Well, I could live with that, so I put in some Kodak Tri-X film and sallied forth. I tried it with some 120 backing paper without film, and it seemed to work all right, but the handle would not stop as it should at frame number 12. The big question on these old machines is: does the camera wind the film properly? (Note: do not remove the two lenses from the lens board, as it can then be rather difficult to adjust proper focus afterwards.)The shutter was sluggish at first, but responded well to some gentle coaching. There was some fogging or moisture inside both the viewing and the taking lens, but the 135mm is a rather simple objective with only four elements, so it was fairly easy to take the lenses apart and clean the glass inside.

My camera came with both the standard waist-level viewfinder and the chimney finder.I had to clean the camera up a bit, especially the viewfinder systems, and remove a couple of decades’ worth of dust and grit, give the shutter a little work-out, and check the overall functioning. There are also different viewfinders: straight waistlevel finder, magnifying hood (or chimney) finder, pentaprism finder and a two pentamirror finders (called “porrofinders”) with or without CdS light meter. It is a system camera in the sense that you can switch lenses and viewfinders, and the system includes two wide-angle lenses (55mm and 65mm), two standard lenses (80mm and 105mm) and three tele lenses (135mm, 180mm and 250mm).

It uses 120 (or 220) film, and the negative format is 6圆 cm and will give 12 images on a roll of 120 film. I’m glad that I did, as the camera is quite nice and much fun to use.The Mamiya C330 is a so-called Twin Lens Reflex camera. He asked how to check if it was functional, how to operate it, and so forth.He soon concluded that it was too much hassle for him and tried to sell it, but there was little interest, so I decided to take it off his hands.

Mamiya C330 Professional – An Old Gem(X-post from 'Film Shooters Unite')A user at a local site had some questions about an old camera, the Mamiya C330 Professional with the 135mm F4.5 short tele lens, that he had been given by an older friend.

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