Google RB67 penny parlor trick if you don’t believe me…this rig is SMOOTH!! It is very well dampened and can get you reasonably sharp images with a shutter speed slower than 1/30th sec, hand held. Is it lightweight? Nope, it’s about as heavy as a Nikon F5 with a BIG tele lens – heavy enough to make you question your sanity 300 yards from the car at times.ĭoes the 6×7 mirror Slap? Yes but much less than you would ever imagine. Is it small enough to fit in a pocket? Nope. So what makes this a compelling rig to lug around the landscape? At F/22 for example, the range between the lines for the floating lens element, with a hyperfocal distance (the dot) of 5.5ft, you can capture everything from 0.5 feet to infinity and achieve sharpness out to the edges of the frame, despite some manageable distortion. You can use the floating lens element ring (front, with the green and red numbers) to maximize focus when stopped down. The above photo is a close up image of the Mamiya Sekor C 50mm f/4.5 lens. The same craze that devalued medium format gear to the point of making this once US$2K and up system affordable in 2010 – just at or above US$200.00 with a 90mm lens and a 6×4.5 film back in good user condition. The Pro-S, being an all metal mechanical camera had become a film pariah in the wake of the digital SLR craze. The system has many options and its lenses are proven workhorses, plus the imagery from this camera is wonderful and often dream like. My RB67 Pro-S kit consists of two bodies, four lenses and seven film backs. The 67 bit relates to the standard format the camera shoots in: 6×7, although it’s a little more flexible than that. The RB bit? That stands for “Rotating Back”, which I’ll be explaining in further detail below. Anne Leibovitz once used this system to great success. It’s a bellows focus medium format film SLR released in 1974 and sold to professionals in the magazine, print, fashion, and portrait industry for more than 15 years. What you see below is my Mamiya Sekor RB67 Pro S, the camera I’m reviewing today. Camera review: Mamiya RB67 Pro-S, Scott McClarin - EMULSIVE Close Search for:
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