
On back used) Sensor: CCD Lens Mount: Mamiya 645 AF Shutter Speed (seconds).Before introduction of the first of what would become a dynasty of Zenza Bronica cameras in 1959, the Latinized Zenza Bronica name was already a popular Japanese luxury goods brand of the Shinkodo Works (in Japanese: 新光堂製作所) since 1947, specialized in the production of intricate crafted and decorated personal accessories, such as metal cigarette lighters and cases, cosmetic compacts, and watches, of diverse styles and designs. You have flash sync shutter speeds of up to 1/125s, and with any of 3. Surrounding the shutter release is a collar to select between motor drive advance modes, with single and a consecutive mode that can advance at up to 2 fps. The shutter release has a screw in cable release. This can be used with the built-in hot shoe or the pc sync socket on the left of the body. The electronic flash sync is at 1/60 of a sec.
23 November 1988), wherefrom the Latinized Zenza Bronica brand name is derived, was the third son born into a Japanese rice merchant family. The company's founder Zenzaburō Yoshino (in Japanese: 吉野善三郎, b. Incorporating the best of Bronica's know-how and technological expertise, the Bronica RF645 achieves a new dimension in compactness as the world's first medium format 6 x 4.5 rangefinder camera to feature interchangeable lenses, and comes with a superb line.
Bronica's RF645 system consists of a rangefinder camera body, a 65mm f/4 normal lens, and a 45mm f/4 wide-angle lens (equivalent to a 28mm perspective on a 35mm camera). External DonateBronica RF645. The left side of the camera has the ASA flash sync port, the shutter speed dial, and one of two strap lugs. Both fascinated and yet increasingly frustrated by the limitations of the cameras produced at that time period, where each camera's merits and demerits were not solved by just one camera, Yoshino visioned creating a high-precision interchangeable single-lens reflex camera modular system of his own design.
Bronica Rf645 Flash Sync Speed Full Top Range
Yoshino's camera store and his immense familiarity with deluxe foreign cameras became a huge success with photography enthusiasts in Japan, buying and selling luxury Leica and Contax cameras, which also gained popularity with US Army soldiers stationed in Japan after World War II. Full top range specs.Guide number: 58 meters (ISO 100, 180mm)Flash mode: ETTL / M / FEB / Slave (S1/S2) / Multi (stroboscopic)High speed synchronisation: up to 1/8000 secFun ctions: Flash Exposure Bracketing (FEB), Flash Exposure Lock (FEL).Circuit design: Insulated Gate Bipolar Tran.Yoshino's ambition, however, would require substantial investment, which he gradually self-funded from his family business in transportation and his passion for cameras by the establishment of a small camera store in Tokyo's Kanda district. This Bronica system has a 100 percent electronic interface between.

Such was the design success of Bronica, that in the United States it attracted influential figures from the photographic industry such as Burt Keppler who met with Yoshino. The Bronica D was the Japanese answer and first serious challenger to the Swedish Hasselblad cameras, and in several technical ways outclassed the Swedish offerings. The Bronica Z modular camera system, shortly later with slight modifications renamed the Zenza Bronica D (Deluxe) and successor Bronicas, using large-coverage film format, high-quality Nikkor lenses supplied by the then Japan Optical Industries Co., Ltd., ( Nikon Corporation) became instant successes in the deluxe camera market worldwide. The final prototype bore the Latinized nameplate "ZENZA BRONICA"—the Bronica Z ( Zen-za) rollfilm camera—and first appeared at the Philadelphia Camera Show in March 1959, where it received ecstatic industry press coverage and left a deep lasting impression of being the world's dream camera.
Bronicas were workhorse photographic film cameras used by professional photographers for many years until the process of digital photography became widely adopted. Bronica's last model, the RF645 rangefinder camera, was discontinued in September 2005, and marked the termination of the Bronica camera brand business. Tamron discontinued the brand's single-lens reflex camera models (ETRSi, SQ-Ai, SQ-B and GS-1) between June 2002 and December 2004, sales having suffered from the lack of consideration to a digital camera back and loss of market share to digital photography and digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras, particularly for the wedding and portrait photography business which had previously been a heavy user of medium-format photographic film but switched quickly to digital photography for its commercial workflow benefits. In May 2000, Tamron introduced under the Bronica brand the RF645 rangefinder camera.
Bronica C (Compact), introduced December 1964 production discontinued May 1965 Bronica S (Standard), introduced April 1961 production discontinued April 1965 Bronica Z ( Zen-za), debuted March 1959 at the Philadelphia Camera Show and renamed Bronica D (Deluxe) in December 1959 with slight modifications production discontinued March 1961 Bronica modelsClassic Zenza Bronica S2 with Zenzanon 100mm f2.8 lensFrom its start, Bronica introduced a number of 6x6 cm medium-format SLR cameras with focal plane shutter, which used Nikkor lenses from Nikon, until this line was discontinued with the introduction of the successor Bronica SQ-series.

In 1977 the ETR received Japan's Good Design Award. ETR was an acronym for Electronic, TTL-metering, Reflex. Advanced, compact, modular electronic 6x4.5 cm medium-format SLR camera system with a vast array of finders, film-backs, and other accessories. ETR: Introduced March 1976, production discontinued March 1980.
Improved version of the ETR with an extra contact to support auto-exposure mode with the metered prism finder AE-II and later AE-III. ETRS: Introduced October 1978. Identical to the ETR model except film magazine cannot be removed from film-back. ETR-C: Introduced November 1977, production discontinued December 1980.
Improved version of the ETRS with mirror lock-up capability. ETRSi: Introduced December 1988, production discontinued December 2004. ETRC: Introduced October 1978 (ETRC), production discontinued October 1980 (ETRC) Identical to the ETRS model except film magazine cannot be removed from film-back. This version is reputedly referred to as the "plastic" body ETRS and film-back, for the change in the side panels of the body and film-backs to polycarbonate. Lens release sliding lever latch located to left side of camera side panel, film-backs released using two independent tabs. Unnamed change to original ETRS model.
Significantly improved film-back design (Si) with locking darkslide.The Bronica SQ camera takes photographs on 120 and 220 roll-film, 135 cartridge-loaded film and Polaroid Land pack film, using exclusive film-backs for each film type.
