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I think for portraits MF is perfect. I always liked the waistlevel viewfinder. When I put myself in front of it I never felt "shot" like a SLR was aiming at my face. It is something very different and the moments of two faces (my and the model's) not facing (=confronting) each other were part of a more relaxed atmosphere which helped me a lot to get better portraits.

 

Unfortunately this kind of viewfinder at the 645 is a pain for portrait orientation. After a while I got used  better to it but always wished a 6×6 Hasselblad or Rollei for that reason. While a Mamiya RB/RZ67 was doing the same trick by rotating the film-holder, I found that thing a bit too monstrous.

 

Still, I won't go back to this cameras. I never got the same amount of details like I recently get with the "buggy" Merills. The quality is better than I ever saw from my Mamiya.

 

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Are there still any medium format film shooters among the PZone crowd ? - by JJ_SO - 05-25-2014, 07:35 PM

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