Mamiya Discontinues the RB67 Pro

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Mamiya have just discontinued the RB67, but will be continuing with the the RZ range. Stocks of the RB67 are now at ridiculous prices.... while they last!
 
Joe T said:
You buying then? :)
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I'm thinking about MF Joe, and the RB 67 is my all-time favourite MF camera. They've been the workhorse tool of many a pro for around 30 years. The nice thing is it's a modular camera like most MF cameras, a box with bits bolted on and you can get all the bits off ebay dirt cheap and probably will be able to for many years to come.

I'm not looking to buy new but the new price while it lasts makes it a tempting proposition - around 750 quid complete at Ffordes which is really just nuts, and I doubt they're the cheapest.
 
kevmoz said:
any good places to buy? Starting uni in sept and need to go medium format. Can you recomend anything?
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See my post above, but have a look on ebay and ask here before you commit to anything if you're not sure. :)
 
Today hopefully! :woot:
 
LOL Yep it came yesterday.

Mama Mia! :love:
 
Pre-owned by a gent who'd really looked after it - it looks like it just came out of the box. I suppose you have to be a bit old skool to appreciate it really but it's a beautifully engineered bit of kit - no electronics at all, although it did come with a motor drive I'm unlikely to use which is battery dependent.

If a camera can be sexy - this is it. :nuts:
 
No Rog - it can be fitted to the RZ model which Mamiya are continuing with. It's not something I'm interested in though - this is a purely nostalgia fired celluloid trip. I always fancied an RB 67, and if I don't get one soon I wouldn't be able to pick it up. ;)
 
I don't know anything about these so could someone please explain, what exactly is a medium format camera, and how do they differ to todays cameras, thanks :thumbs:
 
Thanx Cedric ... :thumbs: ... that cleared that one up ... :D



Might change your name to Font ... :thinking:



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tel48 said:
I don't know anything about these so could someone please explain, what exactly is a medium format camera, and how do they differ to todays cameras, thanks :thumbs:
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Well it's wrong to think of them as other than todays cameras because many of them are in pro use all over the world. If you mean how do they differ from digital - well they take film, but many are now coming out in digital versions, or with the ability to take digital backs, but at a prohibitive cost for most of us.

Negatives are like boxers - a good big 'un will always beat a good little 'un. There's no substitute for a big negative for ultimate image quality. Huge plate cameras taking single exposures on very large sheets of cut film are really the ultimate quality, but very expensive to run.

Medium format cameras are a compromise somewhere between this very large camera format and 35mm film. They usually take 120 film which has a paper backing. Compared to a 35mm camera, they produce large images capable of very high quality enlargements.

There are various different makes of medium format camera, this one is the Mamiya RB 67 which is a single lens reflex camera which comes with a waist level viewfinder which you use to focus on a glass screen. The shutter is entirely mechanical so it's not battery dependent in any way.

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Pretty well all of them will take an accessory prism viewfinder which converts them to eye level viewing - some prism finders including metering too.

That's the bones of it - hope that helps. :)
 
I'm not sure Daz. I have the Pro S - I think it may be possible with the later (and last) Pro SD version, with an adapter plate being required.
 
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