Folding 6x6, narrowed, looking for insight

Donald Qualls

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If you're potentially interested in a dual format 6x6 and 645, the Mamiya Six folder has the 6x4.5 mask leaves captive -- can't be lost without tearing stuff up. Already on the suggestion list, IIRC.
 

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Only a few models of the Six are dual-format: and some of them do it with red windows:

Mamiya Six family - Facts, notes and thoughts about vintage cameras and other trifle matters

Mamiya Six family model list The late 1940s and the 1950s saw most Japanese camera makers offering cookie-cutter 120 klapp cameras, most named Six or Semi in one way or another. Some makers survived a further decade or two, a few have reached the next century, while most just faded away. These...
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Dustin McAmera said:
some of them do it with red windows
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The one I have has amber windows. Hard to see the numbers on black-print-on-white backing paper without direct strong light in the window, though -- with the pressure plate and film plane focusing, it's a lot further from window to backing than with most red window cameras. Really, that's my only significant complaint with my Six.
 

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Do you know how does the coupled rangefinder work on Fujica Super 6? I know Mamiya moves the film plane.
 

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MFstooges said:
Do you know how does the coupled rangefinder work on Fujica Super 6? I know Mamiya moves the film plane.
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Simple rotating mirror under the top shroud driven by a lever from the helical on the lens standard. Focus itself is a single helical b- unit focusing? I am drawing a blank on the term- not a front element focusing.
 

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