Bronica rf645 vs fuji gs645s professional#
Bronica rf645 vs fuji gs645s series#

The rangefinder spot is round rather than rectangular. The interchangeable lens G/BL/GL models do not have this noise. There is vibration within this mechanism which also causes a 'hum'. However, it was discovered that the noise is not due to the shutter nor the odometer, but rather to the winding mechanism and it's linkage with the shutter contained in the lens body. Some mistakenly blame the odometer on the bottom of the camera (which is a falsehood that has spread far across the web). When tripping the shutter, the noise is curiously loud for a camera with a leaf shutter. What is certain is that this 'odometer' can easily be tampered with (just like that of a car). Different people have different numbers for recommended servicing Chatani says that the shutter was to have been guaranteed for 10,000 exposures.

Д¬amera also has a device at the bottom of the camera that counts multiples of ten shots - up to 999, and then, like a car odometer, restarting at 000 - and is intended to remind the owner when shutter servicing is needed. The Seiko #0 shutter lacks a B setting and instead only has T. The dimensions are 189(W)Г—119(H)Г—123(D)mm it weighs 1430g, a saving of 300g from the GL690, mostly attributable to the lack of lens breechlock, curtain, and associated switchgear. A switch on the top and next to the accessory shoe selects among short-roll 120 (four exposures) and regular 120 (eight) and 220 (sixteen) there is no longer provision for sheet film. The right and (to a lesser extent) the left sides of the front of the camera are convex, forming the kind of grips that soon become very common on other cameras (and that often contain batteries) but were unusual at the time. Reputedly it is sharper at large apertures than the 100mm lenses of the earlier cameras, but out-of-focus areas are not so pleasant. The lens is an EBC Fujinon, 90mm f/3.5, with five elements in four groups (67mm filter thread). It is based on the GL690 - a leaf-shutter rangefinder camera for 6Г—9 exposures on 120 or 220 film - from which it differs most importantly in having a fixed lens.

Bronica rf645 vs fuji gs645s professional#

The Fujica GW690 Professional was the first to be released, in November 1978. Mr Nakanishi (д»ІиҐїеЏІе‰‡), in charge of this work in one company, has recalled that one camera might go through 50 or 100 rolls of film per day (perhaps short rolls, designed for six 6Г—6 frames), and over thirty thousand exposures per year. Buses would disgorge their passengers at such places as the 1970 Osaka Expo, group photographs would be taken, and the prints could be ready later the same day. As noted in the article on the G690 and the other interchangeable-lens models, the major use of these cameras was in the thriving if unglamorous business of photographing tour groups. The emphasis on reliability was determined by the unusual market for the cameras. Moreover, eliminating the lens mount would further reduce weight and increase reliability. The main reason was simply that sales of the lenses of lengths other than 65mm and 100mm were very low. But people close to the development of the camera have explained. The immediate predecessors of these large rangefinder cameras had interchangeable lenses, and to those who like to think of them as 'Texas Leicas', the change to a fixed lens may seem perverse. ДЇeatures (such as interchangeable film backs) normal among medium-format cameras of the time, and others (such as exposure meters) almost universal among cameras in general are missing in the GW690 and its successors, which look rather as if a black Leica M3 with a particularly large lens (perhaps 85mm f/1.8) had been made to a much larger scale, they are therefore often called the 'Texas Leica'.

Bronica rf645 vs fuji gs645s series#

In addition to the Fujica GW690 Professional (the last to be called 'Fujica'), the series includes the Fuji GW690II, GW670II, GSW690II, GW690III, GW680III, GW670III, GSW690III and GSW680III (all of them 'Professional') the entire series is treated within this article. The Fujica GW690 Professional and the nine similar models that followed it are leaf-shutter fixed-lens rangefinder cameras for 120/220 film that Fuji brought out as successors to its interchangeable-lens Fujica GL690 and Fujica GM 670 Professional models. ( ImageВ rights)ДЇujicaВ G690/GL690 | FujicaВ GW690/GSW690 | Mamiya Press | Marshal PressДЇujifilmВ GF670 | FujicaВ GM670 | FujicaВ GW670 | Koni-Omega | Koni-Omegaflex | MakinaВ 67 | MamiyaВ 7| BronicaВ GS-1Д«ronicaВ RF645 | FujiВ GA645 | FujicaВ GS645/GS645S/GS645W