I get emails asking me what I think of Canon EOS1Ds or Nikon D70s or specific lenses. The older EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM costs around &163 430 and sports an. The rangefinder is ideal for quick, accurate focusing, particularly in low light situations being brighter than medium format SLR finders.Canon also offer two macro lenses at this focal length with a maximum aperture of f/2.8, which is a stop slower than this lens. Compact and lightweight, the Mamiya 7 II has aperture priority as well as fully manual mode. The Mamiya 7 II is a medium format 6x7cm rangefinder camera with interchangeable leaf shutter lenses.
I bought the M6 new with the 50 and 75mm lenses in 1992 and, after settling down with the operating procedures, grew to use it as my primary camera for the next 6 or 7 years. Descriptions: The Mamiya 7 II is a medium format 6x7cm rangefinder camera with interchangeable leaf shutter lenses.This is more or less the crown jewel of my gear. The only area where the A7rII beats them is in classical concert photography because of its silent shutterLOL :)by Ken Rockwell quote from Photo.net. In Short he says the A7rII is a great camera but not as good as same priced DSLR. Here's this equipment and what I think of it:Ken Rockwell posted his full A7rII review and I didn’t expect anything else than a highly polarizing review. I know, use and really like the Nikon FE/FM3A cameras, the Mamiya 6 and, to a lesser extent, the Contax G1/G2 cameras and a couple of other point and shoots.
That's no good! Your subject is supposed to see spots, not the photographer!Mamiya 7 without battery the camera has an electronic shutter so needs batteries to operate. On the Rolleicord, with no flash shoe, you have to mount this big bracket, put the flash on, hook up a PC cord, check that it's on X sync and not M, and then when you do bounce flash you get a facefull of flash. Well, it came down to a couple of things: 1) I wanted a light meter so I wouldn't have to always carry my Sekonic L28C2 with me and 2) I wanted a flash shoe since I take so many of my pictures indoors.
This isn't going to happen. Also, if everybody used them processing would get a lot cheaper. I wish everybody would use them because they do wonders for the detail in prints. (Ken Rockwell loves it he calls it the world's most perfect camera system and, within limitations, I don't think I'd dispute this). Mamiya 7 battery check if the shutter speed LED (bottom left of the viewfinder) is blinking the battery is low and needs replacing.On a day-to-day basis, the Mamiya 6 is a great camera.
The M6 is beautifully executed but a 6X7 negative would have been nice. Undercutting Hasselblad, Mamiya and Leica by tens of thousands of dollars.Mamiya, in my humble but correct opinion, never quite got it right. Once you've used it for a while, this isn't a problem any more, but be prepared to look like an idiot when you first use the camera.Leica Elmar 9cm F4 From Ken Rockwells Review: This is Leicas first 90mm. There are interlocks for this stuff, so you can find yourself trying three times to take a picture before you actually do it. There is a certain procedural precedence for doing things like, say, changing a lens, where you have to close this curtain right in front of the film to keep from exposing it, and then remember to reopen it once the other lens is on so you can shoot again. There's nothing whizzy about all this, but the lenses are terrific, as good as it gets in medium format, and the camera is a joy to use.
I wish they'd have put a little more thought into this up front.I'm not the only one who likes the M6 and wonders if the M7 was brought out in a cost-cutting move to eliminate the all-metal, collapsing M6. So you can get the delightfully compact M6 and live with the square negative or the ideal format M7 and live with the bulky camera. Then the lenses are non-interchangeable between the cameras. This makes the M7 much bulkier than the M6. They came out with the Mamiya 7 in 1995 or so and didn't make it collapsible, one of the most enticing features of the M6.
It's odd, now, to think of a regular store carrying a 6X6 camera, but they did. I'd always liked the Yashica Mat 124G they used to carry at the now-defunct Richman Gordman department store in Des Moines. The Vb is a circa 1960-62 model, so has coated lenses etc. Bon Voyage! scanned directly from back of my Rolleicord VbI bought the Rolleicord for $125 used in 1975 while a freshman in college. Anyway, you look up the Exposure Value (EV) off the table based on the film speed, cloudiness and time of day, set it on the EV scale linked to the f/stop and shutter speed, and shoot away.
During the few years either side of college graduation, when we used to shoot weddings, the Rollei was a real trooper in the wedding shot department. Over the years I got a nice filter set, a tripod quick release and a panorama head for the Rollei. This was a tragic waste of the big image area of the negatives. I rarely did color work since 6X6 slides aren't that useful (for me) and the standard color print at the time was a 3 1/2 inch square thing, often with a border. I did a lot of black and white work with it, we shot house pictures in college, I used it on trips. Anyway, the Rollei proved useful.
Anyway, I'll probably keep the 'cord for old times' sake and to train my kids on when they learn photography.One thing I am playing around with on the Rollei is retro-flash photos. In my opinion, this happens for two reasons: 1) the waist-level viewing means that you are shooting from a flattering position, giving people a lot of stature (since I tower over most people, I generally kneel to take their photos anyway when using a eye-level camera) and 2) there aren't many waist-level cameras around these days, so people don't think of it as a camera in the sense they do when you lift something up to your eye. One thing I have noticed about the 'cord, and which a friend of mine separately commented on, is how nice pictures of people look taken with it. It demands a higher-contrast film than the Mamiya because the lenses aren't quite as crispy a contrast as the M6's. Horrors! Well, it worked for four more years with no problem and then I sent it off for a proper cleaning.These days the Rollei gets used just a little. And being all-mechanical, when the shutter did get sticky, Dahms and I just took the camera apart and oiled it with some aviation instrument oil.
It reveals the mysteries of the Rolleipol, Rolleinar, Rolleimeter and, my favorite, the plate film back. If you are deeply interested in some of the wierder accessories Rollei made for the Rolleiflex and Rolleicord, and you have some spare time, you might want to take a look at my 4.6 Megabyte PDF file of the The Practical Accessories which I scanned in and converted to a PDF myself. It's worth looking at if you have an interest. All I need is a fedora with a Press pass in it and a cigar!A Dutch guy named Ferdi Stutterheim has a Rolleigraphy site which discusses some of the history of the Rolleis and a bunch of good links and some nice photos. So, load 'er up with Tri-X, put my Leica bulb flash on the handle, stick in some M-3s and I'm ready to be Weegee. Now these are from the 4X5 inch negative Speed Graphics, but the 2 1/4" square Rollei and a bulb flash is not that different a look.
I owned two of them for many years. The booklet isn't in pristine condition, but the scans are quite readable.The Nikon FE has been a workhorse camera.
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