Tag: Bronica SQ-A

  • Some cameras, many cameras

    Having just received my second Contax 139 (to replace my beloved original one that I got when I was 16), I reckon this is the right time to summarise my photographic equipment. I am not a collector. I own cameras and lenses because I use them, with the only exception of the first in the…

  • Portrait cameras

    People talk of good portrait lenses, but usually forget about good portrait cameras. My Bronica SQ-A is a great camera, but not a great portrait camera. Unless used in a studio, on a tripod, with the mirror locked up and with your eyes on the model rather than in the viewfinder, what happens in practice…