Mamiya 6 150mm lens - nice

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Nick De Marco

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Picked one of these up from very cheap from Mr Cad in London recently, to add to my 50mm and 75mm on the Mamiya 6. For some reason I didn't expect it to be a good performer, maybe because I never really get on with long lenses on rangefinders. But I took it for a ride a while ago and only recently developed and scanned the negatives. I love the sharpness, contrast and rather wild bokeh of this lens. I shall have to use it more

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More on my flickr site, with tab "Mamiya 6 - 150mm"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickdemarcofoto/

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This is a great lens! It is underrated and under-appreciated. But what a great buy for a telephoto medium format lens. You do have to have good eyes to focus with it though. Here's one of my favs.
 

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Nice images.
Yes, contrary to most Mamiya 6 users. This lens gets as much use by me as the other two.
I have several examples on Flickr tagged with "Mamiya 6".
Enjoy it!
 
It's 1.2 meters if I remember correctly (I don't have the lens in front of me right now).

People say that it's not a good portrait lens because you can't do a "tight head shot", but I find it to be quite good, with lovely bokeh. A bit of cropping is all that's needed sometimes for a tight shot, which is fine, because I prefer most portraits like that to be rectangular in format and not square, so I would be cropping anyway.

I can try to post an example in the coming days.
 
Just to say its 1.8 meters minimum focus distance. Ive only just bought this lens, first roll deved and its stunning. Think it will easily be a close enough portrait lens.

ie. width of this rose bloom is maybe 10cm-12cm ish, this is at closest focus distance and un-cropped.
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Yes, 1.8 meters closest focusing distance, not 1.2 meters, my mistake.

Abit closer, like 1.5 meters would have been a nice touch (if the rangefinder accuracy could handle it, which I suspect it couldn't...)
 
Here is a portrait shot with the 150mm, wide-open and I believe at, or near, the closest focusing distance.

As you can see, it would need considerable cropping to make a tight portrait.
 

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good thing the '6 lenses are so darn sharp, you can crop the hell out of these things, if you want. focus accuracy is critical at 1.8m already (it's a 150mm after all), if body and lens are not correctly adjusted for each other it just doesn't work out. now imagine the hassle at 1.2m!
I have and really like the lens, but I don't use it very often. thank god focus is dead-on with mine, so I'm not giving it away!
 
nimcod said:
Just to say its 1.8 meters minimum focus distance. Ive only just bought this lens, first roll deved and its stunning. Think it will easily be a close enough portrait lens.

ie. width of this rose bloom is maybe 10cm-12cm ish, this is at closest focus distance and un-cropped.
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Nice photo. Really sharp.
 
I have once since recently too and like it very much. I do feel unsure about the focusing, but seem to get more good shots that I hoped for:

Delta 400 - wide open or close to that


Delta 400 - stopped down to about f/11
 
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