If you want to see some work now, check out my instagram. From what I see here I'm feeling confident.
I'm not expecting it to be as good as 645, but it needs to either have an aesthetic all it's own or be acceptable. Now I just need to work it into my portrait photography. I would and probably will shoot nearly all my travel and reportage work with the F6 and not feel that I'm missing out on anything. The idea, the mood, the requisite detail is all captured very clearly. Sure there is grain, but they actually aren't revealing any less about a specific scene that a D750 would. Like, I look at these chromes, and I don't see any need for any more detail based on what they are. Something I'm working on for my review is sort of a rough idea I'm working out about how we should stop doing comparisons for the most part. The 24/1.4 ART is very sharp, and the 58mm 1.4 G still exudes character. OTOH I'm glad I was able to calibrate my Sigma lenses with their dongle. Perhaps what they say about how the combination of film thickness and imperfect flatness (vs a sensor) really does mitigate the need for in camera AF fine tune. My fears of it not being able to focus the 58mm 1.4 have been pretty much completely asuaged. That'll have the most recent stuff I've shot with the F6.īut from looking at the 3 rolls chrome and 1 roll of 400H I can say that the AF is amazing. I have it mostly written I'm just accumulating scans right now. I will definitely link to some shots! I am writing a review of a film scanner right now for a blog, and it should be posted sometime soon-ish. The F6 is amazing! Do Nikon a favor and get one. If I can get 36 exposures, fast loading, AF that works, and decent detail from Portra films in 35mm I think it will be a great replacement for 220. Both were made to prioritize wide open rendering and 3D subjects (i.e.
I personally think the Nikkor 58/1.4G is a good stand in for the Contax 80/2. I always prefered 6圆 and 6x7 for MF medium format anyways. But with 220 gone, Contax 645 prices through the roof, it's a harder sell for me. 645 has really been the staple film wedding format for the last few years, and for pretty good reasons. My goal is to integrate the F6 into more of my wedding work. I did some auto bracketing (auto bracketing is WONDERFUL for chromes, after coming from an M4 here) so I'll be able to see the cameras pick, and then hopefully a salvageable exposure on either end if it got it wrong. On Saturday we went out snowshoeing, and I brought the F6, 58 and 24mm lenses. I was up in MA last weekend and boy did we have some snow. I also put the metering system through it's paces. AND, given the data imprint system, if the 58mm is giving me trouble at 1.4 focus-wise, I'll know from the frame instead of trying to remember. I can't wait to see chromes from these lenses, particularly the 58mm. These three lenses are my basic wedding kit. We have all these absurdly sharp lenses now. I have 4 rolls to pick up tonight (Provia, Velvia, and 400H), and if the focus system is as good as I think, I'll probably go back to the standard finder for the slightly better eye relief. I installed a DK-17M and I can still see out to the edges. I'll take the better accuracy and point spread over raw speed anyways.Īm I wrong that the screen shows nearly F2 depth of field? I'd swear that it does. Personally I think the F5 is a non starter due to it's size. Faster than the F5? Idk, I don't have one on hand. That old 5 point system in my F100 feels antiquated. Not so, the spread is great! The rule of 3rds points are pretty much right where I want them. I also though the AF spread would be constricting, considering it was designed for crop. I'm pleasantly surprised at how good it is.
Personally I thought the old D2H AF system would show it's rear in ways my D750s AF doesn't. My impressions? Well it's exceeding my expectations. And now it has a 3 year warranty with Nikon! Ok, well I found an "open box" F6, and the shop cut me a deal, so I paid roughly what the grey market ones go for.
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