I've seen a lot of TLRs pop up recently. I'm not sure if it's a trend or what, don't really care, but I want to talk about them. Seems like they mostly get relegated to some kind of collectors item, or a neat oddity or toy, or something that hipster you know shoots with, but I want to talk about it as a serious camera. I mean up until the 80s really these things were considered one of the go to cameras for professional photography. I've heard some wedding photogs still use them.

The better ones are sharp as fuck and built pretty solid, the normal focal lengths they come with are great for general use and portraits, they're cheap to get used online, they're medium format, they're self contained, a lot of them are purely mechanical and don't require batteries. Great image quality and ease of use. Why don't more photographers shoot with them seriously? Why is it that if you shoot film seriously or professionally it better be with a Leica or Hassleblad?

These things are criminally underrated. Pic related is what I have, and it's far and away my favorite camera in my collection, film or digital.