If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, which you totally should, you’ll know that I have a new camera. I wanted a great travel camera that was easy to carry on my person when I was in the mood for street photography or creating fine art photographs in any condition. Two conditions, it had to be a film camera and it had to have stellar image quality. One camera that filled both of those prerequisites is the new Fuji GF670 Rangefinder 6×6/6×7 120 camera. I learned about the GF when Fuji first decided to release it at a tradeshow overseas several months ago and I had the chance to lay hands on one at the WPPI tradeshow in Las Vegas, NV. I was convinced that this was the right camera for me.
The image quality is absolutely amazing. I love being able to photograph in 6×6 or 6×7 with the same camera, simply by switching a lever in between loading rolls (although I’m really trying to express myself in 6×6 right now). Being a true rangefinder, there is no mirror/prism to slap around during the opening/closing of the shutter therefore the camera is virtually silent during actuation. Not only that, but I feel comfortable photographing down to 1/8th of a second, hand held. This camera is simply amazing and the artisan feel of fine art photography is more apparent in this camera than any other I’ve held (other than large format). I think my friend Jonathan Canlas and I are the only people I really know using this camera a this time, but that will probably be changing really soon. Enough about the camera, here is one photograph from Philadelphia, PA straight out of the camera. Details below, enjoy.

Fuji GF670
f3.5 1/160th
Ilford HP5+ 400
Downtown Philadelphia, PA