On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Tom C wrote: > You obviously have much more experience here than I. I typically shoot in > two veins... one might be a landscape where everything is at infinity... but > I also like wide angles where everything from 1 ft. to infinity is in focus > (speaking in 35m terms). How does a P67 and available lenses hold up in > this regard? I honestly haven't done much research... I assumed I could > shoot pretty much the same in any format given the right lens... am I a > dufus? Yes? (Well OK then).
You've got wide angles in 6x7 (just as you have with LF). The Pentax 55mm f/4 67 (approx 28mm equiv on 35mm film) lens is quite often regarded as one of the finest lenses they have ever produced. The 45mm f/4 67 (approx 21mm equiv) is no slouch either. Where there is a drawback is that a 55mm lens on a 67 has the same depth of field as a 55mm lens on a 35mm camera (of course). So although the field of view of the 55mm lens on a 67 is (approximately) the same as a 28mm lens on 35mm film, the huge DOF of your 28mm lens just ain't there. You have to stop down a long way on the 55mm to get a good DOF. The situation is even worse on LF, where a typical wide-angle might be 90mm with the same DOF as your equivalent 35mm portrait lens. However, LF camera has movements and can 'cheat' to put the film plane where the focus is (putting it very non-technically and I am sure incorrectly). Chris
