SLR Medium format cameras with an instant-return mirror

miha · Apr 9, 2019

Is there a list of such MF cameras?

Sirius Glass · Apr 9, 2019

Hasselblad driving by electric motors

miha · Apr 9, 2019

Sirius Glass said:
Hasselblad driving by electric motors

This is not the instant-return mirror feature I'm asking about.

Sirius Glass · Apr 9, 2019

That is the best I could come up with for a contribution to your answer.

jim10219 · Apr 9, 2019

Mamiya 645 is one.

miha · Apr 9, 2019

Is it safe to assume that all 645 SLR cameras (Mamiya, Z-B ETR/ETRSi, Pentax 645,...?) have this feature available?

Dan Daniel · Apr 9, 2019

miha said:
Is it safe to assume that all 645 SLR cameras (Mamiya, Z-B ETR/ETRSi, Pentax 645,...?) have this feature available?

No. Bronica ETR series does not. Some early Bronica 6x6 SLRs have an instant return mirror.

choiliefan · Apr 9, 2019

Bronica S, S2 and S2a have the mirror in question.

choiliefan · Apr 9, 2019

PENTAX 6x7.

miha · Apr 9, 2019

Thanks so far.

SQAi perhaps?

LiamG · Apr 9, 2019

miha said:
Thanks so far.

SQAi perhaps?

Only with the motor drive

guangong · Apr 9, 2019

My Hasselblad 2000FCM. However, I choose not to use instant return, but rather to reset mirror when cocking. Just a personal preference. However, not a camera I would recommend buying since, as I understand, not repairable when it goes kaput. Bought mine new when camera introduced...but one never knows......

miha · Apr 9, 2019

LiamG said:
Only with the motor drive

So not of the instant-return type per se.

miha · Apr 9, 2019

guangong said:
My Hasselblad 2000FCM. However, I choose not to use instant return, but rather to reset mirror when cocking. Just a personal preference. However, not a camera I would recommend buying since, as I understand, not repairable when it goes kaput. Bought mine new when camera introduced...but one never knows......

Interesting. Thanks.

Pieter12 · Apr 9, 2019

Rolleiflex 6000 series, Hy6.

itsdoable · Apr 9, 2019

All hasselblad 200/2000 series cameras had instant return mirrors (but you cannot change the lens unless you cock/wind the shutter!)

Early Bronica D, S, S2's

All motor driven bodies (Hasselblad H, EL's, Pentax 645's, Rollei 6000's etc...)

All Pentax MF bodies

JensH · Apr 9, 2019

Rolleiflex 600X as said, and SLX, too

Jens

abruzzi · Apr 9, 2019

itsdoable said:
Early Bronica D, S, S2's

The EC and EC-TL did as well.

What I'm curious about--generally speaking it seems the cameras with instant return mirrors are also the cameras with focal plane shutters (Pentax 67, Pentax 645, Bronica S/S2/EC, Mamiya 645) , and the cameras without instant return mirrors are the cameras with leaf shutters in the lens (Hasselblad 500, Mamiya RB/RZ, Bronica SQ/ETR/GS). Is that always the case?

wiltw · Apr 9, 2019

The Pentax 645 has, per Pentax specs, an instant return mirror, too.

Johnkpap · Apr 9, 2019

The rollei SL66 has a auto return mirror it was one of its selling features

Johnkpap

Poisson Du Jour · Apr 9, 2019

Early Asahi Pentax 6x7, Pentax 6x7 (1969), Pentax 67 (1990) all have an instant return mirror that moves back and up, down and forward instantly.

68degrees · Apr 9, 2019

what about the Exakta 66
http://www.pentaconsix.com/e66ttl.htm

and the venerable
Pentacon six TL

68degrees · Apr 9, 2019

If I was rich I would get the Exakta

baachitraka · Apr 10, 2019

Exakta66, if lucky can get it under 400 but very rare.

miha · Apr 10, 2019

So far, in alphabetical order:

Hasselblad 200 and 2000 series
Mamiya 645
Pentacon Six
Pentax 645 and 6x7/67
Rollei SL66, SLX, and 6000 series
Zenza Bronica Z, D, S, S2's, S2a,...

Thanks to all.

SLR Medium format cameras with an instant-return mirror

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