Hey there, loved this article !! Great way of bringing back the quality of true film to our eyes !! I loved the film and the things it would do for the light !! You i think cannot compare these new video captor cameras with the old and trusty real film camera images !! I used to have a beautiful Voightlander view camera i bought it in Paris, it had an amazing lens and beautiful leather folding " souffle " ! I took some great pictures with that thing, but the problem was of course the light measurement !! This technique would have been immensely useful back then, i used to measure the light with a strange little contraption which you would look through to see how many little yellow circles were visible, this would believe it or not give you a pretty accurate aperture setting !! both the light reader and camera were built in 1910 , to give you an idea of my bazaar !! was fun, digital is a lot less fun, mainly why i dont bother too much now with this !!
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Sounds like a nice camera. I always wanted a large format view camera, but they're just so big, and good lenses are still quite expensive, even old ones. At least if you buy second hand you should be able to get your money back when you sell/trade them
yeah sure they are always expensive !! because they have value and work well !! I truly commend you on continuing with this older more purist if i may say photography !! Id love to see some of you photos from the Mamiya, is a beautiful thing !!! Also be very interesting to see a direct comparison between the images made with your numerical camera and this beast ,of the same subject and same light conditions, to see the true proof we need to see the pudding, or something like that !!! lol