Good handling, solid construction, wide range of lenses from 35 - 300mm. Digital capabilities with digital back. Sharp lenses.

Metering sensitive to light entering view finder. AF lenses have loose feel when used in manual focus. Slow AF performance. Lack of 1.4x or 2x extenders. Mamiya poor at releasing new lenses (26mm 2 years late!)

Good AF medium format camera with plenty of fixed and zoom lenses available. I've used mine for a couple of years and am generally happy with it. I moved from a 645 Pro TL system because I intended to shoot with a digital back - if I could have used my Kodak back with the Pro TL I would have stayed with it as I consider the Pro TL to be a better system!

Customer Service

None needed. Robust camera system.

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Mamiya 645 Pro TL - better built and excellent manual focus system. Pentax 645N

Exceptional optics!

Do not see any for this camera in this price level.

This camera Mamiya 645AFD, is alternative choice to pro-users of Sinar, etc. Well build with exceptional quality (!) optics and easy to handle in almost all situations. Digital back is "sugar on cake" for this system. Highly recommended!

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Hasselblad.

Very comfortable and easy to use. Excelent quality of lenses. The 120/220 film back is wonderful, as compared to the bronicas where you need to get two seperate film backs, this was intelligent.

None so far....but who knows....everything breaks down sometime...even a ferrari.

I don't know what you people are talking about. After reading these reviews I went outside and pointed the camera directly at the sun and had NO problems reading the information in the viewfinder....and even if you did have problems...all the info is on the lcd on top of the camera. Well enough said about the crybabies. This camera is exceptionally easy to use. It is easy to hold, operate all dials, and in general easy to handle. Metering is not bad on this camera, of course a meter is there only as a basic road map for exposure, it is the photographer who makes the decision. Also, the lenses for this camera seem to be quite sharp. The only problem i have with the lenses is the standard 80mm feels a bit flimsy, but i've had no problems with it so far.

Customer Service

not needed

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Bronica 645

MF advantage (larger film size, than 24x35mm, interchangeable backs, mirror lock-up). Magazines work with 120/220 film.Ease to use. Solidity. Manual cable release can be used.

Viewfinder 0.71X of life-size, is somewhat dark. AF is slow, and the microprism (I changed the focusing screen because of the dark long lenses 500mm 5.6 and 55mm shift when using shift function) focusing screen is not very sharp, so focusing is difficult. This is perhaps what I dislike the most about the camera and woudld be the reason no. 1 to sell it. The exposure meter is fancily adverised in the Mamiya web page as 5-segment evaluative center-weighted average (AV) with bright point elimination which gives the false idea of matrix type metering when it is really a center weighed and spot metering. The exposure meter (spot)is not as accurate as the F90X (also spot) and the spot of the meter is a rather large circle, so critical metering is not possible.

My first experience in Medium Format. I like the large prints I am producing with the camera. And the not so advance features as compared with my F90X has helped me to re-discover photography techinque which has sustantially improved my photographic skills. In the other hand, the slow AF and limited range on AF telephoto has reduced the number of animal pictures I am taking, and because of the not so close focusing of my 500mm 5.6 (9m) I can't really take prairie dogs and birds. The spot on the metering is a very large circle and for years I have not used average metering in my cameras. The Digital film backs (Kodak 16MB) are outragously expensive $12K, and the new digital Kodak DCS 14N with 14MB is only $5k, so I may actually change the MF for a +10MB digital with 35 mm lens compatibility.

Customer Service

Very good in both B&H and Mamiya

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Nikon F90X

Fine for studio work. NOT outdoors.

See review.

As stated, I am an outdoor photographer. Chose this camera because of the autofocus. Problem is I cannot see the information in the viewfinder on even fairly bright days. Love snow scenes in particular and have to check the read out info on the top of the camera to gain the necessary information. Sold the camera because of this. Totally useless even under fairly bright conditions. A shame.

Customer Service

When I informed them of the cameras weakness for taking outdoor photos they seemed to have cared less. So I would say poor.

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Pentax 645

Its...um....well, for a well paid fashion photographer like me its a small price for a camera. But for the average commercial photographer just starting out its a little expensive for a prototype. No doubt they already have the next version on the drawing board. Wait for an improved model.