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1. #Bronica sq recommended lenses manuals#
2. #Bronica sq recommended lenses manual#
3. #Bronica sq recommended lenses professional#

#Bronica sq recommended lenses manuals#

#Bronica sq recommended lenses professional#

Secondhand Zenza Bronica cameras are still widely used by professional and serious amateur photographers, in no small part due to the superior image quality of medium format film over smaller film and digital sensor formats. The last Bronica camera, the RF645, was dropped in October 2005. The Zenza Bronica GS-1 was discontinued in 2002, and the last Zenza Bronica SLR cameras ( SQ, ETR) were discontinued in October 2004. Tamron, a large Japanese lens manufacturer and a supplier of lens elements, eventually acquired Zenza Bronica Ltd. A rangefinder model, the RF645 in 4.5×6cm format, was also introduced in 2000. Bronica cameras were mainstays of wedding and portrait photographers for many years, and their relative affordability made them popular with amateur photographers as well.Īs the company expanded, Zenza Bronica would later introduce lenses of its own design, along with continued refinements and new models of the Zenza Bronica SLR, in different rollfilm formats. Zenza Bronica SLR cameras employ a modular design: the major components of the camera - lens, body, film back, and viewfinder - are separate and interchangeable. With its superb, precision-ground Nikkor lenses, the first Bronica became an instant success. Bronica SQ-Ai KIT Zenzanon-PS 80/2.8 Bronica SQ-Ai Body Zenzanon-PS 80/2.8 + Lens Hood S 80mm Waist-Level Finder E, Film back SQ-i 120 6圆 (12 exp.). Because Yoshino had invested nearly all company resources into production of the camera body, he sourced the Bronica's lenses from an established Japanese optics and camera manufacturer - none other than Nikon (Nippon Kōgaku Kikai). Photos were taken on Nikon D3100 with APS-C sensor.Zenza Bronica cameras first appeared in 1958, when its founder, Zenzaburo Yoshino, introduced a camera of his own design, the Zenza Bronica Z, at the Philadelphia Camera Show. Zenza Bronica Zenzanon-PS 80 mm f/ 2.8 Some Test Shots Clay froze and the goal is reached.įinally, I got work lens which through the adaptor becomes for Nikon camera. I solved this problem by using super glue smeared lever on each side and press, hold a few seconds. So that we can control the aperture manually, simply press the lever and fix it forever. If we keep it depressed, aperture control work.

#Bronica sq recommended lenses manual#

Fortunately, it has manual control through a small lever. Unlock the apertureĪs mentioned earlier, the lens has an electronic aperture control, but the values are set mechanically. If you wish, you can put between the lens and the mount washer. The result was a small flight of infinity, but it is not critical. Now we impose on our new mount old Bronica’s bayonet mount and mark up space for screws, as a template and drill holes. Experience has shown, was to infinity, this skirt we do not need, it is necessary to grind off on a lathe or a sanding disc.Īlso, on the ground off the shank to do two washed down at fixing stops helicoid. On the side of the lens has a shank skirt width of 4mm. Take the mount with the old Soviet medium format lens. He gives us no longer needed, it can be simply cut with scissors. Next we see control wires with contacts protruding from the mount and liaise with the camera lens. Zenza Bronica Zenzanon-S 1:2.8 f=80mm without bayonet I found at a flea market back part of a medium format lens, so did not have to cripple a good lens. Therefore, I change it to alter its mount under the bayonet “V”, so the lens can be used on medium format and on any other systems through the appropriate adaptor.Īs a donor, you can use the mount from some broken medium format lens with bayonet “V” mount. On Bronica SQ lenses flange focal distance even more. I have a Soviet Bayonet “V”-Nikon F adaptor (Hasselblad-Nikon F analog).

But in practice, it turned out to be easier than I thought. Aperture, though given ring mechanically controlled electronically from the camera.Īs we can see, at first glance, to attach a lens for Nikon cameras is necessary to solve several problems. In addition, it has a built-in Seiko shutter #0. Developed after the success of the two current camera zoom lenses for the ETR-Si 6x4. As also Bronica bayonet mount diameter 78mm. Bronica has announced the release of the much anticipated zoom lens for the Bronica SQ-Ai, 6圆cm camera system. It was curious to see what picture is on the APS-C camera.Īlso read Zenza Bronica Zenzanon-S 1:2.8 f=80mm Review & Sample Photosīronica SQ system has a flange focal distance other than the common Pentacon Six or Hasselblad bayonets and is equal to 85mm, a little bit longer than the standard Hasselblad (82.1mm). I pick up a Japanese medium format lens Zenza Bronica Zenzanon-S 1:2.8 f=80mm by chance.