EX:IT

So most of the snow has melted away, and I started jogging again today. I believe the last big snowdrop we got the other day may have been the last one of the season (fingers crossed).

 

This day I went out with the intention of shooting a roll with the 45/4 for my 67II. I'm trying to see if there is a superwide for a format larger than 6x6 that I should really invest in, time-wise. For 6x6, I have the SWC/M and there's no way I'd want anything else. But what about larger?

 

The 45/4 is a fine lens, that's for sure, and 67II is a damn fine camera. But so far, I'm not seeing a "magic" to this combo. I'm wondering if that's because it's a retrofocus lens. After becoming so used to the beauty of non-retrofocus wideangle lenses like the Biogon, perhaps I just won't be satisfied with a retrofocus lens.

 

So. Here's the question. What else?

 

I have the Mamiya so the 50mm f6.3 in 6x9 format sounds really quite intriguing, and pretty affordable in light of, say, an SWC. Of course, there are other larger MF rangefinders like the Mamiya 7, Fuji 6x7/8/9 cameras. Then there are the 6x9 and 6x12, 6x17 wideangle cameras, like the Linhof Technoramas and their chinese knockoffs.

 

Holy crap! There's so much out there!

 

It kind of makes sense. With the exception of some very expensive gems (e.g Leica Noctilux), I've covered pretty much of the super shallow DoF options. Now I want the other extreme.. the super deep dof undistorted ultra-wideangles :-)

 

Oh yeah, so I am going to acquire the TS-E 17/4 as some point this year.

Done