There is also a dial for exposure compensation. The AE metered prism seen below has three options: AV average metering that sees the light of the entire picture and averages it, SP for spot metering and Auto A-S which chooses between the other two depending on the light of your scene.
It produces 15 exposures on 120 film, each at 6 x 4.5cm as its name says. I, for one, like to have a metered prism finder, but you can also get one without the meter, or even a waist level finder.
#Mamiya 7 ii loading film pro
The SpecsĬreated in 1992 (according to the Mamiya website) the Mamiya 645 Pro is a system camera similar to The Nikon F or the Canon F1, meaning there’s many options that can be bought to personalize this camera to your needs. I wasn’t crazy about the 1992 Plastic look, but after seeing what it could produce I overlooked its outer appearance and fell in love with it. So I found a Mamiya 645 Pro on Ebay so clean I couldn’t pass it up. But apparently this was the most popular model at the time because I couldn’t find one anywhere. I originally wanted the Mamiya 645 Super because it was fully modular and could still be used after the battery died with the speed of 1/60th of a second. Therefore, I decided the Mamiya 645 was going to be my first medium format camera, but I still had more to decide. In the end, the Mamiya 645 Pro really had all of the features I was looking for. The Bronica ETRS I heard was too difficult to get repaired if a problem occurred and the Pentax 645 didn’t have changing film backs. In the end, I would decide using the features that I wanted in a camera and that would help me make my final decision. This left me with the Bronica ETRS, Pentax 645, and the Mamiya 645. So I chose the 6×4.5 format, this way I could get 15 shots per 120 film roll. 6×7 shots are nice and big, but you only get 12 shots per roll. If you like square 6×6 then a Rolleiflex or Hasselblad may be the one for you. Criteria 3: Film FormatĪnother factor that helped me to eliminate some choices was the film format that I preferred to shoot with. The Mamiya 6 and Mamiya 7 from the 90’s are great cameras, and meet my light weight criteria but they carry a big price tag.
So I moved that one over to my piggy bank to be saved up for later. The Hasselblad 500 CM has been a dream camera for me since I was a teenager, but the price tag for one of those systems was just too much for me. So I immediately eliminated them for now. I found out that the Mamiya’s RB67 and RZ67 as well as the Pentax 6 x 7 were all very heavy cameras. The most important thing for me, because of my health, was to make sure the camera would be comfortable for me to hold. In the end of my research, I narrowed my list using the criteria I was looking for in a medium format camera. It was a long list, but it’s also an expensive purchase, and I wanted to make sure I was going to be happy with the choice I made. These included the Mamiya 7, Mamiya 6, Mamiya RB67 and RZ67, the Hasselblad 500 CM, Bronica ETRS, Pentax 645 and the Pentax 6 x 7.
With all that in mind, I made a Pros and Cons chart with all of the medium format cameras that I was interested in. But you also have to remember that if you’re going to be doing this for more than a couple days on a whim, you want a camera that suits your style, is comfortable for you to work with, and that gives you the features you need to achieve that style. Sure, if you know what you’re doing and you have the eye, you can get a picture with a box camera or a digital camera. Now, most photographers will turn their nose up at you at the mention of gear talk and say it’s about the picture not the camera, and that may be true, but you can’t count out the equipment you use to get the picture you want.
You can see from the title which one I ultimately chose, but in this article I will not only go over the Mamiya 645 Pro in all its glory, but also share my process in finding that this was the camera for me, and hopefully that will help you in your search. The big question was, with the many choices out there, which one was right for me? Last year I had finally decided I was comfortable enough with my photography skills that I wanted to make the leap to medium format film.
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