Originally posted by cooltouch Hehe. I keep reading from Autocord owners how they smoke the Rolleiflexes, which makes me want one bad. But they're just as expensive as the Rolleis, if not moreso, unfortunately. So my champagne tastes and beer budget bought me the next best thing -- a Yashica Mat 124. Not the G. It's a sweet little camera, but I think it's probably a step or two behind that Autocord.
But it works okay in a pinch. Tri-X developed in full-strength D76, scanned with an Epson 4990 at 2400 ppi
I've got the even lower-end Yashica-A. Not high-end, but still nice. I've got a photo posted on the Medium Format and general film threads from that camera. (Haven't used any B&W film in it yet).
The only TLRs (from my experience) I would recommend against are from Argus: Except for the original ArgoFlex, they only take 620 film. And they have weird F-stop markings, 4.5, 6.3, 9, 12.7, 18. Although the weird f-stops are still workable if you use, say a phone light meter app.
One from the Argus Argoflex EF:
I'm thinking about bidding on a Ricoh Diacord, anybody have experience with one of those?