if i recall the 220 has changable lenses too. the one i think i most loved using when was working in the studio was the 110/3.5 lens. taking pictures of groups, pets or children with a TLR was a great experience becaseu you could seeif someoen blinked when the exposure was made. that always open viewer certainly has a place even today for some kinds of photography. the thing i never did get used ot was the porro-prism finder. it was big and heavy and not all that bright. the only time i prefered it over the waist level finder was outdoors in very bright light. i had most of the bells and whistles to go with my c330. the thing that many photographers teid to buy off me at the time was the paramender attachment. if you used your camera close to the subject or in focus critical appliciaitons like on a copy stand or on a tripod trying to get small items framed exactly, the paramender was a must have item. you lowered it to doyour focus and framing, then raised it to take the picture. it shifted the whole camera up the exact space between the lenses to eliminate paralax errors. i see those now on e-bay pretty often.
the other neat lens was the 55mm. it was a bit difficult to handle at times since you lost so much at the bottom of the viewing frame, but those times when you managed to keep your toes and the foot of the tripod out of the frame, the results were worth it.
the things i have to complain about on these cameras are few. the light seals never seemed ot work very well if you changed film mid roll. so i usually advanced an extra fram and shot theinside of the lenscap before i changed a lens so the last picture i just took was less likely to get fogged. and the little lever that selected the M or X flash sync was a minor thorn in my flash since this lever had a spring missing or something so it moved a bit too freely on my 80mm lens. i have seen many professionally used cameras wherethis lever was pinned back in the X position with a little blob of auto body filler or epoxy putty, so my experieince must not have been all that unique. it only took one valuable shoot of the flash firing on M pre-fire setting and a roll of totally blank pictures to make you want to commit violence. ok, they were not totally blank, the light bulbs looked good on the prints. grrr.
a c220 or a c3, with a 65mm lens and weston master II light meter have been used to take some really amazing landscapes. enjoy your find.
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