Mamiya 6: Top Cover Replaced with Mamiya 6 MF Part
Originally posted on Instagram. Notes from the repair bench, kept here as a searchable archive. View the original on Instagram
This Mamiya 6 arrived in the shop with a badly damaged top cover as seen in photo two. My client also supplied a new old stock replacement top cover that he had located. After installation of the new cover, camera works fine.
The reason for this post is to point out that although the camera here is a Mamiya 6, the new top cover is marked for a Mamiya 6 MF (this was the only part that could be located by my client). I have, from time to time, been contacted by camera buyers who get a body marked Mamiya 6 MF and find out that it does not have the additional frame lines in the viewfinder and this post shows why that happens.
The Mamiya 6 in the MF version was discontinued in 1995 when the Mamiya 7 came onto the scene. There are probably more new Mamiya 6 MF top covers floating around the world because by 1997 Mamiya no longer supplied the regular Mamiya 6 top covers as replacement parts, they only supplied the MF version. And this was the case until the end of Mamiya around 2014.
