Pentax 6x7

[schpleep]

Does anyone on here have and use a Pentax 6x7?

And more specifically, has anyone successfully used one of these 35mm conversion kits:

ebay link

I'd be interested in hearing if/how you got it fitted and working.

Thanks

 

[Blapto]

Unless you really want to use 35mm film, you could use 120 film and then just crop the top and bottom off of it.

 

[schpleep]

Yeah, I know that would give me more cropping options from a full 6x7 neg/tranny.

Interested in the variety and availability of 35mm though. Also the restriction of the landscape format is intriguing too...

 

[cherryrig]

That Pano kit thing looks soo good, sorry but I've never seen anything like that before

 

[Rhodese]

Hi, years ago when money was tight and the need to make full use of what you had was a must, I would double the use of film by using a piece of black card to cover half the lens and take a double exposure on one frame, covering the top then the bottom giving two pan type images. If you took both shots from the same spot using a tripod and the same aperture and overlapping the central part of the scene an extreme pan was possible. A bit hit and miss I know but with a bit of trimming from the central part of the image where the top and bottom exposures joined it worked quite well. The resulting image would have the same resolution as a 35mm pan, but you lose the advantage of the full frame resolution, the reason why one uses a MF camera in the first place.

 

[CT]

Hehe... I used to do that. ^^^^^

I'm just jealouis he's got a Pentax 6X7!