Pentax 67

Using a Pentax 67

Today I used a Pentax 6 7 camera, which looks like a regular Pentax 35mm camera, although this camera takes 120 films. The camera was easy to use once I started using it. It was easy to focus, easy to change to aperture and easy to wind onto the next photograph. However it has no built in light meter, so I guessed what my aperture on all the photographs that I took with this camera and it was quite heavy for me to hold with one hand and focus with the other, so I had to balance and hold the camera whilst focusing on what I wanted to take photographs of.  The reason why we were using these cameras was that we had to take photographs that we would be able to get the best prints out of. We could certainly do that with these cameras as they have great tonal range and the photos have a lot of detail in them.  I looked at a photographer called Beth Moon as inspiration for the photographs that I took, as she takes black and white photographs of unusual trees. After looking at this photographer I went and took my own photographs of trees.

www.bethmoon.com/

I had some trouble loading my film onto the spiral, which resulted in my film sticking together, and not being properly developed in areas. Aside from this the photographs came out well, with sharp detail and lots of different tones. I decided to use these as my final photographs. When printing these photographs the detail is sharp and in focus and you can not see where the film has stuck together in most of the photographs which is good.