mamiya 6 lenses

There are only 3 lenses. 50, 75 and 150mm. Acording to mamiya they are 28, 42 and 82mm in 35mm equivalents. Altough you must rememeber that the format is 1:1 and not 2:3 as in 35mm so even if the diagonals are close in their mesurment, perpective is diferent. To get a good idea of what it looks like, take a photo horizontally, then vertically, put one over the other and fill the corners in your imagination, that would be the covarage you get on 6x6 with the same focal (more or less).

I found the 75mm to be a perfect all around lens, to the point I never used the 50 or 150 when I had them. The quality of all of them is beyon any doubt, just great. And you have all the framlines in the VF, unlike the mamiya 7.
 
I've only used the 75mm (which I'm selling in the classified section) but it is a fantastic lens. Super sharp with a very neutral feel. The 50 is reported to be one of the best wide medium format lenses every made and is priced accordingly.

I've heard less good things about 150 but I think they have to do with difficulty focusing rather than the quality. They are all super high quality. If you want a go anywhere medium format kit, this is a great option. The collapsible lens mount is great for traveling and the meter works well in aperture priority mode which is good as the shutter speed dial on the one I had at least was pretty stiff so I used it in aperture priority mostly with good results.
 
I used to have one and can say without doubt that the 75 and 150 lenses are really great. The camera on the other hand I never had any confidence in after two of them exploded with the same problem (film door falling off). I used the 75 lens almost all the time, the 150 for the occasional landscape because it doesnt focus closely very well at all. The 50 lens I hear is just as good as the others. In fact I just did some prints up yesterday and they easily blow away my 20D with L glass in front of it. I got a lot of shots in my gallery.
 
The original Mamiya 6 was a folding 6 x 6 cameraI believe from the 1950's and 60's fairly unique in that it focussed by moving yje film plane. They are well regarded if you can get a good one which is tough given their age. The differences between the later M6 and M6MF are that the MF stands for multiformat. The MF shipped with a mask for 4.5 x 6 and you could buy a 35mm panoramic attachment like the one for the M7. I don't know if there were any mechanical changes.
 
The 6MF also included brightlines in the finder for the 35mm panoramic format and the 6x4.5 format. Some found these brightlines distracting, but everyone thought the 6x4.5 idea was stupid, because you still only got 12 exposures per roll.

Clarence
 
I'd like to put in a plug for the 50MM. It is a razor sharp offering. I prefer WA's and despite having the 75 and the 150, find myself rarely using them. The Mamiya 6 is a great camera if you enjoy the 6X6 format.
 
The panorama is quite useless, unless you use some film the you dont have in 120 format but do have in 35mm. The indications are more like dots than framlines, and only found in the 6MF, as well as the fittings for the adapter.

usually its better to just crop a 6x6 neg to panorama, that way you are not limited to the center of the frame. If you want panorama as such this camera is a poor substitute, having the camera loaded with 35mm wont let you use 120 until you finish the roll.
 
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