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Re: [OM] OT: Why are the Mamiya Lenses so good?

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Why are the Mamiya Lenses so good?
From: Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:46:20 +0200
That may be. It's quite weird though - even if I were to get a 7, I'd  
never replace my
RB67, the precise composition and focusing ability, the close  
focusing, and the longer
lenses have allowed me to make many images that could never be made  
with a Mamiya 7.

I would really like both, yes please thank you :-)

For example, I was walking around on the beach one day with my RB67  
(loaded with FP4) and
just the standard very-wide 50mm Sekor-C lens. I saw an interesting  
bug, and instantly the
wide angle lens doubled as a 1:1 Macro lens because of the bellows  
focusing:

http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs47/f/2009/214/2/d/Dune_Bug_by_philosomatographer.jpg
(yes, this is ~ 1:1 on a 6x7cm image field - not exactly Ultra Macro)

The lens has heavy field curvature at this usage (which goes WAY  
beyond specification)
but I still ended up with a highly detailed 6x7cm negative that I  
quite liked.

For far-away subjects, the equivalent rangefinder lens (which,  
however, does *not* have a floating
system for close-up photography) would yield a maybe 10% better image  
in real terms, but would
never have enabled images like the link I posted above.

The Mamiya Rangefinder is like a Leica M - huge price, severely  
reduced flexibility, for
a slight increase in image quality, and of course smaller size. Two  
very different animals.


On 22 Oct 2009, at 5:24 PM, Ken Norton wrote:

> For some
> reason there is greater demand for that Rangefinder system than  
> there is for
> the SLR systems in medium format.  Maybe it's because those lenses  
> are so
> good.


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