It was the last Mamiya 135-film camera produced. The Mamiya ZM, introduced in 1982, was essentially an advanced version of the ZE-2, with some of the features of the ZE-X. In these models the aperture ring had no direct connection to the diaphragm, allowing the camera body to override the set aperture, and the lenses could communicate a considerable amount of information to the camera body via electrical contacts on the mount. The original entry-level ZE model was an aperture-priority-only SLR the ZE-2 added manual exposure the ZE-X added shutter priority and full program automated mode, and (with a dedicated flash and an EF-series lens) focus-priority flash exposure). One of Mamiya's last 135-film SLR designs was the Z-series. The SX, XTL and NC1000 were other 135-film SLR camera models introduced by Mamiya. The excellent Mamiya-35 series of rangefinder cameras was followed by the Mamiya Prismat SLR in 1961 and the Mamiya TL/DTL in the mid-to-late 1960s.

Mamiya started manufacturing 135-film cameras in 1949, with 135-film point-and-shoot compact cameras being introduced later. In 2015 Phase One purchased Mamiya and began using Mamiya's Saku factory as the new Japan headquarters. The re-branding offers a streamlined product development and establishment of a more efficient customer sales and support base. In 2012, Phase One combined Mamiya and another subsidiary, Leaf Imaging, created a new, worldwide Mamiya Leaf brand to integrate both companies’ product lines into one complete medium-format digital camera system offering. In 2009, Phase One, a medium format digital camera back manufacturer from Denmark, purchased a major stake in Mamiya. It also makes golf clubs, golf club shafts and grips, and golf balls through its subsidiaries Kasco and USTMamiya. The original company, doing business as Mamiya-OP, continues to exist and makes a variety of industrial and electronics products. transferred the camera and optical business to Mamiya Digital Imaging Co., Ltd.

Until 2000, it made fishing equipment such as fishing rods and fishing reels. Mamiya entered other business markets over time by purchasing other companies. Mamiya also manufactured the last models in the Omega line of medium format cameras. The earliest Mamiya Six medium-format folding camera, the 35 mm Mamiya-Sekor 1000DTL, the lightweight 35 mm Mamiya NC1000, the 6×6 cm medium-format C series of interchangeable-lens twin-lens reflex (TLR) cameras, and the press cameras of the Super/Universal series are highly valued. Many Mamiya models over the past six decades have become collectors' items.

It later developed the industry workhorse RB67 series, the RZ67 and the twin-lens reflex Mamiya C-series, used by advanced amateur and professional photographers. Mamiya originally achieved fame for its professional medium-format film cameras such as the Mamiya Six and the Mamiya Press series.

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