Everything You Wanted To Know About The New Lomography Belair X 6-12 But Were Afraid To Ask

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My first roll processed and scanned from my new Lomography BelAir X 6-12 puts me in the position to share some notes about the camera that you won’t find elsewhere.

The Lomography BelAir X 6-12 is a new folding medium format camera. It can take pictures in three formats which are 6×6, 6×9 and 6×12. The camera is made of plastic apart from the folding mechanism. Even the two provided wide angle lenses (wide and really wide) are plastic. Each lens comes with its own viewfinder. They are 58mm and 90mm.

The shutter is a self-cocking design which means that it fires each time you pull the shutter release with no separate cocking action required. It has an auto-expsure feature that calculates an exposure up to around 31 seconds maximum based upon the average light level that it sees out of the little “eye” next to the lens. The maximum speed of the shutter is 1/125 second.

The autoexposure mechanism works by delaying the return of the shutter. There are two consequences of this. First, that 1/125 can be obtained by removing the battery. Second, that the longer shutter times are dependent upon keeping the shutter held down. If you release immediately …

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