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<p>If your daughter has no or little experience with old manual cameras, this would not be a camera she should bring and reliably expect to bring home consistently good images the first time around. The camera is capable of fine images in reasonably experienced hands and only after it has been checked out by a camera repair specialist. I would second the advice that she consider a more automated camera, digital and/or film camera for such an important trip.</p>
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<p> Had a Noblex 150. Sold it because never liked the cigar shaped distortion and intermittent banding problem associated with rotational panoramic cameras. I would go with the Fuji 617. Right now I'm happy with my XPan. Good luck</p>
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Hi Mike, At the risk of beating a dead horse, google Luminous Landscape and hit Pentax 67 ii under Reviews. Regards, Bob
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Mike I respectfully disagree. There is a difference between acceptable sharpness and critical sharpness. The tranny may look OK on a light table but blow it up and you will definitely notice a difference. DOF field is also an issue particularlly with landscape shots where you will need smaller apertures and hence slower shutter speeds. The main reason for using MF is to achieve higher quality images. Why compromise?
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Phillip, I think you may have missed the central issue. I have had two P 67ll cameras. Trust me, they are heavy beasts and IMHO, with their mirror slap, getting critically sharp hand held trasparencies would be difficult to say the least. This camera begs for a tripod and if that's the case using a hand held meter wouldn't slow you down. I get the impression that you want to travel in SE Asia using the camera hand held as you would your 35mm. Trust me you'll be disappointed. My advice, sell the camera, if it's new as you say, you can probably recoup your expense. If you want to use a medium format camera hand held a rangefinder such as the Mamiya 6 or 7, Bronica, or Fuji would be better choices. These all have excellent in camera metering systems. Good luck.
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Are you carrying a tripod? Hand holding with your slow zooms would be difficult with 160 ASA film if you shoot in early AM or late in the afternoon when light is ideal. Unfortunately many tourist sites do not allow tripods so you would have to be aware of that also. My advice for travel fwiw, Use a rangefinder MF camera,eg Mamiya 7 or Bronica with a couple of primes. Much lighter and hand holdable. Also consider faster film 400-800ASA. Have a great trip.
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Carrying around an RB67 for people ( ?street photography) is rubbish. Too heavy and bulky. At the end of the day it's hard to beat 35mm rangefinders, eg Contax G but if you insist on a larger format get a TLR like Rollei, Minolta Autocord etc. Light weight, great lenses and most of the time people will not know your taking their picture
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Have the negative printed in a traditional darkroom. If the print is sharp you may then have a scanner problem. If it is still soft then a focusing error or too slow a shutter speed ( presuming camera was hand held) are the likely cause.
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I never said 35 mm was superior to medium format, just that I have seen "nice" blowups to 16x20. Many medium format cameras were available when Eisenstaedt was shooting but my guess is that he preferred the lightweight, sharp fast lenses and unobtrusiveness of the 35mm format for his photojounalistic style ( check his biography on that). I use MF all the time for landscapes, architecture and portraits but I recognize the advantages of 35mm for photojounalism.
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The great street photographer's Alfred Eisenstaedt, Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier-Bresson etc all used Leicas. Do you really think you can improve on them using MF? Heavier, noisier, more obtrusive cameras. I've seen many nice blowups to 16x20 using 35mm. A camera is just a tool and in this case IMHO the benefits of 35mm outweigh its liabilities.
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I only get German using your link. Any suggestions, Thanks
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I don't think she ignored you at all . It's not the dress that should have caught your eye but her malevolent look which appears to be saying " Don't take my picture". I think you should have stayed with your original commitment.
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Scan B&W film or preferably print or have it printed using traditional darkroom techniques. IMHO you can't get the tonality from converting a digital color image to B&W as you can by using b&W film.
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If you want a large negative for landscapes presumably to obtain the best image quality why accept lesser quality by shooting handheld. I have had 3 Pentax 67 and all were used on a tripod with excellent results. If you want to shoot handheld use 35mm or at the very least a medium format rangefinder such as the Mamiya 7.
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Great street photos but IMHO would have more impact in B&W. Cheers, Bob Rene
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Try shooting Ilford XP2. Excellent B&W Chromogenic film that can be processed C41 which means literally that any street corner 1 hr. lab can process it and voila you have your negatives and a proof sheet. You can mail your negatives back home for cold storage until you print. I did a well received exhibit on Viet Nam and Cambodia using this film in a medium format camera (Fuji GA 645zi) printed traditionally in my own darkroom to 11x14. ASA 400, great latitude. Good luck, Bob Rene
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Certainly haze and possibly fungus ( taking lens). Wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.I paid 700USD for a 3.5F Planar in mint condition. Keep looking. Bob Rene
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The problem with digital Compared to film (of which I do both) is the tendency to blast away instead of being seletive, composing and getting a decent image to start with. I would think 1200 images ( equivalent to 40 rolls of film) would be fine for your stepdad and would not require an external device to carry around as long as he has enough CF storage.
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Did you remember to take the lens cap off ? Its happened to most people at one time or another
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Phillip is right on. Toting an RZ around is pure insanity. I had a sucessful gallery showing of B&W prints taken with a Fuji GA 645 zi in Viet Nam and Cambodia several yrs. ago. Lightweight MF camera with AF and a short tack sharp zoom. Used a lightweight tripod for long exposure shots. Good luck.
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Rollei TLR can it all in a light weight hand holdable package. Fast 2.8 lens, leaf shutter, no mirror slap. A good specimen will last forever. PJ, lifestyle photos, portraits no problem. Just ask the great photographers who have used them.
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I use the Epson Stylus Pro RX 700. This is a multifunction unit with scanner, copier and printer. Can print directly from memory card without going through your PC if you so desire. Excellent up to 8x10. Has 5 inividual color inks, 1 B&W. Scanner remarkably good but obviously not as good as dedicated unit. I paid 400 USD 1 yr. ago. Good luck.
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I agree with the above suggestions. However, in my opinion, there is too much foreground material, no object of interest other than a barely visible strip of headland and an annoying jet trail in the sky. Work on composition. The foregrond lighting is secondary.
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I would be interested to know why this documentary style presumably Chinese street scene required the steps you went through to come up with the image as it appears at least on my monitor. I don't ask this in any critical sense but out of curiosity as I am starting to do some PP in PS. This type of image using color neg film which has a wide latitude should usually capture the scene spot on. Am I missing something? Thanks. Bob R.
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