I eventually sold out (at a small loss) and went back to my Rolleiflex 3.5E2, which had mostly sat on a shelf at home during my Mamiya Period.
MAMIYA TLR BEST BOKEH LENS PLUS
That C2 plus the lenses badly overloaded and unbalanced my backpack and I found it was too heavy to be comfortably carted around. What eventually undid me with the Mamiya TLR was the weight of my kit. I thought they resolved a lovely 'patina' in the film grain structure and the mid-tones were nice and creamy. Now and then I print an old one and I always marvel at how good the image definition is. My negatives and slides were really, really sharp.
This trio of lenses suited my shooting style at the time. It did make truly good images, 'tho, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants a short tele. In the two years I played around with my C2, I think I may have used this lens three or four times. Lastly, a 180 came my way, almost new and at a temptingly low price, and I grabbed it. I used this 65 a lot for general images, as it produced little or no no distortion of the verticals, unlike the wider 55 (which I had test-used). Then I got a 65, which was just wide enough to further improve the pretty scenery images I was addicted to making and the architecture work I was turning more to. I later realised the 135 would have been a far better portrait lens, but as they say, we live and we learn. I liked the tighter framing the 105 gave me and it was also splendidly sharp, which gave no end of help to the (too many) landscapes I took with it. My Go To was the 105, which I bought in place of the 'standard' 80 as back then I had grandiose plans of being a professional portrait photographer (which didn't happen).
In the brief time I had a Mamiya 'C' series TLR - a C2 I bought from a photographer friend in 1980 and sold in 1982 - I used three lenses.
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