Calumet are offering the 645Z, so this is firmly in the professional equipment camp. That's no bad thing and it should take that segment of the market by storm.

It's an f/9 lens to be precise, so there is one glass element in there, albeit it very tiny. So not strictly a pinhole, but giving a similar effect on subjects beyond its DOF.

Incidentally, ISO was between 400 and 6400, so expect a fair bit of noise.

There are a few on my new EPZ bog, but here's a few more. I was out and about this morning shooting black and white, square format images with the Q + Mount Shield Lens. It is quite liberating. no focusing and the same myopic view I get when I remove my glasses.

It's very impressive and offers 35mm-style response and facilities to medium format users. The lenses are outstanding and very affordable as well.

As for format, it's full frame on steroids....don't forget the 645, 6x6cm and 6x7 formats are all nominal sizes and always have been. It's quite normal, for example, for film 6x6cm to have an actual size of 56x56mm.

I would love to have and use a 645Z, but alas for what I do that actually earns money I couldn't justify it. For those who can, it's an exciting prospect.

Flash exposures are very short, so meters like a Weston Master won't respond quickly enough to register the light.

You need a flashmeter rather than a lightmeter, in other words something fairly modern at least that can record the very brief flash of light.

You can also manage without one as the exposure won't change much for any given lighting scheme and the camera histogram will show you all you need to know. Start at f/8 and alter the aperture until images are correctly exposed. It takes maybe two or three shots to establish the required exposure.

Cool model Stuart. I'd crop this one to remove the splodge at the front and the background on the right, but otherwise it's a cracking shot.

Already a thread on this, so this new one closed now.

Operationally, as always, there is certainly a uniformity across the whole Pentax DSLR range. This even extends to lots of operational similarity with even the older film SLRs.

But inside it's a very different beast in terms of construction. A Pentax 67D would be more like what you describe, if such a beast existed!

A reflector can be a very useful tool for throwing light into any shadow areas on the face. It can have a more pleasant effect than using flash. Also, a more natural catchlight results, rather than the obviously flash points of light that we often see.