B. Photographed with a Pentax 645n camera and the omnipresent 75mm Pentax lens.
Damn. I used to take that camera everywhere. Including to our weekly Sunday breakfast and coffee klatch with friends. In this instance the camera of the day was the Pentax 645N. Almost certainly equipped with a 75mm Pentax lens. And the film, of course, was Kodak's amazing Tri-X 400. Fun to have a camera casually sitting on the table, out on the bakery's patio, just waiting to be picked up and used.
Just digging through my visual past and having fun in the New Year. Hope you are having a blast as well.
You brought a medium format SLR to take photo of B at a bakery. You sure did like to use small discrete cameras back then didn’t you? ;-)
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I got into medium format in the 1980s, and I still own two Mamiya TLRs from that time. I recall handling a Pentax 645 in a camera store that I frequented. I was amazed by how bright the viewfinder was, and how quietly it operated. No loud “clacking” like you would expect to hear from a Hasselblad 500CM or Mamiya RB67. I don’t think the Pentax 645 ever got the recognition it probably deserved as one of the great medium format film cameras. Please post more photos taken with yours.
Hi Craig, back then we were still working with 4x5 inch cameras in the studio for a lot of my assignments so the Pentax 645N seem adorably small and discreet by comparison.... :-)
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ReplyDeleteKirk, I made and used my own 4x5 view cameras. I used my first such camera for most of the Summer of 1988. Talk about being slow and cumbersome. You are 100% correct about the Pentax 645N was comparatively small and discreet.
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