Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> The Mamyia7 is a very fine camera. In some ways, it is a "big" Leica. > However, it suffers from obvious physical limitations. Its normal lens > is > the 80mm lens with a 4.0 aperture. Therefore, it has all of the > depth-of-field and speed limitations of a Leica lens of similar focal > length. The Mamyia is also bigger and uses more expensive film. > > Yes, the Mamyia 7 has a place in this world, but it is not a Leica. > Please > read some of the pre-war Leica manuals. What has changed. Probably not > much, > except that we have more sensitive materials, which also exhibit > superior > definition and contrast. Er...yes...but the question to which I was commenting was about downsizing from a Pentax 67 to a Leica M6 *but wanting to retain 6x7 quality*, in which case whether the Mamiya "is not a Leica" is not the point, since it is unquestionably the best answer to the original poster's dilemma. David Morton | "The reason that Korean companies are Technical Director | investing here is that wages in large Speed Publications Ltd. | parts of the UK have fallen well below dmorton@journalist.co.uk | Korea. Following years of economic 104707.2434@compuserve.com | failure, we can also boast a cowed and Kilburn, London, England. | pliant workforce." (Simon Hoggart)