You just have to unscrew the mounting bolts (tiny screws) on the RB and replace them with slightly longer bolts (I bought them at my local Ace Hardware, they're very small metric bolts). The RZ and RB hoods mount in essentially the same way except the RZ-body mounting pins are just a bit longer. Modifying the hood: I've gotten several e-mail messages asking how I made the modification. A good alternative would be a Hasseblad 500C/M which because of ebay and the digital exodus, now only cost about $1200 for the entire kit. However, the RZ bodies are plastic and while they're lighter, they're not as tough as the RBs. RZ67 II since those cameras can use all my RB lens and backs (with a G adaptor)Īnd can also be upgraded to electronic shutters and aperture priority metering. If I was to buy a replacement for my Pro, it would most probably be a Mamiya Other than the quick erecting hood, I've never felt I needed the additional features of the later RB models. Now, this will only make the hoods physically compatible - there's no electronics between the RB body and the RZ hoods. You won't be able to use RB hoods after this conversion, until you replace the screws again. You just need to replace them with longer ones to accept the RZ hood. There are mounting screws on the body that latch onto the hood. First, it's fairly easy to adapt the RB body to physically accept a RZ hood. I get a lot of questions (see the comments section at the bottom of this page) about how I did this and whether other hoods would work. The hood pops up and closes down almost automatically.Īnd my camera says RZ67 on the front which confuses everybody. This gives me the self-erectingįeature, which is quite nice.
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Modified my RB Pro to mount a RZ hood on it. RB-67 Pro-SD (1990-now) = Pro-S + larger bayonet mount in order to handle some newer KL lenses.portrait orientation indicator + self-erecting focusing hood RB-67 Pro-S (1974-90) = Pro + double-exposure interlock + viewfinder landscape.
#MAMIYA 7 II OCCASION PROFESSIONAL#
Workhorse of professional studio photographers. The basic design and function of the RB hasn't changed over the past 30 years.Īlong with the Pentax 67 and Hasseblad 500 series, the RB 67 has remained the Mamiya also has a higher-tier line called the RZ series that features electronically controlled lenses and shutters. The Pro-SD was still currently being sold new into the early 2000s. They made some changes in it, renamed it the Using the text or images on this website without permission on an ebay auction or any other site is a violation of federal law. The Mamiya RB67 is a very successful line of single-lens reflex medium formatĬameras made by the Mamiya Corporation.