Pentax 67
I’ve owned a 67 for around 8 years, after deciding I liked the tonal quality of medium format negs.
I had a look at a number of alternatives: 645, 6x6 and 6x7: I chose the Pentax because it had a sound specification, a good range of lenses, and required neither three hands, ... Read review
Follow the action and keep your horizons true, shot after shot. And, when you move your ... more
camera for a different view, you can reset it level in seconds. No more fussing with blurry pictures or tired arms. ideal for today's photographer: whether shooting digital, film or compact video. Fast, light, compact and stable, this monopod is at its best where the action is.
Postage & Packaging:£5.00 Availability:Usually dispatched within 2-3 business days...
Follow the action and keep your horizons true, shot after shot. And, when you move your ... more
camera for a different view, you can reset it level in seconds. No more fussing with blurry pictures or tired arms. ideal for today's photographer: whether shooting digital, film or compact video. Fast, light, compact and stable, this monopod is at its best where the action is.
Postage & Packaging:£5.00 Availability:Usually dispatched within 2-3 business days...
Follow the action and keep your horizons true, shot after shot. And, when you move your ... more
camera for a different view, you can reset it level in seconds. No more fussing with blurry pictures or tired arms. ideal for today's photographer: whether shooting digital, film or compact video. Fast, light, compact and stable, this monopod is at its best where the action is.
Postage & Packaging:£5.00 Availability:Usually dispatched within 2-3 business days...
Follow the action and keep your horizons true, shot after shot. And, when you move your ... more
camera for a different view, you can reset it level in seconds. No more fussing with blurry pictures or tired arms. ideal for today's photographer: whether shooting digital, film or compact video. Fast, light, compact and stable, this monopod is at its best where the action is.
Postage & Packaging:£5.02 Availability:Usually dispatched within 2-3 business days...
Follow the action and keep your horizons true, shot after shot. And, when you move your ... more
camera for a different view, you can reset it level in seconds. No more fussing with blurry pictures or tired arms. ideal for today's photographer: whether shooting digital, film or compact video. Fast, light, compact and stable, this monopod is at its best where the action is.
Postage & Packaging:£5.00 Availability:Usually dispatched within 2-3 business days...
Follow the action and keep your horizons true, shot after shot. And, when you move your ... more
camera for a different view, you can reset it level in seconds. No more fussing with blurry pictures or tired arms. ideal for today's photographer: whether shooting digital, film or compact video. Fast, light, compact and stable, this monopod is at its best where the action is.
Postage & Packaging:£5.02 Availability:Usually dispatched within 2-3 business days...
Advantages: Handling, quality of results Disadvantages: Frequent film changing
Pentax 67
I’ve owned a 67 for around 8 years, after deciding I liked the tonal quality of medium format negs.
I had a look at a number of alternatives: 645, 6x6 and 6x7: I chose the Pentax because it had a sound specification, a good range of lenses, and required neither three hands, nor gorilla-sized ones.
The fact that essentially the same camera had been in production for over 20 years (and it continues ... ...better with a tripod, the Pentax is excellent in the studio for relatively-informal portraits - even if the shutter noise does tend to intimidate nervous subjects.
Adding the accessory “broomhandle” - a wooden grip for your left hand - increases the usability further, and could tempt the brave to use a medium-format camera for some action subjects.
I’ve had some wonderful results - I have an early-series 105 mm. Lens, ... more
Pentax 67
I’ve owned a 67 for around 8 years, after deciding I liked the tonal quality of medium format negs.
I had a look at a number of alternatives: 645, 6x6 and 6x7: I chose the Pentax because it had a sound specification, a good range of lenses, and required neither three hands, nor gorilla-sized ones.
The fact that essentially the same camera had been in production for over 20 years (and it continues now, with the 67 II) means that there are plenty of second-hand accessories around. I looked at used bodies - a lot of them are rather tatty, as they seem to be popular with professionals, who don’t give them an easy life. So I bought new, and economised with second-hand lenses and a non-metering pentaprism. I’ve never regretted any of my choices.
Watch out, as with all other second-hand cameras, for chewed-up tripod threads, and serious damage to body panels - real tell-tales of a hard life which may have taken its toll of the big cloth shutter blinds.
I can live without a power winder, and with only ten shots to a film, the lack of interchangeable backs doesn’t really count for anything. The ease of handling (it really is a Spotmatic on steroids) is wonderful: while landscapes are always better with a tripod, the Pentax is excellent in the studio for relatively-informal portraits - even if the shutter noise does tend to intimidate nervous subjects.
Adding the accessory “broomhandle” - a wooden grip for your left hand - increases the usability further, and could tempt the brave to use a medium-format camera for some action subjects.
I’ve had some wonderful results - I have an early-series 105 mm. Lens, a mid-range 45 mm., and a recent 200 mm. All are just as sharp as you ever need, and wonderfully free of flare and distortion.
Would I buy it again, if I had the choice? Definitely! And I still wouldn’t get a metering prism: a Weston is quite good enough, and often more accurate than any TTL system.
Advantages: Ease of use Disadvantages: Versatility
I Bought a Pentax67 II in June 2000 because I wanted the most compact and lightweight 6x7 slr I could find for landscape and travel photography. Although I am a regular tripod user I find it very useful to be able to hand hold the camera down to 1/30 sec with wide angle lenses and down to 1/60 sec with the 105mm standard lens. With the mirror locked up this camera is capable of producing sharp images with the camera on a very light tripod and using the often suspect shutter speeds of 1/2sec to 1/15sec.
Build quality is up to professional standards and while it is not the most versatile camera around with only a 1/30sec flash sync speed and no interchangeable back for me its ease of use wins through. ...
thorny 13.08.2000
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Advantages: Compact, lightweight feature-packed and great value for money. Disadvantages: Only 6 megapixels for mouthwatering landscapes
I've been an enthusiastic amateur snapper for more years than I care to admit to and mainly shooting medium format in the vain hope that one day I'll approach a calendar manufacturer who will instantly drop to his knees and beg me to accept obscene amounts of money for my landscapes. Dreams are still free aren't they?
However it's been increasingly difficult to ignore the mix of falling prices and increasing quality in digital cameras and I noticed that the Pentax 1st DS is advertised as being able to take lenses from Pentax67 medium format cameras. "Aha!" I thought, "I can use my high quality '67 glass on the 1st DS body and save lugging a ton and half of camera body from go to woe." (Well, that's how my convenient justification of the cost went anyway; job done!)
For those of you who are not familiar with it, I should briefly ...
Geldoff 13.08.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Pentax *ist DS
Advantages: 14 x Optical zoom lens Disadvantages: Still not up to 35 mm quality if printed
I have been a keen amateur and semi professional photographer for 30 years and have generally owned Nikon cameras but have also had an RB67Pentax 6 x 7 and other quality cameras. About 12 months ago I purchased a Sony FD 91 digital camera.
Being keen on photography, I went for the model with the best quality optical lens I could afford (£900 + vat at the time).
It has the convenience of floppy disk storage which appealed as well. In practice, the quality is excellent for use on PC's but not up to photographic standards when printing.
The zoom lens is 14 x optical unlike some which quote a zoom lens part of which is digital.
At 14x it is equivalent to a 500mm lens on 35 mm but onlyabout 3 inch long and unlike a 500mm lens, due to its electronics, it can produce sharp pictures in low light at full zoom hand held.
10 out of 10 ...
