Hi all!

[zwerver28]

New to this forum and great to see so many medium format fans!
I try to combine psychology (my day job) with photography, and that results in interesting projects I usually work with a Fujifilm GFX100, but lately I have purchased a camera that I've always wanted since high school; the Pentax 67. Sometimes I raise the bar a little bit and go for the combination of the Graflex Speedmaster and the Aero Ektar 178 mm, an aerial reconnaissance lens from WW2, that gives great results as a portrait lens... It is not an easy combo to work with, but the results are great. Enfin, hope to hear from you all and share stories on photography.
best,
Michiel

 

[biggles3]

Hi Michiel, combining psychology and photography sounds intriguing. I wish I could afford the GFX100 - I have the 50S which I love and combine it often with Contax 645 Zeiss lenses using Fringer's AF Adapter; the results can be wonderful - especially using the 80mm f2. I fell for the Pentax 6x7 50 years ago when I met Sam Haskins who used it to such great effect in producing Pentax' calendars. I had a Pentax SV then and could not believe the size of his cameras. I still have two which I use regularly. I have to admit to being what was once called a promiscuous consumer of MF gear as I use a mix of Hasselblad, Contax, Pentax, Mamiya, and Fuji gear in SLRs, shooting a mix of digital and film formats from 6x4.5 to 6x9. I also have a selection of TLRs, Zeiss Ikon fold-outs and even a mint Kodak No.2A Model B from 1919/20. My only rule with all my older gear is it has to be used at least three times a year; the same rule applies to my sub-miniature and 35mm kit. It keeps me busy, which is good at my venerable age, but film costs exhaust every penny of my pension!

As you're a Fuji user, I've attached a piccie of two Fuji medium format cameras which shows just how far the company has come: it shows the FujiPet 6x6 camera, using a meniscus lens, from 1959 alongside the GFX50S. Fuji has come quite some distance in the intervening 60 years...

• OLYMPUS CORPORATION - E-M1MarkIII
• LEICA DG 10-25/F1.7
• 23.0 mm
• ƒ/1.8
• 1/60 sec
• Center-Weighted Average
• Manual exposure
• 0.7
• ISO 2500

 

[zwerver28]

Hi Michiel, combining psychology and photography sounds intriguing. I wish I could afford the GFX100 - I have the 50S which I love and combine it often with Contax 645 Zeiss lenses using Fringer's AF Adapter; the results can be wonderful - especially using the 80mm f2. I fell for the Pentax 6x7 50 years ago when I met Sam Haskins who used it to such great effect in producing Pentax' calendars. I had a Pentax SV then and could not believe the size of his cameras. I still have two which I use regularly. I have to admit to being what was once called a promiscuous consumer of MF gear as I use a mix of Hasselblad, Contax, Pentax, Mamiya, and Fuji gear in SLRs, shooting a mix of digital and film formats from 6x4.5 to 6x9. I also have a selection of TLRs, Zeiss Ikon fold-outs and even a mint Kodak No.2A Model B from 1919/20. My only rule with all my older gear is it has to be used at least three times a year; the same rule applies to my sub-miniature and 35mm kit. It keeps me busy, which is good at my venerable age, but film costs exhaust every penny of my pension!

As you're a Fuji user, I've attached a piccie of two Fuji medium format cameras which shows just how far the company has come: it shows the FujiPet 6x6 camera, using a meniscus lens, from 1959 alongside the GFX50S. Fuji has come quite some distance in the intervening 60 years...

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Hi Biggles, thanks for your reply and this nice piece of photographic history!