Old 645 camera

One of my old favorite equipment is here, Leica L-Elmar 90/3,5 on MAMIYA 645 in combinations with ASAHI PENTAX helicoid ring that made it possible to focus from 45cm to infinity. As focal length shows it played best part well as a very light and compact standard lens far better than any other 645 format standard lenses. Triplet internal Leitz design with thin and single coating application with enough image circle could alive pictures on many experienced larger transparencies.
At that time the lenses designed and manufactured in Wetzlar Germany were all on the famous theory of "Kante", that is the fine cutting capability of 3 dimension edge area resulting they could succeeded in reproducing the objects alive 3 dimension object on a flat printed surfaces.
This is why I made tremendous efforts to set Leitz lenses on 645 format imaging area.

On the other hand, the mechanism in Japanese SLR(Single Lens Reflector) camera body had great advantages comparing with those made outside of Japan.
Consequently, this modified camera has unforgettable memories packed like sardine.
About the winding knob, Hasselblad made was used in order to the reduction of shortening the width in lateral direction, this fact shows this focal plane shutter equipped 645 format camera was copied from Swedish technology.
1/1000 shutter speed was the same level as smaller format 135 models, that was enough for me with 3 time larger imaging area than Leica's at that time.