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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
12-31-2008, 03:13 AM
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Yep, Tri-x likely will be my mainstay as well. I have a couple rolls of Tri-x (both 120 and 35mm) and Tmax400 that I exposed at 800. They are waiting to be sent out for push processing (no darkroom yet). Depending on the results I may start regularly exposing both at 800 or 1600 for hand held stuff. Should be able to stay above the shutter speeds that cause problems with mirror and shutter slap. I've also started to practice using the MLU even when hand held. It doesn't seem too difficult to do but depends on the scene of course.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
12-30-2008, 06:34 PM
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You're welcome and thanks for the nice comments! Make sure you get the wooden grip, it's very useful for doing hand held stuff. And fast film like Tri-x helps too, of course ;)
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
12-30-2008, 05:25 PM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
12-30-2008, 05:21 PM
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Ok Séamuis, so here it goes. The following eight images are from river Oulankajoki flowing through the Oulanka national park where I work. They were taken last summer and were my first 6x7 shots ever. Two of the ten frames were just too bad two upload even for this purpose. They were developed by a lab and I specifically asked them to not correct, adjust or modify anything as I wanted to test the metering and the camera in general.
All were taken with a Pentax 6x7 MLU eqiuipped with a TTL prism. Film was Tri-x and the lens was 90mm f2.8 leaf shutter (didn't use the LS feature though). All are hand held (so MLU not used).
The pictures were scanned using a Canon Pixma MP160 (sigh...) from regular size paper prints (sigh...).
I think some of them are over exposed / have blown out parts but these problems seem to have been exaggerated by the scanning process...don't know why. I did try to find difficult lighting conditions with heavy shadows and sunlit parts and one of the images is shot at the sun without a lens hood. I realize I should have tilted even more the one where my wife and daughter are on the shore...doesn't look very good as it is.
First five pics here and the last three in the next message...
Best regards,
Boucicaut
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
12-29-2008, 07:32 AM
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Ok, I guess I'll have to promise the same ;) Today or tomorrow I'll try to post pics from my first roll of 120 film from last summer. Unfortunately my only possibility is to scan from regular size lab prints and, which is maybe even worse, using an el cheapo Canon multipurpose inkjet/copier/scanner!...the procedure won't do justice to the original at all. Can I post them here or should I start a separate thread?
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
12-27-2008, 10:37 PM
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Congrats séamuis! I have one with the metering prism and a couple lenses. I love it.
The above FOV advice applies to the 645. For the 6x7 you divide by 2 so a 55mm becomes a 28 mm and so on.
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