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Somewhere at the back of my mind

Link Posted 20/11/2011 - 11:22

I have just managed to get my grubby little mits on a Pentax 645 film camera with a 70mm lens and a 120 back for a couple of weeks, can anyone offer some advice as to the pitfalls and quirks of this camera.

womble

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Link Posted 20/11/2011 - 13:22

Check out this posting in the MF lenses forum.

Kris Lockyear
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Technoblurb

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Link Posted 20/11/2011 - 16:27

Thanks Kris that is farmore information than I gleaned from the manual

Algernon

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Link Posted 20/11/2011 - 16:49

Modern Photography Magazine certainly tested cameras when
they "tested cameras"

Sadly nothing like that nowdays

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Pentax K-1 + K-5 and some other stuff

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Last Edited by Algernon on 20/11/2011 - 16:50

gartmore

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Link Posted 21/11/2011 - 07:07

EV compensation only works in full stops, but you're probably umlikely to be using the built in meter with MF although it is very accurate. Other than that I cant think of any other pitfalls.

Ken
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