What are the problems?
I used one many years ago for aerial photography. Worked great for that purpose.
Lenses are excellent, but use Seikosha shutters. Parts for these shutters (if needed) are not available new and generally have to be obtained from a donor shutter. Good news is that there are a lot of these old Seikosha shutters around (including chrome Mamiya TLR lenses).
Available lenses are 58mm/60mm, 90mm, 135mm, and 180mm. 58mm/60mm and 135mm are somewhat tough to find and expensive. The 58mm/60mm requires an auxiliary finder.
Some models had interchangeable (in mid roll) backs.
Weakest spot is the back. The push/pull film advance is very fast but the mechanism wears and as a result frames start to overlap.
As Matt notes, many/most have seen heavy use.
Ok so I don't care about bells and whistles or changing film backs with the lens off or in the middle of a roll. What is the best model, latest version that gives me the best view (maybe they are all the same) and the best lenses. Is there a late and early version to the lenses?
How fast are the lenses and how close do they focus with out diopters and eyepieces?
thanks again
Dennis
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