Mamiya m645 ( Cheap Medium Format & Better than Hasselblad )

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The Mamiya m645 is a criminally underrated medium format film camera — and in this video, I’ll show you why it might even be better than a Hasselblad. From street photography to casual portraits, this camera delivers the speed and simplicity of a 35mm SLR with the image quality of medium format. It’s fast, affordable, rugged, and surprisingly intuitive to shoot — especially with auto exposure and the prism finder. I’ll walk through the features, quirks, and real-world use cases, plus share some street shots and talk about whether this might be the best budget medium format film camera you can buy. 💬 Drop a comment: Are you team 645 or still ride-or-die for 35mm? SEND FILM TO: LoPresti Productions P.O. BOX 251 Ingram, TX 78025 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 👇 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL & GET COOL STUFF 👇 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎖️ Join the LoPresti Army → https://www.madebylopro.com/help-me 🧢 Buy My Merch → https://www.madebylopro.com/ 🎞️ Essential Film Holder → https://clifforth.co.uk/LoPresti 🎧 Music I Use (Epidemic Sound) → https://share.epidemicsound.com/qec4zx 🎬 Give Your Videos the FILM LOOK (10% off w/ code: LOPRO) → https://www.dehancer.com/ 🎞️ Buy CineStill Film → https://cinestillfilm.com/LOPRESTIPRO... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📷 GEAR I USE FOR FILM DEVELOPING & SCANNING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ **🧪 Developing Gear:** • Kodak HC-110 Developer → https://bhpho.to/3W9LdWg • CineStill C-41 Kit → https://amzn.to/422epCF or https://bhpho.to/3PuWixI • Photo Flo → https://amzn.to/3Pfvu4m or https://bhpho.to/3W7I7Cn • Metal 35mm Reel → https://bhpho.to/3WzkiDB • 1L Bottles (eTone) → https://amzn.to/3BR2BZ4 • 1 Gallon Bottles (Datatainer) → https://amzn.to/3DEkKtP or https://bhpho.to/4a6JRBH • Paterson 2-Reel Tank → https://amzn.to/3Pjl43y or https://bhpho.to/3PqLgtl **💡 Scanning Gear:** • Raleno PLV-S116 Light Panel → https://amzn.to/49WDP6B • Sony A7III Camera → https://amzn.to/49P93fW or https://bhpho.to/3DK0dEf • Sony FE 90mm F2.8 Macro Lens → https://amzn.to/49NIWWH or https://bhpho.to/4ja3KeZ • Alzo/Albinar Copy Stand → https://amzn.to/3W89Ti1 or https://bhpho.to/3Pv99ja • IR Remote Shutter → https://amzn.to/4fFnnJb • Cotton Gloves → https://amzn.to/3DpMr9D • Hot Shoe Bubble Level → https://amzn.to/403chrF • Rocket Blower (Dust Blaster 3000™) → https://amzn.to/3VQYyD2 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ **🫡 Shout Outs!** • @cesar_on_safari → https://www.instagram.com/cesar_on_safari/ • @wetplates → https://www.instagram.com/wetplates/ *TIMESTAMPS* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 00:00 Intro: The Most Underrated Medium Format Camera? 00:14 Why I Might Ditch My Hasselblad 00:24 What Makes the Mamiya M645 Special 00:34 Features Breakdown: AE, Mirror Lock-Up, Dual Shutter 00:49 Shooting Experience: Street Photography with a 645 00:59 Save Money on Film 01:09 Mamiya vs Hasselblad: Practical Comparison 01:55 Real World Review 02:18 Resolution of 645 Format 02:44 80mm f1.9 Mamiya -Sekor C 03:08 Medium Format Street Photography 03:18 Left Hand Grip 03:54 CatLabs 80 Mark II 120 Film 04:08 Handling & Feel: Using It in the Field 05:25 CatLabs 320 Medium Format 120 Film 05:51 Sarah Tries out the Mamiya 06:56 Mamiya vs Hasselblad 07:37 Should I Sell My Hasselblad? 07:47 Final Thoughts: Is This the Best Budget Medium Format? 08:00 Mamiyamigos Guest Appearance #mamiya645 #mediumformat #filmphotography #streetphotography #hasselbladkiller