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CAMERAS
WANTED! I finally found the Mamiya Sketch
I've been looking for. It just arrived from the UK, and needed a
little TLC. I got it fixed and working quickly, and am now running
a test roll through it.
Mamiya Sketch (c.1959)
Mamiya Prismat SLR (curved nameplate, c.1960)
However, I'm still looking for the curved-nameplate
Mamiya Prismat to complete my collection. If you have one
for sale or trade, or know of someone who does,
please contact
me!
Lens Auction Price Information!
Auction price averages are 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 the data you're looking
for is in the collection, check out the Instruction
Manuals page (Note: all proceeds help fund site maintenance).
September 3, 2009 Minor
updates to the Camera
Auction Prices page!
September 2, 2009 Read the review
in the September 2009 edition of
Shutterbug Magazine, of the stunning
28-megapixel medium-format Mamiya DL28 digital camera that, with
an optional magazine, can also shoot film.
August 25, 2009
More minor tweaks to the Mamiya
Rangefinders page.
August 24, 2009 Finally
found a Mamiya Sketch
in reasonable condition!
August 19, 2009 A
minor update to the Mamiya
ZE page, talking about its use without batteries!
May 12, 2009 Updates
to the Camera Prices
and Lens Prices
pages!
March 30, 2009 Some
minor tweaks have been happening right along. New eBay connection
on the Home Page.
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.
April 4, 2007 Read
the review of the new
22-megapixel Mamiya ZD medium-format digital
SLR, on sale in Europe for the past year!
March 28, 2007 New
Mamiya ZE Lens Comparison
Page is added, showing how a Mamiya E-series lens compares
to some very stiff competition.
March 24, 2007 Updates
to the Lens Auction
Average Prices page.
March 18, 2007 A
new "How-To" page, on Cleaning
the MSX Viewing Screen has been added.
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.
December 10, 2005 For some, the long-awaited instructions
on The Proper Way to
Remove the Mamiya TL or DTL Top Plate.
December 4, 2005 Just an update to my
Mamiya MSX and
Mamiya Auto XTL information.
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!
August 4, 2005 I have many new items to offer for sale
through Amazon. There's a great selection of Lens
Filters, Camera
Cases, Light
Meters, and
Tripods. This is in addition to the great
Photography Books already available!
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!
July 8, 2005 Added more information to the
Mamiya Auto XTL, Mamiya
DTL and NC1000
pages!
June 23, 2005 Added new information to my
Mamiya Auto XTL 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 11, 2005 Interesting new information about the
Mamiya Auto-Lux
and the Mamiya Prismat!
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 12, 2005 A few new resources added to
Restoration Tools, Equipment & Information.
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!
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