![]() Mamiya 7. Home Donate Search Gallery Reviews How- To Books Links Workshops About Contact. Mamiya. 7(1. 99. 5- today). I'd get it at Adorama (complete with lens), or body only, at Amazon w/lens or body only, or B& H w/lens or body only. ![]() It also comes used from these links to it at e. Bay. This free website's biggest source of support is when you use those and these links when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you live. April 2. 01. 4 Mamiya Reviews All Reviews. Why We Love Film How to Shoot Film The Mamiya 7 has been the world's best camera since the 1. It's the most portable, well thought- out and easiest- to- use camera, along with having the highest real- world resolution available in any hand- held camera, now for $1,4. Sample Image: Torino, Italy, October 2. My original scan is 1. MP and devoid of the artifacts in the file I share here, and includes even more image area that I cropped- off. No HDR, no long- exposure NR for this many- minute- long exposure required to get the sea of light along the bottom, no battery chargers, no oddball dedicated electronc cable releases and no BS: just plenty of time to think and shoot. Today if I really wanted a great- looking scan, I can send my film out to be drum- scanned to retain the shadow detail that's on the film, but hidden here because I only used a consumer scanner. Likewise, DSLRs don't make exposures longer than 3. I do gymnastics with external remote releases and noise reduction. Introduction top. The Mamiya 7 is the world's best camera. If I only could have one camera for everything I do, it would be the Mamiya 7 and the 4. Why? Because the Mamiya 7 offers technical image quality unmatched by anything, film or digital, this side of 4x. It's easy to shoot fast, too, and has lenses of optical quality far beyond any 3. Since large- format cameras don't work well hand held, this crowns the Mamiya 7 as the world's highest technical quality hand- held camera, period. It's a complete class above Leicas, and DSLRs like the Nikon D3. There are three main roll film types in regular use: 35mm, 120 medium format, and 220 medium format roll films. This list excludes large format, miniature. A few years back when I was climbing full time I began to try the Ewbank route on the Totem Pole. The route had only had one free ascent and was climbed in three. This portion of the museum contains cameras which are medium format with film that is larger than 35mm and generally 2.25" or 6cm wide. Digital Back Adapter & Quick Sliding Roll Film Back Adapter &Accessories The TOYO/KODAK DCS 465 Digital and regular TOYO QS adapter have a carriagethat slides a. Hasselblad 500 Series by Karen Nakamura. Overview and Personal Comments. The Hasselblad 500 series is a very successful line of single-lens reflex medium format. The Mamiya 7 is the world's best camera. If I only could have one camera for everything I do, it would be the Mamiya 7 and the 43mm, 80mm and 150mm lenses. 0 Features of Mamiya RB67 Pro-S The Mamiya RB67 Pro-S is a unique, high-grade, 6 x 7cm lens-shutter type, single-lens reflex camera developed to offer excellent. ![]() X, Canon 1. Ds Mk III and 5. D Mark II. The Mamiya 7 is a 6x. It has aperture- preferred automation and. Leicas. That's all very cool. The Mamiya 7. is a newer and less expensive to manufacture version of the Mamiya 6 (6x. Unlike. the Mamiya 6, the Mamiya 7 cannot collapse the lenses into the camera. I. prefer the Mamiya 6 as a camera, but I prefer the Mamiya 7 system because I use the ultra- wide 4. The widest lens for the Mamiya 6 is a 5. See the comparison here. The. Mamiya 7 is an expensive camera with fantastic optics, but it's built with only second- rate mechanical quality. It can produce consistently spectacular. I love it, but don't be disappointed when things start falling. Just look at the film you get back and you'll. Versions top. All the versions are the same camera. The differences are what color the plastic bodies are painted. The. . Mamiya also claims a . The. II version adds an extra neck strap lug. Mamiya can retrofit this to. Mamiya 7 if you want. The original Mamiya 7 in fake titanium finish shown above. The Mamiya 7. II. It comes in black, and a nasty painted chrome, euphemistically called . Actual image size: 5. Film. 12. 0 or 2. Pressure plate spins to select, and shows setting through a rear window. Focus. Manual rangefinder (split- image in finder). Finder Display Framelines, focus spot and LEDs for shutter speeds. Lenses. 43mm f/4. Shutter. Electronic leaf shutter in each lens. Standard Cable Release Socket. YES! Flash Sync All speeds up to 1/5. PC Terminal. Yes. Exposure. Aperture- preferred automatic and metered manual. Power. Common A5. PX2. 8A, 4. LR4. 4 or L1. V battery, same as the Pentax Digital Spot meter and Canon SLRs of the 1. These batteries sell for under $3 and are half the size of an AA, so it's easy to carry a spare. Battery Life. Years. Price, USAApril 2. November 2. 01. 3: $2,4. Lenses top. Summary. Mamiya makes many more lenses than you need. Pick two or three to suit your needs and you're done. They are all optical perfection. Most people want the 1. Mamiya makes three wide lenses for our convenience; no one actually carries all three. I use the 4. 3mm, 8. In fact, I rarely use the 8. I just use the 4. Except for a small ghost if you deliberately point the 1. Feel free to. point them at the sun, too: the leaf shutters are always closed, so. Leica or an SLR. The. The 4. 3mm lens is spectacular. It is a pain to use with. I. have not used the 5. I would suspect that they are. The. 2. 10mm f/8 lens is a joke. It has no ability to focus with the rangefinder. The. only application of which I can think for this lens is aerial photography. This has nothing to do with hyperfocal distances. Blindly setting f/2. Note the distance on the focus scale. Focus on the farthest thing you need sharp. Also note the distance. Set the focus ring to midway between these two points and leave. Presuming you really have the ring set midway between those two. Read this. aperture. Find that aperture on the left of the chart above and set the lens. Example: With the 5. You'll set the lens to 1. This will be far sharper than using. The math is here if you care. Most new Mamiya 7s seem to. Meter top. Contrary. to the sales literature, the Mamiya 7 meter is SPOT only, making it. You have no choice. The. spot on my Mamiya 7 meters an area about the size of the rangefinder. Test yours by pointing it at a bare bulb at night. The. meter reads exactly the same area regardless of lens attached. It reads. through a separate port just above the rangefinder window on the camera. It does not read through the lens. Mamiya. makes me laugh. They list different relative angles of view for different. This is because the metering area remains the same but the lens'. I. only use the meter in AEL or A mode, in which case it is effectively. The. built- in meter is sort of useless in manual mode because it only reads. Unlike every other manual meter, there is no . Because of. this you may be off as much as a half stop and not know it. This is. critical for slides, unimportant for negatives. You. ought to wiggle the aperture ring in manual mode and use the aperture. It. is very useful and sensitive for night photography if you follow the. As. most cameras, manual shutter speeds go in full stops and lens apertures. Metering Tricks top. Filters. When. using filters dial the compensation into the camera manually. For a. Tiffen screw- in neutral- density Grad ND 0. I just dial in +1 and fire. For a Polarizer I dial in the amount I've measured by previous. Most need +1 2/3 stops. You can use regular. You cannot see the effect through the. Watch it, because of. Only. use the viewfinder for composition, focus and exposure reading. Look. through your filters held up to your eye to see the polarization effects. I have not tried it. Even. with the polarized view through the finder I have not seen exposure. This tells me that the meter. See. more on my filter page about how to use graduated ND filters and polarizers here. Manual or Auto Exposure? Manual. exposure readings only read to the nearest full stop, so you will only. This makes the manual. Because of this I prefer the AEL mode for everything. Remember, manual speeds only set. Exposure Compensation Quick. AEL and shifting the aperture ring a click. Night Photography In. For. instance, at night I prefer to set the camera to a film speed six stops. In this case the. If the. meter reads 1/4 second at f/5. I use a quarter minute (1. For. the less mathematically inclined, here are the numbers. Remember to. set film speed six stops faster and then use this table: If meter reads (at six stops higher film speed)Then use this exposure. LT1 - 4 minutes. Note: add exposure. If it's still too dark, take your reading at a larger apertures and do more math in your head to calculate the exposure at your taking aperture. For instance. if you get two seconds at f/4, use 1. Filters, use with top. I've. found an important side benefit to carrying and using only 6. Mamiya 7 system. One. This. is important since it both saves carrying an extra dozen filters in. For. instance, an 8. C, an FLD and a grad ND will turn a blah sunset into. See. how to use polarizers and graduated ND filters on my filter page here. Flash, use with top. This. is a no- brainer. The Mamiya 7, like almost all larger format cameras. AF 3. 5mm SLRs here. This means you can use any flash. There is no TTL mode or dedication to worry. For. flashbulbs you only have X- sync. See the exposure recommendations for. I. prefer any electronic flash with an A or AUTO mode. I use the tiny Nikon. SB- E (2. 0 years old and worth $3. Simply. set the flash to an auto setting that gives you enough range, and set. For. fill flash, this is really easy: set the camera to one stop less than. In other words, if the calculator. Now use the camera's A mode. The camera will. automatically adjust itself for the ambient light, and the flash will. To. adjust the fill ratio, just change the flash's auto setting or the camera's. For less fill, set the camera two stops below what the flash. For very heavy fill (using the same aperture on the camera. AND full ambient exposure adding up. Flash. Sync is 1/5. Leica or any 3. 5mm film SLR. Of. course there is a PC sync terminal for use in the studio. Panoramic & Multi- Format Options top These. The. pan option only makes sense in the rare case that you happen both to. In. this rare case it looks a little neater to have the transparencies already. Even in this. case it's a waste of time: there are no standard mounts or pages for. Not. only that, using 3. Even worse, using the pan adapter commits you to that format. Use no pan adapter and crop the few you may want. The prices of used Mamiya. USA is more than the price of new gear in Japan. The. Mamiya 7 is not well made. It's just expensive, ultra- portable and gives fantastic. You. can pay for a trip to Japan or other country with the amount you'll. Pay. attention to import customs rules. The results were so far beyond anything I had ever. Pro Nikon gear I was an instant. Your camera store. I couldn't care less. I'm just trying to help you with what I've learned. A 4 x 5 will cost a lot less than digital, even. It. just takes a lot more concentration and patience. Spend less. than $2,0. It just takes a lot. CAMERASTachihara. The. best references for this are Ansel. Adams' book one, . I found them so helpful after borrowing. I bought them. Also I subscribe to View. Camera Magazine. The first two books explain everything. The. magazine keeps you current with gear and other artists' work. There. is tons of great equipment available used and cheap. There was a good roundup of currently available. September/October 2. View. Camera Magazine. LESS than any other format. I paid $1. 50 for my used enlarger. I. paid $3. 00 for my first 4 x 5 camera including lens. This $3. 00 camera. This $3. 00 used 4 x 5 is sharper. Hasselblad and worlds beyond a $5,0. Leica, Contax. Canon or Nikon. CHEAP. Sure, it costs $3 per shot. I can. blow off a few hundred dollars worth of 3. I still haven't finished off the $7. I bought 5 years. I personally prefer. Today I use a Tachihara. Adorama. You will need lenses for it of course. There are loads of great. If you are on a. tighter budget, look for a 1. Crown Graphic. It's what you see used. You can get these for. WITH a perfectly fine lens. An old $2. 00. Crown Graphic will completely eclipse any Nikon, Hasselblad or Leica. The. basic points are to: 1.) Check the shutter. A repair shop can do that. Check the focus. between the ground glass and your film: if a bonehead assembled the. You test that by shooting. Check for light. leaks in a darkroom with a flashlight jammed inside the bellows. Avoid the heavier. Speed Graphic with the focal plane shutter, just because it's heavier. FP shutter. I prefer the Tachihara. Graphics because the Graphics are not intended to make it easy. The Graphics are a very. A lot of the art on this site. Crown Graphic. Press cameras like. Graphic and even the expensive Linhof Technika can be used hand- held. You pop in film. holders and shoot handheld. For faster work you can use a Graphmatic. If you are on a. budget and need to buy new (pretty silly, really) then you can buy a. Calumet Cadet 4 x 5 monorail camera for $3. Heck, I wouldn't buy new, but. Cadet camera with a brand new lens from Calumet for. Monorails are very flexible if you only work in a. Forget. monorail cameras for use in nature. As you'll see at the Calumet site. If you have unlimited. Sinar. Others like these because they. You also will be. Linhof Technika. I also use one of these. It is a precision brick of metal. You are welcome to buy a brand new one for several thousand. You want at least. Technika IV, introduced in 1. The Tachihara camera takes the same lensboards. The. more recent Technikas have a hinged top to allow rise with very short. I use a 7. 5mm lens on my Technika IV on a deeply recessed board. Using wide angle lenses on a Technika starts to get complicated. I bought. mine from Adorama. The same camera is sold by Calumet as their . The 4 x 5 camera has been in use for over. I regularly use lenses from the 1. The best photos on my site come from these old lenses, and the. Nikon digital SLR gear. NEW: Rodenstock 4. APO- Grandagon 1. March 2. 00. 8 Schneider. XL 1. 6 November. Schneider. 6. 5mm f/8 Super Angulon. Zeiss. 7. 5mm f/4. Biogon. Schneider. Super Angulon. Schneider. Super Angulon. Schneider. Angulon. Nikkor- SW. Wollensak. 1. 35mm f/4. Nikkor- W. 1. 35mm f/5. Schneider. Symmar 1. Rodenstock. Sironar- n 1. Nikkor- W. 2. 10mm f/5. Nikkor- M. 3. 00mm f/9. Manufacturing. dates for all Schneider lenses based on serial numbers: 5. January 1. 92. 2 1. January 1. 92. 5 2. June 1. 92. 8 3. 00,0. February 1. 92. 9 4. April 1. 93. 1 5. June 1. 93. 2 6. 00,0. August 1. 93. 3 7. October 1. 93. 4 8. September 1. 93. 5 9. May 1. 93. 6 1,0. November 2. 1, 1. September 4, 1. 94. May 2. 0, 1. 95. 2 4,0. October 2. 9, 1. 95. February 2. 6, 1. May 1. 9, 1. 95. 9 7,0. February 1, 1. 96. March 1. 4, 1. 96. February 2. 1, 1. February 1, 1. 96. September 2. 1, 1. January 1. 8, 1. 96. October 6, 1. 96. November 1. 5, 1. June 2. 2, 1. 97. September 1. 5, 1. January 1. 97. 7 1. October 1. 98. 3 1. January 1. 98. 5 1. August 1. 98. 6 1. November 1. 98. 8 1. January 1. 99. 1Schneider. Optics (lenses)Manufacturing. Rodenstock lenses based on serial numbers: (From. You should subscribe. I do!)5. 0,0. 00. Large. Format Lenses (Nikon UK)Catalog. Nikon Large Format lenses (in Japanese, sorry)FILMYou. Tri- X, Velvia, etc.) that you use in any other format. Each holder weighs. You. also can buy film already packaged into paper sleeves that can be used. Polaroid film holder. I prefer the Polaroid holder since it works. Fuji, Polaroid and Kodak. The Kodak or Fuji holders only work with. The. quickload systems save you from having to load holders yourself in. They also allow. you to pack a lot more loaded film since each sheet is in a paper. Of course the lightest. I can shoot at f/5. This presumes your camera is. If your ground glass is improperly positioned you may. The. fast load systems have to claim great flatness since they don't usually. I. get great and consistent results with the Kodak holder and 2- sheet Kodak. I. get varying results with the single- sheet Fuji sheets. I get the best. results with the Polaroid holder. The inch of film closest to the loading. Fuji or Polaroid holder sometimes will move a little bit. If you experiment. I. try to shoot at f/3. Fuji system to eliminate any film flatness. Sometimes the film is held flat, sometimes not. Few people see. this since most people shoot 4 x 5 at f/3. I try to shoot at bigger apertures to eliminate diffraction. Try it. yourself and see. I tend to see things that most people don't, so don't. Also sometimes. the fast load systems work great, too. The. fast load systems may be better for night work since they use pressure. That's how I learn all this stuff. I. use both systems depending on how cheap (conventional) or lazy (quickload). I am for any given project. DUSTDust. is sometimes a problem. You have to load your film yourself. Occasionally I'd get a speck on. These would. be an obvious single speck, not zillions of tiny ones. My. lab made a suggestion and ever since I've had no problems. They suggested. I tap the edge of each sheet on the table just before loading. It's worked, although I think I've been. Of. course today dust isn't a problem since color work is printed electronically. B/W is best printed optically and you. Excellent retouchers, many of whom are probably gone. I vacuum my holders with a Shop- Vac if. I'm home. LABSMost every city has professional labs that run 4 x 5. Camera stores are not professional labs; check your Yellow Pages. I. use Chrome in. San Diego for all my E6 (Velvia). They do mail- order if you have. For 4x. 5 black- and- white. I. don't shoot C4. Mesa. Photo, also in San Diego, processes 4x. C4. 1 color negatives. Dark Cloth. I made my own. I put Velcro on the edges and camera to keep it on in. Visit any fabric store and try the different fabrics by. I used a soft. fabric and folded it over for double thickness. Focusing. Loupes. I use a 4x, rubber- bumpered, extended Toyo. It's intended. for use under dark cloths or hoods on ground glass screens. LINKSFocusing the View Camera Where. Help me help you top I support my growing family through this website, as crazy as it might seem. The biggest help is when you use any of these links to Adorama, Amazon, e. Bay, Ritz, Calumet, J& R and Scan. Cafe when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you live. It costs you nothing, and is this site's, and thus my family's, biggest source of support. These places have the best prices and service, which is why I've used them since before this website existed. I recommend them all personally. If you find this. If you've gotten your gear through one of my links or helped otherwise, you're family. Thanks! If you haven't helped yet, please do, and consider helping me with a gift of $5. 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