They show four of my early (pre-C-series) cameras, the three earlier C's, and then the C200 and C330, the late models. The three photos immediately below are from a photoshoot which Ivor Matanle organised with my cameras for his April 2006 article in Amateur Photographer. Then in 1957 it went for the professional market in a big way, with the giant "C" series of folding models with interchangeable lens sets (different series, chrome and black, all Sekor, copied in concept from the unsuccessful French Rex Reflex interchangeable-lens model of the early fifties), eventually ranging from 55mm to 250mm. Mamiya TLRs Mamiya started out with a fairly low-end conventional TLR in 1948, following up with a number of quite classy Rollei-type models, most using its own Sekor lenses, sometimes Olympus Zuiko ones.
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