This was going to be my first film camera for “serious” use, I wasn’t sure if it was going to work out.īut then, I learned about this Japanese brand that made some medium format cameras similar to the Hasselblads, and they had a few 6×6 cameras that’d fit my budget!Įnter the Bronica SQ-Ai: my favorite camera, ever. Hasselblad: this one seemed to be my dream camera, but it was way too expensive. Not being able to use different lenses, a not very bright finder, a very desatisfying shutter… TLRs: I already had one at home (Rolleiflex) that I didn’t enjoy using. I began what turned out to be a very quick search: there’s nothing in the digital world using a square sensor that I could afford.įilm had to be it, then. Even post-processing the photo would mean you are “wasting” a third of your sensor (16MP 1×1 instead of the 24MP 3×2). Yes, you have a grid that helps a bit, but the stored photo (both RAW and JPEG) was your traditional 3 by 2. You see, my Sony digital camera didn’t support square format natively. These two changes were enough to make me feel very excited about photography again. And I loved the square format.Ĭomposing a square photo isn’t as easy as it might sound or look, and I wasn’t good at it. I tried to do something different to avoid this: first shooting black and white (never shot it before, or at least not thinking in black and white from the beginning but rather converting color photos), and then I started experimenting with different aspect ratios. Just a few months ago, I was happily shooting digital.
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