The Bronica ETRSi has always been one of the camera I wanna lay my hands on to have a feel on how to operate such a camera. Recently a reasonably priced one came along and I grabbed it to have some medium format fun. It came with a 75mm f2.8 lens as well as the AE-II prism. It is one heavy beast and I stole a little time off from the trip to the zoo yesterday to burn some film to test it out.
Struggled a bit and was trying to get used to the focusing (non split screen) as well as wondering if my old wrist will break after holding it for a while. Fortunately my fuzzy eyeballs seems to still work pretty fine and most of the shots came out fine. I’ve to be careful with the metering though. As I’m wearing glasses, I tend to not notice that the over/under exposure arrows in the viewfinder.
The first roll was a roll of Ektachrome 200 that is long expired.
Somehow this next shot turned out a little different. It has a more subtle colors and less green compared to the rest.
The roll got burned up pretty fast (blame itchy fingers) and fortunately there was another roll of 120 in my bag to test the camera further. I ain’t good at those technicalities and so my testing will be just to make sure the camera works fine. 😀
After lunch … I told myself that I’m begining to love this camera despite the weight. The very large viewfinder is a bonus for my fuzzy eyeballs. Perhaps I will lug this beast back to Malaysia when I’m there for the Chinese New Year next month.
Here are the rest of the surviving test shots …
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