A curious bonus

Since I have the Mamiya Sekor SHIFT Z 75mm ƒ4.5 lens - only that one allows me to take panoramas with help of the shift funtion; either with the sensor in a vertical position, or horisontally.

Vertical Sensor position

here you get an approx. 13600x8500 pixel image which is eaqual to 115 million pixels. The image proportions looks like the main photo above - with a shoter length, but higher. Reminding me of the "Lumix LX" panorama propotions. I believe something like 16:9

Horisontal Sensor position

creates more real panoramas á lá "Hasselblad XPan", approx. 16200x6670 pixels image which is around 108 Million pixels.

ATTENTION !!

BUT DO NOT MOUNT THE 1.7 KILO MAMIYA SHIFT LENS to the Fotodiox RZ/GFX adapter - without that you first any how FIXED the adapter with a more stable hack solution first.

The Mamiya Shift lens is so heavy, it would bend and break the tiny two screws that hold the adapter-foot to the adapter, likely snapping off, and then your camera and lens will fall to the ground. That is the last thing you want.

Quite fascinating...

What matters is, that it works - and it works wonderfully for how i work. I am very intrigued to be able to use my legendary Mamiya Sekor Z lenses, to a camera i once bought in 1987/88. And I can use these lenses with a digital medium format cameras.

I mean that is really cool.

And again - i LOVE the fiddling with tripod, careful movement, thinking, tinkering, adjusting... it really gives a mediumformat camera feeling. Despite being mostly digital.

I never dreamed to be able to use Mamiya RZ67 lenses digitally.

Formidable sharpness

With a slight touch of Topaz Photo AI - using gentle sharpening - plus ´ the general lack of chromatic abberations - turning the output of the huge panorama stunning, even in the finest details. It is quite amazing, to say the least.

Now i know, these are just technical aspects - which do not matter as much, as for a photo geek. In a smaller photo, you don't even see the difference - ever.

I know that. I get that.

But it is nice to know that the Mamiya Sekor Z lenses work absolutely wonderful in the optical department. APO lenses are really not necessary in order to accomplish that even the finest details are chiseled out. Because the quality of the non-APO lenses are impressive - e.g. more than enough, and better than Pentax 6x7 lenses because the chromatic abberations are a lot less pronounced (if at all) with Mamiya Sekor Z lenses.