Owned and shot RB's for 34 years. The back rotation is stiff because the grease on the circular bearing has dried out. You need to take the rotating back adapter apart to clean and re-grease. rotate adapter to 45 degrees and you'll see 4 "L" plates, one in each inside corner. Remove the screws and "L" plates and the back adapter will come apart. You need to rotate the adapter a bit to get at each screw. It's obvious when you do it. The back rotating adapter should spin easily with a concise click at portrait and landscape. If you have any questions .. Ask.:)
During Convid years, I had a chance to pick up a Mamiya C330 and a Yashica 124G, potentially for £200-250. I think I might have missed out on a bargain. Doh. I usually watch your car videos man but found you do this too. Quality viewing yet again. 👍📸
These are fun cameras to use. It's worth looking for an Optech pro camera strap that has the correct lug adaptors for the body. They really help to carry and hand hold the RB. The 180mm is more of a portrait lens, the 127mm or 90mm make excellent standard lenses.
A camera I got to use but never owned due to cost, that's a great find. Loved using the light meter but you definitely had to choose what you shot. Miss also the darkroom experience Great video
It is totally normal to get 10 shots with this camera. With 120 film it depends on the frame size: 6x4.5 - 15-16 shots (Pentax 645NII, Contax 645, Mamiya 645, Fuji GA645, Pentacon six modified for police use) 6x6 - 12-13 shots (Pentacon six TL, Hasselblads, Kiev) 6x7 - 10 shots
I've always wanted an RB but the size and the dark slide complication put me off. I got a cheap Automat instead. Stuck a sunny 16 table on the back so no messing with a meter required. Almost a point and shoot! Used to have to use my Granny's kodak brownie so having weird finders wasn't so much of an issue when using the automat much later. Also had a Fuji 645i and I have no idea why I sold that. It was a really stupid thing to have done as they're so much more expensive now!
Matt, make sure you check the light seals on the film mag not hard to replace had no idea you were a fan of film camera`s aways watching you with your Rovers
@@mattrichardsonsclickbait Matt, if you want to really cary the heavy artillery look no further The BIG Fuji GX 680 MkIII, I have one and it is wonderful,
Film in the Camera world (just like vinyl in the music world) seem to be very popular again. I've always thought there is room for both digital and analogue, and it seems there is.
£250!!! Ohh you jammy piece. Had my SQAi best part , scary time, 30yrs😱. Can recommend Weston Euromaster V + invacone or Lunasix F if using flash, had mine same age as the SQAi and🤞not gone wrong.
Another vote for the Weston plus invacone. Brilliant meter, the invacone being used to measure incident light for those not familiar with these meters.
To be honest, to me who knows little about old film cameras (except that I used them when they were new), £250 seems like an awful lot of money for an old camera. I wouldn't have expected it to be worth more than a tenth of that. I guess the seller was just keen to get rid of it.
Owned and shot RB's for 34 years. The back rotation is stiff because the grease on the circular bearing has dried out. You need to take the rotating back adapter apart to clean and re-grease. rotate adapter to 45 degrees and you'll see 4 "L" plates, one in each inside corner. Remove the screws and "L" plates and the back adapter will come apart. You need to rotate the adapter a bit to get at each screw. It's obvious when you do it. The back rotating adapter should spin easily with a concise click at portrait and landscape. If you have any questions .. Ask.:)
I thought it might need greasing, but had assumed it would be another job for the repair man, not that it was easy enough to DIY
During Convid years, I had a chance to pick up a Mamiya C330 and a Yashica 124G, potentially for £200-250. I think I might have missed out on a bargain. Doh. I usually watch your car videos man but found you do this too. Quality viewing yet again. 👍📸
You missed a bargain there! Hope you like these videos as well as the cars
These are fun cameras to use. It's worth looking for an Optech pro camera strap that has the correct lug adaptors for the body. They really help to carry and hand hold the RB. The 180mm is more of a portrait lens, the 127mm or 90mm make excellent standard lenses.
A camera I got to use but never owned due to cost, that's a great find.
Loved using the light meter but you definitely had to choose what you shot.
Miss also the darkroom experience
Great video
It is totally normal to get 10 shots with this camera. With 120 film it depends on the frame size:
6x4.5 - 15-16 shots (Pentax 645NII, Contax 645, Mamiya 645, Fuji GA645, Pentacon six modified for police use)
6x6 - 12-13 shots (Pentacon six TL, Hasselblads, Kiev)
6x7 - 10 shots
I was reading up in them before shooting and it said 9 shots, so seeing 10 on the film back was a nice surprise given the cost of film!
I've always wanted an RB but the size and the dark slide complication put me off. I got a cheap Automat instead. Stuck a sunny 16 table on the back so no messing with a meter required. Almost a point and shoot! Used to have to use my Granny's kodak brownie so having weird finders wasn't so much of an issue when using the automat much later. Also had a Fuji 645i and I have no idea why I sold that. It was a really stupid thing to have done as they're so much more expensive now!
Matt, make sure you check the light seals on the film mag not hard to replace had no idea you were a fan of film camera`s aways watching you with your Rovers
That test film looks like theyre all good! Yes, I shoot a fair bit of film still
@@mattrichardsonsclickbait Matt, if you want to really cary the heavy artillery look no further The BIG Fuji GX 680 MkIII, I have one and it is wonderful,
Film in the Camera world (just like vinyl in the music world) seem to be very popular again. I've always thought there is room for both digital and analogue, and it seems there is.
Cracking depth-of-field on some of the vines. Could be straight our of Pathe News. Does it fit in one of your many (?) gear-bags (if that's the term)?
Im sure Ill find one that it does!
I was watching that on Fleabay :) I decided not to bid and stuck with Mamiya C330 :) You did well getting it :)
Thanks for not bidding, I was hoping no one else would!
@@mattrichardsonsclickbait hahaha Enjoy :)
Great purchase, I think I got 10 images per roll of Fujifilm, back in the day when I used one at work.
The counter goes up to 10, maybe careful loading needed!
I remember wide format cameras for school class photographs in the 70s and 80s. Maybe modern digital has taken over that task now?
Large megapixel cameras mean you can just crop from a regular frame now
£250!!! Ohh you jammy piece. Had my SQAi best part , scary time, 30yrs😱.
Can recommend Weston Euromaster V + invacone or Lunasix F if using flash, had mine same age as the SQAi and🤞not gone wrong.
Another vote for the Weston plus invacone. Brilliant meter, the invacone being used to measure incident light for those not familiar with these meters.
I got a Mamiya 645 pro tl for peanuts! Kind of criminal what happened to the film world but we can get things we never thought we could afford!
I can afford a Nikon F4 now as well, that was a pipe dream for years back then!
To be honest, to me who knows little about old film cameras (except that I used them when they were new), £250 seems like an awful lot of money for an old camera. I wouldn't have expected it to be worth more than a tenth of that. I guess the seller was just keen to get rid of it.
it was an auction that ended at a bad time. These go for much, much more than this normally, people still pay over a thousand for medium format bodies
Wait, you're also a camera guy?!
Literally been my job since the 90s!
One certainly has to remove one's brain from cold storage, that's the one problem with modern equipment, one does not need a brain.
You really have to think about what you're doing with these things
I own 2 of the RB....my joy
2? Your back must be ruined! Beautiful cameras though