Bronica Lenses

whlogan · Dec 4, 2008

Does any one really know if Bronica Etrs lenses will fit and work on the Bronica SQa cameras and vice versa? Seems most likely not, but I have heard they will and do..... who's right here. Got both, but a little reluctant to try..... don't want to bollick up a electronic shutter or something else there...

glbeas · Dec 4, 2008

Nope, for whatever reason Bronica made them all different.

Sanjay Sen · Dec 4, 2008

As far as I am aware, the ETRS lenses will not work on the SQ series bodies.

Joe Grodis · Dec 4, 2008

The Only Bronica cross compatibility was with (not all) RZ & RB

wiltw · Dec 4, 2008

ETR lens on SQ...Absolutely not.

lomomagix · Dec 4, 2008

Joe Grodis said:
The Only Bronica cross compatibility was with (not all) RZ & RB

Do you mean that some Bronica lenses can be mounted on a Mamiya RB67 or RZ67?

Mr.Helberg^^ · Dec 6, 2008

that sounds interesting^i would like to know more about that

David Henderson · Dec 10, 2008

The answer in essence relates to the image circle of the lenses. I can't imagine Bronica volunteering to incur the cost of developing,testing, manufacturing and holding inventory of two series of lenses if one could have done the job. I know that sadly, Bronica have not survived. But I don't think they died of stupidity

wiltw · Jan 10, 2009

Something sounds like urban legend about ETRS lenses on Mamiya, particularly the RZ which is electrically coupled...while the ETRS lenses have electrical contacts for shutter speed and aperture control, the lens action is reliant upon also mechanical couple arms on the back face of the lens interacting with the body (specifically triggered by reflex mirror swinging up fully out of the way of the film plane view of the lens).

mawz · Jan 10, 2009

There is no cross-compatibility with Bronica. Lenses only fit their native bodies.

With Mamiya most/all RB lenses can be used on an RZ, but not vice versa (the two ProSD-only K/L lenses may not mount on an RZ, I'm not sure). The Mamiya 645's can use many other system's lenses with adaptors, but not Bronica or RB/RZ systems (the former either lack a focusing helical or are electronic shutter/aperture, the latter lack a helical)

Pentax 645's can use 67 lenses with an official adaptor.

IIRC Hassy H series bodies have a V-series adaptor.

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