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These four lenses work out to be approximately equivalent to 50mm, ~55mm, 24mm and ~28mm on 35mm film. Now, I’m normally a one lens type of guy, that is I buy a camera and usually I’m happy with only one lens, but I actually have four lenses for my GS-1! They are:
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This is the reason why you have S and PS series lenses for the SQ series and MC and PE lenses for the ETR series. So much so that after they created the coatings and formula for the GS-1’s PG series of lenses, they went back through their other camera lines (the 6×6 SQ and the 6×4.5 ETR) and re-released lenses for those cameras with the same formula. What about the lenses? The GS-1 lenses were held up to be gold standard for Bronica. Otherwise expect to pay around $100 for the Tripod Adapter and $200 for the Rotating prism. While a creative solution to address this issue, be warned that these rotating accessories can be somewhat difficult to find (sometimes you can luck out and buy them as part of a lot of GS-1 equipment). When the GS-1 arrived, I was surprised at how well it was designed - it was just large enough to handle shooting the big 6×7 negative, but at the same time it was lightweight and compact enough that you could visualize shooting it handheld on location for an extended period of time, without needing a tripod. The GS-1 won out in the end due to price, I was able to get the body, a prism, one lens and one 120 back for under $500 from KEH, I would have spent a couple of hundred more (which I didn’t have), for a comparable Mamiya RZ67 outfit.
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At the time, the Rz67 was still an in-demand film body, and Mamiya was still selling this camera as new (as the RZ67 II pro D), so used lenses and accessories ran a tad pricey for my pockets. Some time after I bought the Bronica, I had the chance to compare directly with a friend who had just bought an RB67 and my suspicions were proven correct. I figured that if Mamiya had dared make a 6×6 TLR that big and bulky, their take on a 6×7 SLR would be even heavier and bigger.
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While shopping around, I had the chance to handle a Mamiya C330, and while I loved the photos I saw from it online, the camera felt like a cinder block in my hands. The main reason why I didn’t go with these Mamiya RB67 / RZ67 systems was strictly to do with size. I wanted to be able to sync all the way up to 1/500, which I felt was always the strength of shooting medium format. The Pentax’s 1/30 max flash sync, was a deal breaker for me. I wasn’t a fan of it’s oversized 35mm SLR looks and ergonomics and I was heavily into shooting in the Strobist style using off-camera flash. While the Pentax 67 is prized for what is hands down one of the best medium format lenses for any system (the 105/2.4), the system as a whole didn’t speak to me. Let’s deal with my personal reasons one by one: Why not a Pentax 67? Why not the Mamiya RB/RZ 67 or the Pentax 67?
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