Glen Tortorella wrote: >I went to a somewhat "local" camera shop today to buy film. In one >of the used cases sat a Pentax 645. It looked like it was in nice >shape, and it came with a lens...I am not sure which one, though. >Anyway, they are asking $560 for it.
That's a reasonable price for a dealer, I think. You can do a bit better on eBay, but then you have to deal with eBay ;-) I have a 645 - the original, manual focus version - and love it. If you do your own B&W darkroom printing, you'll swear off fiddly little 35mm negatives forever after working with medium format negs. I know I did. The camera's pretty much indestructible. Reasonable weight for what it is. Good assortment of lenses available. I have the 45mm f/2.8, 75mm f/2.8 and 200mm f/4. All very good but the 200 is amazingly sharp. This kit roughly corresponds to a 28/50/135 kit on 35mm film and it's really nice to go out shooting with just three primes. (I'm still hankering after a 35mm f/3.5, though...) You can use Pentax 67 lenses on it if you can find the proper adapter. Trouble is, you can't find the proper adapter. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
