Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the info. I'm processing my first film tonight. Ken Wilcox >-----Original Message----- >From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 10:12 AM >Subject: [Leica] BIG Leica > > >>After a couple of years of drooling over it, yesterday I purchased a Mamiya >>7 II along with 80mm and 50mm lenses and 35 adapter. >> >Congratulations on your new "baby"! I had a Mamiya 6 and found the shutter >wonderfully accurate--one of those fancy quartz-timed jobs in which the >timing circuitry is in the camera body, hence, less chance for variation >when switching lenses. > >The lenshoods, I could take or leave. I prefer not having to remove hoods >at all. > >I do not know what changes might have taken place in the Mamiya Seven >metering system, but the Six used pretty much the full viewfinder area for >metering, regardless of lens, and this caused some folks to grumble loudly >that the Six was underexposing all of their photos. Not true! They simply >failed to grasp the basic nature of the meter, and were inadvertently >metering a lot more sky than they realized. The trick is to always use the >full viewfinder area for metering the appropriate proportions of earth and >sky, in which case, you can pretty much leave it in auto, using the AE lock, >which works very well. In this sense, the Mamiya Six and Leica M6 are very >different indeed. > >You can call Mamiya USA and buy small parts, like caps, pay by credit card, >and wonder of wonders, the prices aren't bad at all. Dealers in my area tend >to drag their feet on the small items, so this can be a nice alternative. > >If you want a tripod QR plate, it'll either have to be a custom Arca-Swiss >type unit, or the Perfected Photo Products system, which looks like a >pint-sized Arca (If you want the PPP, let me know--I've got one sitting >around). Most others block the film hubs. > >Weak points? Mine was iffy with 220 film, skipping a frame here or there. >And on the Six anyhow, there was a small (RF alignment?) access plug which >might be best lightly(!) cemented into place with Pliobond. > >Jeff > >PS: Anyone own Fuji's zoom AF 6x4.5?? - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits Davison Middle School preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> 600 Dayton, Davison, MI 48423 <kwilcox@gfn.org>