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Mamiya RZ67

Mamiya · Mamiya RZ67 mount · 6×7cm on 120 film (56×69.5mm), revolving back; 220, 6×6, 6×4.5 (56×41.5mm), Polaroid pack and digital backs via other holders · 1982

single source, unconfirmed

Also known as: Mamiya RZ67 · Mamiya RZ-67 · RZ67 · RZ-67 · RZ67 Pro · RZ67 Pro II · RZ67 ProII · RZ67 Pro IID · RZ67 Pro2 · Mamiya RZ67 Professional · Mamiya RZ67 Professional II · マミヤ RZ67 · マミヤ RZ67 プロII · マミヤ RZ67 プロIID · 6x7 · 6×7

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
RZ67 Professional Mamiya RZ67 1982–1993 — —
RZ67 Pro II Mamiya RZ67 1993–2004 — —
RZ67 Pro IID Mamiya RZ67 2004–2014 — —
  1. Family weight is the Pro II body with FW702 hood (1350g); the Pro manual gives only 2.4kg with the 110mm lens.
  2. Whether RB lenses need an adapter is stated both ways: the 1982 manual says the mount accepts RB lenses without one, camera-wiki names a G-Lock adapter, and the Pro II adds an RBL dial setting. AE does not work with RB lenses (camera-wiki).
  3. Flange distance: the RZ manual says 104mm (and 111mm for the RB), English Wikipedia 105mm (and 110mm for the RB).
  4. The 1/250–4s span of the Pro II's intermediate speeds is from Japanese Wikipedia only.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • Battery chamber in the base and a shutter speed dial on the body's left side: an RB67 has neither
  • Bellows focusing with knobs on both sides; revolving back with viewfinder masks that follow it
  • Lens mount with a ring of twelve gold contacts
  • Front plate suffix: none, PRO II or PRO IID

RZ67 Professional:

  • Front plate reads Mamiya RZ67 with nothing to the right of the logo (tomjin2k)
  • Shutter speed dial with full stops only, 8s to 1/400 (English Wikipedia; RZ67 manual)
  • One focusing knob per side with a lock lever, no fine-focus knob
  • Holders have a single film counter window; foam light seals rather than the Pro II's plastic labyrinth gates (Emulsive part two)

RZ67 Pro II:

  • PRO II on the upper right of the front plate (tomjin2k)
  • Small fine-focus knob added beside the main focusing knob on the right side (Pro II manual; English Wikipedia)
  • Shutter dial with half-stop intermediate positions (1/250 to 4s per Japanese Wikipedia) and RBL and AEF settings
  • Roll film holders with two counter windows, read in either orientation; date code as a serial-number prefix (Mamiya Repair)

RZ67 Pro IID:

  • PRO IID on the upper right of the front plate (tomjin2k)
  • MSCE serial interface for digital backs built into the body; the HX701 revolving digital back adapter (106g) carries the back (Pro IID brochure)

Serial-range notes

Pro II: two-letter prefix
On the RZ Pro II the Mamiya date code is the prefix of the serial number rather than a sticker: first letter year, second month, A–T for 1981–2000, A–N for 2001–14 (Mamiya Repair).
Pro: gold sticker
Original Pro bodies and all RZ lenses carry the two-letter code on a small gold sticker, on the back of the lens (Mamiya Repair).

Specifications

Format
6×7cm on 120 film (56×69.5mm), revolving back; 220, 6×6, 6×4.5 (56×41.5mm), Polaroid pack and digital backs via other holders · 10 on 120; 20 on 220; 15 at 6×4.5 exposures
Finder
waist-level Focusing Hood FW702 with self-erecting hood and magnifier, interchangeable; AE Prism Finder FE701, non-metered prism, AE magnifying hood; RB67 finders also fit · 3.2× magnification
Shutter
none in body; Seiko #1 electronic leaf shutter in each lens, timed by the body · 8s–1/400, B, T; half steps from the Pro II; mechanical 1/400 with no battery · flash sync all speeds, X terminal on the lens or the hot shoe · no self-timer
Film advance
single 114° stroke of the body cocking lever advances film, cocks shutter and resets mirror and baffle; Winder RZ (Pro) or Winder II RZ (Pro II/IID) motorises it at 1.5 s per frame
Back
interchangeable revolving back, 120/220; the finder mask follows the back; holder will not release until the dark slide is in
Meter
none in body; AE Prism Finder FE701 meters through the lens (averaged, spot or auto) and runs aperture-priority AE with the dial at AEF
Motor drive
Winder RZ (Pro only), Winder II RZ (Pro II and IID) — Six AA cells or a 9V AC adapter; Pro II manual states Winder I cannot be used on it
Weight
1350 g
Dimensions
108 × 133.4 × 211.5 with 110mm f/2.8 (Pro II manual); weight_g is the Pro II body with waist-level finder, no holder or lens mm
Country
Japan
Accessories
120 Roll Film Holder HA703 (530g), 220 Roll Film Holder HB702, 6×4.5 120 Roll Film Holder HA704 (330g, with finder mask), 6×6 holders, Polaroid Land Pack Film Holder HP702 · Digital Back Adapter HX701 (MSCE, revolving, 106g) for the Pro IID; Mamiya ZD Back · Focusing Hood FW702 (150g); AE Prism Finder FE701 (940g); non-metered prism finder; AE magnifying hood; RB67 finders fit · Focusing screens Type A matte, A3, A4 checker, C microprism, D cross-hair, E rangefinder spot/microprism · Winder RZ (Pro) and Winder II RZ (Pro II/IID), 550g without cells; L-Grip Holder RZ (390g); Quick-Shoe AQ701; Remote Control Set RS401 IR · Auto Extension Tubes RZ No.1 (45mm) and No.2 (82mm); Tele-Converter 1.4× RZ; tilt/shift adapter; macro bellows · Bellows Lens Hoods G-2 and G-3; Gelatine Filter Holder Model 2; mirror lock-up cable release; G-Lock adapter for RB holders

3.2× magnifier on the Pro hood (manual), 1:2.9 on the FW702 (brochure); 95% of the field; interchangeable screens Type A matte standard

Where sources disagree

First
  • February 1993 — Japanese Wikipedia; 1993 — English Wikipedia and the tomjin2k blog
  • 1995 — camera-wiki, Emulsive (Lucain) and analog.cafe

Better supported: 1993

The Japanese article gives a month; the 1995 sources give none.

Last
  • 2014 — analog.cafe and Emulsive, for the Pro IID
  • About 2010–2011 — Emulsive's end for the Pro and Pro II

Better supported: 2014

What reviewers say

History

The RZ67 is the RB67 rebuilt with electronics, and Mamiya’s own manual for the 1982 camera lays out exactly what changed. The revolving back and rack-and-pinion bellows stay, and so does the leaf shutter in every lens; but the lens throat grew 7mm to 61mm and the flange shortened by the same 7mm, the mount gained twelve contacts, and the Seiko #1 shutter became electronically timed from the body’s dial, 8s to 1/400 plus B and T. A 6V 4SR44 or 4LR44 cell in the base runs the shutter, the finder lamps and, on the metered prism, the meter; with the battery dead the shutter still fires at about 1/400 whatever the dial says, and nothing else works. The masks in the finder turn with the back. The manual gives 104 × 133.5 × 211.5mm and 2.4kg with the 110mm f/2.8, and the Pro II manual splits its 2490g as body with hood 1350g, holder 530g and lens 610g.

The Pro II came in February 1993 by Japanese Wikipedia’s account, though camera-wiki, Emulsive and analog.cafe all say 1995. It added intermediate half-step shutter speeds (1/250 to 4s on the Japanese article’s reading), a small fine-focus knob beside the right-hand focusing knob, holders with a counter window for each orientation and plastic labyrinth light seals in place of foam, an audible alarm for a wrong dial position or a low battery, and an RBL dial position for RB lenses; the 1982 manual had already said RB lenses mount without an adapter, and camera-wiki names a G-Lock adapter, so the pages disagree on what is needed. The Pro II takes only Winder II RZ. The Pro IID of July 2004 is a Pro II with the MSCE serial interface for digital backs built in, so a back on the HX701 revolving adapter reads the camera’s settings; the Mamiya ZD Back of 2006 mounts directly. Emulsive and analog.cafe have production ending in 2014.

The front plate tells the three apart: nothing after the RZ67 logo on a Pro, PRO II or PRO IID at the upper right on the later two. A Pro has one knob per side and a full-stop dial; a Pro II has the extra small knob and a dial with half positions. Pro II bodies carry the two-letter Mamiya date code as the prefix of the serial number, year letter then month letter (A to T for 1981 to 2000), where Pro bodies and all RZ lenses have it on a gold sticker.

Buying one is buying its electronics. Every reviewer says to check the battery first: Emulsive’s maintenance guide notes that leaving the release collar unlocked drains a cell fast, the red lamp blinks when it is low, and the alarm and lock-outs of a Pro II will refuse to fire for an incomplete cocking stroke, a dark slide still in, or a dial left at RBL with an RZ lens on. Clean the gold contacts with alcohol, work the bellows out to its 46mm, and on original Pro holders expect the foam seals to need replacing; Pro II holders do not have them. Dmitri at analog.cafe and John Adams III both bought Pro IIs, Adams calling the battery dependence the one real limitation beside the 6 lb weight. Lucain’s advice, after five parts, is that the Pro II is the one to buy for the fine-focus knob and the half stops, and that prices rise Pro, Pro II, Pro IID.

Two pictures made with it are why sellers still list it by name: Charles O’Rear’s Windows XP “Bliss” of 1996 (English Wikipedia; 35mmc) and the bulk of Annie Leibovitz’s studio work of the 1980s and 1990s.

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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

Mamiya RZ67
Mamiya RZ67 Professional body — Piksi, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain (released by the author))
Mamiya RZ67
Mamiya RZ67 Professional II body — Piksi, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain (released by the author))
Mamiya RZ67
Mamiya RZ67 Pro on a tripod — ep_jhu, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

Live listings

Asking price, USD: a median of $900 across 65 fixed-price listings on 2026-09-19 (middle half $440–$1,300). First day tracked.

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Sources (13)

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