Pentax 645 - Portra 400
A camera I've had for ages and have hardly ever used is the Pentax 645 11n. Recently I came across a pack of outdated Kodak Portra 400 so decided to give the Pentax a whirl. Normally I use slide film with medium format cameras but if not, Kodak Ektar would be my print film of choice, so I was interested to see how Portra would fare. As the name suggests this is a lower contrast film particularly suitable for portraits but I'm pretty pleased with the results.
I have three lenses for the Pentax - the autofocus 75mm and 45mm and a manual focus 200mm. Looking online, the generally held opinion is that the 75mm is well regarded but that the 45mm and 200mm are absolute "dogs". I bought the outfit before I had the internet so I was blissfully unaware of my mistakes. However the best lens is the one you've got so here's the results. On the day I didn't use the 200mm but the beached workboat was taken on the 45mm and the other two with the 75mm.
This is some kind of workboat. I'm not sure if it actually works as I've only ever seen it like this.
Pentax 645 - Portra 400
A camera I've had for ages and have hardly ever used is the Pentax 645 11n. Recently I came across a pack of outdated Kodak Portra 400 so decided to give the Pentax a whirl. Normally I use slide film with medium format cameras but if not, Kodak Ektar would be my print film of choice, so I was interested to see how Portra would fare. As the name suggests this is a lower contrast film particularly suitable for portraits but I'm pretty pleased with the results.
I have three lenses for the Pentax - the autofocus 75mm and 45mm and a manual focus 200mm. Looking online, the generally held opinion is that the 75mm is well regarded but that the 45mm and 200mm are absolute "dogs". I bought the outfit before I had the internet so I was blissfully unaware of my mistakes. However the best lens is the one you've got so here's the results. On the day I didn't use the 200mm but the beached workboat was taken on the 45mm and the other two with the 75mm.
This is some kind of workboat. I'm not sure if it actually works as I've only ever seen it like this.