- #Digital back for bronica sq ai manual#
- #Digital back for bronica sq ai software#
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#Digital back for bronica sq ai professional#
It doesn’t feel the sort of place that you get your head shot off because you’re not using this “brand” or that “brand” you get real people with real questions answered by real people in a professional manner, with some humor chucked in as well.Īs i said I'm new to posting so if it seems as though I've dragged on or repeated myself its nerves so please forgive me. I’ve been reading this forum for some time now and just recently joined, it seems to me as though this is a place you can feel comfortable coming to.
#Digital back for bronica sq ai manual#
So, can a modern digital back be fitted onto something as old and manual as an ETRSi? If so what type and how? What sort of results would I obtain from such an old system? Bare in mind that I’m in the UK. Lens used aperture used metering pattern used shutter speed used wind speed and direction don’t really matter because it’s the photo that counts. Do I mind that an EXIF file isn’t filled with the amount of data that these things can produce? No because the data can be edited in Lightroom or whatever if I really need it, as long as it can show me the date taken then I’ll be happy.
#Digital back for bronica sq ai software#
I doubt some of this software has even heard the name Bronica let alone knows what to do with it. Then it comes to software? It seems that some of the software for these backs want to know so much about the camera and lens system they are attached to you can almost hear wedding bells. Would it be possible to take a P20 or whatever Refurbished and put it on the back of a Bronica? If so what would it need in the way of cabling to actually work? Or any other make of back for that matter. This is where it gets confusing again, I’ve heard of duel cable releases and wake up cables, cables that attach to the flash synch socket and so on. With a digital back these pins and gears will be useless because everything is electronic so some sort of cable must be used. On the Bronica it is all done with pins and wind on gears going into the film back so the film back knew what was happening. Then comes the question of how the back knows you actually want to take a photo, in the film days it was remove dark slide shoot wind on next frame ready to be exposed, shoot wind on and so on. So I take it the back would have to be a V fitting type back to fit? But wouldn’t this affect the focusing? If the back thinks it’s going on the back of a Hasselblad then the plane of focus would be for a Hasselblad, if you introduce an adapter plate into the equation wouldn’t that shift the plane of focus out because of the thickness of the plate? So what you’re focusing on in the viewfinder will be slightly different at the actual sensor location? Does this make sense? What it seems to do is act as a Hasselblad type attachment, would this be the V fitting? I take it it’s trying to make the fittings on the back think it’s attaching to a nice Hasselblad instead of a small ETRSi. It seems different backs need different methods to work. Silvestri have one listed here in the UK for the Bronica, but that’s it, nothing about any cabling or triggering methods needed. Then you hear adapter plates been mentioned either by the back maker themselves or third party. I’ve seen so many different backs been used here, some on brand new camera systems, some on older systems and the imagery just blows you away, then when you look at the list of supported systems it just gets confusing. Would I like to be able to shoot digital with it? Yes, at moment finances are stretched and I’m just an amateur user in the UK but would love to know more about digital medium format. At present I scan my film using a Nikon Coolscan 8000 ED.
Lenses range from 40mm to 500mm (about the size and weight of a bazooka). So none of the latest multi this or that. It does have TTL flash metering though and thats it. I meter either using a Minolta Flash Meter IV or using an AE-III prism which has full-area average metering, spot metering or manual.
It doesn’t have any special bells and whistles it’s even got 2 twisty rings on the lenses for altering the aperture and focusing. Right, I have a Bronica ETRSi, ok ok I know it’s old, but I like the way it works and feels.
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