The format of 617 and 612 is also different, yet can be very powerful.
#Mamiya 7 ii weight manual
This said, it is all manual and require an external meter. Fotoman 617 is cheaper new than a used Linhof and Fuji. With a quality lens the image quality is nothing short of superb, and. I bought my 617 directly from him in China. Ĭharlie is the one who heads Fotoman China and who per my understanding originally developed the cameras and has been responsible for the fabrication. Here is old webpage of international (in English), here is Chinese, or for contact at top here. Please note that while the international part of Fotoman have stopped business the Chinese part keeps going and sell international. If you are willing to go all manual, I can recommend Fotoman 617 or 612. For my 43mm I use a separate viewfinder to compose and the internal viewfinder to focus. What you see in viewfinder is not through the lens. It is a simpler camera than a dslr, but one need accept that it is different. This said it is not that difficult to learn.
Rangefinder? I now prefer it, because smaller and less weight. This is as compact of a camera you can go in 6x7. Look at weight.įor Mamiya 7 I have 43mm and 80mm. My experience of Pentax 6x7 is nil, except I have seen it and read about it.Ī very key difference: Weight. I now no longer shoot dslr but also MFDB, 617 and 4x5. I have a Mamiya 7, which at time when I bought it was as complement to DSLR. So what say ye, and why? Please tell me the good, the bad and the ugly.įYI, I am not interested in 6圆 format as an alternative. I can overcome #1, but feel really uneasy about #2. The two issues I have with the Mamiya 7 are 1) I've never used a rangefinder camera before, and 2) the minimum focusing distance is about 1 meter, which seems like a really long way away with a WA lens to me. The Pentax is way cheaper, but as I understand it, the pentaprism viewfinder only covers 90% of the image area, and I'm not sure using a WLF when I'm standing up to my thighs in water is practical? So it's either a Mamiya 7 with either the 43mm or 50mm lens, or a Pentax 67 with a 45mm lens. Alas, there is no such money tree and anyways spending that kind of money on what is basically a personal experiment is just silly. If I had a money tree in my back yard, I would get a Horseman SW612Pro and the additional 6x7 back and the 47mm Super Angulon, because having shift would be awesome. I've decided I want to go MF, and 6x7 is the format I prefer.
Film will be scanned with an Epson v750, and if something turns out that I REALLY like, I can have it drum scanned. tanks to develop B&W film in the kitchen sink. Let me back up a little here and give some additional info: There will be no darkroom, just a changing bag and some s.s. Originally I had the idea to get a used Canon EOS film body so I could use my existing lenses (I may still do that at some point as they can be had for as cheap as $25). I've been wanting a film camera for a while now.
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