Camera Techniques

Camera Techniques

A Brief History of Mamiya

The camera company with the name Mamiya is still a leading player in the average size market of digital camera and professional film. This company was established on 10th May, in the year 1940. The stylish logo seen on early cameras of Mamiya was designed in the year 1940 by fine arts school students of Japan (the Japan Art College's predecessor) and sets for the originals for the two originators (Shell, 1992).

The initial product of the Mamiya Company was average-size 120 film Mamiya-6 folder. An attractive feature of this classic folder is its focusing way. The bellows and lens do not move at the time of focusing, whereas the plane of film does move at the time of focusing. This was very well made and greatly successful. This folder was the forerunner of first camera of Mamiya that was of 35mm, with the name Mamiya 35-I. This Mamiya 35-I was debuted in the year 1949.

Mamiya at first got fame for its medium-sized professional film cameras that include series of Mamiya Press and Mamiya Six. The Mamiya after that carried on to develop the manufacturing workhouse series of RB67, the RZ67 and the C-220/C-330 that has twin-lens reflex was utilized by advanced professional and amateur photographers. The company of Mamiya also proclaimed the development of format of 645 for professional photographers.

A number of models of Mamiya, over the previous six decades have turned out to be items of collectors. The first Mamiya Six folding camera of medium-sized, the Mamiya-Sekor 1000DTL of 35mm, the light weight Mamiya NC1000 of 35 mm, the C series of identical-lens and TLR (twin-lens reflex) cameras of 6×6 cm, and cameras of press of the Universal/Super series are greatly significant. Mamiya also made the final models of the line of Omega cameras that were of medium format (Shell, 1992).

In the year 2009, at the Phase One, a digital camera of medium format was manufactured from the Denmark; this camera purchased the key share in Mamiya. In the year 2012, the Phase One shared Mamiya and some other companies such as Leaf Imaging; they together created an innovative global brand of Mamiya Leaf in order to integrate the product lines of both the companies into a single offering system of digital camera of medium format. The re-branding presents a streamlined establishment and development of product of much more well-organized ...