Your mamiya 645 af is designed for heavy professional use and will give you a long service life if properly maintained. Smc pentax 645 lenses are mediumformat lenses that can be used on pentax 645 bodies, as well as on pentax kmount bodies with the appropriate adapter. Fotodiox pro iris lens mount adapter compatible with mamiya 645 m645 mount afafd lenses to canon rfmount camera. When i got my camera, lenses and stuff i went looking for information about these.
While having focus at full aperture and then check on the lens the aperture you want or not being able to see in the display the aperture you have is a drawback, being able to use the old lenses is a plus, specially because the range of af lenses is still limited compared. The mamiya 645af medium format rangefinder film camera is packed with a. Mamiya 645 af medium format film camera body only for sale. The other option is the 120mm macro, which is also manual focus only but has an af confirm chip, i think. Recent mamiya bodies, such as the 645afd series, have removable film backs, and are compatible with a wide range of digital backs. The range of lens designations is very similar to that provided for the earlier, manualfocus cameras the mamiya m645 and m645 super. See also mamiyas comparison chart among the 645af, 645afd and 645afdii, and their common questions and. Ive used a few mamiya 645 lenses on a7rii including 2. But everything was scattered all over the whole internet so i will try to collect everything and put it together to.
I will add in next days also photos for mamiya 110mm f2. Also consider pentax 645 lenses, including pentax 645 smc a 35mm f3. Mamiya pioneered the 645 slr system camera three decades ago and the mamiya 645 af, with its ttl auto focus, autoexposure, autoflash and autofilm winding features, is the latest mamiya master piece and reflects its long combining 35mm handling ease and speed with the advantages of an. I have about 12 dozen m645 lenses which i used with canon bodies before moving to sony. The one major exception is the 120 macro, which is an apo lens in n form and uses anomalous dispersion glass instead in the af form note the 120 is actually a manual focus lens in af mount, it does not af. Get the best deals on mamiya auto and manual camera lens when you shop the largest online selection at. While this design is often described, in jest, as the poor mans hasselblad, it is quite different in many key respects from the classic hasselblad v series.
Mamiya 645af and manual focus lenses thephotoforum. Of course this is a medium format lens, so this size is not that unusual for this class of lenses comparing to other medium format wide angle lenses actually reveals that mamiya 645 35mm f3. This isnt the problem, sometimes the metering dosent work at all. Catalog of mamiya 645 lenses 10 return to the database. I have compared the af metering with the meter in my s and my nikon and shows its about one stop off. Congratulations on your purchase of the mamiya 645 af camera.
Mamiya produced a variety of lenses for the m645 camera series, ranging from 35mm to 500mm focal lengths, and also including zoom and specialuse lenses. Mamiya 645 system with this document and later on my homepage. Beware that the newer mamiya 645 af lenses usually do not have an aperture ring, so you have no practical way of stopping the aperture down. At this time used manual focus lenses for mamiya 645 equipment are surprisingly affordable, at a. All mamiya 645 af telephoto and zoom lenses can be switched from auto focus to manual focus by sliding the focusing ring on the lens forward until it clicks. Page 2 special advice to professional photographers your mamiya 645 af is designed for heavy professional use and will give you a long service life if properly maintained. Yes, while you have no autofocus on the manual lenses, the focus indicator display tells you if you are in or out of focus. Is there a manual out there somewhere for this lens or the 150mm version of it. The 645 af is a medium format slr camera made in japan by mamiya, the companys first autofocus camera. This can be a good thing because it allows for more spacing between frames to have more room to cut the films down to. Using mamiya 645 medium format lenses as shift lenses with. Manual focus lenses on mamiya 645 afd iii in studio. Mamiya 645 afd ii instructions manual pdf download. This is a group for all users of mamiya 645 mount lenses, on any camera.
Fotodiox pro lens mount adapter compatible with mamiya 645 m645 mount afafd lenses to canon rf eosr mount mirrorless camera bodies. In this video, i give you an overview of the mamiya 645 pro tl and explain how it became my first medium format camera. Because of the common lens mount, lenses produced for the original m645 camera can be used on the 645 pro and vice versa. They are called 645 because they use the nominal 6cm x 4. Mamiya 645 magazine with 120 film insert, 129, exc. You can use manual focus lenses on af bodies, but you lose autoaperture. The mamiya 645 manualfocus lenses will work on all manualfocus bodies. The teleconverter effectively extends the focal length of these lenses to 480mm and 300 mm respectively. Kipon g mount adapter autofocus bodies, but must be used in manual focus stopdown mode. Fotodiox pro iris lens mount adapter compatible with mamiya 645 m645 mount af af d lenses to canon rfmount camera. Autoaperture, auto focus lenses optimized for digital, and. This is because there is no means for these manual lens designs to communicate.
Im happy with manual focus lenses for most stuff, but eventually ill spring for an autofocus semilong for wildlife photos not sure which body though. It was followed in december 2001 by the 645 afd, a version of the same camera made compatible with some digital backs not produced by mamiya at the time, and mamiya produced improved models, the 645 afdii and 645 afdiii later. The lenses are set to manual for aperture control, and are manually focused. Mamiya 645 and phase one lens test teo totev london. The mamiya 645 camera systems are a series of medium format film and digital cameras and lenses manufactured by mamiya and its successors. Mamiya 645 af, with its ttl autofocus, autoexposure, autoflash and auto. All combinations of the 2x teleconverter and lenses require manual focusing. The m645 super, 645 pro, 645 pro tl and 645e are mediumformat slr cameras made in japan by mamiya from the mid1980s. Your camera and lenses have many moving parts which require periodic lubrication. Using mamiya 645 medium format lenses with a shift adapter on a canon 1ds3 full frame 35mm dslr. Mamiya said the mf lenses will work with the auto focus in mamual mode.
Hi, i am currently moving from my rz67 ii ouch to a more flexible to use camera, the phase one af mamiya 645 afd iii. The biggest problem though, is if you allready own a mamiya 645 pro or tl and want buy a 645 af as well. Mamiya 645 to gfx camera lens adapter compatible with mamiya 645 m645 manual focus lens to fujifilm gmount gfx mirrorless digital camera such as gfx 50s. I want to give a short overview of the mamiya 645 system. The 645 af is a medium format slr camera made in japan by mamiya, the companys first auto focus camera.
For what people shoot on medium format, the manualfocus 645e is no slouch, either. The 2x teleconverter is designed for and compatible with the schneiderkreuznach 240mm leaf shutter and 150mm leaf shutter lenses as well as the mamiya 150mm af lens. Although the first models of mamiya 645 medium format cameras were created in the 1970s, the mamiya 645 family of products is still used in medium format still life photography. A set of lenses that go with the mamiya 645 pro medium format camera body weve got sitting in a dust covered case. I had a s as well as an m645j, 645 super, and some other iteration of the mamiya 645 system, just never an af. Kipon adapter for mamiya 645 lens to fuji gfx medium. The mamiya 645 pro is an awesome camera and an equally awesome value on the used market.