[font color=\'#000000\']Dear Virgil,
I have been using MF cameras for about 2 years now, and I am most enthusiastic about them. Though I am in the US, I have chosen to use older cameras (folders like the Perkeo I, and a Rolleicord) because of their simplicity, lack of light meters, and generally, just non-auto-everything. Thus, I essentially constructed a situation that is very similar to your own (though by design, rather than circumstance ) ...
My advice to you is to learn to see "square" ... the Rolleicord is my favorite camera because I've found that 6x6 is a format I feel comfortable with for landscapes, which is what I shoot exclusively. Even when the format is a bit awkward for a specific situation, it is possible to crop either vertically or horizontally, so you've got the best of all formats! (I'm sure some/many will disagree with me ... ) :cool:
Put your camera on a tripod, load it with a fine-grained film, and off you go to shoot! You'll soon find that your mind will adapt to the horizontally-flipped image, and that you'll get used to the square format ...
Enjoy!
Joffre[/font]