Telephoto Seascape - Pentax 67II - Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 6x7 300mm F/4 - Pan F

Telephoto Seascape

Mendocino County, California

 

I wanted a very long exposure for this shot, so I chose Ilford Pan F which at ISO 50 is the slowest black and white film in my stash.   I used a K2 yellow filter plus a ND8, ND4, and ND2 on the 300 mm lens for a seven stop exposure reduction.   The exposure was metered with the Pentax 67II's matrix meter with the lens stopped down until I got the longest exposure that was less than 30 seconds (the most time the camera will meter).   I then doubled that exposure time for each full stop down to F/45.   Since that time was several minutes I doubled the time again to account for the reciprocity effect for long exposures on the film and ended up with ~6 minute exposure.

 

I used the Hejnar Photo Long Lens Support Rail to support the camera and the lens.

 

On the computer I applied the doutone processing with ACDSee 6 Pro.

 

camera: Pentax 67II medium format MLU SLR

lens: Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR 6X7 300mm F/4

film: Ilford Pan F+

metering: TTL prism finder

exposure: manual

filters: Hoya HMC K2 Yellow, Hoya HMC ND8, Hoya HMC ND4, Hoya HMC ND2

support: tripod

scan: NCPS

Done