C41
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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The Bronica C (1962) is a 6x6 medium-format SLR produced by Zenza Bronica as the successor to the original Bronica D (Deluxe, 1959). Like its predecessor, the Bronica C uses a focal-plane cloth shutter rather than the leaf shutters that would later define Bronica's SQ and ETR lines. The body is modular: film backs and lenses interchange using the Bronica S mount, which accepted both Nikkor-branded lenses manufactured by Nikon and later Zenzanon lenses. The Bronica C was replaced by the S2 (1965) and S2A (1969), which carried the same focal-plane, S-mount architecture forward.
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C41
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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Kodak Portra 160 is a professional C-41 color negative film with fine grain, soft contrast, and natural color.
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The second-generation Bronica: a 1962 6x6 focal-plane SLR that refined the original Z and introduced Nikkor lens compatibility to a wider audience.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 120 (6x6 cm, 12 frames) |
| Mount | Bronica S (Nikkor / Zenzanon) |
| Years | ~1962–1965 |
| Shutter | Cloth focal-plane: ~1s – 1/1000s + B |
| Flash sync | ~1/30s (focal-plane) |
| Meter | None built-in |
| Modes | Manual |
| Finder | Waist-level (standard) |
| Weight | ~ (unverified) |
| Battery | Not required |
Zenza Bronica (founded by Zenzaburo Yoshino) introduced the original Bronica D around 1959, inspired by the Hasselblad 1600F's focal-plane approach but positioned for a Japanese market that could not afford Swedish pricing. The Bronica C followed in approximately 1962 as a refined version, addressing some reliability concerns of the D while retaining the focal-plane shutter architecture and Bronica S lens mount.
The C was sold for roughly three years before the S2 replaced it in 1965. The S2 and subsequent S2A (1969) became the volume sellers of the Bronica focal-plane era. In 1972 Bronica shifted to an electronic focal-plane shutter with the EC, and by the late 1970s the company moved entirely to leaf-shutter-in-lens designs with the ETR and SQ lines.
The Bronica C is a historical curiosity rather than a practical shooter for most film photographers today. It demonstrates Bronica's early ambition to offer Nikkor optics in a modular medium-format body — a strategy that predates Hasselblad's dominance of the European professional market and positioned Japan as a credible source of high-end photographic equipment.
For collectors, the Bronica C represents the second iteration of a lineage that would eventually produce hundreds of thousands of medium-format cameras across the S, EC, SQ, ETR, and GS series. In working condition, the C is capable of producing the same quality 6x6 negatives as its more common descendants — the optics and format are identical.
Bronica S mount. Compatible with Nikkor-P 75mm f/2.8, Nikkor-P 50mm f/3.5, Nikkor-P 135mm f/3.5, and other S-mount Nikkors produced for the Bronica system in the 1960s. Later Zenzanon S-mount lenses also fit. Film backs are interchangeable with those designed for the S2 and S2A, though compatibility across sub-variants should be verified individually.
BW
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