My favourite so far...

Rushing about under pressure to get back for the reception. Had to quickly arrange everything and obscure a Citroen with a couple of yoofs in.
Hand-held the 645z, with the 55mm at 2.8 to maximise any dreamy bokeh.
There was actually some fairly alarming double imaging going on in the busy out of focus areas, like camera shake, but the subjects are pin sharp, so I'm not sure what that was (I can show you if you're interested?). It went away with a bit of lens blur, but I've got better things to do than fanny around with filters.
The road had a load of writing on it so that had to go too.
I'm pretty pleased with it tho. It's uncropped, so it will easily print at A2 and I think they probably will go very big.
Comments welcome. Click to go bigger.
Now... on to the church shots...

Thanks I am really interested and appreciate your input, thanks.

Posed but has a lovely spontaneous feel. Quite a lot of detail retained in her dress. I do like the soft background. You did well to obscure and clone out the distractions but I'd have to shoot myself for cutting off the rear bumper...

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I'll say! That was wide open
All through the day it was all about keeping the whites and retaining the shadows and the Zed is the king of exposing to the left
I was wondering about the back of the car. I might actually crop tighter that side and bring the couple over to the left. Loosing a tiny bit is indeed slightly annoying. Not sure I'm prepared to shoot myself tho.
Incidentally, I've been less than enthusiastic up till now about the 645 and high iso, but having just trawled through the church shots taken with the 2 K5s and the 645. It's very clear who the winner is: the Zed's files are a joy to process - almost anything is possible, endless cropping potential and the way even distant subjects are isolated even at f5.6 is priceless.

Agree with Andrew, a tighter crop to the rear of the car would sort it out, also this would bring the couple more onto the left intersection of thirds and would lose the distraction of the houses in the top left. I would also be tempted to lose a bit of the bottom.

Details impressive, as is the natural feel of the shot.

Regards
David

I'm really pleased your posting these images from the 645Z. My countdown timer has already started and the more you post, the more excited I get.

I wasn't going to get the 55mm lens as I already have the 45-80mm and the 150mm. I was thinking about the 35mm lens. What are your thoughts on this? I see the 35mm to be of more use for me (not saying for you).

The camera has huge potential. It's a pity that Ricoh didn't announce a 35mm format yet as it means buying another brand again. It also has a tilting screen like the 645Z.

Best regards

Ronnie suggested I get the 35 and 150 and I certainly will if either pops up, but the 55 is turning out to be a really useful and capable lens (and weatherproof) so if I am really stuck for wide angle I'll have to make-do with stitching
The 120 macro is covering the long end admirably atm

Could be very expensive watching Mark's threads. I think I'll have to squint when reading them

Bet they love this photo

From 645 film days I can vouch for the FA150/2.8 - it's a superb lens, I also have the A version of the 35mm. The A300 is also superb, if limited in its uses

A couple of times a year I start to feel as though I should sell all my 645 kit, but twice I've been really close to getting a 645D - just not quite close enough - Yet!!!!

Tell you what, I'll buy the 35 off you and if you ever get a D, I promise here to sell it back to you

She hasn't seen this one, but another, stepping out elegantly, had her 'skipping round the kitchen' when she saw it. I'm assuming that's a good thing

Does anyone have any comments about the black and white processing? (please)
I'm not much of a BW man and I suspect it could be punchier, at the expense of detail. Any thoughts?

As someone who likes BW, I don't think making it any punchier than it is would do anything for this image. It is pretty good as it is. Making the whites whiter would loose detail in the dress and the blacks blacker would loose detail in the car. Pretty much spot-on.

K.

No definitely not. You can't risk losing detail in the frock: brides and their peers care greatly about this. The tonal range is just about perfect with good, deep blacks and a series of greys to link the extremes.

It should make a brilliant, LARGE and long lasting print if the best materials were to be used.

Oh few. Good. I just came back to this after looking at some trendy contrasty images and thought maybe it was a bit flat by comparison.
Thanks guys.