Fun with Mamiya Universal and 665

[borrel]

This Mamiya Universal reminds me of the Mercedes Unimog. Here it is having fun with expired Polaroid 665: http://abdallah.hiof.no/mamiya-665/ (More Universal fun here: http://abdallah.hiof.no/mamiya-u/

- Børre

 

[oftheherd]

Nice photos. I often thought I would like to get a Universal body and Polaroid holder to try, but never could justify the expense for how much I thought I would use Polaroid. I do like your Efke shots. I used some of that some 30 years ago from Freestyle and loved it. However, all I had was D-76. It still came out nice. At that time all I had was the 100mm f/3.5. Now I have the 50mm and 150mm as well as a 65mm that I can't use because of a bad shutter. Do you have other lenses as well?

 

[borrel]

75mm, 100/3.5, 127 and 250/5 with Universal and a Super 23 G bodies. (Hopefully a 50mm that I can afford will turn up some day. 🙂 I have both the packfilm and 545i backs for the Universal along with a 6x9 back. It really is quite a versatile system for doing "medium fomat plus". Now if there only were a couple of shift lenses, 50, 75 and 100/2.8 for example, that covered the 4x5 format. Come to think of it, these cameras will last forever when the Mamiya RB digital backs start coming into our price range.

And I like your Super 23 pictures too. So relaxed and unassuming. What is it that makes "older" pictures "better"?

- Børre