{"id":5316,"date":"2011-11-29T00:11:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=5316"},"modified":"2011-12-19T07:56:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T23:56:38","slug":"the-folding-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=5316","title":{"rendered":"The Folding Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christmas sure came very early this year for me when a parcel from Hong Kong arrived today. It it is a Fujifilm GF670 &#8230; one of my dream camera when I was hunting for a camera that allows me to shoot 6&#215;6, has metering &amp; aperture priority and doesn&#8217;t weigh a ton. Best of all &#8230; this camera &#8230; is a gift &#8230; for me!!! It is not brand new but in mint condition and came with the strap and manual (Japanese).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/images\/misc10\/gf670_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I couldn&#8217;t resist but to take some snapshots of it before loading a roll of film &#8230; waiting eagerly to give it a test drive soon. It is not my first folding camera though. The other folding camera I have is an old Voigtlander Perkeo II which I have only used once since I bought it (photos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=170\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) because I suck at gauging exposures (thus the need of a meter when I was looking for a replacement 6&#215;6 camera).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/images\/misc10\/gf670_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rangefinder cameras have always been a headache for me as my old fuzzy eyeballs don&#8217;t seem to be able to focus well with the little patch in the middle of the viewfinder. Luckily for me &#8230; this big one (it is a medium format camera!) has a large &amp; bright viewfinder and I have no problem at all focusing with it! Yeahhh!!!!! Time to burn some 120 film!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/images\/misc10\/gf670_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1050\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The GF670 is the same camera as the Voigtlander Bessa III but only the Fujifilm version was available in silver. For some reason, the Fujifilm version was priced a few hundred dollars lower than the Bessa and both the cameras were made in Japan by Cosina.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The GF670 I have is the black version and from what I read online &#8230; <em>&#8220;Limited to 5000 cameras, the black Fujifilm version were only available in Japan and equipped with the Fuji EBC (Electron Beam Coated) Fujinon lens.&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/images\/misc10\/gf670_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ll try not to go to bed hugging this camera. It has been a while since I&#8217;ve been this excited about a camera (that&#8217;s not including the pretty looking toy ones) and I&#8217;m very sure it will have a permanent resident status in my dry cabinet. No &#8230; I don&#8217;t mean keeping it inside there to rot &#8230; but it will definitely be one that I&#8217;ll not sell off in the future. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas sure came very early this year for me when a parcel from Hong Kong arrived today. It it is a Fujifilm GF670 &#8230; one of my dream camera when I was hunting for a camera that allows me to shoot 6&#215;6, has metering &amp; aperture priority and doesn&#8217;t weigh &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link bs-book_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=5316\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[78,2273,2274,21,1073,2272,15,2271,1149,16],"class_list":["post-5316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-78","tag-6x6","tag-6x7","tag-camera","tag-christmas","tag-folding","tag-fujifilm","tag-gf670","tag-gift","tag-medium-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}