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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
12-28-2013, 11:02 PM
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I've posted pics in this thread before, but the images have now disappeared... Here are a couple with the glorious Pentax-67 100mm f/4 Macro not long after I got it.
The first looks just as you'd expect a college professor and weekly newspaper columnist to look, right? Surprised sitting on the curb eating strudel.
Hmmm... the forum has shrunk 'em!
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-24-2013, 11:41 PM
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Thomas, a good start... I like the tonality... and congrats on the P67. My preference is just the opposite, perhaps it's a matter of familiarity over time... I had the 67 before there was a P645 and got to like its handling. When I later got a 645NII kit, it just didn't feel right... I didn't like the shape or handling, and still prefer the 67. Indeed it was this 645 experience that lowered my interest in the 645D. So you may come to like the P67 as you get more familiar with it... or maybe not!
Best wishes...
Doug
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-23-2013, 10:55 PM
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Some great shots above with that new 90mm 645D Macro; I'm glad to see Pentax filling out the lens lineup.
As long as I'm uploading, here are a few from the SMC Pentax 67 165mm f/2.8 during a walk in the cold a few weeks ago... I'm very pleased with this lens too.
(Odd, the vertical shots have been scaled during upload from 1022 pixels high to 800...)
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-23-2013, 10:33 PM
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Agreed! The SMC Pentax 67 200mm f/4.0 is a fine lens. Here it is, hand-held shot... the odd pole/cable supported roof is the college athletic dept, making for a comparison with the wind turbine "poles" in the distance.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-15-2012, 02:07 PM
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Love it! The light, the storm well caught and dramatic, the right moment for the wave, plus the seagull weathering it out... great!
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
10-06-2011, 12:42 PM
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Looks like a very good first week of 645D ownership, mrclark! May you have many more fine weeks with it ahead...
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
08-29-2011, 11:46 AM
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Very dramatic colors in your sunrise, Tri, and well-caught! The trees add some interest to the foreground.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
08-23-2011, 11:34 AM
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Goodness indeed! That's a fine book too, example of P67 work. The right-side grip looks like those by Ino Yoon (from NY state). I have two of those, one on each 6x7 body, though mine have the bubble level on top. I would not occur to me to use the Pentax left side grip at the same time! I do like the Ino Yoon grip, as it gives a natural hold, like the 67II.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-22-2011, 05:09 PM
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I too would edit the Fish & Chips van as Makten did. There are times when you just have to let out-of-control highlights blow out. I figure it's a balance, and the main interest areas of the shot take priority. If there were something interesting in those highlights, then some recovery work could be justified...
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-22-2011, 01:28 PM
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Monitor calibration may be a factor too... I see the above Millenium Bridge shot as overly dark. I'd bring up the lower mid-tones but still leave that moodiness. I like the new/old and the interesting geometry here. :)
And FWIW in the b&w conversions (Fish & Chips and the previous one anyway) I see a slight magenta cast overall...
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
06-12-2011, 03:40 PM
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Absent for a few months, but I've been enjoying scanning through this folder periodically. Entertaining thread with some fine pics... Tempted to get a 645D but didn't. Here are a couple of recent shots with P67 lenses. "Silver & Gold" with the 45 f/4 and "Toxic Orange" with the 100 Macro.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-20-2011, 01:55 PM
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Lovely shots, underscoring the role of patience, persistance, and luck. :)
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-12-2011, 05:11 PM
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Nice tonality, Makten! I see the scratches. Are you using a fixer with hardener?
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-07-2011, 07:33 PM
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Ibenac, some nice shots there, and sorry to hear your "lost" ones. And congrats on the Pentax 67 gear; it's a great system... But I have to tell you there is no 50mm lens in the P67 lineup. There were three 55's though; one f/3.5 and two different f/4 lenses. With 77mm filter size, yours is one of the latter two. :)
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-06-2011, 01:54 AM
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I noticed that too... the lowest area of brick (below the window) seems ok, but most of it has a sort of posterized look...
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-05-2011, 08:03 PM
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What a great pic of the fox! You must have surprised him but he looks wary yet not very alarmed. Like the colors and textures...
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-01-2011, 12:10 AM
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Well, except in mid-summer, I think of it more as "Sunny 13", as I'm right on Latitude 47 degrees North... so it could be that the film exposure table is playing it safe for northern climes!
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-28-2011, 07:14 PM
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Interesting test, Tuco! I'm impressed at how well it did 2 stops under! I did some tests years ago that persuaded me to set all C-41 films two clicks lower than box speed (i.e. 250 for a ISO 400 film, etc). Better shadow detail, finer grain, and more color saturation.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-21-2011, 02:23 AM
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Ibenac, I've enjoyed seeing your interesting shots of the medieval Besalú; thanks!
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-19-2011, 08:09 PM
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Tuco, lovely shot of a lovely cliché landmark, must be from Queen Anne hill. How did that flag at left manage to stay relatively still for 60 sec?? And the restaurant wasn't rotating? :D
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-19-2011, 06:54 PM
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fs999, there's a sort of medium-format-ness about those shots, nice tonality and a sense of being right there. :)
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-17-2011, 01:53 PM
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I shoot a lot less B&W than color, so it took some poking around to dig this one up. P6x7, older 55/4, XP2; something apparently emerging from the depths of Lake Kachess in the Washington Cascades... ;)
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-17-2011, 01:42 PM
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Nice to see some P6x7 enthusiasm... Congrats on new acquisitions.
Here's one with a P67II with 135/4 Macro Takumar wide open, medical clinic lab while awaiting a blood test...
And this might be of interest... with a 645NII and 105/2.4 with adapter, I think around f/2.8
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-12-2011, 06:48 PM
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Very nice! I like the visual lines and the similarity of patterns.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
02-04-2011, 08:13 PM
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Mike, those seagulls do seem to have personality! Fun juxtaposition too with a quick take as a long four-legged gull... I don't mind the background at all, well into bokeh-land. :)
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