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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-29-2019, 05:10 PM
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There are some very nice shots in there!
Still trying to decide to take my 6x7 overseas.....mmmm..... was leaning towards leaving it and just taking a couple of digital cameras, now after reading your post I am contemplating taking it again lol.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-07-2019, 11:16 PM
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Wonderful shot of that truck you took!
I posted this shot of my 65 Chevy on the medium format thread, thought I would share it here since they are related:D Pentax 6x7 150mm f2.8 Kodak Ektar 100
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-07-2019, 10:19 AM
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Enjoyable read! Thanks for finding this old thread....almost 10 years old to the day.
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Had to look up, Robin Perry, the photographer in the article. He passed away in 2005. Looks like he had a full life, was a Veteran, POW who escaped in WWII.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-04-2019, 08:31 PM
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Pentax 6x7 150mm f2.8 Kodak Ektar 100
After putting on dual custom grips on my "new" 6x7 last year, I finally started using it. Used my 1965 Chevy for practice.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-25-2019, 11:18 AM
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My daughter made me another Pentax ME in the form of a BDay card...does that count? :D
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-19-2019, 03:36 PM
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Lets try again.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-26-2017, 07:55 PM
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Must have been fun getting up close to such a massive creature. Reminded me of this shot I found on the internet years ago.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-21-2018, 02:38 PM
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38 years ago tomorrow, July 22, 1980, my Dad was on a Wien Air Alaska Jet from Seattle to Portland, when Mt. St. Helens blew her top again. The first better known eruption was May 18, 1980, a couple months earlier.
He had his Pentax ME, and was able to get some shots of the event.
 
This is the money shot IMHO. I love how the wing looks like it is flying into the ash cloud.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-14-2018, 05:27 PM
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I had Snapu, the seasoned custom right hand grip maker for these cameras, make me a custom grip for the right hand side out of the super dark wood which will cost you extra;)
And I liked it so well I convinced him that a grip could also be made for the left hand side, using the right hand side metal plate, though he came up with the final solution knowing how the locking bracket would not work by flipping the plate over. The left hand grip does stick out a bit more due to that side of the camera not being as wide as the right. It doesn't bother me and I love how the black wood looks and the camera looks better balanced aesthetically to me, along with being able to hold the camera better with the left hand when needed.
The metal plate that attaches to the wood is silver, and I used some black 3M tape on the exposed parts of it to give it a better final look IMHO.
I use a wrist strap made out of Paracord 550 mounted to the tripod socket for that extra protection, and I can also let the weight of the camera be on my arm and not the fingers while carrying it this way.
The factory left hand grip looks good, yet I wanted to have it done this way as an option.
Next time, I will have him make both, at the same time to get them even closer in appearance.
Snapu makes a great product and I really appreciate him doing this for me and having patience with all my back and forth emails for the last month!
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-15-2018, 10:27 AM
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Thanks, not sure why there is no option for you to like my post, it doesn't give me the option on my own posts that I see, not that I would vote for my own posts, so you don't see a thumbs up icon on my posts either?
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I have a wrist strap made from paracord 550 mounted to the tripod slot. I can also fasten a neck strap there, but I prefer the smaller form factor of the wrist strap on my cameras.
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Having a grip on this camera is fantastic, I know you will enjoy having one.....or two:D
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Forum: General Photography
02-15-2018, 09:28 PM
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Forum: General Photography
01-18-2018, 09:17 PM
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In this one she practiced her nude selfie, using her Spotmatic;)
That scene starts at :52 seconds in.
There are three commercials in this one.
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Forum: General Photography
01-18-2018, 07:52 PM
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Short back story to help some understand my post:
Asahi Pentax did some tv commercials in Japan back in the 1960's with the Asahi Pentax Camera girl.
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Artist Tom Mayer paid homage to that commercial by designing this fantastic illustration. "Honda N600 Rally Kei Car With Japanese 60's Asahi Pentax Commercial Girl" Wall Tapestries by Tom Mayer | Redbubble
You can get it put on many different items, as for me I went with a t-shirt first, then went BIG and used it to cover my projector screen when not in use. Something different than the white screen on the wall. I built my home theater screen years ago, and its around 116" diagonal, 16x9 ratio. The large wall tapestry was the perfect size for me to build a lightweight screen to mount it on, and then cover the projector screen with it. Final dimensions are 101"x 78"! It looks fantastic in person. I am not affiliated with Tom or any of the sites that sell his products.....super cool of him to come up with the idea, as the illustration captures the car details and girl down to the smallest details that are found in the old tv commercial.
Are you ready to go BIG or go home? :D
   
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-14-2018, 11:41 AM
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I like both the color and B&W of the same shot, gives a whole different mood with each, and the third shot, the cloud looks like a giant creature opening up to feast:D
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-12-2018, 06:49 PM
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Bob, thanks for the translation! Its a fun ad for sure.;)
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-07-2018, 06:57 PM
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I am almost 9 years late to the thread below:
Originally posted by K-9  "The dude's sporting a porn 'stache. Would have looked better with a model reflected in the front element of the lens, in some kind of early 70's bikini"
6x7 ad from '73 - PentaxForums.com
So this is for you K-9:D
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I used an old French Pentax ad that was perfect.:D
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-05-2018, 04:17 PM
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