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#Mamiya 7 ii vs mamiya 7 Patch#

#Mamiya 7 ii vs mamiya 7 Patch#

The hard-edged more distinct rangefinder patch the Mamiya offers is definitely of a higher standard than the Makina.

6.1 Final Score: Makina 67 4:0 Mamiya 7ĭespite the Mamiya 7 losing the battle, I suppose it’s only fair to first point out that Anais was seemingly right about the two things he asserted.

And though the Mamiya put up a good fight, the reasons my preferences remain with my Makina 67, it didn’t just come down to size. The Makina 67 wins this battle in my world. I was intrigued to know if either or both of these factors could sway my opinion or preferences toward a Mamiya, or if my overall preference for smaller easier-to-carry cameras would win out. Is that the rangefinder patch isn’t all that great, so by this merit the Mamiya must have a better patch to focus with. The second was that the rangefinder patch in the Mamiya 7 is excellent. The first was that he thinks the 80mm lens is sharper than the Nikkor on the Makina. The bigger they are, the less I find myself inclined to carry them… so I certainly wasn’t going to be happy carrying a bigger camera and two extra lenses.Īs I remember it, Anais wanted me to try the Mamiya 7 for a couple of reasons.

I like taking photos, but I don’t really like carrying cameras. As I talk about in the Makina review, I find its size and weight only just on the right side of palatable.

The most relevant to this post is my view that I’m not really a medium format person. Shooting the Makina 67 proved a few things to me. It might seem daft not to have taken him up on the loan of all three lenses, but there’s method in my madness. I actually had to force him to only loan me the camera and 80mm lens – if he’d had his way, I’d have been shooting it with a set of 3 lenses. It was at this year’s Photography Show when we finally met and he handed it to me. Of course, it’s rare I get such offers, but despite his generosity, it still took me a good 6 months to take him up on it. Over a year later, and that’s exactly what I’ve done.Īnais is someone I’d been chatting to for a little while on Instagram when he got in touch and asked if I’d like to try his Mamiya 7. He wanted to loan me Mamiya 7 so I could compare these two medium format giants. You might be wondering what this fact has to do with the Mamiya 7? Well, it all comes down to a conversation I had with a chap called Anais Faraj after I shared my Makina 67 review. The biggest P67 advantage - you will have a back and forearms of an Olympic weightlifter after shooting with it for a few months.Last summer I finally bought myself one of my dream cameras, the Plaubel Makina 67. Harder to break, easier to fix, parts are cheaper, more people service it, etc, etc. Fixing one? I mean, it can be done, but good luck. You really don't want to get it wet, or bump it accidentally.

Yes, Pentax has a lineup of leaf shutter lenses that work just like Mamiya's! The ones I shot with I didn't see any difference with Mamiya lenses sharpness-wise, although objectively Mamiya is probably sharper if you start doing lab level comparisons. Here are my reasons, other than what you already mentioned: One of the alleged drawbacks of P67 is loss of sharpness due to mirror shake at low speeds, BUT, if you are going to be shooting landscapes, you most likely should do it off of a tripod, and assuming you do that, you can take advantage of mirror lock up in combination with Pentax leaf shutter lenses. Switched from M7 to M6, because I like square format more, but still have P67II.