![]() It was those frustrations with focus from other film cameras, along with a desire for more shallow depth of field for portraits that first led me from 35mm and 645 to the Pentax 67. ![]() But, without the frustrations that several Pentax 645s brought me, I wouldn’t have found the delight that is shooting the Pentax 67.Īnd worth mentioning, I’ve never had a problem with unexplainable, missed focus on any of the Pentax 67s I’ve owned (which is four). Taking these out improve performance noticeably.In my Pentax 645 review, I will actually tell a redemption story about my Pentax 645nii which I found to be highly accurate, so I’m NOT saying the Pentax 645 is a totally bad choice. ![]() Very slight smearing towards edge of frame but stars still very round.Īn important point to note is that most camera lenses are not optimized for extra filters in the path to the film/sensor plane. I then retried the pentax 67 100mm lens without the filter. Stars looked better but still slightly comatic towards edge of frame. I took it out and then retried the canon lens. Then I had a realization: maybe these halos were caused by the CLS-CCD clip filter. There were practically no halos at the center of the frame but the edge of the frame showed some very slightly comatic stars and some halos around bright stars. I then tried the canon 24-105 zoom at 105mm F5.6 where it has been a decent (not outstanding) performer. On the plus side the stars were round to the edge of the frame. I was disappointed with what I saw, significant red halos around bright stars. So I hauled out the modded T3i, a tripod for a quick and dirty test of the 67 100mm macro. ![]() Adaptors are cheap, I got one to fit EOS from e bay, and then adapt the Fuji from there. I use the Fuji 35/1.4, and the Leica R 50/2, and get by far and away better results. Maybe stopping them down a bit would help, I didn't really try as the first impression was not flash at all.Ĭhromatic aberration was the main issue, and thinking back, maybe I used my earlier 200/4 with my mono CCD, and an Ha filter.Įither way, the current thinking is forget it in my case. Honestly, they were not "glowing" like I recalled, they were awful, and I returned the two lenses straight away. I slipped them onto the front of my Fuji X-Pro1, and APS sized colour camera, and shot a few astro shots. Very recently I borrowed another 200/4 and the 300/4 from a good friend who has a few of these older lenses. I don't want to rain on your parade, and since you already own it (as opposed to thinking about getting one) simply suggest you try it and see.Ī few years ago I owned the 200/4, and used it a bit with what I recalled as "glowing results". ![]()
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