Mamiya Rangefinders

[herron]

A lot of folks under 40 (and who are not really into cameras) are surprised to discover Mamiya at one time had quite a strong line of 35mm rangefinders -- that had their beginning in 1949!

I have a collection that now includes most of them...and some information posted online at www.mamiya35collectors.com/rangefinder.htm

[heath]

I have a Mamiya 35S2 that I have been slowly bringing back to a presentable state. NIce little rangefinder.

Heath

[herron]

Heath:
I like them, too. The 35S I picked up recently seems to be working just fine! I just took in the first roll of film that I ran through it, and will post anything good that develops!

[herron]

The Mamiya 35S I recently picked up works very nicely.


This was at the Lexington Horse Park, in Kentucky (and I have to 'fess up...my wife actually took this one) We had pulled off the road, and I had been shooting, when she said "Can I try?" The camera was all set up, so I handed it to her and said go ahead...I think she composed this one very nicely.


This is closer to home...a little lake called Lake 16...


Ditto this one. It was the clouds in each that caught my attention.

[herron]

Here are a few more pictures taken with my "new" Mamiya 35S rangefinder:


I was enormously proud of this image, taken at the Lexington Horse Park in Kentucky, particularly because it was just a part of the whole photo that was taken, as you can see by the whole image below! I took a whole series of photos while we were there, bracketing slightly with each one, because my incident meter was in a suitcase! I think that 35S just convinced me all over again about the quality of the lens.

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The next two were taken out the window of the car, about 10 minutes apart! My wife was driving when I spotted the farmland east of I-75 as we drove through Ohio, somewhere north of Dayton. You can see the foreground images zipping by at about 70 mph!