| Latest Review Posted | Pentax 645Z
I saw this "demo" on the Camera Canada website with the mention : "Make your offer". Brand new, it sold for 10 000 CDN $ and I purchased it for 6 000 CDN $, taxes included. When I received it, it was like-new and indicated only 136 actuations.
At first, I found it extremely intimidating and it took me a full year before feeling confident enough to start using it regularly. I used my smaller K-mount cameras for spontaneous handheld picture-taking and reserved my 645Z for tripod-mounted "serious" usage. I am now passed this "garbage" psychological state and I can use either my K-mount or Medium-format gear indifferently, as it suits my mood.
Last week, I went to spend the end of the day near the Saint Lawrence with my 645Z + DFA 55 mm f/2.8 and I found the camera had a real nice feeling to it, not too heavy and very easy to handhold with this little lens (see first image below). You can crop the photogram and produce nice panoramas.
Over the years, I have accumulated several Pentax A manual-focus 645 lenses for my film 645N (35 mm, 45 mm, 55 mm, 75 mm, 120 mm, 150 mm, 200 mm + 45-85 mm and 80-160 mm zooms). I also have 13 Pentax 67 "late-model" lenses (from 45 mm to 500 mm + 55-100 mm and 90-180 mm zooms) that I used with my Pentax 67 II rollfilm body and all can be used on the 645Z with the Pentax '67 to 645' adapter in Av mode. Since then, I acquired numerous autofocus Pentax FA 645 lenses (35 mm, 55 mm, 120 mm, 200 mm, 3... |
