Pentax 6x7
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 27 фев 2019
- I was naive, young, and dumb, and I wrote "120" film as "120mm" in the video. "120mm" is inaccurate, medium format film is simply "120" film.
Jason reviews his most prized possession, the Pentax 6x7. Not the Pentax 67.
Music provided by Epidemic Sound. Sign up here and get your first 30 days free:
share.epidemicsound.com/grainy...
Business Inquiries: pigmodegraingang@gmail.com
Cameras in video:
Pentax 6x7
Video recorded on Sony a7rii
Social Media:
Instayams: @50_shades_of_jason
===============
AFFILIATES: (Helps support my channel)
MUSIC provided by Epidemic Sound. Sign up here and get your first 30 days free:
share.epidemicsound.com/grainy...
BACKPACK: moment.8ocm68.net/emJor
================
#film #pentax6x7 #mediumformat
By law, photography videos must have lo fi chill beats as background music. P.s. loved the video
Some laws are unjust
I noticed that shit ahaha
Personally, I like my photography with a little bit of west coast gangsta rap.
I find it a bit distracting.
I used the 6 by 7 and owned a couple of the 67's along with several lenses. The 67's paid for themselves in short order. I did a lot of industrial work and the 75mm shift lens was a life saver in facility work. The SMC glass was about as sharp and any that can be found. My 67's produced hundreds of 2 foot by 3 foot lobby prints for my clients. The metered prism was okay, but I usually used a hand-held spot meter. You can easily go broke buying lenses. I sold them off over twenty-five years ago but still have the Pentax 67 tool on my key ring. One thing to bear in mind, today these are ancient technology, but when they came out they were state of the art. And yes, I am on the wrong side of sixty.
That's incredible! This makes me want to try some other lenses as well, never knew about the 75mm shift lens. Out of curiosity what system did you switch to after the pentax 67, and was it better or worse?
Howdy, When I stopped doing facility work and stayed with studio work - my 67's, 645's and Graflex XL's went up for sale. For studio work I used Fuji first generation GS-680 slr's and a Toyo 45C view camera.
grainydays I have friends in San Jose, and 8 different lenses for this camera. I could bring them in November when I visit, if your location makes sense.
Im sure there are a lot of us old timers still out there with Pentaxes. I, for one, am one of those guys. I'm 71 years old now and have been shooting anything and everything since I was a kid in 1955 Yonkers, NY. My first camera, a Kodak 'Box' camera was the norm then and from then on, everything was fair game. Not to go off on a tangent but after lots of different kinds I was in the 60's to 70's and later with first, a Pentax 6x7 and then I liked it so much, I think I jumped over the '67' and went straight to the '67ll' when it first came out. I think it was $1300. But with or without a sense is what I'm not sure of, because that lens was considered the 'Kit' lens at that time as were all of the best 35mm camera lenses the 1.7, 1.8 and what? the 1.5? were the norm for the "Kits" in those days. Now those big aperture lenses are now considered an optional fancy specialty lens. I still have that '67ll' and still consider it my favorite film camera although I never went down the Mamiya or Fuji paths which I may have found better. But at the time, I was shooting a lot of motocross and needed a somewhat "fast" camera to stop the action and I remember the '67ll' being one of the only ones that offered the 1/1000th f stop that really stopped the bikes in action but found that they weren't fast enough to stop the front wheel spin. I could go on and on about this camera but I'm getting hand cramps from typing. (Carpel Tunnel Syndrome). I, of course, have gone digital and have bought half of what's out there in this format just as I did in film. Too much to talk about. You younger generation guys are getting my film blood boiling up again and of corse I have to break them out again and dust off the cob webs on them...because I still have a lot of 1999 or so out dated rolls of 220 film of all kinds to expose. Its a pain in the ass, but somebody has to do it!
@@richardoleck4842 75 here reserecting two 6 x 7 bodies with now $11 batteries, always take them out, to shoot some. Lots of huge lenses beg to make city landscape.
It's not a spacing issue- by the time you get to your last frame, the radiation from the lens has started to eat away at the film ;)
Haha solved!
Peter Patenaude wait.... are you serious?
Lol no wonder with such a huge lense
@@grainydaysss you can kill that radiation on your lens by keeping it under a direct sunlight for some days(depends on the amount of radiation it has) and the yellow orange tint you see in the vintage lens is that radiation so as soon as that tint disappears your lens will be okay
Is this legit?
Caleb knocking that camera over gave me a heart attack
i screamed so bad and loud that my ancestors can hear me
Scarier than any jump scare in any horror movie. Gotta warn a guy, Jason.
bro same 0.o been trying to find that vid... but no luck... was painful XD
2019 Photo Challenge : Grainydays
you probably have already figured it out by now but "Auto" doesn't do what you said it does. Auto works exactly like how any lens works on SLR cameras. The lens is wide open for viewing and composing and then at the moment of shutter actuation the lens is stopped down to your set F-stop. The Manual setting works like a full time depth of field preview and you are actually viewing your image through whatever aperture is set on the lens. Obviously "manual" is not ideal for regular shooting unless you just want to check your depth of field.
I noticed that and was pleasantly surprised that it worked like most cameras including m42 pentax lenses 😂
When I was a photography undergrad back in 1970s, one of my yearmates had one of those cameras, very slick. Very sculptural piece of kit. One of the **BEST** looking cameras ever made. Congratulations on owning one!
How much was pentax 67 back then in 1970?
Oh shiit I feel awful when I saw your friends camera fall off the tripod ouch!
Seemed intentional?
i love how lonely your pictures are. how the objects in the images look so alone and almost prays for the viewer to use them. you find a window into an empty world in an overpopulated one - I really like that.
Love your vids :)
thanks! I actually do gravitate towards emptiness in my work, trying to create a feeling of despair
Great video man!
appreciate the love dawg!
There are four versions of the camera body, not three. There are two versions of the 6x7. The earliest (1st) version has no switch to lock up the mirror before exposure, which is what he has here. After a few years, Pentax added a switch which releases the mirror to its raised position, allowing any vibration to settle before the exposure. There is no separate name, just the switch on the right side front below the prism. Note that mirror and shutter operate electrically, so if you use his trick or the mirror release on later models for long exposures, you are running through your camera battery at a fast rate.
Wow haha where were you when I was doing my research!? Some great info here thank you for sharing!
@@grainydaysss You info re removal of lens and prism to avoid damaging the linking chain is not correct. It makes no difference whether you remove the lens or metering prism first. What is important is that when you reinstall, you must install the metering prism first, and only thereafter install the lens. Also, this rule only applies to use of the metering prism on the 6x7 and 67 models. It does not apply to use of any of the non-metering finders or to any finder on the 67II body.
This camera is more than 45 years old and has probably never been serviced. It's not too hard to work on if you know what you are doing; Pentax has factory authorized repair shops all over the country (US). The last time I had mine serviced, it was cleaned, lubed, adjusted and the meter was calibrated, for $150. Repair parts are mostly not available from Pentax, so it's best to use one of their independent service shops, which will generally have their own parts supply.
Amazing, now i can enjoy someone reviewing something again.
Lovely tones in those photos-- WOW!
Really feelin this guys' energy
I actually had the FANC (nuclear agency in Belgium) take a look at my Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm f/1.8.
The radiation is definitely not harmless. After about 500 hours of being closer than 30cm you're exposed to more radiation than is acceptable in a whole year for the average person. You can definitely still use these lenses, but be careful where you store them as to not be exposed to the radiation more than necessary. The nuclear expert told me not to hold them up to the eye, certainly don't store them in your bedroom and whatever you do don't drop it. Once the thoriated element is shattered you could possibly breathe in those radioactive elements. It's also a nightmare to have it cleaned up if that were te ever happen.
I am not regretting choosing a 6x7 body with the newer 90/2.8 after reading this comment
how much use would it take to get 500 hours of having it closer than 30cm to your face? lol, harmless, definitely.
@@elpancreas8925 I always sleep next to my camera and use it as a fidget toys (because of the dials, switches, and buttons) whenever I have free time (call me weird, sure).
And I have owned that thing for a year now.
I bring it everywhere with me. So I would be near that thing about 6,000 hour a year.
@@thegrayyernaut They say 2 heads are better than one.
Meh, Im already screwed given I work with Americium
"it's cold as fuck in this apartment" this hit me on a spiritual level
8:15 great video but the auto / manual switch is just for focusing wide open.
The original 6X7 and that lens never had an aperture priority mode so even in auto the aperture should shut down to what you have it set too as soon as you fire the shutter regardless of if you have a metered prism so its odd that you were getting off exposures!
Whoah you're right! Just tested it! Dang that's crazy maybe I was getting off exposures because I hadn't metered in a while. Thanks for the info!
Ok, I'm so stoked I just read this comment! I just shot my first roll this week and my lens was set to auto! lol. I though I messed up a bunch of photos! Thanks for that valuable info.
Finally someone with a sense of humor I can stand, not nervously laughing at their horrible puns.
A good review. I bought the first generation Pentax 6x7 without the mirror lockup when it first came out. I liked the system so much I bought the 6x7 with mirror lockup as soon as it came out. I still shoot with both bodies and my 55mm wide angle, 105mm normal, and 200mm telephoto lenses.
OH my god..This shutter sound is so f***ing awesome. Love your channel. Best on film photography. Greetings from Germany
Grüße zurück!
no, don't expose to sunlight. the grease will heat up and particularise onto the glass elements. use the uv method and run a fan onto the setup so it stays cool.
I started out with a bit of experience using the P645 and knew a few with P67’s. Then when I got to working, we were thrown MamiyaRB67’s but I always longed for the Pentax glass. I work digital high speed cameras now but have a few 4x5” cameras I really need to pull out again. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I believe it was British photographer and magazine editor Bill Jay who wrote that one reason photographers got no respect was that shutters were too quiet. He said that if shutters sounded like a .357 magnum pistol round, people would pay more attention. The next time you use this thing, look around after you trip the shutter and try to see whether you're being respected.
I always used a potato masher flash (sunpak 611) with mine works as well as the wood grip.
Thanks for the tip on the film advance I can now test a couple I recently came across; it seems they both work.
The auto and manual on the lens is a depth of field preview.
Hello! Great video, thanks for the info :) I was wondering which light meter app you like to use on your phone? Just got my 6 x7 and I am ready to take it for a spin ✌🏼
Love my Pentax 6x7 been using it for years first ran into it in the early 70s, Oh I still have about 600 rolls of 220 VPS. Love my lenses with the leaf shutters in them for this camera. I like my 90mm with its in lens shutter for studio portraits and other types of shots using studio flash as it sinks at a much higher speed when using the strobe connection on the lens. This camera is great for Boudoir photography as the subjects are used to the 35mm look of the camera. I only wish they made a digital back for it like the Polaroid back they had.
hey is this the one with iso dial? cause mine doesn’t have one. 😖
Love this video and your channel in general! I fully understand that you like to keep the Pentax also as a defensive arms - option. for 6x7 I'm using the Plaubel Makina - you should try once if you have the chance to(maybe in more peaceful times)...
Been binging your videos since yesterday! Love you vibes man
Can you please tell us how you add white borders to your photos? Would love to learn that
6:41 that place was amazing. Found while driving to Vegas from LA and had to pull over and check it out
Amazing Video! Just bought this same setup and I feel a little more confident after this. Backlit pictures in the video just look great! Mind sharing the settings of the camera on the pics? btw, what's the light metering app? Congrats!
Awesome review and photos. That pool looks fantastic. Certainly more photogenic than the one by my apartment in DTLA. lol.
You seemed confused by the Auto/manual switch. The camera uses open aperture metering which stops down for the exposure and opens up again for viewing and framing.
When you were talking about those linkages in respect of needing to remove the lens before removing the pentaprism, those linkages link the meter to the lens and simulate the exposure to the meter during open aperture metering.
The manual setting puts you on manual iris. You use this for composition with the lens stopped down. You get depth of field as the film will see it at exposure aperture value. You can use this to help you preview the zone of acceptable focus around your critically focussed subject element. The camera should meter as normal unless Pentax made a mistake and it’s compounding the stopped down light level in the lens with the simulated value. It should make no difference if you are using a hand held meter. Buy one, don’t use a phone app. The real thing allows you to do much much more and better, when you learn to use it. The match needle meter in frame needs you to do some thinking, expose for the subject or, off a grey card or, a mid tone in the scene e.g. grass is a good mid-tone.
Assess whether there is a strong specular highlight or, backlighting fooling the meter and either, go in close to meter the subject isolated in the frame or, guesstimate how many extra stops to add above the metered value e.g. two stops might mean increase the shutter speed by two clicks or, close down the aperture by two stops. Similarly darkness surrounding the subject will require similar metering compensation. Instead of stopping down you’d open up the lens or, lengthen the shutter speed.
Ideally use two pushes of the wind lever rather than one long one. It stresses the mechanism less and keeps the frame spacing more even.
Exactly.
@@sharonleibel Yes. And somewhat confusing name of "Auto" came from "automatic stopdown" which means unlike older manual-aperture-only SLR lenses, you can set your aperture and still see bright view finder to focus and compose.
Great review ! Great pics. What mic and audio chain / processing are you using? The VO sounds fabulous.
The “Auto” selection stops the aperture down to your setting when the shutter fires. It does not choose your aperture setting through some communication with the light meter. The “manual” setting leaves the aperture stopped down to your f stop constantly.
Agree. As per the manual it is just a depth of field preview. Kinda weird they labelled it the way they did
There were four versions the Pentax 6x7, the Pentax 6x7 MLU, the Pentax 67 and the Pentax 67II. There were internal differences between the 6x7 and the 6x7 MLU in addition to the facility to lock the mirror up. The Pentax 67 it is said has some minor changes to the materials used and, according to one source, there were changes to the shutter mechanics. These changes are all so minor, that if they actually existed, you are unlikely to spot them. One real and significant change was to the lightmeter prism, improved by using a SBc rather than a CDs cell, (although they are interchangeable). Some of the lenses got reworked over time, for example the 55mm and indeed the 105mm. It is an amazing camera system, I bought mine new in 1982 and still have it. I have a number of other 120 roll film SLR's and the Pentax is not only by far the most reliable, easiest to use but also takes transparencies' to die for. 50 inch print, in the days when you could get a 50 inch print made by a lab, totally amazing.
I got rid of my light meter prism and got a non light meter prism which you don't need to worry about breaking the chain with.
Great video! Keep the great work!
cheers my dude!
The newborn joke got meeee
Watching this on my Pentax 6x7.
I want that exact setup! I’m shooting on a noob AE-1 program and want something better, was thinking a Mamiya M645 and now I’m leaning more towards this 😭 *GREAT VIDEO BRO*
Amazing video. U said Light metre app, what light metre app did u used for Ur film photography?
I wonder if that half shot is caused by the way you load it. You bring it to the start line using the lever and the lever wont return to its resting position until it is wound all the way. So you close it, finish the wind and lose a portion of the last frame. I could be wrong. But I've noticed that with mine. I started winding it until the star line is just before the dot and then turning the spool manually. Just a thought.
Little did he know he's be selling the thing mere years later...
Thank you!
While searching for an affordable grip for my 6x7 I happily realized that the all-red 6x7 is still riding ebay's endless ocean
ohh wanna get one soo bad..btw whats the name of the "pentax 6x7" font?
Anyone here know how I can come up with a lens hood that pops on and off like the one in this video vs my current situation where it screws on and off?
Such a fire camera
Beautiful review brother. I’m into mirrorless and used to have a 35mm old camera and used to developed it on a Walgreens but I want to learn How to do it myself and get a film camera
Thanks dawg, any specific camera you had in mind?
Loving the content. I tend to do a decent amount of traveling and would love to take my 6x7 with me as a carry on. Do you have any bag recommendations? My current bag is just a little too small.
What's a good price for a 67 with a 105 lens I was going to get one of these things about 4/5 years ago and the prices have skyrocketed
I just ordered a cheap beater one off eBay because of this video. Thanks!
Enjoying the vids!
Hi Jason! Have you sorted out your frame spacing issue? I heard you can correct it by lubricating camera especially film advance on the left (under shutter dial) , rollers. Also one of important information I saw , in case of frame spacing you can advance your roll between BAT. CHECK and screw next to BAT. CHECK. You might get all 10 frames. Because you get 9.5 frames you should advance film mark “start” before the orange dot .
Hello. im using a handheld light meter with my p67 and 105mm f2.4.should i set the lens to auto or manual (on the lens lever) if im using external light meter?
Cool channel :) What light meter app you using on your phone?
I had one of these, with 3 or 4 lenses, some 20 years ago … No regrets, right.Tears of happiness. 'Tis better to have loved and lost …
There's also a 150mm f2.8 for this system that's stellar build and image quality, and it's cheap! Better for portraits IMO than the 105mm, but it depends on what you like, of course.
Hi!
Just in order to comple your info, there is a special edition, to honor the EF58 61 Imperial train in Japan, of the 67 ii (made by Pentax) in a brownish finished, that only 100 were made for the japanese market.
Very very hard to see one of these...
This was a very popular camera in the Detroit car studios They all had to be modified to fit the Polaroid film back. besides Pros it was a favorite among doctors and dentist because it was big and expensive.I had a couple and I loved them. it is still one of my favorite cameras.Get one. I still have 220 film too.
Dude, the metered prism you got is very nice and reliable.
Get yourself the waist level finder if you don‘t use the metered prism anyway. It‘s got 100% coverage, very bright, saves a lot of weight and thanks to the magnifiyng glass focusing is very easy.
Keep going your great videos 👍🏻
No 90% coverage. 100% you need to remove prism or use waist lever finder
Do you have a prefered phone ap for a light meter? I was looking recently and saw a bunch of options. Not super happy with the one I chose, but it works.
Do you store your P67 with batteries inside? If yes, does it drain battery when not in use?
What about the other normal lens for the system, the 90mm f2.8
this is so sick
Is the color rendering a product of editing or of Ektar 100? Because wow
I’m wondering which light meter app you use. Thanks! I bought this camera at a thrift store recently. It’s heavy AF!
So and which lenses do I should use when I don't wanna use the radiated lenses?
what lens do u use on ur a7rii
Great channel! Great content! Subbed viewer excited for more vids!
The 105 and the 55 are always in my bag.
I dream of that 55 everyday
I only have the 55mm f4 with the rubber grip. Newer version on my 6x7. 77mm filter size.
Great for portraits and landapes with no flare when shooting into the sun. It doesn't need a lens hood.
@@neilpiper9889 I've got the 55mm f3.5, its always on my camera. Beautiful lens
you crack me up
Love my 67.. er 6x7 as well. When you develop a roll is there room at the top? you could try taping the leader to the take up spool (instead of threading the paper into the spool slot) and advancing the leader so the film backing marker is 1" in front of the alignment arrow. Then close and fully advance to frame 1. I don't have spacing issues on mine but there is often a decent chunk of unused film at the top of the roll.
I also bought a dead stock pile of Plus-X that had 220 rolls in it and when I switch it to 220, the knob fell off. it really sucked.
What light meter app do you use? I have a spot and incident meter, but hate carrying all that jazz when I'm doing run and gun stuff.
Dope 💫
“… and beat the crap out of your enemies at 6?”
Mamiya RB67: “Must be referring to the Pentax instead of me. He didn’t mention ‘kill’…”
i love your photo collor
Can anybody confirm that the chain system on Pentax 6x7 is only a thing for TTL prisms?
Just bought a 6x7 but read elsewhere saying that u can actually take the prism off with the lens on if you have a non-TTL prism. Or is it just a problem of not mattering if chain breaks because I wouldn't use in-camera metering?
thx
Just looked at the price on eBay and it's pretty hefty but I'm very tempted. However, I have to go and look at the camera before getting it, I guess.
Which camera strap do you recommend for the pentax?
Whick lightmeter do you use on the phone? I had one and was terrible.
The humour !😂😂duuuude
What is the metering app you’re using? It’s very precise apparently
Nice review. But I disagree about a few things: I have the same TTL viewfinder, and have found it to be impressively accurate. I do carry a light meter with me for back up. I have not had any issue with the auto manual switch, and since I use the TTL meter on the finder, I'm good to go. Lastly, I know the 105mm f/2.4 is incredible, but I have the 90mm f/2.8 LS (leaf shutter) lens and have found that to be equally impressive. I like my set up which includes several other lenses. I have a New Year's resolution to use my Pentax 6x7 more, and I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for giving a legendary camera its proper due.
Hey Jason, great video. What iPhone app do you use to measure light?
thank you
I don't use iphone but my associate/blood-oath brother Caleb uses an app called Lumu on iPhone
How to get the light metre in one's phone?
Great review!!!
cheers!
The jokes got me dead 😂💀
Feel like the half frame is series waiting to happen.
5:58 our hearts dropped! haha
I tested the shutter the way you said and I can't get it to go back to zero?! any hacks?
thank you for this vid
You should make a zine out of "half shot" photos from the last frame!
Is there any difference in the images of 6x7, 67 or 67ii ?
Walking the neighborhood, every time you press the shutter of that Pentax, some neighbor calls 911 reporting the sound of gunshots. ;-)
Looks like you got a pretty wicked copy of the camera. Looks near new! Good tip on the the "auto" lens bit.
You mentioned a spacing issue is it slipped into 220 film mode by chance?