WHICH STUDIO LIGHTS TO USE WITH MAMIYA 7 II PRO
The reason to switch into RZ Pro II was metering and long exposure time. I even have a wall poster at home: 120×200 cm from scanned neg (Kodak ProGold 100 scanned at 2400 dpi) and it is striking!
I was able to do 50×60 cm (20×24″) enlargements with very fine details! If there is someone who remembers Kodak Ektar 25 than I do not have to add anything more. I was shocked by the quality of negs/trannies. I managed to buy 90 mm standard lens later. But this was important experience (later on this subject in lens section). I realized that I had SF after couple of days. My first one was used RB 67 Pro S with 150 Soft Focus lens. So initial camera was German Pentacon Six TL (6×6), but thanks to its poor optics and even poorer mechanics (overlaped frames) I turned into Mamiya 6×7 format (I am not a big square/Hassy fan).
I started MF because I wanted to make prints bigger than 24×30 cm (10×12″) which is maximum reasonable size from decent 35 mm neg. I hope this will be helpful to everyone who started to discover this MF camera/system. I am RZ Pro II user for over 10 years and would like to share some my experience with this brilliant camera. So Frank congratulations! But back to topic. There is very few places these days where you can find something interesting about MF and Mamiya RZ “new life” in digital era in particular. Let’s start with the first post from Irek to get to know him On the forum one of the visitors (Irek) gave a great review/overview on some of the lenses and I decided to put that review also here on the blog, I think a lot of people can benefit from this, so if you’re in the market for some serieus studio glass make sure to read on. Somethings have changed, prices have gone up and will probably go up even more when more Medium Format shooters will discover this beauty. When I bought the camera it could be bought for little to nothing in great shape and the lenses were also very cheap. Recently this review has become totally hot again because Mamiya re-released one of the best studio cameras. A while ago I wrote the review about the RZ67ProII that I love to use in my studio work.
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