Japanese-language Mamiya 7 manual - got one?

[Steve Goldstein]

While looking at PDFs of the English-language manuals for the Mamiya 7 and 7-II (and also the New Mamiya 6) this morning I noticed that the pictures that show a roll of film invariably show KODAK film. This seemed a little odd as the Mamiyas are Japanese cameras and I would have expected Fuji film.

Do the Japanese-language manuals show Fuji film?

Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[MattKing]

Do the pdfs you have come from the USA distributor for Mamiya, or from a source in Japan?
A lot of photographic instruction manuals originate from distributors.

 

[Steve Goldstein]

They all seem to be scans of printed manuals.

 

[MattKing]

They all seem to be scans of printed manuals.

Yes - but who published them?
Your question inspired some curiosity.
I have a fair collection of Mamiya manuals in scan form - not including the Mamiya 7 - but none of them include the page(s) that refer to who published them or where they were printed.
The Mamiya manuals I have in printed form - again, not including the Mamiya 7 - are all printed in Japan, and are all English language manuals.
With one exception - the scanned manual for the 645e - the film shown in the pages describing how to load the camera is identifiable, and all the identifiable film is Kodak.
I'm guessing this is because these manuals were for the US and Canadian market, and during the time when these cameras were current, far more Kodak film was used by the professionals working in those markets. Those cameras were marketed to and purchased mostly by those professionals.

 

[Steve Goldstein]

Matt, sorry, I misunderstood your question.

They all appear to be official manuals. None of them have a printing code or other identifying information, but as some of the English is a little awkward I believe they're from Mamiya in Japan. In some of them there are insets in slightly different font sizes with (occasionally) slightly different background colors, that look like cut-and-paste jobs. If I can ever find my physical (English) M7 manual I'll compare it to the scans.

You're probably right that the manuals were for the US/Canada market. What I'm really curious about is whether the Japan-market manuals had pictures with Fuji film. I assume such manuals existed.

Other interesting things I noticed:

1. The Mamiya 7 manual doesn't list the 50mm lens, but it does appear in the Mamiya 7-II manual.

2. Neither manual mentions the 210mm lens or the polarizer attachment.

 

[Oren Grad]

The 50 was a later addition to the 7 system, with the 210 later still.

The 210 does not appear in the hard-copy Mamiya 7II brochure I have that has a MAC imprint on the back along with document code numbers 3ED-2211/E991110. It does appear in a later electronic version I have of the same brochure, also with MAC imprint and code numbers 5ED-2211/E040102. I also have hard copy of a one-page MAC sales sheet for the 210, dated February 2000.

I used to have the Japanese-language home-market instruction manual for either the 6 or 6MF - I forget which - that came with a body I purchased second-hand in Tokyo in 1992-93. Alas, both camera and manual are long gone, and I don't remember this detail from it.

I think I have some Japanese-language brochures for the system buried somewhere as well, but it might take me a little while to dig them up.

 

[Mamiya_Repair]

While looking at PDFs of the English-language manuals for the Mamiya 7 and 7-II (and also the New Mamiya 6) this morning I noticed that the pictures that show a roll of film invariably show KODAK film. This seemed a little odd as the Mamiyas are Japanese cameras and I would have expected Fuji film.

Do the Japanese-language manuals show Fuji film?

Inquiring minds want to know.

The Japanese version of the Mamiya 7 manual shows Kodak film being installed.