Camera takes great photos and is a must have for portraits. I regreted immediately so I bought another with no financial loss. I sold my first camera with a back and the waist level and 80mm to go digital.
#Bronica sq back full#
Actually it looks pretty nice but you only have full F-stops. I quickly added a 50mm and three more backs. I originally bought a basic unit with a waist finder, AE finder, motor drive, 110 PS macro (1:4) and 80mm S. The Bronica is affordable and easy to use.
Many prefer to buy Hassies for 6圆, then realise they can't buy lenses. If you don't have the motordrive it may open and you could be chasing small cells all over the floor -/Įxcellent camera. Lastly, use same tape over the battery door. Don't let this put you off, a mechanical repair on a Hassie can be pricey and it is really easy to incorrectly cock their lenses. Fortunately the repair was cheap and could be done locally. He denied all knowlege when I emailed him. It was a private sale in a public place in Singapore, so I couldn't track him down. Fortunately it fired during the portraits, but I was mortified and nearly reached for my 35mm equipment. I think the guy who sold it to me knew about the problem, as it happened on my first shoot. It had an intermittant cut out, so sometimes it worked, then an hour later it mightn't. The electronics on my first unit were stuffed. If it had happened with me I'd mark the unit down to a four, but I will stick with my rating. They should have made it flick back to normal after each shot, then you would be safe.
If you're unlucky enough to have the most convoluted back version, seal replacement could be rather an ordeal.Ī good illustration of the multiple seal locations can be found on Dave Thomas' Bronica SQ page.The double exposure lever! If you do not remember to flick it back yourself when done it will keep shooting on the same frame! Never happened to me yet, but it is an accident waiting to happen. In example, this is about the ONLY thing Hasselblad did not make an absolute hellish hash of: Hassy magazines essentially just have a single seal at the dark slide slot, which is relatively easy to DIY make and replace (theres a semi-permanent velvet seal on the other side, but it lasts for fifty years).īronica, for whatever inexplicable reason, took the opposite approach with some versions of the SQ back: the damned thing has something like a dozen little bits of foam in random places, of different sizes and thickness, several in areas that are very tricky to remove/replace cleanly (the seal by the latch hooks is especially tricky in terms of thickness and pliability).
#Bronica sq back professional#
The back seals on professional interchangeable medium format backs were subject to very hard use and wear, so most camera designers tried to minimize the number of seals required, and make them as easy to replace as possible.
#Bronica sq back series#
The problem is Bronica apparently tripped on the carpet, banged their corporate head on a stone wall, and completely forgot everything they ever previously knew about film magazine practicalities when they transitioned from the focal plane S2 and EC series to the leaf-shutter ETR and SQ cameras.
Many owners give up in defeat after multiple attempts at DIY seal replacement, so at times it can seem most of the used backs floating around for sale have leaks. Depending which generation of SQ or ETR film backs you own, they can be a bit of a fussy nightmare when their foam degrades enough to cause leaks. The reason Bronica film backs developed a bad rep for light leaks is due to their light seals not being very well thought out at all.
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