On the company’s website, he has the ignominious distinction of living on a page titled “discontinued legacy products” while the company’s high-end digital offerings get splash pages.
The Mamiya 7 itself, along with all of Mamiya’s medium format analog cameras, have been discontinued. I ended up with the Mamiya 7 because it Shoot in a format that I found interesting, it was a rangefinder with a nice lens, and it was relatively light.īut the irony of the agony and my eventual purchase was that in a few years all of these cameras would be essentially relics or, at the very least, relegated to the aficionados who discuss them in muted tones on bulletin boards with a web design that hasn’t been updated since the mid-2000s. Cheaper dual-lens SLR options like a Yashica or Rolliflex, the Mamiya 645, and, for a hot second when I thought every bartending night would be a good thing, a Hasselblad crossed my mind. (I had a Holga, but it’s more of a piece of plastic with a lens than a legitimate camera.) I got the Mamiya 7 after agonizing for months over the right choice to shoot my final thesis. This is how my adventure began with the first and only serious medium format film camera I have ever purchased. It had fractured and a few shards had come off the filter, but the lens was fine and as I found out a few weeks later when my first rolls of film came back the focus stayed true. I removed the lens cap from a glass waterfall and realized that the $ 20 UV filter I bought for the camera was the best investment I made. The Block Camera managed to spin around like Simone Biles from the seat, but unlike the Gymnastics GOAT, she was entirely in the grip of gravity.Īs I landed with the square lens on the sidewalk, the sound of shattered glass was sickening, the crackle of all the money I’d saved from a summer bartender to buy it.
One of the most disgusting sounds I have ever heard was the crackle when my newly purchased Mamiya 7 fell out of my passenger seat and onto the sidewalk outside the post office in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico.
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