I found this video in a recommended section. After seeing the first photo i was like „damn this is beautifull”. Haven’t seen such peacefull and stunning photos in a while.
Hello! I m used Epson 4990 with lomo digitiliza 120 mask and quality for this price is very well. Using digital ICE on Epson helps very well in the fight against dust and there is no need to remove anything later on LR or PS. If scanning in the negative (in the tiff format) and then invert in the NLP, the result is even better (in colors and shadows)
I have a Pentax 6x7 and absolutely love mine! I would implore you to use the 55mm if you can (old or new versions). Great thing about the 6x7 is the glass is still very affordable and widely available. As far as scanning I understand the plight of using a flatbed. The dust, speed and overall workflow can be extremely frustrating to say the least. That being said besides a drum scanner, flatbed is the way to go for medium format scanning in my limited experience. In regards to 35mm if your not willing to let go of one of your kidneys for a cool scan, DSLR scanning is the way to go. Relatively speaking most 35mm film only has enough resolving power to accrue roughly 20mp of detail, so if you have any digital camera (any sensor size) I would highly recommend going down the DSLR scanning route for 35mm (withstanding you gotta pay to play).
when scanning u can scan the negative as is and then in lightroom u can get a plug in called “negative lab pro” and then convert the scanned negative to colour and it’ll give much better results than using the epson software for colour conversion
That's what I do! I used Negative Lab Pro for the photos in this video. I'm pretty sure it's the slightly tinted developer that might be causing the color issues.
Lovely and serene images. The 90 is a lovely focal length on the 6X7. Just one piece of advice, do not ever remove the AE prism without first removing the lens. There is a very delicate chain that operates teh auto aperture lever and it will break if you still have the lens on. Mine broke when I thout that the Prism was secure and it wasn't, it came off and broke the chain, It is reapirable but a pain in the royal butt. It is actually a design flaw in an otherwise pretty solid camera. I have afew 6X7 lenses ut for the 105. Maybe one day.
if you have the proper film holder for the epson, it keeps the film off the glass. in my experience, that scanner captures less than 1/2 what the p67 puts onto Velvia. the highlights are, of course, Smack issues, perhaps. Do you use VueScan, or? thinking that you might be able to overexposed a bit, so that dust renders 'black', or full white in negatives, and try to do a mask with isolated dust specks? if it's a real Dmax problem, maybe do a two pass scan, with a bit more exposure on one pass, to get deeper into the highlights? did you find the p67 'experience' kind of satisfying? the "whumpity-clunk-thump" lets you know something 'real' is happening!
Very nice images! You have a great eye. I haven’t shot with the Pentax, but I have an RB67 which I love, but that’s also a brick (more like a cinder block). I do use the waist-level finder, which I generally prefer because it gets the camera lower and I’m used to it. Medium format is easy to get hooked on - have fun on your journey!
Thank you! Sorry for the late response here. I actually was choosing between the 6x7 and RB67 when buying! Definitely two great cameras. I’d love to try the mamiya out one day.
I shoot with a variety of medium format cameras including the Pentax 67. I do have an Epson scanner, but I find that digitizing with my camera is much better. I'm using a Nikon Z7 with macro lens then running through Lightroom with Negative Lab Pro. As soon as the film is dry from processing, and while the roll is uncut, I do the scans. This way there is no dust to deal with. If you have any reasonably good digital camera, I recommend that you try to adapt it for digitizing your film. I enjoyed your video and am looking forward to more. ---jb.
Thank you! I would love to do digital scanning with a camera, but I think my a6300 isn’t up to par with full frame sensors. I also unfortunately do not own a macro lens. Maybe if the time comes when I can afford one, I could try that out. It seems so much easier than epson scanning.
The epson can be tough sometimes, but i would not stress too much about it, your photos look great! You proably already played around with the different tone presets in NLP, when i deal with challenging dynamic ranges, "linear flat" is my go to setting. And another huge help for me is using masks to make targeted adjustments and actually using the "make tiff copy" to get the standard LR adjustments back after doing the basics in NLP. Working hsl color/colour grading panels in PS or in LR are lifesavers. Sometimes a picture is beyond saving, but yours dont seem too bad. Hope to see more in the future!
Thank you! And definitely, I usually mess around with the panels in LR to get it looking right and then add from there if I want a certain look. I’ve never really gone into PS for editing color but maybe I’ll have to try that!
@@maggiejakopac definetly! Masking in PS is superior, but colour can be a bit daunting when you first start out. Also i like to remove dust in PS, but theres a secret setting in LR, i forgot what its called, where the dust gets highlighted. Its honestly all just a preference, so if one program is less work just Stick to it 😄
Nice video! I had the P67 with the 105mm f/2.4 for a brief while and found that I got more in-focus results (even with the shallower depth of field - and I shot that lens wide open frequently, haha) with its standard microprism focusing screen than with the split image type screen on my Mamiya 645 Pro. Both suck for focusing off-center compositions though, but I guess that's what digital cameras with tap to focus, eye AF, AI servo etc. are for...
Hey there! I usually point towards the highlights and meter for that. Sometimes it can miss it because of the wide scene, and in that case I choose what I think would work best in with the given lighting.
My developer also tends to get tinted. I think that it's from the film itself. If you prewash your film in water before using the developer, depending on the film, the water gets tinted and it mixes with the developer. I don't think that it has any effect on the developer.
Late response here hah. I do remember doing a pre-wash for these rolls before developing. I think I’ve rinsed twice from then on, and it helped to get rid of that tint.
Your photos, especially that first one of the house, look great! I've not been a fan of flatbed scanning, but I've had amazing results DSLR scanning w/ NLP. I don't think the color cast was too noticeable but if you wanted to get more true-to-life colors, I've had a lot of luck (and have saved some nearly-unsalvageable expired slide film) with the adjustments panel in Photoshop. It's way above my expertise but I just pick an adjustment and go through all the sliders until I find something that looks good.
I’ll have to try this! Someone said something similar in another comment. I also wish I could do DSLR scanning. I have about 90% of the gear, just missing a macro lens and light table. I ended up getting a V600 for free, so it was the first option for me to get straight into it. I’ve heard great things about DSLR scans though!
@@maggiejakopac You can get a good macro lens for cheap! I’ve heard good things about the Nikkor 105 f2.8 macro. I have a Nikkor 55 3.5 macro with an extension tube that gets me good coverage of the 35mm frame. I think the 55 macro would be perfect for the 6x7 negative since it’s so much bigger! I also use my iPhone as a light source and the results have been good so far. Eventually I’ll upgrade but if it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid!
Don't know your post process technique but maybe highlights could be balanced there. send me a scanned file (less than 15M) and I;ll give it a shot. PS always wanted a Pentax 6x7.
I’d say pretty accurate, I did have a few issues with focusing just because it’s a bit dark and hard to see. I’d love to get the waist-level viewfinder, I’ve heard it’s must much accurate and easier to use. As far as the metering goes, I use a Seconic light meter for all my photos, so can’t speak to the pentax’s metering system.
@Kuze Decker; what is "to heavy"? do you mean "too heavy"? Any 6x7 is not for pussies...you need dedication to carry p67, 45, 160, 300, tripod, filters, film, lens hoods, all in a tough bag, hiking at 11,500 ft (3.500 m) ! it's definitely not for people who are used to APSC plastic bodies and plastic lenses. ;-)
Nice Pentax 6x7, sporting the after-market right hand grip addition. Good choice on the 90mm 2.8 lens. Optically superior to the popular 105mm and not currently priced at 4x its real value. I wonder if she is shooting Gold 200 at "half box speed" per the nonsense popularized on YT. If so, stop it! Gold 200 is an old emulsion going back to the 1970s. It has a latitude of maybe 2.;5 stops, not the 5 stops often attributed to something like Portra. I do not understand her focus problems stated. The 6x7 focusing screen incorporates a split image rangefinder. Use it.
Thank you! Yeah all film speeds have some sort of limit, but it really comes down to personal preference when shooting / pushing or pulling. The 6x7 doesn't have focusing issues, it's just been known to have a a bit of a darker viewfinder which oftentimes makes it hard to nail focus. I'm looking into getting an eyepiece magnifier or chimney viewfinder.
@@maggiejakopac The small differences in overall view finder brightness between various MF SLR cameras really have no impact on the operation of a split image rangefinder. If an image is so dim that you cannot line up a edge between two images as you focus, that relative dimness is not going to make a bit of difference. As to focus options and aids, the viewfinder magnifier which works only on the prism finders will magnify the center 30% of the view to allow split image alignment to focus far easier, but its trade off is that you cannot see the whole view at the same time. It is hinged to flip up out of the way of the eyepiece, but IMO it's a hassle to use such that it does not get used. The chimney finder, sort of a rigid, magnified waist level finder, is a real joy to use if it works for the shooting experience. You get as large and bright image as can be had. The negatives are: (1) the image is reversed side to side like a TLR finder; (2) the ergonomics of the Pentax 6x7 lays out controls for convenient eye level use. If you are bent over the camera and looking down on its top, like a TLR, all of the controls are mis-located. Practically, this works best on a tripod, otherwise, not that useful.
your film holder is at the wrong height or not level or both to cause those issues. i have the v850 pro and it took multiple scans and adjusting holder and comparing results to get what works best for your scanner.
I just got a 6x7 in the mail a weak ago, does the film advance on yours seem stiff when it's loaded with film? I'm not sure how it's suppose to feel so I don't know if I'm stressing my advance mechanism out or not
Yeah it should have some tension when film is loaded since it’s going around the spool, however I think if it’s difficult to do, there may be a problem.
Some 6x7 the left hand side gear stiffened up and need a little oil. Mine had this issue a while back, easy fix but need to remove the top cover. I think this was the video l followed. ruclips.net/video/mKOIyiqcQpA/видео.html
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I found this video in a recommended section. After seeing the first photo i was like „damn this is beautifull”. Haven’t seen such peacefull and stunning photos in a while.
Thank you so much! The 6x7 is definitely a workhorse
Hasselblad 503 CW shooter here. Your Barn is so good a Calendar quality shot.
Thanks so much! Wow that’s an awesome camera you got there, heard great things.
Hello! I m used Epson 4990 with lomo digitiliza 120 mask and quality for this price is very well. Using digital ICE on Epson helps very well in the fight against dust and there is no need to remove anything later on LR or PS. If scanning in the negative (in the tiff format) and then invert in the NLP, the result is even better (in colors and shadows)
I will have to try this out! Thanks for the tip :)
I have a Pentax 6x7 and absolutely love mine! I would implore you to use the 55mm if you can (old or new versions). Great thing about the 6x7 is the glass is still very affordable and widely available. As far as scanning I understand the plight of using a flatbed. The dust, speed and overall workflow can be extremely frustrating to say the least. That being said besides a drum scanner, flatbed is the way to go for medium format scanning in my limited experience. In regards to 35mm if your not willing to let go of one of your kidneys for a cool scan, DSLR scanning is the way to go. Relatively speaking most 35mm film only has enough resolving power to accrue roughly 20mp of detail, so if you have any digital camera (any sensor size) I would highly recommend going down the DSLR scanning route for 35mm (withstanding you gotta pay to play).
Great job filming and photographs!
Hey Maggie! Great shots, well done!
Thank you!
Nice shots & vlog!☺️📸 I subscribed to your channel! I'm looking forward to the next video!✨🔥
when scanning u can scan the negative as is and then in lightroom u can get a plug in called “negative lab pro” and then convert the scanned negative to colour and it’ll give much better results than using the epson software for colour conversion
That's what I do! I used Negative Lab Pro for the photos in this video. I'm pretty sure it's the slightly tinted developer that might be causing the color issues.
This popped up on my home page, hoping to see more!
Haha the algorithim is working. Thanks Sam!
Lovely and serene images. The 90 is a lovely focal length on the 6X7. Just one piece of advice, do not ever remove the AE prism without first removing the lens. There is a very delicate chain that operates teh auto aperture lever and it will break if you still have the lens on. Mine broke when I thout that the Prism was secure and it wasn't, it came off and broke the chain, It is reapirable but a pain in the royal butt. It is actually a design flaw in an otherwise pretty solid camera. I have afew 6X7 lenses ut for the 105. Maybe one day.
Yeah I read a lot about this before buying mine! Definitely an easy mistake to make.
I really liked the photos, in fact they motivated me to use my cameras again :) also, nice music choice
glad to hear that! :) thank youuu
Superb photos. Great kit.
Great compositions (especially the nature center), nailed the exposures, and nice colors! Thank you for explaining your setup and process.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video.
nice images. I didn't like the 200 Gold with my 35mm Nikon. But at 120 it's really good, especially with sunlight.
if you have the proper film holder for the epson, it keeps the film off the glass. in my experience, that scanner captures less than 1/2 what the p67 puts onto Velvia. the highlights are, of course, Smack issues, perhaps. Do you use VueScan, or?
thinking that you might be able to overexposed a bit, so that dust renders 'black', or full white in negatives, and try to do a mask with isolated dust specks? if it's a real Dmax problem, maybe do a two pass scan, with a bit more exposure on one pass, to get deeper into the highlights?
did you find the p67 'experience' kind of satisfying? the "whumpity-clunk-thump" lets you know something 'real' is happening!
Looks great! Keep shooting!
Thank you! :) More to come
Beautiful photos!
Very nice images! You have a great eye. I haven’t shot with the Pentax, but I have an RB67 which I love, but that’s also a brick (more like a cinder block). I do use the waist-level finder, which I generally prefer because it gets the camera lower and I’m used to it. Medium format is easy to get hooked on - have fun on your journey!
Thank you! Sorry for the late response here. I actually was choosing between the 6x7 and RB67 when buying! Definitely two great cameras. I’d love to try the mamiya out one day.
I shoot with a variety of medium format cameras including the Pentax 67. I do have an Epson scanner, but I find that digitizing with my camera is much better. I'm using a Nikon Z7 with macro lens then running through Lightroom with Negative Lab Pro. As soon as the film is dry from processing, and while the roll is uncut, I do the scans. This way there is no dust to deal with. If you have any reasonably good digital camera, I recommend that you try to adapt it for digitizing your film. I enjoyed your video and am looking forward to more. ---jb.
Thank you! I would love to do digital scanning with a camera, but I think my a6300 isn’t up to par with full frame sensors. I also unfortunately do not own a macro lens. Maybe if the time comes when I can afford one, I could try that out. It seems so much easier than epson scanning.
The epson can be tough sometimes, but i would not stress too much about it, your photos look great!
You proably already played around with the different tone presets in NLP, when i deal with challenging dynamic ranges, "linear flat" is my go to setting. And another huge help for me is using masks to make targeted adjustments and actually using the "make tiff copy" to get the standard LR adjustments back after doing the basics in NLP. Working hsl color/colour grading panels in PS or in LR are lifesavers. Sometimes a picture is beyond saving, but yours dont seem too bad.
Hope to see more in the future!
Thank you! And definitely, I usually mess around with the panels in LR to get it looking right and then add from there if I want a certain look. I’ve never really gone into PS for editing color but maybe I’ll have to try that!
@@maggiejakopac definetly! Masking in PS is superior, but colour can be a bit daunting when you first start out. Also i like to remove dust in PS, but theres a secret setting in LR, i forgot what its called, where the dust gets highlighted. Its honestly all just a preference, so if one program is less work just Stick to it 😄
I love the shot at 3:36!
Nice video! I had the P67 with the 105mm f/2.4 for a brief while and found that I got more in-focus results (even with the shallower depth of field - and I shot that lens wide open frequently, haha) with its standard microprism focusing screen than with the split image type screen on my Mamiya 645 Pro. Both suck for focusing off-center compositions though, but I guess that's what digital cameras with tap to focus, eye AF, AI servo etc. are for...
Yeah it’s for sure not easy hah. I would love to get the waist-level viewfinder with the magnifier, I’ve heard it’s a huge help.
Great photos! I'm curious--how do you incorporate an incident light meter into your landscape work?
Hey there! I usually point towards the highlights and meter for that. Sometimes it can miss it because of the wide scene, and in that case I choose what I think would work best in with the given lighting.
My developer also tends to get tinted. I think that it's from the film itself. If you prewash your film in water before using the developer, depending on the film, the water gets tinted and it mixes with the developer. I don't think that it has any effect on the developer.
Late response here hah. I do remember doing a pre-wash for these rolls before developing. I think I’ve rinsed twice from then on, and it helped to get rid of that tint.
Your photos, especially that first one of the house, look great! I've not been a fan of flatbed scanning, but I've had amazing results DSLR scanning w/ NLP. I don't think the color cast was too noticeable but if you wanted to get more true-to-life colors, I've had a lot of luck (and have saved some nearly-unsalvageable expired slide film) with the adjustments panel in Photoshop. It's way above my expertise but I just pick an adjustment and go through all the sliders until I find something that looks good.
I’ll have to try this! Someone said something similar in another comment. I also wish I could do DSLR scanning. I have about 90% of the gear, just missing a macro lens and light table. I ended up getting a V600 for free, so it was the first option for me to get straight into it. I’ve heard great things about DSLR scans though!
@@maggiejakopac You can get a good macro lens for cheap! I’ve heard good things about the Nikkor 105 f2.8 macro. I have a Nikkor 55 3.5 macro with an extension tube that gets me good coverage of the 35mm frame. I think the 55 macro would be perfect for the 6x7 negative since it’s so much bigger!
I also use my iPhone as a light source and the results have been good so far. Eventually I’ll upgrade but if it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid!
Any chance of Croatian (or ex-YU) roots, regarding the last name? :) Great photos and a nice nice town, by the way!
Thanks so much! And you got that right haha. 25% Croatian here🤚
Finally! Someone that’s not a hipster rocking the 6x7
Shut up
Don't know your post process technique but maybe highlights could be balanced there. send me a scanned file (less than 15M) and I;ll give it a shot. PS always wanted a Pentax 6x7.
Do you have social media platforms i could follow you on? The photos look great, keep shooting.
Thanks so much!
My insta: @mjakopac
Hello, can you switch on the Auto-English captioning please? Thank you.
Hey there! Sorry about that. I just typed out some subsitltes, hopefully those are working now. :)
Pretty! :)
how accurate is the ttl prism?
I’d say pretty accurate, I did have a few issues with focusing just because it’s a bit dark and hard to see. I’d love to get the waist-level viewfinder, I’ve heard it’s must much accurate and easier to use. As far as the metering goes, I use a Seconic light meter for all my photos, so can’t speak to the pentax’s metering system.
Beautiful colours but those skies are a mess. I am referring to the chemical trails.
To heavy
@Kuze Decker;
what is "to heavy"?
do you mean "too heavy"?
Any 6x7 is not for pussies...you need dedication to carry p67, 45, 160, 300, tripod, filters, film, lens hoods, all in a tough bag, hiking at 11,500 ft (3.500 m) !
it's definitely not for people who are used to APSC plastic bodies and plastic lenses. ;-)
Nice Pentax 6x7, sporting the after-market right hand grip addition. Good choice on the 90mm 2.8 lens. Optically superior to the popular 105mm and not currently priced at 4x its real value. I wonder if she is shooting Gold 200 at "half box speed" per the nonsense popularized on YT. If so, stop it! Gold 200 is an old emulsion going back to the 1970s. It has a latitude of maybe 2.;5 stops, not the 5 stops often attributed to something like Portra. I do not understand her focus problems stated. The 6x7 focusing screen incorporates a split image rangefinder. Use it.
Thank you! Yeah all film speeds have some sort of limit, but it really comes down to personal preference when shooting / pushing or pulling. The 6x7 doesn't have focusing issues, it's just been known to have a a bit of a darker viewfinder which oftentimes makes it hard to nail focus. I'm looking into getting an eyepiece magnifier or chimney viewfinder.
@@maggiejakopac The small differences in overall view finder brightness between various MF SLR cameras really have no impact on the operation of a split image rangefinder. If an image is so dim that you cannot line up a edge between two images as you focus, that relative dimness is not going to make a bit of difference. As to focus options and aids, the viewfinder magnifier which works only on the prism finders will magnify the center 30% of the view to allow split image alignment to focus far easier, but its trade off is that you cannot see the whole view at the same time. It is hinged to flip up out of the way of the eyepiece, but IMO it's a hassle to use such that it does not get used. The chimney finder, sort of a rigid, magnified waist level finder, is a real joy to use if it works for the shooting experience. You get as large and bright image as can be had. The negatives are: (1) the image is reversed side to side like a TLR finder; (2) the ergonomics of the Pentax 6x7 lays out controls for convenient eye level use. If you are bent over the camera and looking down on its top, like a TLR, all of the controls are mis-located. Practically, this works best on a tripod, otherwise, not that useful.
@Randall Stewart
true...
I've shot the p67 for travel photography, and used the grid screen, never had significant problems with focus.
Super !
your film holder is at the wrong height or not level or both to cause those issues. i have the v850 pro and it took multiple scans and adjusting holder and comparing results to get what works best for your scanner.
I just got a 6x7 in the mail a weak ago, does the film advance on yours seem stiff when it's loaded with film? I'm not sure how it's suppose to feel so I don't know if I'm stressing my advance mechanism out or not
Yeah it should have some tension when film is loaded since it’s going around the spool, however I think if it’s difficult to do, there may be a problem.
Some 6x7 the left hand side gear stiffened up and need a little oil. Mine had this issue a while back, easy fix but need to remove the top cover. I think this was the video l followed. ruclips.net/video/mKOIyiqcQpA/видео.html