Mamiya RZ 180mm f/4.5 Medium Format

Mamiya RZ 180mm f/4.5 Medium Format 

DESCRIPTION

The 180mm f/4.5 is a compact, mid-range telephoto lens, and the most popular telephoto for the 6x7cm format. It offers an excellent camera to subject distance, slight flattening of portrait subjects, and exceptional sharpness. Applications include portraiture, fashion, landscape telephotography and sports. Equivalent to 87mm in 35mm format.

USER REVIEWS

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[Dec 03, 2004]
Eftegar
Intermediate

Strength:

sharpness, contrast, flatness on portraiture works. fashion and advertisement photography will need such a lens.

Weakness:

no lens is perfect. since there is no such thing as a perfect lens/body/technical equipment. but maybe, there could be such a thing as a perfect photo??...

The first time i got my hands on this lens i was quite pessimistic about the lenses handling and performance. the Mamiya W versions of the RZ lenses stands for the newer type construction, all glasses are computer cut. Lens performance: handling +/- (quite heavy) Lens performance: sharpness +++ (cutting!! i can count the wimpers and hairs) Lens performance: color rendering ++ Lens performance: build quality +++ (built like a tank, 850 grams of iron/glass) some of the portraits on my website are made with this lens. copy and paste these links in your browsers addressbar: http://www.eftegarie.nl/photos/_new/maria/kodak400tmx3.jpg cheers sam www.eftegarie.nl

Customer Service

None needed. The construction of the lens makes an extended guarantee obsolete...

Similar Products Used:

Mamiya 65mm f/3.5 L-A, RZ Pro II bodies, the whole arsenal of Canon L USM lenses including the 85mm 1.2L, 35mm 1.4L and 135mm 2.0... the autoeverything Canon machines are great, but very different compared to any medium/largeformat camera. it's extreme comportability compared to extreme resolution.

OVERALL
RATING
4
VALUE
RATING
4
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