[pure-silver] Re: Mamiya 6

I'm delighted with my Mamiya 6. There was a discussion here in May 2005 touching on the Mamiya 6. I have 2 bodies, and the older, most used one has a (repairable) fault. Among several posters, I wrote:

"For lightness and compactness the Mamiya 6 is hard to beat in my limited
experience (the one that Ryuji calls "new Mamiya 6" to distinguish from
some much older folders). They have some potential service problems due to
total absence of certain spare parts, and good ones have become very
expensive recently. They are, however, a beautifully elegant 6x6 camera
(but the MF version has a cluttered screen). I travel with the 50mm and
150mm lenses. It's not much bigger than a "professional" 35mm
camera. It's hand holdable at surprisingly long shutter speeds, and very
quiet (a plus for me).
If you crop a 6x6 neg to fit 8x10 paper, there should be no difference
between 6x6 and 6x4.5, except for the inconvenience of turning the camera
90 degrees.
The Mamiya 7 is fractionally bigger, but if you like a 50mm lens, you
(probably*) need an auxiliary viewfinder which makes the whole thing a lot
less elegant. For 65mm lens and longer, the viewfinder is fine. (But in
general the framing of a rangefinder is not accurate anyway, so it's a
matter of taste whether it matters a lot.) The bigger (56mm x 69.5mm) neg
gives you one size larger in paper (over rectangular print from 6x6) at the
same enlargement magnification, which is a useful improvement."


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