Some Mamiya 6 photos

If you want to share Mamiya 6 photos and a few words, why not share them here? This post looks like little else than you spamming for your blog.
 
Pointing to interesting and relevant content is always welcome, in my opinion.

The fact that Nick is pointing to his own blog therefore doesn't bother me a bit.

Nick is a fine photographer as well. (This article is quite timely for me, as I have been mulling over Christmas about selling my Mamiya 6, but perhaps won't quite yet!)
 
Paul_C said:
If you want to share Mamiya 6 photos and a few words, why not share them here? This post looks like little else than you spamming for your blog.
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If you have a running blog, which, you may already have, sooner or later you would be faced with these questions:

Do I write what I think is cool or important on my blog or in one of the forums?

What if I have several forums that I'd like to share the writings with? should I copy and paste them across the internet? What if later on I change something in them?

What if I'd like people who read my writings years from now? How would they find it?

In short, there are valid reasons that a blog entry is a better place for a piece of writing than a thread in a forum.

Creating a thread in a forum pointing to a blog entry whether it's your own or someone else' is not spamming.

After all, nobody is soliciting your email sneakily and bombarding it with advertisement. Now that, would be spamming.
 
Thanks Yaron and Will, you both put things better than I could have.

My blog is a Rangefinder specific one. It's not there for any commercial purpose. I do post links to articles or photos from it on here, and have a lot of visitors from this forum, not surprisingly given we are all interested in rangefinders.

Don't quite understand what got Paul's goat, but back to the original subject, the mamiya 6 remains in my opinion an excellent medium format travel companion, if not the best medium format camera (as I said in the article I still prefer the Rollei 2.8F for that). I would keep hold of it, and use it, not sell it, if you have one. Everyone I know who has sold it has regretted it - not least as the used prices keep going up.

Nick
 
Nick, I like your blog a lot.

Just a little observation though, below the 2nd photograph you have mentioned that you had 2 cameras with you (Mamiya 6 and Leica M6 TTL), and in the very next sentence you are saying that you haven't got around to processing the film from Leica M7!! Looks like a typo. :D
 
Nice collection of photos Nick, interesting blog. I have never owned a Mamiya 6 or 7 but i've lusted after them from time to time...usually after seeing photographs taken by them posted by my fellow RRF members.
Thanks for posting, Happy New year!

Best
Paul
 
Took my Mamiya 6 to Joshua Tree over the Holidays
I love this camera so much.

Mamiya 75mm, Kodak Portra 160 NC





Mamiya 75mm, Kodak TMax 400



 
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Also regret selling my Mamiya 6 with 50, 75 and 150 lenses. I sold that to fund the purchase of my Mamiya 7 kit. I actually bought the Mamiya 7 twice because I sold my first kit to fund the purchase of the 6.... damn ... I hope it won't happen again but have to say I miss the 6. Agree that it's excellent for travel... I want to give that Makina 67 a try too as it folds and it has a 2.8 lens ... thanks for the link to your blog. I will keep an eye on it.
 
No problems with posting people to an interesting article (or driving traffic), and maybe it's just a blogger-type thing (I should know because I have one, too) but this is quite a common sight:

"will post a photo daily to chronicle this..."

but then very quickly it degenerates into a photo every couple of weeks, or every 10 days. If you're going to do a 365 project, make sure you stick to it. Keep at it, or maybe stop posting 3-4 photos in one post, and just stick to the 'one-a-day' mantra.

Scheduling posts and recording them ahead of publishing date is a virtue I have yet to pick up on either, so it's just my two cents in case you ever get stuck! :)
 
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