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yaya

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RZ lenses on 645 chip size
« Reply #20 on: June 21, 2007, 02:25:43 am »

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Actually, there IS a benefit to using the RZ ProIID.

Phase One already sells a plate that works electronically with a Mamiya 645AFD-mount back on the RZ ProIID - with no cables.
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This Mamiya-made plate lets any Mamiya AFD-fit back work on the ProIId without the sync cable.
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« Reply #21 on: June 21, 2007, 04:38:21 am »

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This Mamiya-made plate lets any Mamiya AFD-fit back work on the ProIId without the sync cable.
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yair, are there any issues with this setup? can you out shoot the back? does it work with phase well (i guess pss will be able to tell me that.).

the idea of having a leaf shutter, slow working but deliberate camera like the rz, then being able to use the afd with fast f1.9 lenses for different shooting is quite appealing. i dont really like the feel of the afd, but the options may out weigh it.

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« Reply #22 on: June 21, 2007, 09:23:08 am »

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This Mamiya-made plate lets any Mamiya AFD-fit back work on the ProIId without the sync cable.
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Yair
The Phase backs work perfectly with the Mamiya adapter. The Leaf Aptus backs work only tethered. and NOT untethered. I had been promised a fix for this but never heard back from Leaf.
So please don't recommend this combination with a Leaf back.
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« Reply #23 on: June 21, 2007, 12:24:40 pm »

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yair, are there any issues with this setup? can you out shoot the back? does it work with phase well (i guess pss will be able to tell me that.).

the idea of having a leaf shutter, slow working but deliberate camera like the rz, then being able to use the afd with fast f1.9 lenses for different shooting is quite appealing. i dont really like the feel of the afd, but the options may out weigh it.

paul
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you canot outshoot the back....the phase backs do not require a cable....the adapterplate i have is a phase item....there is a lot of confusion out there about this....mamiya makes one as well, but they had not tested it with phase backs at the time i bought mine....i got mine from phase....it rotates, no cables.....the only thing is that the camera has to be shut off when not in use, because the plate drains the little lith.battery in the RZ body....even without the back attached...don't ask me why....so always remember to turn the camera and always have an extra battery (duh....).....

yes the option to use the 645 for fast shooting and switch to the RZ is great...the RZ also has 1/400 so that takes care of the only real problem with the mamiya set-up.....now if the 645 only had a vertical grip.....
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« Reply #24 on: June 21, 2007, 09:45:45 pm »

A little over a year ago I switched from the RZ to the 645 system.  My main reason was to take advantage of the wider lenses available, the 37mm fisheye is the widest available with the RZ while with the 645 there is both the 35mm and 24mm fisheye.  Soon we'll have the 28mm to use.  In both automotive and architecture photography I've used the 24mm and then corrected the barrel distortion with Image Align.  It works very well.  There is some softness at two of the edges when the image is corrected but since the lens is so wide (180 degree field of view) even with some cropping the resulting field of view is tremendous.  Both the attached images were accomplished with the 24mm fisheye.  The only  disadvantage I've found is the lack of bellows on the 645.  With the RZ any lens can be focused quite closely which isn't the case with all the 645 lenses.  [attachment=2663:attachment][attachment=2664:attachment]
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