Hello Lawrence and thank you for the response. I bypassed the 75mm shift for now opting instead for the 65/4 reasoning I'd see more utility out of it right out of the gate.

Dec 18, 2008 Greetings All, I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this lens-good or bad. How complicated it is to use, how the optics stack up to the 65mm/f4.

Plus, my G3 bellows and filters wouldn't fit that big, honkin 105mm filter thread. I found a good deal on a demo and it'll be here Friday-just in time for under the tree;-). This will be only my second Mamiya lens, being new to the RZ system this October. I started with the 110/2.8 and my results confirm your assessment above: they're awesome quality glass. This 65/4 has a good reputation and I'm anxious to put it to work this winter. I haven't shot RB lenses on my RZ but I understand it's possible. It's nice to have entered the realm of 'cheap glass' after having paid premium prices for all my DSLR glass for the past few years.

A quality MF lens is typically running about as much as the slow, variable ap. Consumer DSLR lenses these days, and I for one am glad (so is my wife!). Thanks again and kind regards, John. Hey John, I've been watching this thread.

I've been putting together an RZ kit and I must say these are GOOD times to be doing so. The glass is suberp and going for a song considering they are shutter lenses I have the 65 (non LA version) and you won't be disappointed. I've also been going through the motions of running down a decent dedicated film scanner to show what this glass can do. There is a great deal of learning when it comes to scanning but my only option for color. I'm still printing my b&w wet but plan on doing some comparisons once I have some more scanning under my belt. I also have the 110 2.8 for my normal and that is a bangin' piece of glass as well. Hi Bruce, 'I've been putting together an RZ kit and I must say these are GOOD times to be doing so.'

Isn't that the truth. Along those lines in a somewhat non-technical vein, I've been wondering about market trends lately and I'll see if I can roll it into an intelligible comment: In reading through the flickr's and various other on-line photo sharing spots it seems there has been somewhat of a re-invigoration of the film world-especially medium format.

Folks excited about picking up their RZ, RB, Pentax or what have you.inexpensively and shooting MF film for the first time. Maybe I'm just actively looking more now that I'm into it and the interest has always been there (which I'm sure is the case). But there seems to be a growing discontent with the DSLR limitations. Download Tema Lucu Untuk Hp Nokia Asha 210. Something along the lines of, the bigger the image is, the more expensive the camera is (case in point, the newly announced Nikon D3X at $8K; and the Nikon tilt-shift PC lens I was considering buying in October for my DSLR gear was about $1,800), the more of the imperfections you can see - so now bigger, newer, higher-resolving (and heinously expensive) premium DSLR lenses are being designed and built to put a higher-resolved image on a larger, more expensive sensor. All the while the cost rising higher and higher. And there's an 'emperor's new clothes' thing happening, where people are saying, '.wait a minute. You mean I can spend only hundreds of dollars and get an even better quality image by shooting film?'

And suddenly people's eyes are opening and are pointing at the digital emperor, realizing he's not what everyone wanted him to be. Maybe I'm just speaking for myself here but this is surely a cycle I've hit in this past year. While I regret not having jumped into MF earlier, I feel a bit like someone who profits from another's misfortune - buying all this amazing gear at such amazingly low prices because others have abandoned MF to chase the uncatchable digital darling emperor.

Just an observation, and happy to enjoy it while it lasts. Kind regards, John.

Hi, I found a mint condition RZ67 Pro II and a 75mm Shift lens today and was wondering if anyone here could shed some light on a couple questions. - Based on research it seems as if Mamiya made an RB and an RZ version, but that doesn't seem logical to me. Can anyone clear this up?

2 - When mounting the lens on the RZ 67 Pro II the shift is oriented side to side when movement is applied. I assumed it would be oriented up and down to mimic the rise and fall movements of a view camera. It wouldn't seem logical to have to put the RZ on its side on a tripid to get rise and fall, so what am I missing? 3 - I wasn't able to find a manual anywhere online. If you know of a source other than buying one on eBay, please let me know. Thanks, Larry. Hi, Many of the RB lenses were duplicated in RZ, for reasons mentioned above.

There is nothing illogical about it - it is a natural evolution to accommodate AE metering etc on the RZ. I do not own the RZ 75 Shift, but I do own the 50 Shift for Mamiya 645. If they are similar, the barrel will rotate 90 deg either side of horizontal. A tilt capability would certainly be a great addition, though. I have seen kludged solutions for other mounts, and then there may also be Hartblei or other possibilities in native RZ mount, although I haven't done much searching. Dslr Remote Pro Torrent Pirate Download on this page. A friend of mine uses a Zorki or something on his Hassy.

He had it transformed to Hasselblad mount, from I dunno which original mount. So something similar could be possible with RZ 67, but how you will incorporate the electronics for the leaf shutter is another matter. His photographs are really terrific, so it was worth the effort for him.