Hi guys, Brian from OldCamReview.com here today to review the Mamiya Seeth Mamiya Seeth 330 Professional S. This is a twin lens reflex camera sort of in the tradition of the rolyflex and there's you know a number of twin lens reflex cameras released. It's a nice format to work with it's a medium format camera. The idea behind a twin lens reflex camera is that there are two lenses only one lens is the taking lens this is a viewing lens generally the lenses are the same quality and the only difference is is the viewing lens is wide open the picture path or the the path that you view through comes in through here reflex reflex off a mirror up to the finder here so you shoot this camera pretty much at waist level. The taking lens is the lens below and it contains all the controls this particular lens is the 80 millimeter f 2.8 lens the beauty of the the Mamiya 330s and the 220s and these cameras is they are system cameras much like your digital SLRs these cameras have interchangeable lenses which kind of a neat feature which certainly you couldn't do with the rolyflex if you wanted to do this with the rolyflex you'd have to add on telephoto lenses that add on to your lens like teleconversers or or you'd have to add in additional lens which usually reduces your f stop about a stop so the Mamiya line was definitely a professional line of cameras made for the professional and you could tell this thing is built like an absolute tank there are no light meters or anything on these cameras so you know it's meant for the studio it's it's a big heavy camera so walking around with this thing is is not going to be easy but you know it's it takes fantastic pictures the viewfinder is big and bright you know it's hard to see right here but while you can see a lot and it really does give you a nice view of the world to take some pictures the the beautiful part about this camera also is the fact that it has the bellows and some people like that some people don't but which means you can focus very close you can do basically macro work with this camera the only problem is when you would you move that close you have what they call a parallax error and the parallax error basically is what you see especially with the twin lens reflex what you see and what is being taken are two different angles because these are stacked on top of each other the nice part about this camera is it does conclude a meter or a a bar graph in here that shows you where your parallax is so you basically what you do is you compose your shot you focus it in and then you would just the camera to get everything in frame but when you're actually taking a picture if you're doing stuff that close you're not going to actually see most of the picture that you're taking so you know there's a drawback there but you know the nice part is that you can have a twin lens reflex camera which gives you that nice waist level perspective on things and you can do macro work and you can do you know portrait work or whatever you need to do the camera is a great camera the memia lenses were always fantastic and you know like I said no nothing electric in this no batteries needed a nice another nice feature here is actually you have two shutter releases so you can choose if you're shooting waist level you can release your thumb you can use the shutter release here or if you're more of a really flexed guy you can use the shutter button right here and that either one will work this camera is really just mechanical like there's there's everything about this is mechanical you notice as you wind the film it's cocking the shutter the shutters are a crow ball shutters which are built into the lens itself the shutter is not in the body so it cocks that shutter and then when you release here it hits this little arm and that releases the shutter can I meet again as I mentioned this is a system camera which is really nice because you can have a whole different group of lenses you can switch them out anytime this camera is really nice in the fact that it lets you change mid-roll so you can switch this dial here as there's a lock and a unlock button and you can switch that to unlock so which releases this small arm here and then you can lift this out and your lens comes out and you can put in your your other lens I don't know if you can see it here but basically there's a see if we can show this actually what I'll do is I'll open up the back here so you can get a good idea all right so when your changing lenses when this is in the unlock mode this is the taking lens portion once you flip that it flips up a door so you don't expose your film and when you want to lock it and change lenses you would just flip that back and that closes up that that that light path so you just take your new lens put it right back here we just seats right in and then this arm just flips down and hooks in under here you would then switch this back to your lock mode so nothing can come out and you can't be you're not gonna you don't have any risk of exposing a frame so then you're back in business you just keep grinding and shooting this camera is a 120 and 220 capable camera so you can use both both rolls in here we know 120 12 shots 220 you get about 24 there's a square format camera so the the framing is really beautiful so you don't have to worry about portrait or landscape or anything like that which is really nice and it's it's very solidly built camera and you could do single or multi exposures which with it which is really nice so if you want to be creative with the multiple exposures there's also a different finders available for this camera so you can actually unscrew this here and this whole finder comes off and you can clean your screen or you can do whatever you need to do with that but they do have a penoperson finder where you can actually like view directly straight into the camera facing out that way we don't have to go it's an eye level finder so you don't have to use the waste level finder if you really have any trouble dealing with that again I always recommend people go to flick river or go on flicker somewhere and do a keyword search for memia c3 30 professional s and see some of the results you can get from this camera really is very nice there's no hot shoe on the camera either there is a cold shoe here so you can put a flash on here and you know work accessories or whatever you want there the basic lenses that were made for the camera are listed on the camera here and you can adjust that so the camera knows for the parallax and you would you would adjust that for if either you have like a 55 65 or 80 I have the 80 on here you go to a 105 135 180 or a 250 millimeter lens on this camera and that's all preset on this dial and again that that affects the the parallax graph in the view finder so you're gonna be able to you know compensate for any parallax automatically you don't have to actually do anything but switch that dial there is a shutter lock here you can lock the shutter so when you wind it here and you want a lock it you don't feel like taking a shot it's not gonna do anything then you just unlock that and the line will not be working so oh I have it on the sigle so multi exposure here there you go it's wide open so you can only do you can only really demo this camera if you put it in the multiple exposure mode otherwise it locks up because it's not actually feeding the film through the the film path so that's pretty much it this camera is it's great camera I love it I actually kept this in lieu of my roly flex I know that's kind of sad but I ended up trading my roly flex for a you know for a like and you know I'm still very pleased with results from the man it's not quite the roly flex but then again I worry about this camera less so I I'll actually end up shooting it more than the roly flex other roly flex are just easily damaged and you know I was a I was afraid to break it to be honest so the memia c3 30 professional S great camera they can be had fairly reasonably I've seen them go fairly inexpensively I've seen setups go for you know under under $300 I got a great deal on mine I picked it up in the thrift store so I'm gonna really cheap very happy with it do check when you buy in these cameras check for late sales in the back they do time to go there so you want to make sure but that's not a big deal you can replace those fairly easily there's lots of tutorials on the web on how to change the light sales and that's pretty much it guys the memia c3 30 professional S highly recommended please check us out at oldcamreview.com and you know for up to date news and information also or to stuff let us know if there's stuff you'd like to see it like I still review something if I can get my hands on the camera I'll do it so that's about it again thanks a lot bye