Pentacon Six - Garden in next door

[iha]

Hi all,

Other forum where I am also active member, they have started a 6x6 mania and I think I become be maniac with 6x6 film, too. I used Pentacon Six with fault timer , CZ 80/2.8 lens.

Film:Ilford Fp4+, dev:FOMADON LQN
Lightmeter: Canon 20D

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[Attila]

Something seriously wrong .. none of them sharp , background busy like hell.
P6 and CZJ 80mm a winner combination I not see much here from that.
Sorry if you thing this is too strong criticism.

[peterqd]

Have to agree. The exposure and development look reasonably good, but there's something amiss with the lens I think.

[Laurence]

I like the composition in the first image, with that little sign stickup amid all the vegetation. But I do agree that something must be wrong in the focus, or iin the lens itself.

Looks like these were incredibly contrasted subjects, so I can see that there would be a huge difficulty in nailing down these shots.

[iha]

Thanks for kind comments!
I have used this CZ 80/2.8 on my Canon but with film I bet it is more impressing.
About the sharpness you may be wrong, Attila, or maybe it is only a taste's question. I have seen again original pictures (5458x5364) and I think they are OK. Shotting with the film I think the details are more important.
This Pentacon Six camera was only able to measure time in 1/500s or 1/1000s setup, so I was forced to use f2.8 at all of these shots.

Sorry if you feel I talked a lot
iha

[Orio]

hi Iha,
you have posted on this group, some marvelous series from your travels, and also from Budapest, containing images that were not only beautifully but sometimes also genially composed. I think for instance of the photos you took in Montmartre which are amongst the best I saw taken in that place from a long time. I have one in mind, with a painting and a shop window, that really impressed me.

So if I also join the others and say that the composition in these images is really unhappy, you know what I mean, they are nothing like the brilliant work you have submitted to us in the past. These just look confused and unmeaningful. I don't think it's fault of the camera it's just probably that you had a bad photographic day - it happens to everyone.

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[iha]

Hi Orio,
There are always kind comments from you, many thanks. It is not about I was disappointed Photo passion to relax and not to win anything (puff what a big theory! j/k)
It is also true that I just want to be clear with your interesting comments and with my early experience in 6x6 film. I will try again with color film (just got cheap ones at flea market).

One more picture?
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[poilu]

nice nailed focus demonstration iha!
find a decent body with lower speed settings and show us your magic

[Orio]

OK, this last photo has a readable composition