
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 1:04 am Post subject: Mamiya-Sekor 65mm for Century Graphic?
My big questions are:
1. Can the Mamiya-Sekor 65mm f/6.3 be taken out of the Mamiya focusing mount and installed on a flat Century lens board?
2. Will the Century fold with the Mamiya 65mm mounted?
3. Has anyone else tried this?
4. Oh…How’s the lens?
I gather that the 65mm Angulon is most common lens for this application, but the Mamiya-Sekors seem pretty common on eBay.
Background: I’m in the process of kitting out a Century Graphic that I purchased about 3 years ago. I have an 80mm Xenotar for a walkabout camera with 6x7, a 100mm Xenar for 6x9 ground glass work, and several film holders for each. Both shutters were CLA’d. It has the Kalart RF, and the ground glass.
A Century was the first “real” camera I ever used, back when I was a high school freshman at the beginning of 1966. Over the years I’d seen a couple of Centuries at camera shows, but what was interesting is that when I got mine home in 2014, all the muscle memory was still there. I even went into a closet, turned out the light, and went through all the drills. I hadn’t operated one since 1969.
