#CONTAX 645 BACK ISO#
ISO 1600 was even better than I had hoped for! Here are just some personal shots from my time “getting to know” the camera! I was very pleased with the film look it was able to produce, and rather impressed with the sensor+ technology, which uses pixel binning for more ISO sensitivity. The awesome guys down in Atlanta at Capture Integration hooked me up with a rental for the weekend, and I put the unit through its paces! I chose the P65+ unit, because it is basically full-frame (therefore very comparable to the size of the film I shoot), and used it interchangeably with some Kodak Portra 400 for some side-by-side comparisons (stay tuned!!).Īs soon as the unit arrived, I set out to familiarize myself with the unit, and all of its bells and whistles. Things which later become familiar and routine are fresh and sometimes confusing. Unlike almost every other reverse-curl 645 medium format roll film back (Rolleis for its 6008 is alleged to have designed around the problem by means of roller placement geometry), which suffer from film bulging toward the lens after taking a 'set' on their. So, I swapped out the film back for a digital one, by Phase One. MP-1 Battery Grip and 80mm f/2 Planar Lens The first 30 minutes with a new camera are for me the most telling. The single most significant advantage of Contax 645 cameras is no longer available. In light of all of this, I decided to see what (my favorite film camera) the Contax 645 could do digitally. Thanks to Hollywood, film production hasn’t been shut down, though the prices are steadily rising. It makes me uneasy, though…the more film I shoot, the more I love it, but I’m growing a bit wary because of Kodak‘s bankruptcy and such.
But there is a huge cost/usability gap between 'old school CCD' backs and modern current CMOS backs. I’ve been enjoying shooting lots of film this fall. The Zeiss lenses for the Contax 645 and Hasselblad V + H cameras offer rendering quality that many photographers still feel is unique enough to be worth the trouble and expense of MF digital backs.
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