Phase One 645 DF Camera Review

The Mamiya 645 series of cameras have been available since 1975 in a variety of models, culminating last summer with the Mamiya 645AFD III.Phase Onehad announced a "strategic alliance" with Mamiya some eighteen months before that, and when the 645AFD III was announced Phase One also announced that they were going to OEM the camera as the Phase One 645AF.
Then, earlier this year, both Mamiya and Phase One announced an updated camera which Phase One calls the 645DF, and it was also announced that Phase One had bought a controlling interest in Mamiya. In fact Phase One has now taken the lead in designing and developing new cameras and lenses which will be sold under both brand names.
And while we're doing a history lesson, I should mention that Phase has also purchased medium format back maker Leaf, and has a new strategic relationship with Schneider-Kreuznach, one of the world's venerable lens makers. Schneider is designing Phase One's new line of leaf shutter lenses for the ...