C33 Journal Entries

2 creative works found

• New Camera
  by Trinx

  This is my new Mamiya C33 (TLR), a Japanese camera from the 60’s. I decided to buy it (a Medium Format camera) for the higher resolution …

  This is my new Mamiya C33 (TLR), a Japanese camera from the 60’s. I decided to buy it (a Medium Format camera) for the higher resolution in the dark room – It hasn’t needed it’s battery’s changed for about forty years because the camera’s spring loaded! Here’s some shots of it’s exterior and viewfinder: / / I’m don’t know if the shots I took with it will actually develop properly because the camera’s fairly beaten up. My fingers are crossed!

• Parallax Error - Please help!
  by Trinx

  Parallax Error!- / / When composing my shots through …

  Parallax Error!- / / When composing my shots through the viewfinder of my recently acquired Mamiya c33 (a twin lens camera), I experience what I think is called the Parallax error. Basically I inadvertently crop the final negative because the perspective I see through the top lens (the viewfinder lens) is about five centimeters above the film chamber lens. This is only a problem for macro photography when the Parallax error is very obvious. My only solution right now, is to wind my tripod up about five centimeters, so the bottom lens occupies the space where the top lens was. If I want to tilt the anlge of the camera when composing however, this doesn’t work, because the bottom lens isn’t in line with the top one when wound up five centimeters. I’ve also tried using a length of string pulled taught between the subject and the bottom lens to try and frame it up, but this leaves a margin for error too! If anyone has any information on solving Parallax error through a more effective means, I’d be happy to hear from you! Thanks, Tom