The Crawley "Blue" Boat Shed, on the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia.
This is a photo from 2021, shortly after I started shooting medium format. The gear that I was using at the time was based on the Phase One system, using a Phase One DF body ( derived from the Mamiya 645 AFD film body ) and a Leaf Aptus II 12 digital back with a CCD sensor.
I had begun adapting a few lenses to the Phase/Mamiya 645 mount, mostly to counter the problem with the lack of wide-angle lenses for the system. Thus, I converted a Samyang 24mm tilt-shift lens as well as a Pentax A 645 35mm f3.5 lens. I shot these alongside the Mamiya 55mm and 80mm lenses to round out my landscape kit.
This photo was from a sunrise attempt at the Blue Boat shed, which is a popular spot for photographers, and although the sunrise wasn't anything spectacular, the river was calm enough to provide some rippled reflections and the clouds were gifted some golden colour from the rising sun.
This unfortunately also left me with a couple of problems; the first was that my camera began rejecting my adapted lenses, and secondly that I subsequently don't have many photos that use Pentax lenses until recently. The full story was
here and
here on the GetDPI forum, but I have now moved from my original Leaf Aptus digital back to a Leaf Credo, which lets me play with the Samyang and now the Pentax 28-45mm on a "full" digital 645 sensor. The A 645 35mm has been retired from service ( for now ) as the 28-45mm is such a good lens to use.
The EXIF data shows few details, unfortunately. The lens wasn't recorded as such, and the internal battery of the digital back was flat so its internal clock only ever recorded the photos as being from 1970. I wasn't game enough to open up the digital back and replace the battery myself, so it was just something I put up with! Why 1970 was the default time/date it picked, is beyond me, but the actual day was June 6, 2021.
Edited to upload a photo that doesn't have a watermark
Post #1 by Focusrite
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