Festivals with the Pentax 67II

Just scanning images from a two week trip up on the Japanese mainland. The highlight of the trip was the Onbashira Festival, arguably Japan's most spectacular and almost certainly its most dangerous festival. Men literally ride tree trunks down the side of a mountain. This image was shot with the Pentax 67II, a 165mm lens, Provia 400X and a slow shutter speed of 1/60 to give a sense of motion. I panned with the movement of the tree trunk and fired away!

That is a fantastic picture! But then all those on your website are - you're to blame for me keeping on putting sneaky bids on Pentax 6x7's on eBay...

I agree - wow that is a great shot! I covet a Pentax 67ii... one day I shall have one Maybe...

Love the pics on your website as well

Cheers

Mat W

Stunning image. Who needs a 645D anyway...

I hope we don't end up bidding against each other!

Funny you say that Womble...

645D already on order and should arrive before the end of the month

The main issue with the Pentax 67II is the slow turn around time now that I have to wait a week for color transparency processing. In the past as the majority of my work was for travel magazine or for exhibitions / print sales this wasn't a problem, but recently I am getting more commissions from magazines and newspapers that need the images almost immediately.

From June I will be a hybrid shooter using both film and digital. Should be fun!

Chris

What a great shot! I used to see coverage of this event back when I lived in Hong Kong. What a bunch of lunatics It has some similarities with that weird cheese rolling festival in the UK, but much more dangerous That hasn't stopped the HSE from banning the cheese thing this year though!


Edit: just looked up the cheese rolling website, and they have a clip of the Onbashira Festival!!!
http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/index1.htm

A brilliant shot with a lot going on but I have to ask .. (and this is not meant to start another argument)

What does the camera give you here that a digital crop of FF cannot?

Having only really taken up photography as a hobby in the last couple of years I am interested in knowing the reasons behind choices like these.

As a web image, nothing. As a 20" x 30" print on an exhibition wall, rather a lot.

It's all relative to what you need from the image file/film image.

Ahh, got you.

Thanks.

Stunning photo, must be quite a challenge carrying the 6x7 everywhere, can you even hand-held those cameras?

Come guys stop using these terms so loosely, crop and FF does not mean a thing about what sensor size it is.

For example a crop sensor like the APS-C is larger than a Full Frame 101-format sensor, even the 645D has a crop sensor but it's larger then FF 135-format sensor.

Stefan,
Fortunately a lot of us don't take things quite as seriously as you. Everyone knows what I meant so why try and complicate things

Steady boys, weekend has started.

Best regards to both.

I dunno, I can usually pick out a MF picture even at these sizes - there's a certain "three dimensionality" (for want of a better expression) that diminishes when a smaller format medium is used.

My compact (digital) camera takes excellent sharp photos but they're generally quite flat; my K10D makes a much better hash of things, 35mm film slightly better again (although the difference between these latter two is marginal) and shots I take at 6x6 are much better still. I see the difference between 35mm and MF as being as least as big as the difference between a digital compact and 35mm.

I agree that image has a depth of quality to it that I wouldn't expect from a crop sensor but then again I expect I would be readily fooled.

Damn it all this talk of MF just as some people who shall remain nameless are persuading me to revert to film. I recall the pleasure my £15 Rollei TLR gave me 30 odd years ago. 6x6 Pan F is silky.

Mike

I have some Pan F loaded in a 6x6 Rollei right now as it happens - g'wan, you know you want to...