Mamiya ZD Review

By: Eduard de Kam
The way the ZD is designed could lead to a false assumption – that it is a camera that can be used handheld like a 35 mm DSLR. But with 22 million pixels and the resulting high image quality even the smallest errors will be seen in the resulting image. And though I have had reasonable to perfect results with the use of a Hasselblad H1D in the same fashion, I was not content with the handheld shots made with the ZD. Using a 200 mm lens and a shutter-speed of 1/320 sec I did not expect to have problems, but unfortunately, this was not the case. (Pentax 67 like mirror and shutter vibration issues? –Ed)

This is a photograph of an old container.There are nice saturated blues in the shadows, sharp detail in the sunny parts.Lens: 80 mm; Aperture: 5,6; exposure: 1/200.There is also a detail crop below that shows the quality of the camera at 100%.Clicking on either of these files will display a larger version.
Most shots takenhand held were lost due to movement o...