Mamiya RZ67 purchase

macvisual

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I recently bought a used RZ67 Pro II body from eBay, it arrived yesterday and found it to be faulty in a few places (faulty focus bellows etc), not as described in advert, so it was quickly returned today to the seller, not a happy bunny!

But by luck, I'd recently bought a mint Mamiya Z 180mm f4.5 portrait lens from a local chap a few days ago and he decided to sell me his Mamiya RZ67 Pro1 kit, in really excellent condition and not abused in any way, well cared for, I'd say 9.5 out of 10 condition wise. Here's a photo of it;


Mamiya RZ67 by Peter McCullough Photography, on Flickr


It came with these extras;

2x 120 film backs - Polaroid back - waist level finder - AE Prism finder (spot/average metering) - Mamiya Sekor Z 110mm f/2.8 lens (mint) - 22 rolls of mixed fresh 120 film (colour/b-w) - dedicated Mamiya 'L' grip (which fires shutter) - 2x spare camera batteries - extra front/rear lens caps - spare viewing screen - 77mm yellow filter for shooting b/w film.

I'm over the moon to say the least. The condition of everything is simply immaculate.
 
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Trail Images

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77mm yellow filter for shooting b/w film.
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An item I've really found helpful with my RB67 lenses was the standard 77mm filter size. In fact, the end result being I carried this size throughout my filter array and use adapter rings for my 4x5 lenses too.

Congrats on this neat RZ find......looks pretty minty to me.
 

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Wow, what a beauty. Has anyone breathed on that? Looks minty fresh.

The 180mm is probably my favorite portrait lens. Add a short extension tube, get tight and it's portrait magic.
 

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The 110 and 180 are my favorite lenses for the RZ. They may be all you need.

It's nice that you got the L grip too. It makes the RZ so much easier to handle.

Congratulations!
 

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Congrats on the camera, it's beautiful. Every time I deal with dust on sheet film I curse and threaten to get an RZ system and be done with sheets! I never quite carry through since I do enjoy using a view camera but it's always tempting.
 
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macvisual

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ParkerSmithPhoto said:
Wow, what a beauty. Has anyone breathed on that? Looks minty fresh.

The 180mm is probably my favorite portrait lens. Add a short extension tube, get tight and it's portrait magic.
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Thanks for that. Which extension tube might you recommend please?


Regards;
Peter
Scotland - UK
 

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Mamiya made two extension tubes (#1 and #2) for the RZ67. The #1 tube is 45mm and the #2 tube is 82mm long.

The last I saw on Ebay they sold pretty cheap.
 

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I absolutely loved my RZ Pro II...I had two of them, and they served me well...had the meter prism, 110mm and 140mm. Back in
1999, I shot professional cycling in Europe, much of it from the back of a motorcycle, and my images shot with the RZ
were my best (it was all chrome back then)...I had the grip and a Nikon SB 28 flash and had that system dialed...other
photogs shooting 35mm used to tease me about hauling that "tank" around, then one day we all sat in a cafe and I
showed them Velvia chromes of the previous weeks race...changed their tone after that.

Have fun with it!
 
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