And if I’d borrowed the 150mm lens off of Anais and had pursued some portraiture then I’m certain I’d have benefitted from being able to focus easier. In fact, for all but a few of the shots I’ve taken with either Makina 67 or Mamiya 7, I’ve scale focused, and where I’ve needed the rangefinder, I’m mostly been shooting at a reasonable distance where accuracy isn’t paramount anyway.
Mamiya 7 ii vs mamiya 7 Patch#
To me, landscape photography benefits from the extra clarity that medium format brings, but the benefit a distinct rangefinder patch brings is fairly nominal. The subject matter I enjoy shooting with medium format cameras is landscapes. To me, medium format cameras are best suited to subject matter that’s suited to the fact that all that extra film brings more clarity to the party. The reason it doesn’t matter so much to me when it comes to medium format gear is simply what I would choose to use these types of camera for. I say this fairly objectively, but subjectively I also much prefer this type of rangefinder patch and would actually go as far to say that I find the soft edged patch found in the Makina 67 and cameras such as the Canon P makes them quite a bit more difficult to use… at least as rangefinder cameras. The hard-edged more distinct rangefinder patch the Mamiya offers is definitely of a higher standard than the Makina.
I was intrigued to know if either or both of these factors could sway my opinion or preferences toward a Mamiya, or if my overall preference for smaller easier-to-carry cameras would win out. Is that the rangefinder patch isn’t all that great, so by this merit the Mamiya must have a better patch to focus with. The second was that the rangefinder patch in the Mamiya 7 is excellent. The first was that he thinks the 80mm lens is sharper than the Nikkor on the Makina. The bigger they are, the less I find myself inclined to carry them… so I certainly wasn’t going to be happy carrying a bigger camera and two extra lenses.Īs I remember it, Anais wanted me to try the Mamiya 7 for a couple of reasons. I like taking photos, but I don’t really like carrying cameras. As I talk about in the Makina review, I find its size and weight only just on the right side of palatable. The most relevant to this post is my view that I’m not really a medium format person. Shooting the Makina 67 proved a few things to me. It might seem daft not to have taken him up on the loan of all three lenses, but there’s method in my madness. I actually had to force him to only loan me the camera and 80mm lens – if he’d had his way, I’d have been shooting it with a set of 3 lenses. It was at this year’s Photography Show when we finally met and he handed it to me.
Of course, it’s rare I get such offers, but despite his generosity, it still took me a good 6 months to take him up on it. Over a year later, and that’s exactly what I’ve done.Īnais is someone I’d been chatting to for a little while on Instagram when he got in touch and asked if I’d like to try his Mamiya 7. He wanted to loan me Mamiya 7 so I could compare these two medium format giants. You might be wondering what this fact has to do with the Mamiya 7? Well, it all comes down to a conversation I had with a chap called Anais Faraj after I shared my Makina 67 review.
Last summer I finally bought myself one of my dream cameras, the Plaubel Makina 67.
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