Spot mode will be automatically selected when the brightness within the measured range is lower than the brightness of the overall picture by about 1.5 EV or greater. Switches between Average and Spot modes depending on the relative contrast within the overall image.
#CONTAX 645 AF MEDIUM FORMAT SAMPLE IMAGES MANUAL#
Exposure Modes: Program AE, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual.Shutter Speed: AE 30 seconds to 1/4000 in 1/8th steps (1/2 steps in manual), X, B.Shutter: Electronically controlled vertical metal focal-plane shutter.Lens Mount: Bayonet Mamiya 645 AF Mount.These all retain the ability to use either film or a digital backs, easily switching from one to the other quickly, even mid-roll if desired. Mamiya would consequently produce the slightly improved models 645 AFD II and 645 AFD III later. It was released in Japan in September 1999 followed in December 2001 by the 645 AFD, a virtually identical version made compatible with some digital backs (not produced by Mamiya at the time). The 645 AF was a medium format SLR camera that was Mamiya’s first auto-focus camera. The Mamiya AFD and its subsequent iterations has its roots from the 645 AF. However the opportunity to finally be able to shoot this camera recently has rekindled this sentimental mission ) Mamiya 645 AFD Background History None of the above of course ever happened. “If only I could have this camera, I too could take sweet fashion photographs and marry hot models/actresses” was the thought. That camera as it turns out, was a Mamiya AFD. Anyways, there was a lovely BTS shot from the set of her putting on makeup in front of a mirror and in the reflection was him shooting her with this interesting looking medium format camera I hadn’t seen before.
I can’t remember now exactly what magazine it was but I was drawn to one specific shoot taken by photographer Cedric van Mol, whom she later married. The obsession was nowhere near the level of high school me with Cindy Crawford or college me with Laetitia Casta (getting those posters laminated was a good idea) but I was smitten enough to collect magazines that she was featured in. My curiosity of the Mamiya AFD stems back to 2008 or so during an Olga Kurylenko phase. Curious about this relatively undervalued workhorse? It can also be had for a fraction of the cost of a Contax. Yet like the embattled but talented Italian composer, it has enjoyed a recent renaissance for, if you will, its “underratedness”. You can ask many a fashion or wedding photographer. It has always been in the shadow of its nemesis’s worldwide acclaim, popularity and jealousy inducing abilities. The Mamiya AFD is the Salieri to the Contax 645’s Mozart.
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