Great Lens

extremly difficult owners manual to understand, takes a lot of effort to know what it is that their trying to communicate. Something lost in the translation of words and phrases from Japanese to English. Another thing that I found out to late is that the cameras autofocus system can't handle more than one filter at a time, so if you wanted to use more than one your kinda of out of luck. To use the manual focus mode is truly a pain and in my view point not worth the effort. One last thing that I'm very displeased with is that the minium focusing distance is 3 meters or rounded off 4 feet. So tight close up's of head and shoulders are out of the question. very restricting camera

This is a wonderful camera for shooting weddings, and taking portraits both in a studio setting and outdoors using the program modes. If your intention is fine art, or creative landscape in my opinion the 645zi is just to restricting.

Customer Service

extremly lousy. Fuji is so large that no one knows about the products. They just keep shuffling you from one person to the next passing the buck, and if you lucky you may find someone that will be able to help you but don't count on it. Their customer service is not user friendly to use a computer term

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None which was my big mistake.

Light, compact, easy to lug around. Auto-focus and auto-exposure works great, even in lowlight situations. No problem with out of focus images.

You have to put pressure on the roll of film when loading to make sure it rolls tight on the take-up spool. Otherwise it will be loose resulting in fogged frames. Also, when used with a potato-masher type flash (Metz 45, Sunpak 544) the film orientation does not match that of the flash head, resulting in light dropoff on the bottom of verticals and the left side of horizontals. Keeping a wide angle adapter on the flash solved this problem. And when using a flash of this type you have to set the camera to Manual. As you turn the camera off and on, it sometimes forgets the settings. Need to check every time you turn it on.

I love this camera. Use it for weddings, parties, portraits, children. It's OK in the studio but excels when you have to carry it around. Lighter than my Nikon. Looks good too. Great for serious amateurs and pro's.

Customer Service

No help at all. Arrogant.

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Own Fuji 670III, Mamiya 330s, Mamiya 645 Pro

It's very lite weight,
seems well made.
It's nice to have a med.format camera the size and weight of a 35mm.

Some images out of focus.
Since you can't see what in focus you have to stop down that extra stop. or double check yourself before shooting.

This camera has a very sharp lens and works very well. But don't but it as your primary camera.
It always better to see whats in focus and what is not.This camera has a very small footprint for a mid format camera.So I find myself taking places that I would not take a larger camera.

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I did send it back to Fuji, to check out.
Had some out of focus shots and with 220 film film did not rewind all the way.
They found nothing wrong with the camera but did tell me how to fix the rewind problem.

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No auto-focus midformats.
But have use lots of different types of camera's

convenient to pack for travelling and using.Good design --easy to hold.
excellent lens. diopter correction. compensation override.

When viewing verticals, I think at the wide end (55) of zoom--I try and line up buildings or other vertical line, and I think it falls inward..seems off kilter.Is there lens distortion--anyone else notice this? diopter correction knob moves too easily and changes somehow..hard to load.

my negatives look great. sharp --worked with every feature of the camera and really like it alot. have a bit of trouble with manual focus unless at infinity. thats the only way I use it for night photography. I haven't had any trouble with film fog because I am diligent about pressing on left side of film while cranking onto right side. design should be easier to use--and manual is ridiculous. the camera feels good, and I used it over my 35mm this past vacation.
I just wonder if I should have bought the fixed
60 mm lens.

Customer Service

hopefully never have to talk to them

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hasselblad
rollieflex

Easy to use, sharp lens, fully automatic everything, good metering, beautiful solid construction.

Forget maually focusing with this camera.

The nicest and most expensive Piont and Shoot you'll ever own. The quality of the pictures from this camera are phenominal, and it's ease of use is that of a full featured piont and shoot. Definately the easiest medium format camera to use.

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35mm SLRs and P&S's

The lens is very, very sharp and contrasty. The sharpest zoom I have ever seen, outperforms some of my Bronica primes! I have not detected any distortion either.
Small and light, which means you can take it with you instead of the 35mm. Low weight and leaf shutter make it possible to hand hold it at slow shutter speeds. Light meter is spot-on. It is very quiet.

Autofocusing is a bit quirky and needs a sanity check - luckily there is a distance scale in the viewfinder. The diopter correction setting always changes, but thats a minor quirk. I wish it had a depth of field preview and more logical controls. The lens is a bit slow, but what do you expect from a zoom. The manual is undecipherable.

This is a truly great camera. Of course being a compact it is limited in many ways, but just like with any other camera if you take its limitations into account you can produce very impressive photos. What you get is a light and portable mid-format camera with a very sharp 55-90 mm zoom lens (actually, its more like having four primes at 55, 65, 75 and 90mm). The light meter is surprisingly accurate and I have learned to trust it. All this means you can take it with you instead of dragging a mid-format slr plus a few primes plus all the associated equipment. Its good for just about anything except macro and portraits. It produced some very nice nature shots, landscapes and people shots for me.

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Never had a reason to use and hopefuly never will. :-)

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Mamiya 645, Bronica ETRS, Rolleiflex

Superb lens
Date and exposure info on negs (outside th picture area)
Great Rangefinder, convenience.
Compact size, smaller than my F
Good price for quality medium format 645.

No double exposure possibility
No DOF preview

This camera is top quality 'point and shoot' medium format camera.
The optical perforance is far better than my Nikon AF-s lenses and my favorate Nikon 35mm f/1.4 AIS. Even my wife can use this camera to show-off her outstanding pictures. It's always in my bag on vacation.

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Mamiya 7 II ,

Sharp lens, easy to use,light weight-packs well, built in flash.

Very hard to load-unless you use Fujifilm,no double exposure,SLOW lens

Love its ease of use(when loaded properly!)Light weight, sharp optics, relatively inexpensive.

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AWFUL,unless you can speak Japanese and want to call Japan!

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Pentrax 645,Nikon blah, blah...

Fully auto when you need it, manual when you don't.
Light to carry.
Perfect for travel.
Up and down format is perfect for portraits.
No need for "backs".
Sharp & contrasty lens.

Needs a better leather case.
Lens are a little slow for nontripod use.

Overall, great value. Easy to carry around. Would be nicer to have this in 67 format with a faster lens. But the lens is still excellent.

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Hassy. all around better, but more expensive. Who wants to lug this around on vacation?
Yashica Mat.
Pentax 67.

Light wieght, convenient
Sharp optics
Great for for Wedding groups and traveling

Zoom is not very fast, only f/6.9 for telephoto

I love this one. It is the best for high quality with convenience when traveling.
It's also great for wedding and enviromental portrait.
If Fuji comes out with a longer zoom, I will buy another one.

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