If it’s not love at first sight, it’s close. The K-7, which arrived last week, has been a clear winner for me, right from the first touch. It feels as good in the hand as, say, a Nikon F100 without being big and heavy. I’ve been using it every day, especially as I begin to explore the [...]
Here’s a quick flash-blur shot in the woods taken on the Pentax 645. It’s not stunning, but I really like the way the vines creeping up the front of the tree to the right were outlined in shadow. That’s an effect I keep working to replicate, not always successfully. Again, one to be colored and [...]
… Better known as the humble SMC-M 50mm f/1.4, on an APS-C crop body like the Pentax K20D. More playing around with the idea of digital black and white. It’s too smooth for a Tri-X fan like me, but it has its own buttery charm. I’ll be interested to see what these photos look like [...]
And, no, that’s not the new 645D that’s coming out soon in Japan. Oddly enough a new medium format digital body just isn’t in the budget this year, even at less than $10k. But the old, original, manual focus Pentax 645 is still a wonderful camera. I spent a while this afternoon out in the woods with [...]
Film camera? Right, no one is making them anymore. Or practically no one. And certainly not Pentax, which has shifted its focus, so to speak, over to making nothing but cropped-sensor digital bodies and lenses. But one of the great attractions of the Pentax system is, and has long been, all those lenses, going back [...]
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