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One more caveat. If you are going to shoot film outdoors, don’t forget to plan on at least a UV filter: the filter size is 82mm on most, 95mm on the more exotic ones, and 112mm thread on the 50mm lens. The cost of a good filter that size is about the same cost as the lens itself.

I forgot to mention the shutters in these lenses are lovely... all are modern, accurate, and sync to electronic flash up to 1/400. Tell me that’s not a steal at $100 a pop? Then GX680 also has interchangeable viewfinder frame lines for 645, 66, and 67 and associated masks on the film advance...

Hehe sorry! Well at least this month you can find better deals than you could pre-covid

I know this is a very old post but thought I’d wave from across the pond. I regularly shoot with both the GX680 and 4x5 so I thought I’d put in with a bit of data from my hands on experiences. Large format is quite obviously a larger negative for when you want those monster prints. It can be...