On Mar 6, 2007, at 9:18 AM, William Robb wrote: >> A couple of days ago I was about two seconds away from plunking down >> the cash for a 645 and three lenses - 45, 75, and 150. Then I >> started >> thinking about landscape photography and the zone system. My >> thoughts >> (the horror) led me to consider the possibility of having 5 >> interchangeable backs for N-2, N-1, N, N+1 and N+2. In an effort to >> keep the expenditure about the same, plus a little more for the extra >> backs, I'd be looking at a Mamiya M645-Super or a Bronica 6x6 or 645. >> Anyone have any experience with these systems they could share? >> What do you think about having the extra backs to accomodate zone >> system exposure? Or am I smoking crack? > > Yer smoking crack. > Buy a view camera.
I'd have to agree with Bill on this. Carrying five interchangeable backs with my Hasselblad 500 (and there's no substantive difference in size or weight between the Hassy and the Pentax 645) would disable me from ever getting out into the landscape to do photography... Shoot on Ilford XP2 Super and bracket. Saves a huge amount of time and effort, massive amount of weight to carry, and has so much more latitude that you hardly need to bracket so much. Excellent grain and acutance too. Drop them off for C41 processing, forget about all that time in the darkroom swishing film around in chemistry... G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
