Is 645 Film Worth Shooting A Road Trip With The Pentax 645

pentax 645n film Camera Review в Shoot It With film
pentax 645n film Camera Review в Shoot It With film

Pentax 645n Film Camera Review в Shoot It With Film In this video i'm taking a road trip down highway 395 with my pentax 645 to shoot some snapshots along the way and revisit the first medium format film size. Coming to you from willem verbeeck, this insightful video explores the merits of the 645 film format using a pentax 645 camera. verbeeck takes you along on a scenic road trip down highway 395.

pentax 645n film Camera Review в shoot It With film
pentax 645n film Camera Review в shoot It With film

Pentax 645n Film Camera Review в Shoot It With Film But another great reason to get into 645 medium format photography is that it is the cheapest system. it’ll cost around $1,000 to buy a pentax 67, $800 mamiya rb67 camera, or a minimum $2000 to get a hasselblad 6×6 camera. but with a mamiya, bronica, or pentax 645, you can get the camera kit with an extra lens and film back for under $1000 usd. This camera uses its own pentax 645 mount that began with this camera, and lives on today, 35 years later, in pentax’s digital 645. lenses for this camera — so called “a” lenses — are manual focus. starting with the very next model, the 645n, pentax changed to the “fa” type, which are auto focus lenses. luckily, “a” lenses can. A photograph from the very first film roll i have shot with the pentax 645. indeed, i fell in love with it afterward. the camera delivers crispy, sharp photos filled with smooth details. shot taken with my go to smc pentax a 645 55mm f2.8 at f8 on kodak tri x pushed to 800 (developed in rodinal 1:50) some words on the 6 x 4.5 format. Photographer kyle mcdougall says that one question he gets asked a lot is if shooting in medium format film, such as 645, is really “worth it” compared to 35mm film. in this 11 minute video.

pentax 645 Camera Review The Best Entry Level Medium Format film
pentax 645 Camera Review The Best Entry Level Medium Format film

Pentax 645 Camera Review The Best Entry Level Medium Format Film A photograph from the very first film roll i have shot with the pentax 645. indeed, i fell in love with it afterward. the camera delivers crispy, sharp photos filled with smooth details. shot taken with my go to smc pentax a 645 55mm f2.8 at f8 on kodak tri x pushed to 800 (developed in rodinal 1:50) some words on the 6 x 4.5 format. Photographer kyle mcdougall says that one question he gets asked a lot is if shooting in medium format film, such as 645, is really “worth it” compared to 35mm film. in this 11 minute video. Shooting the contax 645 and the 80mm f 2 lens wide open creates that gorgeous bokeh along with a razor thin depth of field. if you’re used to shooting 35mm film, think f .95 or f 1.2. if your focus isn’t spot on, no one will care about the buttery bokeh because there will be nothing or nothing important in sharp focus to contrast with it. With my contax, i had plenty of out of focus photos, but my “keep rate” for focus with the pentax is around 95 100%. on the rare occasion when i do use auto focus, i find that it is nothing like a slr camera in terms of speed (it is slow). but it is more accurate and a little faster than the contax.

pentax 645 Camera Review The Best Entry Level Medium Format film
pentax 645 Camera Review The Best Entry Level Medium Format film

Pentax 645 Camera Review The Best Entry Level Medium Format Film Shooting the contax 645 and the 80mm f 2 lens wide open creates that gorgeous bokeh along with a razor thin depth of field. if you’re used to shooting 35mm film, think f .95 or f 1.2. if your focus isn’t spot on, no one will care about the buttery bokeh because there will be nothing or nothing important in sharp focus to contrast with it. With my contax, i had plenty of out of focus photos, but my “keep rate” for focus with the pentax is around 95 100%. on the rare occasion when i do use auto focus, i find that it is nothing like a slr camera in terms of speed (it is slow). but it is more accurate and a little faster than the contax.

pentax 645n film Camera Review в shoot It With film
pentax 645n film Camera Review в shoot It With film

Pentax 645n Film Camera Review в Shoot It With Film

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