4/20/2021 0 Comments Bronica S2A For Sale
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Of course its important to remember that these cameras are nearly 60 years old now, and decades of use andor neglect can take their toll. Lo and behold, my offer was accepted, and a week later I was holding the camera in my hands and getting ready to shoot square format film for my first time. I have now had the camera for 6 years, and in that time it has become one of my all time favorites, so I thought Id write down some of my thoughts on the camera and lens. The original Bronica Z (later renamed Bronica D, for Deluxe) was designed and built to compete directly with the Hasselblad camera of the late 50s, as well as to surpass some of the shortcomings of the Hasselblad. When released in 1959, the Bronica was, in many ways, a more advanced and arguably better camera than the focal plane shutter Hasselblad cameras of the time. This pushes the lens optics out further from the film, which makes for generally larger lenses compared to those found on rangefinder cameras and TLRs. By utilizing the downward sliding mirror, the Bronica lenses could be closer to the film, and therefore could theoretically be smaller lenses. I say theoretically because other than the Nikkor-P 75mm most of the lenses for the early Bronica cameras are still quite large. The unusual mirror design made for a very complicated mechanism though, and possibly made for reliability issues, as well as high production costs. I think the idea being that this would make lenses cost less, but my guess is that it proved problematic, especially with distance scales and different focal length lenses. The Bronica S was eventually replaced with the S2, which did away with the built in focusing helicoid. The newer camera used interchangeable focusing helicoids that mounted to the body, and then the lenses mounted to that. Eventually Bronica would have their own range of Zenzanon lenses, but most of the earlier Bronica cameras came equipped with Nikkor lenses. The standard lens being the Nikkor-P 752.8, a 5 element lens design based on the Carl Zeiss Biometar design. I personally think this lens is possibly the most underrated lens out there, and I think it is worth having an early Bronica just to have this lens. In real world results, I think the Nikkor-P 752.8 is every bit as good as the best from Zeiss and Schneider. The Zenza Bronica S2 is (to me) the 1957 Chevy Belair of cameras. My particular camera has grey leatherette, which makes it look even better in my opinion. When youre out with it, people usually take note, and when the shutter goes off, people really take note. You dont feel the clack of the mirror the way you do with the Pentax, or even a Hasselblad. With the S2 and the S2a that came after it, I think Bronica was able to resolve much of the reliability issues that seemed to come up with the earlier cameras. I dont know that the Bronica S2 is as reliable as say a Hasselblad, but I think they are well built and very good cameras.
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