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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
04-16-2021, 07:44 PM
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shooting the 6x7 shot
john e
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
11-29-2018, 11:03 AM
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I'm a film shooter. I have a dig camera that i bought 8 years ago for things like little league and for travel a little.. but I primarily shoot landscapes and sometimes portraits, which I still shoot on film and enlarge in a dark room. I just love the results when printed and for me thats why I shoot picts, to print and hang on a wall for display. I hardly ever post online. but I do scan negs. I have a 6x9 ektar neg that I scanned and had printed vie a lightjet recently and the results where great.
so I thought I would take another look at digital again for landscapes. when I shoot 35mm I use nikon and my digital camera is a nikon D700 which gave great results when used. so my first look was at a D850. But I have a pentax 645N, which does not really get used, along with a P67ii which is my primary tripod camera. I never really liked 4x5 or 8x10 as Im a hiker and liked the portability of MF cameras. I have the pentax 67 to 645 adapter and have used the 67 lenses on my 645n and got great results. So my thoughts also went to the 645Z. with the reduced pric it is a very interesting option. but the thought of paying a lot of cash for a new digital camera, not liking it and then forcing myself to use it....
so a local add for a very low shutter count for a 645D came into view. A fair price that if its not for me I can resell it for what i pay or a small loss if needed. yes its a CCD sensor. But shooting landscapes on a tripod as well as portraits with lights, I will shoot at the primary ISO 95% of the time, so no real need for high ISO shooting, its not me. I did read the 850 vs 645z thread and there are some good points. But I'm wondering how a 645D would work for me and for what I shoot. I would have to rethink my printing output, but it is what it is. the 645D would be used for color only as I love shooting B&W film and never digital replacing it as B&W digital . the end results just aren't there IN MY OPINION (this is not meant to start a dig vs film war. I just prefer B&W film results. sorry for the shouting).
lots to think about, too many questions. so, is a D645 relevant today or not? I dont imagine I will ever print larger than 20x24 if that helps. when I enlarge, the biggest I usually do is 16x20.
many thanks.
john
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
11-30-2018, 09:28 AM
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I do not need high ISO. I will be shooting at base iso for 95% of what I shoot. I never got the point of being able to to shoot at ISO 1 million or whatever it is just because I can. kinda like shooting digital is free, as in no film costs, so I will shoot 500 pictures of my feet, my cat, the ground only because I can. hmmmm
I just see a digital camera as another tool in the chest. I will use it just like I do my film cameras. last time I went to yosemite I shot a total of 16 rolls of film, so like 150 or less images, while a guy nest to me for some time bragged out loud that he shot like 1000 images in the last 10 minutes only because he could. I aim for a 75% keeper rate, so I shoot very subjectively.
yes size does matter, in terms of sensor size. and I have no desire to buy into another system. I dont really expect much of a quality gain in output from a pentax MF system and a fuji or hasselblad. Im not a feature guy. I would use manual focus even if I have auto focus lenses, just like the control it gives me, so I dont need 1000 focus points.
it was just an idea, given the price point has dropped to make it a viable option when going digital. yes its an older model, but does that matter? All I care about is the end results and I am guessing that the 645D could help me produce them.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
05-16-2018, 09:53 AM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
09-21-2017, 08:29 AM
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i was curious one day so did a little hand held experiment ( i was just really finishing a roll i shot in yosemite that i wanted to develop). I took 2 shots handheld. I composed the first, locked up the mirror, tried to hold the camera still to keep the framing, and then shot. next shot was hand held with no mirror lockup. i used the 105 lens with a shutter of 1/125. the 2nd shot clearly had some motion blur in it but the shot with mirror lock-up came out fine. no i did not enlarge the image hugely to check, just a good scan to check. yes it was without motion blur but the framing was off a little from using mirror up and waiting 2 seconds to shoot.
the feeling of the camera was clear to me that the mirror moving up, hitting the bumpers caused quite a lot of camera vibration. with using the mirror up, the vibration was a lot less. try it yourself without film in the camera and see if you notice the difference
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
06-01-2017, 04:03 PM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-22-2015, 02:52 PM
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I had a detailed discussion about a sensor for a digital 67 with the Pentax USA CEO at a recent photo convention in Vegas. He said that no way would they ever make one. Then a few minutes later corrected himself and said no in the next 20 or so years. Cost and yields where the deciding factor. He also said that the question of a digital back/digital 67 camera is the one he is most often asked from SERIOUS photographers. His emphasis, not mine.
reading between the lines (this is my interpretation), it seems that they have had talks abut it but its just not cost effective. one of the booth people told me that they figured that would have to charge around $40-50,000 for the camera and that demand would not make it worth their while. But looking at the cost of phase one backs, it might actually be marketable. but then that would require new lenses to be designed to get the most from that huge sensor so add another revenue stream, but a lot more cost as well.
Daddy, for christmas I really really want a digital back for my pentax 67II
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-16-2014, 07:42 PM
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i have shot all the ones you listed and they are all good films. are you wet printing or are you scanning? sfor me, slide film is easier to scan than neg film. But a wet enlarger print from a neg is awesome compared to a digital file print (at least to me).
if you are scanning i would try the slide film. if not.....
try to shoot some reala if you can find it. its my favorite along with ektar as i usually take pictures of things, not people. I have lots of color neg film i would be willing to swap for the velvia.just let me know what you are looking for.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
02-20-2014, 09:28 AM
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an end of roll shot from monday. sometimes the roll finisher can be magic. this is why i love film
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