What Kind Of Camera?


Does anyone know what kind of still camera he was using? I think it's a Poloroid.

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He uses a 4x5 and medium format film cameras. He'll shoot a polaroid still w/ a polaroid back first, and then swap polaroid slide, for a 4x5 film slide, and shoot the shot once he's happy with what the polaroid showed him.

His walk around shooter is a Mamiya 7ii. (medium format, 6x6 rangefinder) ..you can see him using that when he's walking around the recycle yard.

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Thanks for that info, been driving me nuts. http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/pictureguy777/

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why polaroid ? why not check the exposure with a digital cam ?

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because in a 5X4 camera there is a varying distance from the lens to the film. In a digital camera results are more predictable and therefore can be completely different to the 5X4. Also electronic sensors etc will give different results from film.
Using a polaroid back on a 5X4 also means that he can see the exact framing of what he is about to shoot on to the film which he will process after he has left the site.

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