It’s an incredibly well made and thought out camera! Sometimes they need to be dislodged by pressing the little tabs on the right. The backs stay in place via the locked mechanisms on top and bottom. From here you can connect a 120 or Polaroid back. One of the best things about this camera is that you don’t need to rotate it on the tripod to shoot portrait mode, the back will do it for you. Focusing is done via the bottom knobs, and in this configuration the back is set to portrait mode. So every time you take a photo, you’ll need to push this forward and back. Like most other ground glass screens, you simply pull it up and it snaps into place.Īt the side is the shutter recock lever. On top of the Mamiya is the screen that folds down. In the camera’s most compacted form, this is what it looks like. The lenses like this 90mm f3.8 have a rubber lens hood that collapses and is well built. You’ll need to unscrew the ring on the lens that mates it to the camera. One of the different things about a camera like this is that the lenses themselves have the screw and connection built in. Being a 67 format camera, it’s pretty large. The Mamiya RB67 Pro-S is an SLR style camera with all the moving parts that one can and should expect at the medium format level of cameras. You should know that it’s a 6×7 format camera, the aperture and shutter controls are around the lens, and there is no light meter built in. Not recommended for the inexperienced photographer at all.Lots of steps to put into place that really lock you into the process of shooting.Ability to flip from landscape to portrait perspective.Big, heavy, beautiful feeling piece of machinery.If anything, it’s proven that 645 digital is close to the larger formats of 120 film, but it still isn’t totally there to me. A true workhorse camera for a portrait or landscape photographer, this camera has been in my arsenal for a fair amount of time now and I’ve often considered it to be my crown jewel. But if you’re working with a camera like the Mamiya RB67 Pro-S, it’s impossible to not get that look you’re craving. It’s what so many photographers strive for. But very few pieces of work out there have really delivered to me what I feel is that true medium format look. 645 digital is good in fact, it’s very good. For many years, I believed it to a certain point. A few years ago, I was told that a Hasselblad digital camera was going to kill the 120 format of film.
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