Tag: Pentax 67

Revisiting a Negative

This image from an early winter morning at the shores of Lake Ontario in February 2014 is from a roll I scanned with my older scanner; I was not happy with how they looked, but recently I rescanned with my new scanner. Much happier now 🙂

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Pentax 67, 105mm/2.4 lens
Tri-X film

Enjoying the Evening

Back to the Toronto Beaches, but this time in the evening. This man was enjoying his surroundings.

Enjoying the evening

 

Pentax 67 camera, 105mm/2.4 lens
Kodak Tmax 400 film developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9.25 minutes

Not a Summer Saturday

On any summer Saturday, this faux temple in Guildwood Park plays host to one wedding party after another, there for wedding photos. No weddings here in the winter!

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Pentax 67, 55mm/f3.5 lens, 1/125th @ f8
Fuji Neopan Acros 100 film, EI 80, developed in Rodinal 13.5 minutes @ 20 C.

A Road We’ll All Travel

This past Saturday I went again to St. James Cemetery in Toronto, and I liked the look of this freshly plowed road leading to a mausoleum. I used my 200mm/f4 lens on my Pentax 67, roughly equivalent to a 100-135mm telephoto lens in 35mm.

Road to the Mausoleum

 

Pentax 67, 200mm/f4 Pentax lens,
Tri-X developed on Xtol 1:1 for 9 minutes @ 20 C

Ideal Format?

Today, another image captured yesterday at the Distillery District in Toronto with my Pentax 67. the 6 cm by 7 cm format has been called by some the “ideal format”; one reason is that you can print on 8×10 paper with no cropping to speak of. By contrast, 35mm would required 8×12 paper to do the same.

Despite this, I found a couple of my images worked better when cropped as square (or at least “squarish”), including this image. With the sun still relatively low in the horizon at 10 am on a mid October day I liked the start look of the shadows on the building.

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(Taken with 105mm/f2.4 lens, Kodak TMax 400 film developed in TMax developer)

Distillery District

Today’s image was created in Toronto’s Distillery District, using my Pentax 67 medium format camera. Larger sized negatives (such as the 6cm x 7 cm negatives created by this camera) make grain less of an issue so I was able to use Rodinal developer, which emphasizes sharpness rather than fine grain.

Wagon Wheel