I haven’t noticed any light falloff or flare under average shooting conditions. The photos are sharp and perhaps more contrasty than with most cameras. Wide open the max is only 1/400 but this speeds up to 1/700 at f11.Īs this is a non-technical review, there isn’t much to say about the image quality. The maximum shutter speed varies with aperture. The lens is fixed at 60mm (approximately 37mm equivalent in 35mm film terms) and opens up to f4.
Fuji ga 645 zi vs bronica rf645 iso#
For Fuji branded films, the camera will automatically set the iso (a feature added for the ‘i’ versions). Film loading and winding is all automatic. There is an option to imprint the date-time and camera settings on the edge of the negative, outside of the frame (I’m not sure why this isn’t permanently on as it’s incredibly useful with no down side I can think of). The camera shoots a 645 frame, achieving 16 frames per roll (earlier iterations of the ga645 only had 15). When in ‘P’ mode the only necessary button to press is the shutter release. It features autofocus, auto-exposure, auto film winding and a built in pop-up flash. The ga645i is essentially a medium format point-and-shoot. The following is a record of my impressions. The quest for a medium format travel camera led me to pick up a Fujifilm ga645i and, after a year and a half of use, including during two trips to Japan, I’ve remained very happy with the choice. Inspired by the results on the Sigma I’ve also begun turning off luminance noise reduction when processing images from my other digital cameras and, while the grain isn’t as pleasing as with the merrill, I am still preferring the noisier results. It is very likely that black and white can be pushed considerably further. While I found higher than 800 iso generally undesirable for colour, I won’t rule it out until I’ve exhausted all post processing options. 800 iso and f2.8 is enough to shoot the relatively well lit streets of Tokyo, so I no longer have to leave the camera in the bag at night and actually look forward to seeing how it will interpret the dark scenes. But with it off, the foveon grain, a bit reminiscent of film, is revealed along with a surprising amount of detail. With the default noise reduction settings the images often looked horribly smeared, like old cell phone or point and shoot photos. The trick was to turn off the luminance noise reduction in Sigma’s raw processing software, Photo Pro.
In fact, after using the camera in Japan with an 800 iso cap, I began to really enjoy the aesthetic produced by the low light image degradation.
The resulting images were surprisingly decent. My most recent trip to Tokyo was in the fall and, anticipating very short days, with the sun setting around 4:30, I decided to revisit the camera’s higher isos while tinkering with the raw file processing. A few experimental shots with the camera at 800 iso seemed to confirm the online consensus, so I set auto iso to cap at 400 and didn’t considered going beyond. If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough! Robert Capa.Before picking up a Sigma dp2 merrill, my online research indicated that it was pretty much unusable for colour above 400 iso but might be stretched to 1600 for black and white. Price even wouldn't matter so much as most Pro's are prepared to shell out for quality and longevity anway and certainly would for the extra neg size. produced the variety of lenses and other gizmos that the 35mm people do there would be no contest. If Medium format makers such Hasselblad, Bronica, Fuji et. No medium format maker can match the sheer variety that Nikon or Canon offer and that is why for many Pro's they are the system of choice.īut as in all things the name of the game is compromise. The key reason for 35mm being popular is not I would argue the quality of lens but the variety held within the system that surrounds it. if someone came up with a vest pocket 10 x 8 then they would be sold out in seconds /img/wwwthreads/smile.gif Any photographer would use the largest possible neg size available. For the reasons stated above Lisa and all things otherwise being equal.