645 BLOG - THE MAMIYA ZD CAMERA
Entry #24: The Mamiya 200mm F2.8 APO Lens for the 645M
MAMIYA 200mm F2.8 APO LENS
The new-to-me Mamiya 200mm F2.8 APO lens arrived earlier this week, so today I took it out for a quick spin. On the Mamiya 645AF family this is a fully manual lens. It mounts directly to the Mamiya 645AF mount, but there is no auto-focus, and the metering is stop-down. The samples below are intended to illustrate the lens’ wide open sharpness, depth of field, bokeh and colors characteristics. All images were taken on a Mamiya ZD integrated dSLR. I owned this lens once before and thought it was amazing on the Phase One P25, so I’m looking to using it again. The 200mm can be mounted on Canon and Nikon dSLRs via an adapter which are easily found on Ebay. The Fotodiox Pro version seems to be the prevailing favorite (about $75 USD).
Sunday, December 14, 2008
