Mamiya M645 1000s
This is my Christmas present to myself. It’s a Mamiya M645 1000s medium format camera. It is shown here with a 80mm Mamiya-Sekor C lens and I also got 55mm and 150mm lenses.
The 645 series was introduced in 1975 with the 1000s coming in 1976. I believe they continued to make the 1000s until 1990.
The camera is an SLR with an image format of 6cm x 4.5cm. You get 15 frames on a 120 roll and 30 frames on a 220 roll. The film is put into inserts which then go into the camera. 120 and 220 films use different inserts presumably because of the need for different pressure plates due to the lack of paper in 220 film. Later models used magazines which could be swapped mid roll.
Here are a few test shots from the first roll.
Posted on December 19th, 2009 tagged with 645, camera, mamiya, mamiya m645 1000s, medium format
Hi!
I like this camera. I’m thinking about trading my Bronica ETRSi for one of those.
By the way I also have a glog for my writtings on photography, visit it if you want. I’m going to add your blog on my blog roll.
6×7-film.blogspot.com
Thanks.
Portellini
Posted by Portellini on 2 January 2010 @ 4pm
I too have the same camera, just out of interest how much did you pay for yours?
Posted by charlotte on 26 April 2010 @ 3am
I paid $430 for the Mamiya 645 1000S Camera + 55mm , 80mm & 150mm lenses.
Posted by Dave on 26 April 2010 @ 6am
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