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Mamiya 7 II

Mamiya · Mamiya 7 mount · 56×69.5mm on 120 (10 exposures) or 220 (20 exposures); 24×65mm on 35mm film with the Panoramic Adapter Kit (16 exposures from a 36-exposure cassette, 10 from a 24). · 1999

single source, unconfirmed

Also known as: Mamiya 7 II · Mamiya 7II · Mamiya 7ii · Mamiya 7 ii · Mamiya7II · 7II · マミヤ7II · マミヤ7 II · Mamiya 7 II 80mm

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
Mamiya 7 II Mamiya 7 1999–2014 — —
  1. Weight and dimensions are the Mamiya 7 manual's figures; kakaku.com quotes the 7 II at 920 g and 160 × 112 × 66mm, the difference being where the depth is measured.
  2. No launch price in any currency was found. Photo Thinking's Australian reference and the used prices in the reviews are not list prices and are not recorded.
  3. The 7 II's champagne gold and black finishes rest on kakaku.com's two product entries; the titanium colour of the first body on Photo Thinking. No Mamiya document naming the colours was reached.
  4. The 2014 end of production comes from secondary sources only (English Wikipedia, Japan Camera Hunter, Photo Thinking); no Mamiya discontinuation notice was reached.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • Bright-line frames for 65, 80 and 150 only; the 43, 50 and 210 come with their own optical finders
  • Internal dark-slide curtain worked by a dial on the base; lens removal is locked while it is open and the release while it is closed
  • Speed dial with B, 4s to 1/500, A and AEL; the meter cell sits in the finder window, so the camera meters happily with the lens cap on (35mmc)
  • Black or champagne gold, three strap lugs and a multiple-exposure control: 7 II. A titanium-coloured shell with two lugs on one end is the earlier Mamiya 7
  • Film advance lever with 120, 220 and 135 settings; the Panoramic Adapter Kit's mask fits inside the gate

Mamiya 7 II:

  • 'Mamiya 7 II' on the front plate; black or champagne gold finish (kakaku.com lists both), not the titanium colour of the first body
  • A third strap lug so the camera can hang horizontally (Photo Thinking)
  • Multiple-exposure capability and a one-touch exposure-compensation control added (Japanese Wikipedia product list; camera-wiki)

Serial-range notes

No published scheme
Nothing consulted ties serial numbers to years. The 7 II is told from the Mamiya 7 by the nameplate, the finish and the third strap lug, not by number. A Photrio thread on identifying Mamiya's finder upgrade to early 7 bodies exists but refused the fetch and is not relied on here.

Specifications

Format
56×69.5mm on 120 (10 exposures) or 220 (20 exposures); 24×65mm on 35mm film with the Panoramic Adapter Kit (16 exposures from a 36-exposure cassette, 10 from a 24). · 10 on 120, 20 on 220; 16 or 10 panoramic frames on 35mm exposures
Finder
combined coupled rangefinder/viewfinder, automatic bright-line frame selection by lens, automatic parallax compensation · 0.57× magnification · 65mm, 80mm, 150mm framelines · automatic, one frame at a time, selected by the mounted lens · automatic parallax correction · 83% coverage
Base length
60 mm
Effective baselength
34.2 mm
Shutter
none in body; #00 electronic leaf shutter in each lens, electromagnetic release; an internal dark-slide curtain covers the film for lens changes · B, 4s to 1/500 (set on the body dial, timed in the lens) · flash sync all speeds, X contact, hot shoe and PC terminal · self-timer
Film advance
single-stroke lever, 185° throw, with automatic first-frame stop; 120, 220 and 135 positions
Back
hinged, fixed; 120/220 by pressure-plate setting; 35mm via the Panoramic Adapter Kit's spools and mask
Meter
silicon photodiode in the viewfinder, not through the lens, EV 3 to 18 at ISO 100 with the 80mm f/4; aperture-priority AE, AE lock and manual; exposure compensation +2 to -2 EV in 1/3 steps; ISO 25 to 1600; one 6V 4SR44, 4LR44 or 2CR1/3 cell
Motor drive
Not compatible
Weight
920 g
Dimensions
160 × 112 × 66 body only (kakaku.com); the Mamiya 7 manual gives 159 × 112 × 69 for the same casting; weight_g is the bare body, 1,210 g with the 80mm f/4 mm
Country
Japan
Accessories
Panoramic Adapter Kit for 35mm film (mask, spools, finder mask), 24×65mm frames · Optical viewfinders supplied with the N 43mm f/4.5 L, N 50mm f/4.5 L and N 210mm f/8 L · External Battery Case for cold weather · Polarising filter with finder-mounted viewing filter · Lens hood for the 43mm and 50mm

Manual figures: 0.57× magnification, 83% of the field visible at infinity, base length 60mm, effective base length 34.2mm. The 43mm, 50mm and 210mm lenses have no frame in the body finder and are composed through the optical viewfinder supplied with each; the rangefinder still focuses them. The finder is the Mamiya 7's design with reduced flare (camera-wiki: 'an improved finder that reduces glare'). Shutter speed, exposure display and the safety-interlock warning are LEDs in the finder.

Where sources disagree

Dimensions (mm)
  • 160 × 112 × 66 — kakaku.com, 7 II
  • 159 × 112 × 69 — Mamiya 7 instruction manual, same casting

Better supported: kakaku.com, the only source that measures the 7 II itself

A rounding and measuring difference, not a different body.

What reviewers say

History

The Mamiya 7 II is the Mamiya 7 of 1995 revised in January 1999 (Japanese Wikipedia product list; kakaku.com dates both colours to that month), and it is the body that stayed in the catalogue until production ended in 2014. It is the same camera in every dimension that matters: an electronic #00 leaf shutter in each lens, timed from B and 4 seconds to 1/500 by the dial on the body; a cloth dark slide inside the body so lenses can be changed mid-roll; aperture-priority AE with lock and manual from a silicon photodiode in the finder window; a coupled rangefinder on a 60mm base, 0.57× with bright-line frames for the 65, 80 and 150 only, the 43, 50 and 210 composing through their own optical finders; ten 56 × 69.5mm frames on 120 and twenty on 220, or 24 × 65mm panoramas on 35mm film with the adapter kit. The body weighs 920 g, 1,210 g with the N 80mm f/4 L, and kakaku.com measures it at 160 × 112 × 66mm.

The sources agree on four changes. The finder was made brighter and less prone to flare, which camera-wiki describes as an improved finder that reduces glare and which reviewers of the first body had complained about; a multiple-exposure control was added; exposure compensation became a one-touch setting (Japanese product list); and a third strap lug was fitted so the camera can hang horizontally, where the first body’s two lugs on one end hang it vertically and press into the face at the eye. The finish changed too: the Mamiya 7 came only in a titanium-coloured shell, the 7 II in black or champagne gold, which is how kakaku.com lists its two product entries. Shoot It With Film’s Radostina Boseva, who traded a Hasselblad 205 for a black 7 II, is the review here written around this body specifically; the comparative pieces at 35mmc apply to either.

What to check is what one checks on any Mamiya 7. The rangefinder can drift out of alignment and should be tested at infinity and close up; the plastic shell chips at the corners; the release is light enough to fire in the bag. The meter cell sits outside the lens, so the camera will expose a whole roll with the cap on. Every lens carries its own shutter, so neither body nor lens can be tested alone, and the dark slide must be open for the release to work and closed for the lens to come off. On the used market the 7 II carries a premium over the first body for the finder and the lug, and a seller who writes only ‘Mamiya 7’ for a black or champagne camera with three lugs has a 7 II; the nameplate settles it.

What remains open: a list price in any currency; the serial-number scheme; whether Mamiya upgraded early 7 finders to this specification on request, which a Photrio thread discusses but which could not be read here; and any production figure.

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This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.

Photographs

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Live listings

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Lenses for this body: Mamiya N 150mm f/4.5 L (Mamiya 7) · Mamiya N 43mm f/4.5 L (Mamiya 7) · Mamiya N 65mm f/4 L (Mamiya 7) · Mamiya N 80mm f/4 L (Mamiya 7) · Mamiya N 210mm f/8 L (Mamiya 7) · Mamiya N 50mm f/4.5 L (Mamiya 7)

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