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Title: Mamiya ZD Hands-On Report
Post by: Mort54 on March 27, 2007, 10:53:20 am: Michael, you mentioned that the ZD had a user installable/removable A/A filter, and that you didn't have time to compare the two configurations. But you never mentioned which configuration you actually tested. Curious minds want to know :-)

Thanks,
Hans.
Title: Mamiya ZD Hands-On Report
Post by: michael on March 27, 2007, 01:20:24 pm: The filter is an extra cost option. The camera comes without the filter.

Sorry, I should have made that clear.

Michael
Title: Mamiya ZD Hands-On Report
Post by: David Anderson on March 27, 2007, 06:20:23 pm: Thanks for the review, the ZD is very interesting for the price alone.

One question, how do the Mamiya lenses compare with the Blad ones ?
Title: Mamiya ZD Hands-On Report
Post by: BernardLanguillier on March 27, 2007, 06:40:11 pm: Quote
One question, how do the Mamiya lenses compare with the Blad ones ?
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David,

Most Mamiya lenses are about half the price of their Hassy equivalent, or slightly more than that.

A notable excpetion is their new 28 mm f4.5 - due to become available in May - that one will be more expensive than the Hassy equivalent.

Besides, at least in Japan where i live, they are readily available second hand, while the Hassy lenses are basically impossible to find anywhere.

Regards,
Bernard
Title: Mamiya ZD Hands-On Report
Post by: michael on March 27, 2007, 06:54:09 pm: The mamiya lenses are good. Some are excellent, some not quite as good as the best Hassy or Contax Zeiss. It's a quibble more than anyhting else. Some very fine photographers, such as Charlie Cramer us them for gallery quality fine art landscape work with a P45.

Michael
Title: Mamiya ZD Hands-On Report
Post by: David Anderson on March 27, 2007, 07:24:38 pm: Thanks for that..

Might have to borrow a ZD for a shoot and see what it's like..
Title: Mamiya ZD Hands-On Report
Post by: JJP on March 28, 2007, 06:36:10 am: Great Scott,
After reading some of the ZD commentary that was released during 06 3rd and 4th quarter, I thought Mamiya was dead, buried, and had kicked the bucket.
Your review really IMO should be titled the ZD resurrection
jj
Title: Mamiya ZD Hands-On Report
Post by: Rob C on March 28, 2007, 09:42:44 am: Quote
The mamiya lenses are good. Some are excellent, some not quite as good as the best Hassy or Contax Zeiss. It's a quibble more than anyhting else. Some very fine photographers, such as Charlie Cramer us them for gallery quality fine art landscape work with a P45.

Michael
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To that, I'd like to add that going back in time, history, even, I used to have a 180mm Sekkor (?) for a TLR Mamiya body and then, when I managed to 'upgrade' to a Hasselblad, the first additional lens I bought was a 150 Sonnar. Well, in my opinion as a user, the Mamiya lens was a far nicer optic, for being that wee bit longer (better perspective for head/shoulder shots) as well as for its bokeh, though none of us knew at the time that that was what it was. (Imagine a winking emoticon here.)

Also, pre-digital, Hasselblad lost out big-time to Mamiya's 6x7 format with lots of top fashion and advertising photographers; I doubt it was all simply to do with format and these are lads to whom money had long ceased to mean anything...

Just a thought - Rob C