Last Updated on 10/25/2012 by Chris Gampat
We posted on the new Lomography Belair X 6-12 Folder medium format camera the other day when it was announced, but we had some questions on a few specifics that were not fully explained in the press release. Of course, being the wonderfully inquisitive people that our readers are, we fired off a few questions that were raised to our contacts at the Lomography and wanted to share the responses with you folks. Here’s a few of them for your informational pleasure:
ThePhoblographer.com: So I guess it has just 2 settings for aperture: 8 or 16. But something looks weird: Why there’s a cloud symbol on f16 and and “sunny” symbol on f8? Shouldn’t that be the other way around?
Lomography: Thank you for pointing that out! Actually those cameras were early samples; the mistake has been noticed and will be fixed on the final products.
L: It is located on the front lens board, next to the ISO setting wheel.
L: Yes it is
L: We wanted to design a 6×12 panoramic 120 folding camera with interchangeable lens system, zone focusing, simple outlook and operation.This affordable medium format camera is geared towards amateur and professional photographers interested in experimenting with a new camera featuring automatic shutter settings, exchangeable high-quality lenses and a bulb setting for beautiful long exposures and multiple exposures.
PB: Tell us about the lenses; optically, what about them makes them so sharp?
L: We take advantage of aspherical plastic optic to create 2 ultra-compact lenses: wide angle lens (90mm) and ultra wide angle lens (58mm) and pushed the possibility of the aspherical plastic optic to the limit.
L: It is made of plastic (we plan to introduce a Belair glass lens as well).
L: We can now only achieve 1/125. however it’s not a slow shutter speed for such a large opening leaf shutter compared to similar leaf shutter cameras.
L: Yes, the hot shoe will sync with all studio flashes and also the pocketwizard (with all x-sync flash and transmitters).
L: It is a unique Belair lens mount.
Well there it is guys, a few more questions answered on this new wundercamera and even more reasons to love this photographic oddity. Be looking to see more right here on this camera as we get closer to the release and for a full review when we finally get our hands on one of these little beauties!
(Image Via Lomography.com)
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