The RB is unique in that it has a revolving back (RB = Revolving Back, get For medium format, I'm just left with my Pentax 67 and Hasselblad 203FE. I'm travelling in Japan and China and the Nikon F equipment is smaller and lighter. In June of 2004, I traded my Mamiya RB67 kit for some Nikon F equipment. Photos, material culture surveys, and other photos of things that don't move.įor street photography medium format, the Pentax 67, Hasselblad, Koni-Omega Unless you have very patient subjects and strong forearms. It's definitely not the camera for street photoethnography I usually just mount the unit onto a tripod Take it off when I mount the RB on a tripod. This let me quickly mount the handle, then I then used a Really Right Stuff quick-releaseĬlamp on the auxiliary handle. If you'reĬurious, I used a Really Right Stuff Arca-Swiss type quick release mount on I used an auxiliary handle to mount my RB to handhold it. You can't use an RZ back with an RB camera, but you can an RB back on an RZ camera body if you buy the 'G' adaptor (which is fairly rare).
You can use a RB-67 Pro SD back with a RB-67 Pro and vice versa. Mamiya RB backs are compatible along the entire series. The Polaroid back, which is nice although expensive. It has theĪforementioned dark slide keeper as well as a film tag memo keeper. If you can get a RB Pro SD back, it's much better. The original RB back is pretty lousy, it doesn't even have somewhere to put Some of the new KL lenses require the Pro-SD because they have a larger rear mouth.
Lens series out there, even the Hasselblad. Top of the line for the RB lenses, easily the equal of any other medium format I almost got a 50mm C lens for wide angle, but instead ended up buying a Hasselblad kit.The KL lens are the The C lens isĭefinitely better than the older non-C. Replaced it with a C-series lens, which have are multi-coated. In 2000 with a 90mm non-C lens, which is only single-coated. I no longer have either so I can't be more specific, sorry! It's pretty obvious what you have to do if you have both an RB body and RZ hood. Save the old bolts and you can revert back if you ever want to. You just have to unscrew the mounting bolts (tiny screws) on the RB and replace them with slightly longer bolts (I bought them at my local Ace Hardware, they're very small metric bolts). The RZ and RB hoods mount in essentially the same way except the RZ-body mounting pins are just a bit longer. Modifying the hood: I've gotten several e-mail messages asking how I made the modification. A good alternative would be a Hasseblad 500C/M which because of ebay and the digital exodus, now only cost about $1200 for the entire kit. However, the RZ bodies are plastic and while they're lighter, they're not as tough as the RBs. RZ67 II since those cameras can use all my RB lens and backs (with a G adaptor)Īnd can also be upgraded to electronic shutters and aperture priority metering. If I was to buy a replacement for my Pro, it would most probably be a Mamiya Other than the quick erecting hood, I've never felt I needed the additional features of the later RB models. Now, this will only make the hoods physically compatible - there's no electronics between the RB body and the RZ hoods. You won't be able to use RB hoods after this conversion, until you replace the screws again. You just need to replace them with longer ones to accept the RZ hood. There are mounting screws on the body that latch onto the hood. First, it's fairly easy to adapt the RB body to physically accept a RZ hood. I get a lot of questions (see the comments section at the bottom of this page) about how I did this and whether other hoods would work. The hood pops up and closes down almost automatically.Īnd my camera says RZ67 on the front which confuses everybody. This gives me the self-erectingįeature, which is quite nice. Modified my RB Pro to mount a RZ hood on it.
Workhorse of professional studio photographers. The basic design and function of the RB hasn't changed over the past 30 years.Īlong with the Pentax 67 and Hasseblad 500 series, the RB 67 has remained the Mamiya also has a higher-tier line called the RZ series that features electronically controlled lenses and shutters. The Pro-SD was still currently being sold new into the early 2000s. They made some changes in it, renamed it the Using the text or images on this website without permission on an ebay auction or any other site is a violation of federal law. The Mamiya RB67 is a very successful line of single-lens reflex medium formatĬameras made by the Mamiya Corporation.