A Brief History of Mamiya Cameras
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Mamiya began in 1940 by businessman Sugawara and engineer Mamiya; their mission was to build quality cameras. They began with a folder, the Mamiya 6, a good medium-format camera. After World War II they added the Mamiyaflex TLR and a run of Leica-copies. But by the early 60s they had their own SLR, the Prismat, and followed it up with its extremely popular 500TL, 1000TL and DTL series cameras. Throughout the 70s, Mamiya ran a well-regarded 35mm line of SLRs and a line of quality medium-format cameras.

The latter part of the Mamiya/Sekor name, which was branded on some of their cameras (particularly from the 60s) came from its Setagaya factory. I suppose you need to speak Japanese to figure out how that works out.

But things unravelled in the 80s. In 1984 their distributor went bankrupt, and it threw Mamiya into turmoil. The long-term result was a retrenchment; Mamiya dropped it's 35mm cameras and stuck to the professional medium-format market where it could compete and beat competitors like Rollei, Bronica, Hasselblad and the like.

Today, Mamiya still makes high quality medium format cameras, and has re-entered (sort of) the 35mm market with its digital SLR camera, the ZD.

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