Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff Moore wrote: > > I really like my Mamiya 7 -- as a thing of its type -- but with 20/20 > hindsight I now realize I don't use it *nearly* enough to justify its > stiff price. I used to use a Mamiya Six a lot but made the mistake of using slower films and a tripod too often and eventually saw no point in using an RF instead of an SLR. But at the time, I hadn't experimented with Tmax 400 and Xtol which would've made the Mamiya much more of a handheld available light camera. Even if the Tmax had been on the grainy side (which it isn't) that's a big negative we're dealing with. Subjectively, however, I found the Mamiya Six optics about as different from my Leica and Zeiss glass as they could be, being more on the hard and crispy side. With my 35 and 90 M Summicrons, I can work with very shallow depth of field and still get something that looks good though maybe a little soft. With the Mamiya, I had to be much more careful with such compositions and even so, preferred deep depth of field and f/8 or smaller. - -- Jeff Segawa Somewhere in Boulder, Colorado