C41
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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The Mamiya 7 is a 6×7 medium-format rangefinder. Lenses focus by helicoid, shutter sits in each lens (leaf, syncs flash at all speeds), and a rangefinder patch in the bright finder couples to focus. At 920 g loaded, it weighs less than a Pentax 67 lens. The trade-off: SLR users find the parallax-corrected finder limiting, and lens choice is small (six lenses total, no zooms, no macro).
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C41
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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Kodak Portra 160 is a professional C-41 color negative film with fine grain, soft contrast, and natural color.
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The lightest 6×7 ever made. Lens-shutter rangefinder for photographers who'd rather walk than set up a tripod.
| Field | Value |
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| Format | 120 / 220, 6×7 cm (10 frames per 120 roll) |
| Mount | Mamiya 7 (bayonet) |
| Years | 1995–2014 (covering 7 and 7 II) |
| Shutter | 4s – 1/500s, Seiko leaf, in each lens |
| Flash sync | All speeds |
| Meter | Center-weighted silicon, AE-coupled |
| Modes | Aperture priority, manual |
| Weight | 920 g (with 80mm) |
| Battery | 1× 6V (required) |
Released 1995, succeeding the Mamiya 6 (1989, 6×6 rangefinder, retractable lens mount). The Mamiya 7 II (1999) added improved rangefinder finder, multiple-exposure capability, and a panoramic-mask 35mm adapter. Production of the 7 II ended in 2014, making it among the last new film cameras Mamiya built. No direct successor.
The Mamiya 7 is the canonical landscape film camera. Six lenses (43, 50, 65, 80, 150, 210), a meter that works, a body you can hike with, and 6×7 negatives that scan to roughly 100 megapixels of detail. The 43mm is one of the most-praised wide-angles ever made — distortion-free, edge-to-edge sharp at f/8, with a corresponding optical viewfinder that mounts to the hot shoe.
For working photographers it became the medium-format alternative to a Linhof or Toyo 4×5 — same negative ratio (close enough), faster shooting, no need for a tripod. The trade-off is no SLR through-the-lens compose: filters and close-up work require external accessories, and macro is essentially impossible.
All Mamiya 7-mount lenses are praised for sharpness:
Panoramic 35mm adapter (mask the negative for 24×65 mm wide frames). Polarizer adapter for 43mm and 50mm. No zoom, no macro, no fisheye, no faster-than-f/4 glass.
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Kodak Tri-X 400 is a classic black-and-white film known for strong tonality, visible grain, and documentary character.
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