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| + | The '''645 AF''' is a medium-format [[SLR]] camera made in Japan by [[Mamiya]], the company's first autofocus camera. It was released in Japan in September 1999.<ref name=CoHist>[http://www.mamiya.co.jp/home/camera/museum/rekishi/rekishi1.htm Mamiya company history], in Japanese, on the [http://www.mamiya.co.jp/ Mamiya Digital Imaging website].</ref> It was followed at the end of the same year by the '''645 AFD''', a version of the same camera made compatible with some digital backs (not produced by Mamiya at the time), and Mamiya produced improved models, the '''645 AFDII''' and '''645 AFDIII''' later.<!--Check when and add later--> These retain the ability to use either film or a digital back, switching from one to the other quickly, mid-roll if desired. | ||
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| + | The cameras have a new bayonet lens mount incorporating several electrical contacts, to support the use of AF lenses. However, this is compatible, in a limited way, with the lenses for the preceding models (the [[Mamiya M645]] and [[Mamiya M645 Super|M645 Super]] series cameras). These manual-focus lenses can be fitted, but the cameras do not have the pin to mate with the aperture yoke on these lenses, so stopped-down metering must be used. There is a special focusing screen, with manual-focusing aids (microprism spot) for use with manual lenses. | ||
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| + | Many of the features of the 645 AF are retained from Mamiya's previous series of 4.5x6cm SLR cameras /(the [[M645 Super]] and related models). However, the camera is not built in the modular way that those cameras were; the power film winder is built-in, as is the prism viewfinder; a [[viewfinder#waist-level finder|waist-level finder]] cannot be used (although there is a right-angle eyepiece attachment). | ||
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The 645 AF is a medium-format SLR camera made in Japan by Mamiya, the company's first autofocus camera. It was released in Japan in September 1999.[1] It was followed at the end of the same year by the 645 AFD, a version of the same camera made compatible with some digital backs (not produced by Mamiya at the time), and Mamiya produced improved models, the 645 AFDII and 645 AFDIII later. These retain the ability to use either film or a digital back, switching from one to the other quickly, mid-roll if desired.
The cameras have a new bayonet lens mount incorporating several electrical contacts, to support the use of AF lenses. However, this is compatible, in a limited way, with the lenses for the preceding models (the Mamiya M645 and M645 Super series cameras). These manual-focus lenses can be fitted, but the cameras do not have the pin to mate with the aperture yoke on these lenses, so stopped-down metering must be used. There is a special focusing screen, with manual-focusing aids (microprism spot) for use with manual lenses.
645 AF
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Many of the features of the 645 AF are retained from Mamiya's previous series of 4.5x6cm SLR cameras /(the M645 Super and related models). However, the camera is not built in the modular way that those cameras were; the power film winder is built-in, as is the prism viewfinder; a waist-level finder cannot be used (although there is a right-angle eyepiece attachment).
645 AFD
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Notes
- ↑ Mamiya company history, in Japanese, on the Mamiya Digital Imaging website.
