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CAMERAS WANTED! I'm still looking for the following
three Mamiya cameras. If you have one for sale or trade, or know of
someone who does, please
contact me!
Mamiya Sketch (c.1959)
Mamiya Mammy (c.1953), and
Mamiya Prismat SLR (curved nameplate, c.1960).
Lens Auction Price Information!
Auction price averages are now available for the interchangeable lenses
used on all Mamiya 35mm SLR cameras. Visit my Lens
Auction Prices Table to view this ongoing effort!
Reprinted Instruction, Service & Repair Manuals
may be purchased from this site. To see if that elusive data you've
been looking for is in the collection, check out the Instruction
Manuals page (Note: all proceeds help fund site maintenance).
November 21, 2007 Some changes made to
the Finding Auction Prices
page.
November 16, 2007 Additions and deletions made
to the Manuals page.
August 31, 2007 Updates and new graphics made
for the Sunny 16 page.
November 28, 2006 Minor changes
and addtions to the Home Page and
History page.
October 6, 2006 Added a
Zenit TTL (c.1980) to my collection of
Russian cameras.
September 1, 2006 Mamiya
O/P completed the transfer of its Optical Equipment Division, manufacturer
of leading medium-format cameras and lenses to Cosmo Digital Imaging
Company, Ltd., forming a new company called Mamiya Digital Imaging.
Mamiya Digital Imaging has acquired all Mamiya assets, inventory, property,
trademarks and patents. They are expected to retain a substantial number of
present Mamiya staff and facilities, and will continute service of Mamiya cameras
and lenses in the existing Mamiya distribution network.
August 6, 2006 One of the leading service facilities
for Mamiya 35mm cameras has changed its ownership and name. You can read about the
new Concept Lighting on my
Related Links page!
April 24, 2006 The Rumors Are True! Mamiya
Transfers Camera and Optical Division
Mamiya O/P has announced that its Optical Equipment Division, manufacturer
of leading medium-format cameras and lenses will be transferred
to a new company, Cosmo Digital Imaging Company, Ltd. on September
1, 2006. From the information available, however, it also looks as
though the Mamiya name will continue!
April 20, 2006 Breaking News!
Mamiya may be getting ready to announce it is getting out
of the camera and lens business! Rumor has it that Mamiya
may be transferring all the assets of its camera and lens business
to a Japanese IT company!
April 11, 2006 New information
added on the Mamiya
CS Lenses page (for Mamiya NC1000 lenses).
April 8, 2006 More new information
on the Mamiya Z-Series
cameras.
March 22, 2006 At long last, the
Camera Auction Price Averages
page has been updated! Some auction price averages have retreated,
while others have appreciated a bit.
March 12, 2006 New images added
to the Kodak
portion of my collection.
March 1, 2006 Brand new images
and new acquisitions in the German
Camera portion of my collection!
January 28, 2006 View the latest
update to the Mamiya
Lens Auction Prices information. Trend indications have
been added, based on the direction of changes from the previous
update.
December 18, 2005 An update
to the Mamiya
Prismat information.
December 13, 2005 Just added
Island Camera Repair, a recently
discovered camera repair facility in Farmingdale, New York, to my
Related
Links page. Island Camera is still servicing Mamiya TL,
DTL, MSX, DSX and ZE cameras.
November 24, 2005 A little bit of housekeeping, and
a few changes to my Gallery
pages.
November 8, 2005 A lot of minor page design things
going on throughout the site, with additional pictures and information
on my Rangefinder
and Prismat
pages.
October 17, 2005 There are two new additions to the
Russian
portion of my collection, a Kristal SLR (c.1961) and a medium-format
Moskva-5 (c.1956).
October 9, 2005 Updated information on
Mamiya Lens Prices, for all Mamiya
SLR. Also, significant changes in the look of the
Mamiya 35mm Forum, including a provision
for posting images!
September 30, 2005 Updated information on
Mamiya E "S" lenses, for the Mamiya
ZM camera.
September 28, 2005 Thanks to Gentle reader Wim de Kan,
from the Netherlands, an error has been corrected in the "hot shoe"
reference for the Mamiya MSX.
September 23, 2005 There is now confirmation for the
identity of the Mamiya Vulcan rangefinder on the
Rangefinder page, thanks to reader
Maurice Fisher in the UK!
August 21, 2005 Several new links have been added to
the Mamiya Prismat
page that support the early entry of Mamiya into the annals of 35mm
SLR history!
July 26, 2005 Thanks to Jeorg Mueck in Germany, I have
a stylized image to show what the proposed new Mamiya ZM-bodied
Voigtländer Bessamatic
would have looked like, if planned production had not been interrupted
in 1984 by the untimely bankruptcy of Osawa, Mamiya's primary distributor.
July 12, 2005 Finally have the beginning of my
Kodak page ready to share (normally
accessible through the Rest
of My Collection page), even though the images are bad
and the listing incomplete!
July 10, 2005 Made a noticable change to the
Home page, and added a
Mamiya History page!
June 15, 2005 Added a new "General Photography" category
to my Mamiya
35mm Forum page, for discussions about general picture-taking
tips, films preferred, etc!
June 4, 2005 Still more additions to the
How To page!
May 30, 2005 The latest update to the
Lens Prices page!
May 27, 2005 Perhaps not the ones you wanted most (I'm
working on them), but there are now even more additions to the
How To page!
May 17, 2005 Have received a few good photo submissions
for the Gallery
page, so it gets the first update today!
May 6, 2005 Have the first good photo submission for
the Gallery
page, from a reader in Poland!
April 28, 2005 April is shaping up to be a busy month!
Made minor adjustments to the layout of the XTL and X-1000 page
and, more importantly, added a test Gallery
page in response to some of your Surveys! Not sure where all this
energy is coming from! I have been making little style and layout
tweaks all over the site, and just changed all the headline fonts!
April 24, 2005 It's beginning to take shape! More additions
to the How To
page!
April 21, 2005 An affiliation with Amazon.com allows
me to make the best camera collecting, camera repair, and basic
photo technique books available on
this site!
April 17, 2005 Added the first How
To page, something a lot of you have been asking for!
More "how-to" information to come, as I can get them completed.
April 4, 2005 I have finally updated the
Lens Prices page!
March 27, 2005 New info on
Camera Leather Kits to refinish your
old camera body!
February 15, 2005 A labeled viewfinder diagram, as
well as additional info concerning the P-Adapter on the
NC1000 page!
February 1, 2005 Our son's second surgery since last
December went well and I am unwinding by updating the site a bit.
There is new information now on the TL
& D TL page!
January 16, 2005 I have updated the
Manuals page, in the first step toward
simplifying its use. Let me know what you think of the changes by
using my Survey!
January 14, 2005 I am contemplating adding some "how-to"
information and wondered how it might be received. Let
me know what you think!