![]() The waist level finder is what I use and it has a large lens that makes the focusing a lot easier. However the standard ground glass doesn't have a split prism for focusing and it might take some time to get a perfect focus with the dark lenses. ![]() The view finder is bright and large with lines for both verticle and horizontal positions. The down part is that the bellow looses light if extended too long and needs to be compensated. Its quite precise and can be focused by both hands. The focusing needs getting use to as its a knob like in TLRs and focusing is done through a bellow. Also they all have the same filter size of 77mm (except 50 and 65mm lenses I think) which is great. They have built in Seiko leaf shutters that can sync with flash at any speed and are the reasons I bought them. Compared to my Carl Zeiss Lenses for Pentacon, Mamiya lenses are much darker (2 stops) but optically are at least comparable. The only problem that I see is that the lenses are quite dark 3.5 the brightest. I can see quite a lot of details on my slides. The lenses are pretty big and heavy, optically are very good (my 50mm and 127mm are quite dirty inside and one has even water mark after some dude badly cleaned it). The film backs are kinda delicate, the 2 that I own have old seals that I need to replace and have some platic parts broken off and the winding isn't perfect etc, but the biggest problme with them (at least 1) is that the film counter doesn't trigger after exposure and I often inadvertantly get double exposures which are horrible considering there are only 10 exposures per roll. The best think I like about this camera is the rotating back, its so easy to use and is very handy something I'd never give up for. ![]() ![]() I'm a quite strong person but I have problems holding it still with the metering prism thats why I don't use it :-) This is a seriously BIG camera, 2x bigger and heavier than my Kiev. Rather be using full-sized 4x5 sheet film.I bought this camera out of curiosity because I was kinda bored with 6圆 and heard wonders about 6x7 and out of Bronica and Mamiya I went with Mamiya because there were simply more of it on the market. But except when I need the portability of roll film, I'd much I personally use Horseman 6x9 backs when I do this kind of thing, and the presence of movementsĪllows me to obtain better focus than any dedicated medium format lens system. Not every roll film back is well made either. The system is heavy but very rigid, and has to be. The best telephotographer I know actually uses a heavy 8x10 metal Toyo G view camera with a 35mm digital or film cameras, and Apo Nikor process lenses up to 600mm (not 35mm lenses), on a big wooden tripod. You need something rather well machined which will accept a bag bellows - unless you are working with very long focal length lenses. So just any clunker of a cheap view camera probably won't be very satisfactory. And having lenses very close to the film plane can be pretty tricky too. Part of the issue is mechanical, the other part just It's even harder with a roll film back than with full-sized sheet film. Achieving precise focus with tiny capture surfaces and typical camera movements is pretty tricky, and often needs very precise gearing or a
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