Today was a happy day for me, the day I became a medium formatist!

My first ever medium format camera arrived in the mail, a Yashica Mat 124g; manufactured some time between 1970 and 1986. One of the most intriguing things about this camera is the fact that even though medium format TLRs seemed to be obsolete at the time of its appearence, it was a success. The other intriguing thing is the fact that, for a three hundred dollar camera, it will record images of the detail only a multi-thousand dollar professional SLR will. My kind of thing really.

So, armed with my new photographic smugness I will now be on a journey of discovery; firstly, discovering how to use it.......

It uses big rolls of film, you look through a massive viewfinder on the top of the camera and the image is reversed.........hmmmm.

So it's lucky my other recently purchased Yashica, the 35mm Electro 35 GS Rangefinder, is far easier to use; as it's been going everywhere with me lately.

Edit 15 Aug 2010:
Spent yesterday out and about with the 124g and can't believe this camera, mostly can't believe the dynamic range of film coupled with amount of detail captured on the medium format negs. I was using Ilford HP5 Plus 400ASA and with my limited experience didn't even stuff up a single exposure setting (waiting for a battery for the metre). Only downside is that these negs have so much info in them that it well and truly pushes me into the realm of purchasing the scanner I've been eyeing off.