Some Mamiya 6 photos

[Nick De Marco]

and a few words about why this remains my favourite MF for travel,
on my Rangefinder Chronicles blog uploaded today:
http://rangefinderchronicles.blogspot.com/2010/12/sunday-12-december-2010.html

 

[Paul_C]

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.

 

[sleepyhead]

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!)

 

[shadowfox]

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.

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.

 

[Nick De Marco]

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

 

[John Lawrence]

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.

Couldn't agree more. I sold mine (complete with all lenses) a number of years ago, and regret it to this day.

John

 

[Darshan]

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. 😀

 

[PaulW128]

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

 

[mrisney]

Agreed, I love my Mamiya 6. I enjoy your blog. Happy New Year Nick

 

[Nick De Marco]

thanks for the messages
a happy snappy new year to you all too
and thanks for that correction - should have said m6

 

[mrisney]

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

 

[zanef2.8]

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.

 

[pixelatedscraps]

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! 🙂