When digital cameras were starting to catch up film camera resolution one of the benchmark tests seemed to always be the “Mamiya 7 vs Nikon D800” (etc). This is indeed true and a fair comment but I had seen so many other glowing reviews about this camera on other websites too. Most of you are probably saying to yourself “Well Matt it’s your fault for be stupid and believing all you read!”. I tend to shoot portraits but I also do wedding photography and the occasional building or landscape photo so I thought maybe the 43mm lens would be useable and useful for some of my photography work. I already have a Mamiya 6 camera and many of the other highly regarded film cameras but I was looking for better. I convinced myself this was THE pinnacle of film cameras for a guy who likes great image quality from analogue technology. Talking from my own experience I can confirm that I bought my Mamiya 7 because of reason #2 & #3 above (mostly #2) and quite liked the idea of #4 also.