I was interpreting the natural light and trying to imagine what the image will turn out like in ‘ Zone 5’. I also found, after my workshop on the light meter where I learnt about Ansel Adams’ ‘ Zone System’, that I was looking at light in a completely different context. I finally made the transition from a reactive photographer to a proactive photographer. Because the Mamiya 7 120mm film only let me have 10 frames to shoot, I actually found that I was planning and pre-visualising my shots in a lot more depth than when I had my digital camera.
I then went out on a walk around Coventry city-centre with the Mamiya 7 and light meter. By following the video instructions, I managed to successfully place my 120mm film into the camera without exposing it, which was one of the aspects that I was most nervous about! This enabled me to remember certain aspect of the camera’s structures and settings that I may have forgotten. Once I had got the two pieces of equipment home, I sat and watched through the YouTube video that we used during the Mamiya 7 workshop. I had never shot with a film camera before and was insanely excited but also horrifically nervous! Old scanned review of Pentax 645 camera and lenses including lens sharpness test.On Monday 8 th October 2012 I decided to hire the Mamiya 7 and Light Meter from the Media Loan Shop to use throughout the day.
The Mother of All Lens Tests (big medium format lens test). So only get them if you think it’s fun to use them on modern cameras or if you shoot some medium format film. High quality modern lenses are better than these older medium format lenses. A lot of lenses from the 80’s or older has this uncharming look, the Mamiya lenses don’t, not that they look like modern lenses but something in between. Images has this nice magenta tint and good micro contrast. They are pretty sharp and has a pretty nice image rendition. This test proves it but it was also my experience using the lenses. Not only where they a bit more unsharp than the Mamiya lenses but also did they have a lot of chromatic aberration giving this purple fringing around all objects. All the Pentax lenses disappointed me especially the 6×7 lenses. These lenses are a lot older than the other ones so I guess that’s why. Shooting them wide open both was unusable, stepping them down the Biotar got better but the Mir was still unusable. I actually heard good things about the Biometar as a good portrait lens and that the Mir was supposed to be very sharp. The Both Pentacon Six lenses (Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80mm f2.8 and the Mir 26b 45mm f3.5) was disappointing. Here are a small cropped area of each test photo, aperture is f11, raw files are unprocessed. But I know some people are gonna disagree. Dropping digital or cropping with a smaller sensor is the same. Since the focal lengths are so different (from very long to very wide angle) it was hard to get the exact same framing, but I think it’s still possible to make a conclusion based on the test photos.ĭoes it matter that it was tested on aps-c and not medium format? I don’t think so, it’s just a crop. The test was done indoor shooting a bunch of object with the same lighting and with the same camera settings (iso200, fixed white balance) on a tripod. I don’t have any experience comparing lenses like this, so I’m sorry if I oversee something. Shot with Mamiya 645 Sekor C 210mm f4 f4 on Fujifilm X-T20. But how do they all compare and how do they compare with modern lenses? I made this comparison test to figure out. I bought a lot of older medium format cameras and lenses through the years, to shoot film and to use with my Fotodiox Rhinocam adapter with the Fujifilm X cameras (will write more about the Rhinocam soon). Notice: People have wrote me that some of the lenses might be bad copies, take that into account when you look at the lens test and try to compare it to other lens tests online.
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