Meet our Newest Camera Family Member: My Mamiya 7

Now I can cross this off my 'To Do' list of New Year's Resolutions from the past 2 years..........

Photo taken by Donald with the Mamiya 6 (T-MAX film).  He claims that I wouldn't let him use the M6, so he supported me buying the M7.  I say he wasn't using it and I didn't want  it to go to waste........That's my story and I'm sticking to it.  More details on the Mamiya 7 to follow, as we spend this week looking at my camera test pix.


And me photographing Donald with the Mamiya 7.  Notice the difference in aspect ratio.  This is the 50mm lens.  I could get the 43mm lens and go 'super wide angle'.

San Diego Botanical Gardens

San Diego Botanical Gardens

Zoomed In!

A detail from yesterday.  Fully Zoomed:

Looking for Bokeh in Mamiya Lenses.......

There are to date more than 60 postings for Mamiya 645 and Mamiya 6.  And of course, the Banner photo is a Mamiya 645. Check them out and tell me what you think of the Mamiya lenses and bokeh......

Here's one example posted a while ago..............

The key is do the out of focus parts go into a pleasant soft focus (good Bokeh) or have sharp contrasty edges................What do you think?

Aim, Focus, Shoot!

Final photos from that first Rollei Roll:

Donald in the background, taking pictures of me taking pictures................

More from the Rollei

This was the first roll of film through the Rollei after my father in law gave it to us. The previous photo also from the same roll of C-41 B&W.  These turned out pretty well considering that I was guessing at exposures:

From the Arizona Cactus Garden at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

(Donald used to work there)

Feeling the Bokeh?

Ken Rockwell often has interesting (if controversial articles).  But feeling the Bokeh is not controversial.  I'd actually never thought about this, but how does your lens render the out of focus areas of an image?

After some examination my preliminary appraisal is the My Rollei has the best Bokeh:

Out of focus areas are soft focus and not harsh or contrasty.

I really should use this camera more, so I've decided to make it my dedicated Caffenol camera.