Mamiya Universal Press
Little is documented about the Mamiya Universal Press, a medium format press camera system from Mamiya. The record shows a catalog number, CAT. NO. 4123A. It was part of the broader Mamiya Press family, which fit Mamiya's press lineup designed for professional field use. An instruction book confirms a variant called the Universal Black. How it differs from the standard model isn't documented.
The paper trail is thin but spans about a decade. Dealer notebook pages from July 1970 reference the model, and a Mamiya sales brochure dated 1978 still featured it - so the Universal Press appears in Mamiya literature from the early 1970s through the late 1970s. That same 1978 brochure also presented the Mamiya Super 23, suggesting a shared market or design lineage. No original price or production year range has surfaced. Detailed specifications aren't recorded in the available material.
Surviving listings give a rough idea of the system's practical shape. Bodies appear with a 100mm f/3.5 lens, a 127mm f/4.7 lens in 6x9 format, and a four-way lens adapter for 127mm lenses. That fits the accessory compatibility Mamiya built into the Press family.
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