Nice to see another Mamiya around these parts, and those shots look great. Love the olive oil one most of all.

 

[Steve Waller]

Hi Stephen
Great shots, I have Mamiya 330 that has not been used for a long long time, and co-incidentley, had just decided to dig it out and start again. feel inspired by your B&W shots...so thanks.

 

[Ahmad Bhai]

The olive oil is elegant.
I would love to photo MF.
If i may i wonder for product shots as this is the grain on the bottle pleasing
or would "grainless" (digital) be pleasing.

 

[Stephen Baker]

Nice to see another Mamiya around these parts, and those shots look great. Love the olive oil one most of all.

Thanks for the reply Rob, I seem to use my mamiya's more than my nikons digitals just lately.

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Hi Stephen
Great shots, I have Mamiya 330 that has not been used for a long long time, and co-incidentley, had just decided to dig it out and start again. feel inspired by your B&W shots...so thanks.

Excellent, a superb camera and it must be used...

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The olive oil is elegant.
I would love to photo MF.
If i may i wonder for product shots as this is the grain on the bottle pleasing
or would "grainless" (digital) be pleasing.

Funnily enough I shoot a fair bit of digital which sells on stock librarys and have sold a digital version of the olive oil bottle a few times..and have had MF film landscaped accepted and sold but have never thought about my product photography in film, I guess it has always just beem a lot easier to shoot in digital and upload for acceptance all in a short space of time.

 

[Brian Moore]

Stephen,..I applaude you on several counts:

1. The quality of the images in this set. In particular the compos on the cappuccino and the olive oil.
2. Your choice of camera, film, developer and developing technique: 1st class one and all!
3. Your ability to decipher Ahmad's 3rd sentence. (Ahmad: )

 

[Pete Askew]

The Mamiya C3 was my first MF camera and I still own it. At the moment it is 'on tour' though as Asun borrowed it for a while, then Hamish and now Paul is using it! It is probably the camera that got me into square format although when I was looking for an alternative it was a RB that I was intending to buy. Then a commercial / technical photographer friend of mine sold me one of his older Hasselblad C/Ms and that sealed the direction I look and have shot with them ever since - both film and digital.

This is a really nice selection of images. I think, like the others, that the oil bottle is my favourite. And I think it is the contrast between the smooth glass and oil and the texture of the grain, revealed through the enlargement, that appeals so much.

 

[Stephen Baker]

Thank you for your reply and comment Pete...

Stephen.

 

[Ahmad Bhai]

And I thought I better include this shot, as it's another favourite camera of mine..Mamiya 645 Pro tl, Acros 100/ rodinal 1:100 stood 1 hr

Stephen if i somehow bumped into you with your Mamiya i would have said can i take a photo of you with it please

Stephen,..I applaude you on several counts:

3. Your ability to decipher Ahmad's 3rd sentence. (Ahmad: )

what woz i on about