francescoprovino
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I just got a pristine Sinar P3 DF with perfect bellows and movements for a steal for experimenting with movements with digital sensors, and I'm looking to use it for still life and peculiar portraits, mainly with big strobes (Broncolor team here).
I'm trying to stay as cheap as possible and work mainly with what I have already, that is
I see that I have two alternatives for lenses:
OR I can sell the P3 DF, buy a regular Sinar P2 for ~500€ (I already have eyed one), spend maybe 2k€ in 5 years for 4x5 film / processing / scanning (I can do BW development and low-res scanning at my photo club for almost free, anyway) and dump all that difficult-and-very-costly-to-adapt digital stuff for technical photography, and live in the hope of film photography renaissance

I'm trying to stay as cheap as possible and work mainly with what I have already, that is
- 2x Nikon D800 bodies
- 1x Mamiya RZ 90mm f3.5
I see that I have two alternatives for lenses:
- Buy a new (nonexistent in used market) Sinar P3 to Novoflex Balpro adapter and a Balpro to Mamiya 67 ring and use the existing 90mm. This lens has the big advantage of being built for a big reflex box so I'll likely be able to use it with the D800. This has already been quoted by Sinar ~500€.
- Sell the 90mm and go for the proper SK / Rodenstock route, maybe buying SK in old electronic shutter and repurpose it with aperture mount only. This could be cheaper in the long run.
- Buy a chinese bellow mount for F-bayonet to P3 standard and hope that this will let me use a decent movement range
- Sell my Zeiss Milvus, sell the one of the D800 (I'm using one as studio-only camera), buy a used Fuji GFX 100 (~3k€) and the Sinar/Novoflex made Q-mount Fuji GFX to P3 adapter, already quoted by Sinar for ~1.5k€
OR I can sell the P3 DF, buy a regular Sinar P2 for ~500€ (I already have eyed one), spend maybe 2k€ in 5 years for 4x5 film / processing / scanning (I can do BW development and low-res scanning at my photo club for almost free, anyway) and dump all that difficult-and-very-costly-to-adapt digital stuff for technical photography, and live in the hope of film photography renaissance
