![]() ![]() ![]() Mamiya made a last attempt towards the amateur market at the end of the 1970s with some rangefinder and point and shoot 35mm cameras, together with their continuing series of 35mm SLRs, but following the collapse of its international distributors, the company went bankrupt in 1984.Īs part part of the restructure, Mamiya stopped producing 35mm cameras and terminated a number of its medium format offerings (such as the Rapid Omega ). Mamiya dropped the 35mm rangefinders around the mid 1960s, and the range at the end of the 1960s was formed by the Press, the Mamiya C and the 35mm SLRs. The same year Mamiya introduced the Mamiya Press, a medium format press camera inspired by some Linhof models. The last Mamiya Six version appeared in 1958. In 1950, the company name was changed to Mamiya Kki Kabushiki Kaisha (, Mamiya Optical Co., Ltd.). Together with the Mamiya Six, these four series were the basis of the Mamiya range throughout the 1950s. The company closed its doors in Tokyo in March 1945 and was relocated.Īs early as October 1945, a month after Japanese surrender, Mamiya was the first Japanese company to receive a substantial order from the Central Purchasing Office of SCAP, 7 which allowed the company to resume full-scale production in January 1946 at new facilities in Tokyo. By March 1944 a secondary factory was opened at Tokyo University for the manufacture and assembly of lenses.
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