afraid that the mamiya is gonna break soon -> sell it seems like you are a great part and contributor of the photo community, lucky i dont live in your area

Great review. I just bought one yesterday with a non-functioning film counter. I reel my own film, so I rarely know in advance how many shots I get from a roll of film. In any case, I own a Leica M1, the Leica without the viewfinder. It is a great camera, especially for 50+mm viewing. I already have two 40mm M mount lenses, so my curiosity got the best of me. I wanted to buy an M2 or M3, but since I owned an M1 I felt as though I would be abandoning my favorite camera. I am one of the few that actually likes the way it loads. If you own a Rollei 35 it is similar. Once other benefit was that I own several LTM lenses work with a cheap adapter to the M mount and provides viewfinder and rangefinder capabilities. It is odd not to have a native 35mm length in the rangefinder, but I started my journey with a 40mm lens, so I like it. As you mentioned, the only real issue is 28mm which requires a separate rangefinder. My only dislike is the strap. it is an awkward and not natural feeling. My only regret is that I did not purchase it sooner. I typically carry a digital camera (Fujifilm X), a 35mm camera (TLR, rangefinder, SLR, etc.) and my backup camera, the Rollei 35 which is small and dependable. Since the Leica CL and Rollei 35 have a similar footprint, I must think hard about it.

This is beautifully shot. Have you done sunset shoot? Wonder if one is better than the other.

Hi, do you need to manually set the aperture in the camera or you can just leave it in A mode? We have the same camera and i really love results of you images.

I love it it’s so cool vintage it has such a warm field to it

Looks nice

Im glad to see that my Minolta SRT200 isnt the only one with a dent on top

By far the best Mamiya RZ67 review out there and I've watched all of them. Great portfolio as well. Hope you are still shooting with it.

What camera and lens did you use for the images at 3:44

It's time for film! forget Pentax 17 lol

Nice. Most TLRs have a magnifier which means yu are back to eye level if you want or a "sports finder",AKA, a hole. Also, you can crop to rectangular! Let's face it, we just love a massive negative.

Is there a difference to just white balancing in post?

Yeah it looks too grainy and noisy for me, suppose black and white you can get away with some 'atmospheric' grainy shots. 🤔

That's a pretty strong "Don't" for a potential buyer. Any mechanical gadget would have seen its heyday if it's sixty-plus years old.

I won my SRT 200 in an auction and I will also never sell it.

I'll probably just try the Lomography DigitaLIZA tool and see how that goes. It seems absurd that Lightroom doesn't just have a built in tool for negative conversion. 🙄 Hope they add that at some point soon. But yeah, it does suck paying them a subscription ever month, but at least if they had more tools like this built in (as long as they worked really well) it might help it be a little less painful paying the premium for it.

Hi Joe, very nice video, thanks for sharing. It seems like there is no link to the video about Photoshop actions. Is it still up and I just haven't found it or it was deleted? I'm struggling a bit with Photoshop conversions, would like to have some new ideas :) thanks !

Have you tried just taping a small amount of leader film to the start of the roll yet? I made a few so I can prepare multiple rolls with the leader attached before I go out and shoot. I have no problem getting 23 to 24 shots per roll.

I'd never heard of digitaliza until I saw your video. It's not bad for what it is....

Stunning images and video! Definitely on my bucket list, though I finally just did Colchuck Lake a few weekends ago for my first time. Just 🤯✨.... Can't wait until I feel more capable of doing the mileage and time required for The Enchantments. I'm super duper slow to begin with, even on relatively short hikes (far too many beautiful things to take pictures of and too much to appreciate along the way, while also just generally not being very fast at anything! 🤷‍♀️), so something of this magnitude has me a bit worried when considering it as a day hike (or, as I'd likely have to consider it, a multi-day hike without laying down 🙈😂🤪🥴🤕😬🤷‍♀️). Thanks for sharing it's beauty for those of us who can only dream of it for now! ♥️🥰✨ I'll get there one day (I've done Mailbox Peak -- new trail, at least, so I'm on my way 😉), but I've got some work to do.... 👣🏋️🥾⛰

Gorgeous...and I totally wanted to be out there with you, enjoying the scenery and making memories with you and your family! What a great little troupe you are! As for your videos, you have such an easygoing style and wonderful voice. You feel so familiar to me, though I can't place where I feel I know you from, whether in person or on TV or...? Could just be one of those "familiar faces/voices" kinda thing, but definitely something I am drawn to. I imagine (or at least hope) you are wildly successful in your wedding/engagement photography business! If I weren't already married (destination wedding in the Caribbean 11 years ago and with a wedding videographer who was also able to capture many great moments), I would absolutely want you along to write our story! Will have to remember you, should we ever decide to do it again.... 😉📸🎥♥️✨

I'm not an ultra runner (and am not even a runner anymore, really...though I love the saying, "If you run, you're a runner," meaning you don't have to run far or run fast to call yourself a runner), but I began hiking back in September 2023 after shedding 114 lbs from my starting weight of 322.2. I'm still on my journey to improve my health and get back to physical activities, like the running I had begun during a previous effort to lose weight. Now that I don't have so much pressure on my feet, back and other body parts, hiking (and life...including just general walking and getting around!) has become so much more pleasant and possible. While out on the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River Trail, a guy I met at the trailhead, as he just finished a run while I was preparing to start my hike, asked if I'd hiked any of the PCT or, specifically, Section J. When I told him my story and said I hadn't, he strongly recommended I give it a go, which I am eager to do one day, though as a backpacking trip over several days. I loved your video and your story and, even more so, your honesty and vulnerability, which is also your strength. You are amazing and an inspiration! I am excited to watch more videos and see what else you've been up to! Thank you for this and for showing the beauty and the challenges and what pushing through yet feeling comfortable making what I imagine was the incredibly tough call to end your journey differently than you'd envisioned. The lessons you learned along the way will help you and others going forward, and you've got one hell of a story to tell, complete with epic imagery, which not a lot of folks can claim. Congratulations on this incredible feat, and thanks for sharing! Your production of this video was also top notch. 🏆✨

Hmmm... Made in the 50s, not 60s. The haze on your lens is killing sharpness and causing flare. I suggest you clean the lenses, pick up a lens hood, and learn how to adjust the rangefinder (on you tube), and I think you will have much better results. The camera sold for the equivalent of $1400 back in the day, but all of these old lenses need a shade to manage flare, which is why you see them so often when sold with a case with a little lens hood case attached.

what kind of battery do you have on yours? and where can I find it? Thanks!

hi how much I need to overexposed when using 85b +2 stop ?

Love that your 6 is beat up like mine. Pristine cameras are nice to look at, but I always love a camera that looks like it's been put to work.

I owned a 500C with a chrome C 80mm about 3 decades ago, but at some point I found I wasn't using it, and gave it to my cousin. About a decade later, I got a 2000 FC/M but there was something not right about how it cocks the mirror, and I was never able to find someone to repair it. In spite of all this, the camera had gotten under my skin, and I just kept looking for another one. I finally pulled the trigger and got a 500 C/M, and combined with the viewfinder, 2 backs and lens from the 2000, it is complete. This one I will never sell again. Now I just have to replace the M6 with 50 Summicron I used to own, and miss equally.

Thanks for making this. Just the review I needed. Been eyeing with the Mami 6 for a while now. I have one question: my only concern is the retracting mechanism. You seem to use yours a lot, do you experience any issue(s) with that? Does it always lock at infinity?

cheap leica? 🤣🤣🤣

Wonderful family, great images and breathtaking scenery.

Nice video with great info! And it's always lovely to watch a video full of Lisbon imagery.

Thanks for sharing this. I have one too that I did not use much. My lens flared too, though not nearly as bad as yours. I narrowed mine down to early 50s with a Zuiko lens which impressed me at the time because I was an Olympus shooter then. Back then lens coatings were poor and usually only on the front element. So there was a lot of light scatter. Sadly the focus mechanism locked and am debating whether to spend for a repair worth more than the camera.

Can’t tell if this is Westport or ocean shores but beautiful. Yashica reins King

Really enjoyed watching this video! Thank you

How to set iso? for example if I insert iso400 film? how to use those selectors on the top?

It was my first. Moved to Nikon to follow my dad. Went back to my camera. Like my first guitar that I tried to replace my guitar is my guitar. My camera is my camera. And it’s this one

That black line is from dropping it repeatedly. Not a quirk of the camera

Thanks for the photoshop action! I was wondering, can all the layer adjustments after the auto contrast step be replaced with just the adobe camera raw step at the end?

I must have one!

Congratulations 👏

Great video, Joe! Which filter are you using for daylight? The 85b?

It is quite ironic how rangefinders really are the most adapted bodies to use these filters yet nobody seems to be manufacturing them for smaller filter ring sizes - I noticed you're using a step-up ring for yours, as well. I've been using the gelatin snap-on filter from Fotoimpex but a drop of water got on it and it seemed to dissolve the orange coating on the gelatine, so I've had a big white hole in the middle of the filter. Had to take it off mid-roll while I was on a trip so all the consequent rolls are unfiltered. I'm hoping it won't be too bad once I get the films back. So my question is, how are you scanning them ? Is there an adjustment you do to manually correct the color balance, or does your software take care of it for you ?

Got one for 25Euro with a Battery Grip and everything seems to be working, Havent had the Chance to shoot it myself yet due to some cleaning I did before and now that I got my 50mm EF 1.8 Lense I can finally do some real testing. It seems to be a very nice and capable Camera in the right hands. Im also very tempted to sell it because I would make a good profit but I think it would be a great way for me to start my Canon Journey. :)

just shoot with your cellphone through it , thats cool too. I have two of them and I love them.

Wait, I'm confused. I thought it was supposed to have that grainy look...like it's trying to have the picture quality of a disposable, but having a "modern" camera body, so that you're not polluting the environment with tons of disposable cameras. Is that not the point? I didn't think many people were buying it to take the pictures and editing them to make them look better, I just thought people were buying them for the nostalgia factor, and simplicity of not having to be distracted by the screen, but without all of the waste of the disposables. Am I missing the point?

You can use a Kodak slip on series 6 filter adapter and toss in a yellow filter to up the contrast. It slips on easy (36.5mm size) Patch small holes on your bellows with black Flexseal until you can replace the bellows. My Ilford ISO 125 negatives are sharp and contrasty. Shade your lens with your hat when needed for landscapes.

I'm happy with my Mamiya 6...so happy I bought two more fixer uppers. My lens had scratched coatings and despite cleaning all surfaces it looks a bit hazy too but the negatives are awesome!

Let’s compare these film colors. Here’s my photos of dead, colorless landscape.

I want a travel camera that is passible with portraits --- is this it? Should I consider the Ga645 instead?

I won this camera at auction around a month ago. I love this camera.