this cannot be used for street and certainly not handheld!

[emraphoto]

They weren't... It was a few folks sharing props for a cool camera they happen to like AND countering the myth that it cannot put out useful results handheld. I wouldn't expect anyone to actually "grade" the photos as we all know it's the interwebs and all the images suffer heavy compression right?

Anyhow... The night/color stuff looks pretty bomb fdigital. Out of curiosity are you figuring exposure via the camera or yourself/handheld?

 

[emraphoto]

Chris you do need a... Sorry, sorry. You DON'T need a P6x7!

 

[Finder]

I'm fully aware of the discussions concerning the Pentax 67's mirrorslap, all of which are saying that it has a negative impact on sharpness. None of the photos posted in this thread have proved the opposite.

Anyways, don't get me wrong, I like the pictures posted. I just don't think they need to prove anything.

And the discussions don't "prove" mirror slap is a problem.

 

[gavinlg]

Anyhow... The night/color stuff looks pretty bomb fdigital. Out of curiosity are you figuring exposure via the camera or yourself/handheld?

Hey - thanks! everything I've shot with the camera so far has been metered with the AE prism in-camera (it's an old school 6x7, not the slicker later ones) and it works pretty well. Some of those dark ones from Japan were purposefully underexposed a little bit by myself to try keep the shutter speeds up. There were at least a few of them with shutter speeds around the 1/15th mark. I got no problems shooting at lower speeds with it 😎

 

[gavinlg]

 

[Finder]

...Hasselblads are certainly shaped less ergonomically.

As a waist-level camera, which it was designed to be, the Hasselblad is a great ergonomic design.

 

[emraphoto]

Hey - thanks! everything I've shot with the camera so far has been metered with the AE prism in-camera (it's an old school 6x7, not the slicker later ones) and it works pretty well. Some of those dark ones from Japan were purposefully underexposed a little bit by myself to try keep the shutter speeds up. There were at least a few of them with shutter speeds around the 1/15th mark. I got no problems shooting at lower speeds with it 😎

Well I will have to take that as inspiration and go out and shoot a roll relying on the meter in the prism. I have a fire finders as well as a metered one. To date I have been using the sekonic. I'll soup some film up tonight after and see how it worked out.

 

[Doug]

The 6x7 meter prism has always worked fine for me, though I temper trust with eyes/brain/experience... And the 67II has a more sophisticated metering setup with spot and matrix options along with AE... Also has worked great for me.

As to the need for a tripod and mirror lockup, I don't know that we can prove anything either way here. I have used a tripod when feasible, and on a specific photographic goal, but less in recent years.

My first 6x7 did not have MLU so I got into the "bad habit" of never using MLU even later when I had bodies with this feature. Indeed I've never used MLU in any camera. Would my pics be sharper with more emphasis on tripod use and locking the mirror up? I guess so, but I've had some big prints made occasionally and have no quibble with the quality.

I did use a tripod for the below shot with the 200mm, moonrise just after sunset over the valley where I live.

Reminded a bit by the moonrise, here's a sunset in the smoke of two canyon fires, shot with 165mm from my roof, so pretty well braced.

 

[charjohncarter]

Can you elaborate on this lens, some details please, perhaps even an illustration of one?
thnx,
--Steve

I made it from a $9.95 lens cap off ebay and I slapped a Brownie Hawkeye Flash lens into it. That slapping took a little adjusting, but if you are really interested I'll send you photos for the lens cap and lens. I always shoot a least one from every roll with that homemade lens, this my first ever try:

You may want to see this, too. It is the lens on camera:

 

[Doug]

Based on these I'd have to say you have the BIG Pentax dialed-in. Beautiful images, but the moon looks too big in the first to have been shot with a 200mm on a 6x7, is it cropped much?

Thanks! No, just some cropping at top and bottom. What can I say about moon size except that atmospheric refraction makes the moon look larger near the horizon.🙂

 

[Finder]

Thanks! No, just some cropping at top and bottom. What can I say about moon size except that atmospheric refraction makes the moon look larger near the horizon.🙂

Not really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion

 

[charjohncarter]

Now I get it. You mounted the Brownie lens into a bodycap. I was trying to understand how, optically, this could work in front of a lens. Methinks you have reinvented the lensbaby... very, very, cool!!!

It's way better (than the lens baby), I have four different 'lenses' mounted on body caps. I should have said body caps first, sorry. I have a Polaroid lens off of a ColorPackII (which is my favorite portrait lens), a pinhole, a lenses off of a Hollywood Reflex, and, of course, the BHF lens mounted on a body cap. They all produce something especial and different. here is a image from the Hollywood Reflex lens:

Not great, but I have stopped it down some and the newer images are better.

 

[f16sunshine]

Some great photos in this thread. Happy your enjoying the camera John. Looks like bigP found a good home 🙂

 

[charjohncarter]

Thanks for sharing. This is a very inventive idea and the BIG Pentax seems the ideal platform. Are the lenses slip fit to enable a degree of focussing?

I tried that but was not happy with it. The reason this one looks like it has focusing is because I have to set up so I can remove the lens and put it on a SLR body cap, it is almost macro, well more tele.

 

[PatrickT]

My Dad just got 6x7 and wants to take it around with him. As a slight off topic, what sorts of neck straps do you guys use? Obviously needs to be comfortable, etc. Is there a standard good one for this camera?

 

[RF_newbie]

those are way too cool John!

 

[Doug]

My Dad just got 6x7 and wants to take it around with him. As a slight off topic, what sorts of neck straps do you guys use? Obviously needs to be comfortable, etc. Is there a standard good one for this camera?

The one that came with the most recent P67II is a very comfy 1.5" wide fabric strap with red PENTAX embroidered on it. KEH lists one here:
http://www.keh.com/Product-Details/1/PX349990002450/PX34/FE.aspx

 

[PatrickT]

The one that came with the most recent P67II is a very comfy 1.5" wide fabric strap with red PENTAX embroidered on it. KEH lists one here:
http://www.keh.com/Product-Details/1/PX349990002450/PX34/FE.aspx

Thanks. Yeah, seems like it'd have to be nice and comfortable given the weight of these things 🙂