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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-20-2018, 06:58 AM
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Cross-posted in the B&W thread:
One World Trade Center on TMAX 400 pushed to 800.
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Forum: General Talk
05-07-2018, 12:53 PM
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Prism arrived from an eBay purchase.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
05-02-2018, 05:39 AM
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This is all I see:
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Forum: General Talk
04-27-2018, 01:37 PM
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My right hand grip for the 6x7 finally made it from Thailand.
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Forum: General Talk
04-26-2018, 06:47 PM
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I like it. Stopping there as there’s no need to derail this thread with politics.
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Forum: General Talk
04-25-2018, 04:41 PM
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Can't believe how big the SMC 67 55/4 lens is. It's bigger than a beer can in a coozy. It dwarfs my K mount primes. Feels like it should have a part in the new Rampage movie.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-24-2018, 11:01 AM
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I really enjoyed both of these shots.
Having lived my entire life east of the Mississippi and only been to the West Coast once, I was floored the first time I saw the sunset over an ocean (in Morocco). Very different look compared to sunsets I'm used to seeing where everything to the west is land.
Here's on on Portra 400 from that trip to Morocco during a military exercise. An ND filter would have brought up the foreground a bit, but I was fortunate to have room for a camera in the first place, let alone filters. I absolutely love how film handles the highlights. Would love to get back there with the 6x7 some day.
 Atlantic Sunset by Justin Kratzer, on Flickr
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-25-2018, 10:30 AM
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You mean double standards and inequity aren't good for everyone?
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-25-2018, 06:27 AM
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Looks like standard HE rounds with what are likely M739 fuzes for point detonating or delay. They might get more action if they shot 155mm rounds.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-24-2018, 05:14 AM
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Since it took this turn, one of the best expressions I’ve heard on this subject was a rather short statured fellow Marine who’d say, “I may not hit bottom, but I’ll mess up the sides.” I’m standing as a groomsman in his wedding on Saturday, so something’s working.
This thread isn’t good for me either, but I do have a gap in my lens lineup between 35 and 50 and I only have two of the three amigos.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
04-24-2018, 05:37 AM
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I think this is a function of simply tools of the trade with digital. Cropping, stitching, HDR, etc with a lot of emphasis on web presentation. Comparing to the 6x7 shots your posted, whose scans can certainly be cropped and edited, it is evident the film formats are more “print/frame-ready.” You can get a custom frame made for just about anything, but unless the intent is definitively to print and display the image, who cares what the final dimensions turn out to be.
I have the 15 Limited for APS-C and a K24/3.5 for 35mm and 35mm for 6x4.5. One challenge with the WA and UWA is don’t fall into the rut where that’s your only solution for landscapes. A lot can be done with a telephoto. As mentioned before, the UWA/WA can make the features of the landscape almost disappear because of how far they push the subject away. They can flatten the image and take away the “awe factor” of features like mountains and valleys as they show more sky and overall expanse.
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Forum: General Talk
04-24-2018, 07:52 AM
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The next couple of days are going to be exciting. New to me bag for the 6x7, 67 SMC 55/4 lens and a rosewood right hand grip for the 6x7 are all inbound from Virginia, Japan and Thailand.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
04-23-2018, 07:05 PM
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I’m in Pa, don’t smoke, but thought the same thing. Someone’s grow went out of business.
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Forum: General Talk
04-21-2018, 09:05 AM
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I’m in the same boat. I want an affordable P&S that’s decent optically, allows for some control over exposure and I won’t feel heartbroken if/when it fails.
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This is why I want something I can use for my trips where stuff will not be pampered. I took a small film kit with me to Africa last year during a Marine Corps exercise. Dust, temperature, C-130 flights, bounding around in HMMWVs across open desert, etc. I want the photographs and memories, but I’m not taking my FA limiteds or expensive bodies. I took cheap ZX bodies with no emotional or sentimental attachment. I took easy to replace lenses. Going to do it again in June, but need to figure out what to do with the film, if anything to deal with temps that could hit 120* or more. Figured I’d just deal with it and the impact on the results would be part of the experience.
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Forum: General Talk
04-16-2018, 11:54 AM
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Look what arrived from the seller via a trip across Eric's bench for some TLC:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-12-2018, 05:20 AM
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We’re these taken near Pittsburgh?
I could probably live with the K28/3.5 and K35/3.5 if I had to. It’d be nice to have one fast lens for portraits, but those two lenses can do a lot.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-10-2018, 02:20 PM
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I have all three - the KX, MX, and LX - and enjoy them all. Ultimately, it's comparable to interchangeable backs on a medium format camera. I have something different loaded in each one and sometimes take a three lens, three body kit.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-09-2018, 07:22 PM
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I own both, I get it that there are advancements and differences in materials and technical specifications. At the end of the day, f2.8 at 1/500th with the same lens and film on both bodies is going to give you the same result and will be indistinguishable on a print or scan. It all comes down to how much you do or don’t enjoy the relationship you have with the box holding and exposing your film.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
04-06-2018, 02:18 PM
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You may accurately refer to your Jeep as a “rig” after you shoehorn a twin turbo Cummins into it and dress it up with tires taller than my eight year old daughter.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
04-03-2018, 06:57 PM
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No, this is good. It’s all about actually using the stuff rather than just acquiring it. I’m in the same boat at times, spending more time worrying about which lenses to take rather than just grabbing something and making it work. It’s not like any of these shots are really going to be planned out. There will be some familiar places I’d like to get specific shots that will be better than my ZX-30 and kit 28-80 lens on cheap film. When I go to the DR in about seven weeks, I’m planning on taking the 6x7 or 645n. I just don’t really enjoy digital any more. The experience shooting with it, the post required to get it the way I want, etc. There just isn’t the same level of satisfaction compared to making a beautiful photograph with film.
A point and shoot digital is something I likely won’t ever be without for the low light capability, though. I really need to cull the herd on my manual focus 35mm stable and keep maybe three bodies. I can see myself letting go of even my LX kit. Keep the ME Super (family camera), KX and maybe the KM to give to one of the kids if they have an interest and an AF body would be nice. Otherwise, I could do everything else on medium format or a P&S. I wish decent P&S 35mm camera’s weren’t obnoxiously priced. Happy to see film being used, but it seems like hipsters have something to do with the price jumps with their flannel uniforms and lumbersexual YouTube reviews of all things film photography.
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Forum: General Talk
04-02-2018, 08:54 AM
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Pentax 6x7 MLU with waist-level finder and SMC 105/2.4 for less than the lens typically sells for alone. Worked it out with the seller to send directly to Eric for inspection and TLC, if required.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-12-2018, 05:41 PM
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Can't remember if I've posted this here or not...sunset on the Atlantic outside Tan Tan, Morocco. Portra 400, K28/3.5
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-20-2017, 05:20 AM
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Taken in early April 2017.
Pentax KM, Vivitar Series 1 90/2.5, Ektar 100 |
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Forum: General Talk
01-02-2018, 04:22 PM
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His time estimate was a bit off, in a really good way. They arrived today and are already loaded with film.
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