Mamiya Sekor 1000 DTL Sample Photos
What a Mamiya Sekor 1000 DTL actually produces — 26 photographs shot on one by members here.
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The Mamiya Sekor 1000 DTL is a solid, heavy 35mm SLR from 1968, best known for the feature in its name: DTL stands for dual through-the-lens metering. A switch on the body chooses between an averaging reading of the whole frame and a spot reading from the center. In the late sixties, having both in one camera was unusual.
Everything else is straightforward. The cloth focal-plane shutter is mechanical, running to 1/1000 sec, and the battery powers only the meter, so a dead cell leaves you with a fully working camera and a sunny-16 guess. The meter was designed around a mercury cell that is no longer made, so treat its readings with some suspicion until you have checked them against a known-good meter.
The lens mount is the real attraction. It takes M42 screw-mount lenses, the most widely shared SLR mount of the era, so alongside Mamiya's own Auto Mamiya/Sekor glass you can use Pentax Takumars, Carl Zeiss Jena, Helios and many others, usually for very little money.
It is not light and it is not refined, but a 1000 DTL in good order will shoot for decades. Loaded with HP5 Plus, it is an inexpensive way into a very deep pool of lenses.
Images taken with the Mamiya Sekor 1000 DTL
on the road to Rayong Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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Trade winds Mick · Kodak Tri-X 400
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Hula Mick · Kodak Tri-X 400
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Maybe Pearls, maybe not Mick · Kodak Tri-X 400
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Atlas Mick · Kodachrome 64
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Sax man Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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Star Ferry Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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Thanks for the Memories Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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Rock'n at Don Bosco Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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Diamond Head sunrise Mick · Kodak Tri-X 400
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Elephant Crossing Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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Fishing fleet Mick · Not sure
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For the birds Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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Father and Daughter Mick · Kodak Tri-X 400
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Ho'olaule'a Mick · Kodak Tri-X 400
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Little Havana Mick · Kodak Tri-X 400
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Sunshine Music Festival, Diamond Head Crater Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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"I see nothing, nothing..." Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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Tavana's Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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Selfie Mick · Kodak Tri-X 400
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A time of love and war Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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Chinese New Year Mick · Kodak Tri-X 400
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"Sunrise, sunset..." Mick · Kodak Tri-X 400
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Golden years Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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Mardi Gras 1971 Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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leaving on a jet plane Mick · Kodak Plus-X
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