Pentax 67 Gas!

I also have been watching various sites feverishly for a 75/2.8 AL... well I decided on a whim to check ebay in the middle of scanning and there one was with a hood and all in perfect shape. Bought 😀 Perhaps I'll get a P67ii someday, but otherwise my 6x7 kit is now complete!
 
maxwell1295 said:
The 6x7 with the 165/2.8 is pretty hefty at 6 pounds, but it's a great combo for portraits.
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Yup, 165mm f2.8 is a nice lens indeed. But turns out it's not just nice optically - mine visually looks like it's been through WWII roughtest battlefields (literally!) and still works.




stompyq said:
tsiklonaut those shots......wow!!! Some technical details for us mere mortals please
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All techy stuff is marked on Flickr.


Some more Pentax 67 E6 shots, plus couple of Kodak Aerochrome (EIR) colour infrared chrome scans:


 
maxwell1295 said:
This camera is amazing! I've had trouble manually focusing with some cameras. I can't recall missing a shot wide open with this thing. Even with the very shallow DOF I just can't miss...
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With 35-200mm lenses for object further than couple of meters you'll do allright, but for very close stuff there's a fair chance you can miss since the DoF is just couple of centimeters if not just some millimeters wide, i.e. macro shots. I've missed couple of important spot-on focus shots on very close portraits by just slightly leaning with my body balance while making last framing before shooting - I mean it's just some centimeter or so of natural body leaning around your own standing balance and the focus OFF from the eyes you intended to focus 🙄


But i.e. 400mm f4 needs a lot of care even on objects far away on a tripod. Last distance between infinity is 200 meters and there's fair turning room to infinity as well, so yep, even at 200 meters you have decent DoF, and just half-a-millimeter of focus ring adjustment makes meters of difference on real scale.



jwicaksana said:
Any chance this was shot in Bali? AWESOME landscape images, Margus.
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Yes, it's on Bali.





emjo said:
Tsiklonaut: These are some of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen! Absolutely great!
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Thanks a lot! I'm truly humbled, since I'm by means a no pro photographer and only shoot for myself. Glad some others like it as well. 🙂



Some b&w P67 infrared:



Ristna in infrared by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Ristna III by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Ristna IV by tsiklonaut, on Flickr




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Cheers,
Margus
 
Holy **** these are some good photos.

tsiklonaut said:
Some colour PMT scans from my 30+ years old P67 tschots:






Autumn by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











The Morning View by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Over the Field by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Butterfly by tsiklonaut, on Flickr













Valparaíso by tsiklonaut, on Flickr










Within Forest by tsiklonaut, on Flickr












European Southern Observatory (ESO) by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Frozen landscape by tsiklonaut, on Flickr













Starrise by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Alien Fields by tsiklonaut, on Flickr













Marathonist by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Beach (LE) by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Tanjung Aan beach by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Tree of Ocean by tsiklonaut, on Flickr


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Margus
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Time to show some P67 love.

165/2.8 + Reala 100 (f/2.8 or f/4ish and the lab left tons of dust. I got lazy in removing in post)


This certainly isn't an inspired shot (Portra 160 @125, f/4-5.6ish), but I did find a nice 75/2.8AL and shooting with it is indeed a revelation:
 
Matt Winter's Sports Cars
1956 Bathtub Porsche Speedster 356A
1928 Ford Roadster Hot Rod with an Olds Rocket 88
Culver City, Los Angeles County, California

I wanted to send my film to the lab, but I had one frame left on this roll, so I walked over to my neighbor's house and took this image. It turned out to be one of the best shots on the roll.

camera: Pentax 67II medium format MLU SLR
lens: Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm F/3.5
film: Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100
metering: TTL prism finder in matrix mode
exposure: Aperture Priority Mode
filter: Pentax Y48 Yellow 100mm Bayonet Filter
support: monopod
scan: NCPS
software: ACDSee Pro 6 (64 bit)


©2013 Chris Grossman
 
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