I don't have exotic glass to compare them with in this format, but I have tested them against my aged Rolleicord with a Schneider Xenar. The ETRS body is more robustly made than the ETRSi which incorporates more plastic components, but the ETRSi does have a mirror lock up feature. The lens mounted shutters are flash synhronised up to the maximum speed of 1/500th second. At least two varieties of metered prism finder exist, one with just centre weighted metering and the other with both that and spot metering. You also get a choice of viewfinder, a waist level finder or a pentaprism for eye level viewing. There are separate cassettes or backs for conventional film or Polaroid, and you can change backs mid way through a film. The main body of the camera houses the mirror mechanism, the lenses all have their own Seiko shutters which are electrically controlled from the body. It's a bit like a Lego camera, you build it up from a set of building blocks to suit the situation.

The Bronica is a single lens reflex system camera whose format is copied from the Hasselblad. For those who prefer square format, Bronica also made a slightly larger version of this camera that takes 12 6圆 negatives. For the newbies around, these cameras take 15 shots on a roll of 120 film, each negative measuring approximately 6x4.5 cms. In recent years I have enjoyed the possession of a couple of Bronica 645 bodies, an ETRS and an ETRSi.

Bronica lens serial numbers