Pentax 67II Medium Format Film SLR: An Overview - Comparison - Top Lenses & More!!!
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In this Episode, we give a brief overview of the Pentax 67II Camera. We compare it to other 6x7 film camera options as well as the earlier Pentax 6x7 cameras. We show you a variety of lenses that can be used with photo examples. This Film Camera is one of the most versatile Medium Format SLR cameras available!
Fantastic stuff mate I own a 67 and your right you sacrifice the modular but list of lenses makes it superb I’m after a 67 I to add and the fish eye then that leaves 2 more cameras I need to get for my collection I film cameras the value is going one way ......up! And to 15 Yeats ago people were throwing them away I love film and I love digital photography it’s just a delivery system with the same outcome ...still think medium format has the better resolution.
Good Show make some more and il be watching .
In the comparison of the Pentax 67 system to the Mamiya RB/RZ/67 models, there is some popular confusion concerning the Mamiya units. Mamiya never contemplated that anyone would carry these cameras around and try to shoot them freehand. They were designed to be used on a tripod, in a studio. They totally non-ergonomic to be used otherwise.The only people you see hauling these beasts around freehand these days are the 25 year old millennial guys, doing walk-around videos for YT, shooting Portra 400 at "half box speed" (because they never learned how to use a light meter), taking photos of old car fenders. The reason that there is massive amount of Mamiya 67 system equipment available out there is that all the professionals who bought that equipment in the 1980-90s shifted to digital for economic reasons, so the total mass of that inventory is now sitting around waiting for some kids to snap it up. If you do buy a RB67, be sure to acquire and read its user manual. It is so arcane and unfriendly in its internal design that you can easily break it by just doing something like a back or lens change if done in the wrong action sequence. I don't think there was been another camera which required two separate actions to (1) lower SLR mirror for viewing and cock shutter, the (2) advance film, since the leaf shutter 35mm SLRs of the late 1950s.
bro,you have the astro model...do you know how rare that is?on your 6x7 there is a switch for double exposure,thats super rare!
That double exposure capability was not a separate model. It was a body modification, one of several, offered by Pentax though their factory service centers. It was available to anyone owning a 6x7 or 67. I''ve owned several bodies and handled dozens more of the years, but I've seen one with that feature added.
@@randallstewart175 so it is rare
@@Stevenstevio You know, now that I give it more thought, what you are referring to is not a double exposure switch modification with the "astro" reference, but another factory modification available for the 6x7/67. That was an added switch to allow the shutter and mirror to be released for long exposures without draining the battery. In normal form, the 67 power circuits remain active with a fairly heavy draw during the exposure cycle. While the 67 was fairly popular for astro-photography, the long exposures required would commonly drain one or two batteries a night. This mod allowed the user to shut off the power while the long exposure was in effect. I have no numbers of course, but just looking at the number of modifications which might be needed, I would say that your "astro" mod is probably the rarest of all. I've certainly never seen one. What we haven't resolved is whether the modification to his camera is for the double exposure or the power switch. I vaguely recall that you could have one or the other, but not both (I looked into the power mod about 37 years ago, but didn't follow through.), so they may have use the same external switch for both mods. Wow, I feel so old now.
Around 9:00 he expresses the opinion the 105mm "is the one to get" among the "normal" focal length lenses for the Pentax. Like nearly all YT videos expressing such opinion, and there are many such, he does not state any objective reasons for that recommendation. If there is anyone out there who can do so, I'd love to hear it. For starters, I'll summarize why I think the opinion cannot be justified. (1) The lens design is old, dating from the origin of the camera around 1967. Unlike most Pentax 67 lenses it has not been updated, apart from replacing a "radioactive" element around 1971, which didn't affect the lens performance and was done more for marketing reasons than optical. (2) Its 2.4 maximum aperture is a 2/3 stop faster than the several 2.8 options. Not a meaningful difference in exposure speed or out of focus image management. And, it's performance at such maximum aperture is poorer than the alternatives. (3) There are at least two other lenses of similar focal length in the system, the 90mm 2.8 (not LS) and 100mm 4.0. Both are more complex designs using more modern optical glass, and they are better corrected for optical errors. They are sharper and have more contrast. (4) The 105mm is a lens which could be routinely bought a few years ago for $125 - $175. Then, social media started hyping it with mystical attributes, and the used price went up to $650 - $1000. It's fallen back a couple of hundreds since then, but it is still as overpriced as a Trump Steak. Okay, 105mm cult fans, hit me with your best shot.
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For Christ sake, if you have to buy a 300mm lens for your P667, do not buy the old, original version promoted at 11:00 in the video. I bought one years ago. I paid $600 in 1980s dollars. Their price is now around $200 in today's money. Why? As a practical matter, they are almost unusable, because of the huge leveraged weight they add to the camera and lack of any balancing tripod mount on the lens. The lens places a serious strain on the body lens mount because the lens is unsupported. You have to attach the package to a tripod with the body mount. I have a huge Manfroto tripod and head, yet if I mount this package on that tripod in a portrait orientation, the weight of the lens slowly unscrews the body from the tripod and swings to point at the ground. If you think, "well, it was intended to be shot handheld", try it. It;s so heavy that you'd shake the camera and be unable to get an exposure. This is one of the original lens designs. Very basic and not exactly cutting edge quality, but It's okay for general use. Who is this lens for today? Someone who has little use for a medium long telephoto on the P67, but wants to have the option in their kit. For a serious telephoto user, the 300mm EDIF is vastly superior optically (almost unmatched by any maker) and has a proper tripod mount to balance the package on a tripod. The EDIF version has fallen in used price over the years, now around $800-900, fully equipped in excellent condition.
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best pentax 67ii demo! thanks!
So informative, thank you!
Love to see a run down on the Contax 645 and also talk about how easy it is to repair/service these more electronically controlled cameras. It would make purchasing one of these cameras much easier to know if they can be repaired rather than turn into an expensive door stop! Thanks for the rundown on the 67ii looks like you’ve got some Minty examples.
The Contax 645, given current prices and lack of repair options, looks like the largest financial risk of converting cash into doorstop. It cost body parts new, and still wants an arm and leg used. It's operation is electronically controlled more than any other camera, maybe equaled by the Fuji GX680 studio SLR. When Kyocera closed out Contax. they performed only their legally minimum commitment to purchasers, and stopped providing repairs and parts years ago. Most film camera repairs to day required other cameras as donors for parts, but so few Contax 6456 units were sold, that there is no supply of parts from donors. In concept, the Contax 645 was as perfect a film camera as I could imagine, and but for the prices, I would have bought a system new. But they have a mediocre track record on reliability, and little to no repair capacity, so that would be a Major Pass. (Contax listed a huge (almost Nikon-like) catalog of accessories for the 645, but most of them were never practically available in the US, and even the most common of such are extremely hard to find (and afford) today.).
Great commentary. Can anybody steer me to the product guide or post the link here...
www.infrar3d.net/blog_files/P67II_brochure.pdf (as of 6/22)
A couple of clarifications:
1. 6x7/67 metering prism. There were two such prisms. The first has a switch on; switch off, so if you forget to switch off, it can drain the camera battery in one pass. This was replaced by a more desirable system which uses an auto-off switch, which shuts off the meter after about 20 seconds. Buy the later version.
2. Contra video, Pentax never made a right hand accessory grip for the 6x7/67 models. There have been a variety made by small third-parties for ebay sales over the years. The nicest was hand crafted in rosewood or walnut years ago. Current models work as well but are computer "printed" out of hard plastic and just do not have that classy look.
3. 105mm lens. He says it is the premier lens for the system. No definition of "premier" offered or apparent. To be objective, the 105mm dates from the origin of the system in 1966. Modified once to replace thorium ("radioactive") element with no change in lens performance. Of the several normal focal length options, it is the oldest, the simplest design, the lowest resolving, and prior to social media hype, the least expensive at $125-150 by the dozens. At current $700-900, it's purchase is a cruel joke on the buyer. Cheapest, higher quality option: the later (not leaf shutter) 90mm 2.8. Absolute best optical performance, the very late 100mm 4.0 Macro, if you can find one, but costly. With a little shopping,l you can probably find both the 90mm 2.8 and the 100mm 4.0 Macro for the current price of the 105mm,
As the video maker is a camera store, it is a bit surprising how many little errors in description of the camera and its functions are scattered throughout the video.